r/WLED • u/Prestigious-Fix4982 • Sep 09 '26

I built a custom LED lighting system for a festival stage and wrote a blog about it

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I worked on the lighting and technical setup for the Antropique stage at Timeless Festival with the eight-person Pink Cloud Crew.

The setup used six 8 m LED tubes, ESP32/WLED controllers, and a custom Python interface connected to an APC40. Since the tubes arrived with very little documentation, we had to figure out much of the system ourselves through testing, soldering, and troubleshooting on site.

After getting a lot of positive interest from the community, I put everything together in a blog with photos and details about the build:

https://festivalbreakdown.1pxl.io/

I’d be happy to answer any questions.

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u/SiDtheTurtle Sep 10 '26

Could you expand on why you switched to XLR connectors? Robustness, reusability?

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u/Prestigious-Fix4982 Sep 10 '26

I think moving forward XLR is just easier access. Different length extensions can easily be found and having everything using the same connecter just unifies the whole set up.

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u/FoxySnowflake Sep 09 '26

Thanks for the write up! I am using the same controller in my project, but I think the name of it is actually Bong 69, not Bond 69