Quick Summary
• Robert Quattlebaum makes high-end interactive Lumanoi light sculptures from wood, acrylic, and custom circuitry.
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Additional Context
Wave your hand once over Lumanoi, and it’s clear why Robert Quattlebaum’s flowing LED artwork was highly recommended at Maker Faire Bay Area.
Spark of inspiration
The mesmerizing interactive creations began years ago. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2007, he attended a workshop for building a set-top box called YBox and later ended up developing YBox2 with Adafruit.
Lumanoi at Maker Faire Bay Area 2025.
Photo by Sam Freeman
In 2010 he hacked some addressable LED Christmas lights from Costco (his teardown post was the top result for “hacking Christmas lights” for a while). And as with many things from the big box retailer, soon found he had more than he knew what to do with.
He was working at Apple, but left to help work on Nest in 2013. Nest, for those unfamiliar with the story, was eventual