In our interview with Debra Ansell, on page 50 of the latest issue, we briefly discuss some of the challenges of making an LED sphere. Debra solved this by arranging surface-mount LEDs on a flat plane, then diffusing the light through curved 3D-printed parts. Tom Verbeure has gone down a different route with this creation, using larger through-hole components placed into a 20-segment, 3D-printed sphere. There’s always more than one way to do it, and no one way is better than any other, as this build shows.
