Tritone Turntable
- Year
- 2025
- Duration
- 1 month
- Type
- Industrial Design
The Tritone Turntable is a kinetic lighting object created for the IESNYC Student Lighting Competition, which highlights innovative, theme-driven lighting design by students in the NYC area. This piece uses three color-gradient acrylic discs rotating at different speeds over a central light source to create constantly shifting color overlaps and projections. Powered by an ESP32 microcontroller and three stepper motors with ULN2003 drivers, the system transforms motion into a dynamic light display.
Sketches
Design features
Three laser-cut, printed acrylic discs, each turned by its own motor. The motors sit on 3D-printed housings of different heights, so the discs overlap at three levels above the 3D-printed base, with the light source in the middle.
Research and process
Credits
- With
- Molly Roberts
- IES Student Lighting Competition, ID Tech II, Pratt Institute