Dimensional Dreams: Coral Reef
Maker Faire Bay Area 2025
September 26th-28th
Dimensional Dreams: Coral Reef is a 4ft wide by 4ft tall shadow box illuminated with over 300 LEDs and controlled with a button inside of a treasure chest. This project is made of 10 laser cut white acrylic layers of coral and rocks and 3 clear laser etched layers with over 10 species of tropical sea creatures. The clear etched layers with fish sit directly on top of the LEDs, creating an illusion that the fish are suspended in the water and the LED animations developed for this project gives the appearance of fish swimming through the reef. The LEDs are programmed with Arduino and the project runs on a Teensy 4.1 microcontroller.
Becca Priddy
Becca Priddy is an educator, maker, and artist currently teaching special education in the Portland area. Her background in theater, lighting design, biology, ecology and education has inspired her to create LED art. Becca thrives at the intersection of art and science. With no background in electronics, she learned arduino, laser cutting, 3d printing, soldering, and programming by watching youtube and getting involved with other artist's projects. She thrives on the idea of starting projects she doesn't know how to finish, yet. Her favorite part about creating is learning something new.
