VIDEO: UC Engineering Students Create Disco Coffee Table with Dancing Lights
Its a piece of furniture that could be the highlight of any dance party.
University of Cincinnati electrical engineering juniors recently created a coffee table comprised of 128 frosted glass cubes, each capable of emitting 16 million colors. Student designers Max Thrun, 21, of Mt. Olive, N.J.; Ian Cathey, 21, of Columbus, Ohio; and Mark Labbato, 21, of Cleveland, Ohio, also incorporated a special beat-detection software, such that the colored light emitted by the cubes is synchronized to music.
The students created the project on their own time while working recent
quarters at Texas Instruments Incorporated in Dallas, Tx. They then entered the table into TIs Co-op Design Challenge, a competition among all the companys co-op students from schools around the country. And in the voting by Texas Instruments employees, the UC team won the contest!
If you want to create a similar table, the students direction for this DIY project is
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