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I thought an easy way would be to document the build of moodlite here. It should help people identify components and also the reasons why I picked them.

The design was done in Autodesk Inventor and I've included the IGES / STEP files within the download if you need them


I purchased all of my bits from Amazon UK or eBay,  my BOM consists of the following;


60 x LED - W2812B Type. I made sure these were the non-waterproof type as I didn't want them encased in silicon.  Cost £12
Amazon UK link - https://amzn.to/2RcFoYb
Amazon USA link - https://amzn.to/2Sr4q2V


2 x NodeMCU PCB's. You only need one for the project, but at only £8ish I thought it was worth having a spare. There seem two types, one is bigger than the other one. Make sure you get the one with the square chip and not the rectangle one near the micro usb port. :-)
Amazon UK link - https://amzn.to/2RlZyiq
Amazon USA link - https://amzn.to/2BM1S8p


20 x 50cm Servo Extention leads. Now, you actually need more wire per tile but the 100cm ones were almost double the price. You should get about 15 tiles from about 20 of these.  I bought these off eBay. Only problem was they took ages to come.. li...