
patterns into hardware, and I proposed this
idea to arturo182. Inspired by Jason Coon’s LED
CycloHex patterns, we attempted an LED Islamic
geometry-inspired circuit board. We chose the
ten-pointed star from a pattern book I found in
my late grandfather’s dusty library on my last visit
to India.
The 10-pointed star was an easy pattern to
replicate and tessellate with digital software.
Arturo182 designed the entire circuit board from
scratch in KiCad. It incorporated addressable
surface-mount LEDs — 10 for each star unit in
a 6×5 grid (30 units = 250 LEDs, because some
LEDs overlap by the nature of the geometric
pattern). We consulted each other ...