How to make a Huge Light Up LED Sign

**Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Unique Wall Decoration**

In this article, we will walk you through the process of creating a unique wall decoration that combines art and technology.

**Step 1: Preparing the Big MDF Boards**

The first step is to prepare the big MDF boards. We started by cutting two identical squares from a solid wood sheet with a distance of 15 centimeters from each edge. The front side only had an outline for two small slits, which would later act as a backlight for the owl in between them. Next, we used spruce wood to create four smaller wood pieces for the bigger square. These got secured firmly with the help of round 5 wood screws, pole F.

**Ensuring Proper Screw Placement**

As always, make sure that your screws do not overshoot the board step. Afterwards, we flipped the sign around and did a 10 millimeter hole in each outer corner of the letters. This way, we had a starting point for the jigsaw and could also easily change the cutting direction with it.

**Cutting Out Letters**

If you want to build something similar, I can tell you that this is the most frustrating part just because it felt like an eternity to cut out all the different letters. But once this madness was complete, we ran over the edges with sandpaper to round them a bit.

**Adding Support for Back Sides**

We then did two lines on the front sides in the middle of long wood pieces of the back sides and Mark five evenly spaced spots onto it. This is where these long screws will fit through later and secure everything to the wall.

**Preparing Wallpaper**

Moving on to the wallpaper, we laid out the first trip and cut it to size. But the rest of the strips were not that easy to make though because the pattern of the wallpaper only repeats every 26.5 centimeters. Finding that exact pattern was not that easy. We used a decent amount of spray adhesive, which we applied to the MDF and afterwards slowly lowered the wallpaper onto it.

**Securing Wallpaper**

To finish the front side of the big MDF boards, we secured the overhang of the paper onto the backside with the adhesive and a lot of staples. We then repeated the exact same steps for the smaller boards.

**Adding Milky White Acrylic Pieces**

A day later, the glue was dry, and we continued by gluing small wallpaper strips into the edges of the ladders. This way, when we cut the wallpaper in this artistic way and glued the overhangs to the backsides, the complete surface of the letters inside will be covered in wallpaper.

**Adding Lighting**

Next, we lay down the milky white 2 millimeter fig acrylic pieces and determined where to cut them so that the intersection lines are not visible later on. With the help of the jigsaw, we cut the pieces to size, peeled off the protective film, and secure them to the boards with a lot of small wood screws.

**Connecting LED Strips**

For the other lighting, we used 5 meters of pretty common RGB LED strip, which we just glued onto the inside of longer wood laughs and connected the ends with a bit of wire. After peeling off the rest of the protective film, we then continued the sliding madness by gluing warm white LED strips outside the wooden square and also connected them with wire.

**Mounting Boards**

To mount the boards on the wall, we cut small rectangles into the wallpaper to set the pre-drilled holes free and finalised this board by applying foam tape onto the back. The second board was pretty much the same just with small equity pieces and additionally the power supplies for the LEDs.

**Securing Boards to Wall**

This required me to drill two big holes into the wood square to fit my wires through and I also needed to mount the power supplies with mounting clamps and connected the live and neutral wires together with terminals. Don't forget to add an AC power plug to the mix otherwise nothing will light up.

**Finalizing Project**

For the last step, we drilled holes in the wall, inserted the plastic anchors, and secured both boards very firmly with these bigger screws and by using a slightly smaller screw to secure the owl in its place. This project was complete!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin this video I will show you the process of putting a huge custom LED sign that is not only awesome to look at of its different light-up modes but can also illuminate the whole room with its warm white lights let's get started first off we put together two jack stands which were mandatory to work with the woods in a comfortable height then we brought in the bigger MDF board with measurements of 90 by 250 centimeter and a depth of around 60 millimeter and at this point we already created our custom lettering which is the favorite city of my assistance but feel free to change the ladders as long as they have a height of half a meter and everything is symmetrical it should come out fantastic now for the marking process of the sports we start with the back sides by firstly creating a square with a distance of 15 centimeter from the edge and since drawing straight lines over such a distance can be challenging we recommend using a laser I can guarantee you that it works like a charm every time then we flip the board around to the front sides and to another but a bit smaller square on to the side as well it will act as a guides to draw 727 centimeter white boxes for the letters which have gap of two point five centimeter to each other if you're confused by now or just want more information then you can download our design sketch with measurements from Instructables link is in description once the boxes we are drawn we created the outline of each individual letter inside of them and moved on to the next MDF board this one only has width of 1.5 meter and was overall easier to make the back side once again receive the square with a distance of 15 centimeter from the edge and the front only got an outline for two small slits which will later act as a backlight for the owl in between them next we use spruce wood with these measurements energix aught to create for wood pieces for the bigger square these got secured firmly with the help of round 5 wood screws pole F and as always make sure that your screws do not overshoot the board step afterwards we flip the sign around and do a 10 millimeter holes in each outer corner of the letters this way we have a starting point for the jigsaw and can also easily change the cutting direction with it if you want to build something similar I can tell you that this is the most frustrating part just because it felt like an eternity to cut out all the different letters but once this madness was complete we ran over the edges with sandpaper to round them a bit then we do two lines on the front sides in the middle of long wood pieces of the back sides and Mark five evenly spaced spots on to it this is where these long screws will fit through later and secure everything to the wall so obviously we had to pre-drill six point five millimeter holes and enlarge the top section of bits in order to let the screw head sit flush with the woods moving on to the wallpaper we laid out the first trip and cut it to size but the rest of the strip's we are not that easy to make though because the pattern of the wallpaper only repeats every twenty six point five centimeter and finding that exact pattern was not that easy to bound the two materials we used a decent amount of spray adhesive which we apply to the MDF and afterwards slowly lower the wallpaper onto it in order to finish the front side of the big MDF boards we secure the overhang of the paper onto the backside with the adhesive and a lot of staples we then repeated the exact same steps for the smaller boards but as a summary for you it was wood square on the back sides cutting out the design on the front side drilling holes for the big screws and finally applying the wallpaper one day later the glue was dry and we continued by gluing small wallpaper strips into the edges of the ladders this way when we cut the wallpaper in this artistic way and glue the overhangs to the backsides the complete surface of the letters inside will be covered in wallpaper next we lay down the milky white 2 millimeter fig acrylic pieces and determined where to cut them so that the intersection lines are not visible later on and with the help of the jigsaw we cut the pieces to size peeled off the protective film and secure them to the boards with a lot of small wood screws just make sure that you do not apply too much pressure onto the glass it can break quite easily for the other lighting we use 5 meter of pretty common RGB LED strip which we just glued on to the inside of longer wood laughs and connected the ends with a bit of wire after peeling off the rest of the protective film we then continued the sliding madness by gluing warm white LED strips outside the wooden square and also connected them with wire to mount the boards on the wall we also need to cut small rectangles into the wallpaper to set the pre-drilled holes free and finalise this board by applying foam tape onto the back the second board is pretty much the same just with small equity pieces and additionally the power supplies for the LEDs this required me to drill two big holes into the wood square to fit my wires through and I also needed to mount the power supplies with mounting clamps and connected the live and neutral wires together with terminals and don't forget to add an AC power plug to the mix otherwise nothing will light up for the last step we drilled holes in the wall inserted the plastic anchors and secured both boards very firmly with these bigger screws and by using a slightly smaller screw to secure the owl in its place this project was complete I hope you liked it and maybe it inspires you to build something similar don't forget to Like share and subscribe that would be awesome please consider supporting me through my patreon campaign to keep such videos coming just $1 can really make a difference stay creative and I will see you next timein this video I will show you the process of putting a huge custom LED sign that is not only awesome to look at of its different light-up modes but can also illuminate the whole room with its warm white lights let's get started first off we put together two jack stands which were mandatory to work with the woods in a comfortable height then we brought in the bigger MDF board with measurements of 90 by 250 centimeter and a depth of around 60 millimeter and at this point we already created our custom lettering which is the favorite city of my assistance but feel free to change the ladders as long as they have a height of half a meter and everything is symmetrical it should come out fantastic now for the marking process of the sports we start with the back sides by firstly creating a square with a distance of 15 centimeter from the edge and since drawing straight lines over such a distance can be challenging we recommend using a laser I can guarantee you that it works like a charm every time then we flip the board around to the front sides and to another but a bit smaller square on to the side as well it will act as a guides to draw 727 centimeter white boxes for the letters which have gap of two point five centimeter to each other if you're confused by now or just want more information then you can download our design sketch with measurements from Instructables link is in description once the boxes we are drawn we created the outline of each individual letter inside of them and moved on to the next MDF board this one only has width of 1.5 meter and was overall easier to make the back side once again receive the square with a distance of 15 centimeter from the edge and the front only got an outline for two small slits which will later act as a backlight for the owl in between them next we use spruce wood with these measurements energix aught to create for wood pieces for the bigger square these got secured firmly with the help of round 5 wood screws pole F and as always make sure that your screws do not overshoot the board step afterwards we flip the sign around and do a 10 millimeter holes in each outer corner of the letters this way we have a starting point for the jigsaw and can also easily change the cutting direction with it if you want to build something similar I can tell you that this is the most frustrating part just because it felt like an eternity to cut out all the different letters but once this madness was complete we ran over the edges with sandpaper to round them a bit then we do two lines on the front sides in the middle of long wood pieces of the back sides and Mark five evenly spaced spots on to it this is where these long screws will fit through later and secure everything to the wall so obviously we had to pre-drill six point five millimeter holes and enlarge the top section of bits in order to let the screw head sit flush with the woods moving on to the wallpaper we laid out the first trip and cut it to size but the rest of the strip's we are not that easy to make though because the pattern of the wallpaper only repeats every twenty six point five centimeter and finding that exact pattern was not that easy to bound the two materials we used a decent amount of spray adhesive which we apply to the MDF and afterwards slowly lower the wallpaper onto it in order to finish the front side of the big MDF boards we secure the overhang of the paper onto the backside with the adhesive and a lot of staples we then repeated the exact same steps for the smaller boards but as a summary for you it was wood square on the back sides cutting out the design on the front side drilling holes for the big screws and finally applying the wallpaper one day later the glue was dry and we continued by gluing small wallpaper strips into the edges of the ladders this way when we cut the wallpaper in this artistic way and glue the overhangs to the backsides the complete surface of the letters inside will be covered in wallpaper next we lay down the milky white 2 millimeter fig acrylic pieces and determined where to cut them so that the intersection lines are not visible later on and with the help of the jigsaw we cut the pieces to size peeled off the protective film and secure them to the boards with a lot of small wood screws just make sure that you do not apply too much pressure onto the glass it can break quite easily for the other lighting we use 5 meter of pretty common RGB LED strip which we just glued on to the inside of longer wood laughs and connected the ends with a bit of wire after peeling off the rest of the protective film we then continued the sliding madness by gluing warm white LED strips outside the wooden square and also connected them with wire to mount the boards on the wall we also need to cut small rectangles into the wallpaper to set the pre-drilled holes free and finalise this board by applying foam tape onto the back the second board is pretty much the same just with small equity pieces and additionally the power supplies for the LEDs this required me to drill two big holes into the wood square to fit my wires through and I also needed to mount the power supplies with mounting clamps and connected the live and neutral wires together with terminals and don't forget to add an AC power plug to the mix otherwise nothing will light up for the last step we drilled holes in the wall inserted the plastic anchors and secured both boards very firmly with these bigger screws and by using a slightly smaller screw to secure the owl in its place this project was complete I hope you liked it and maybe it inspires you to build something similar don't forget to Like share and subscribe that would be awesome please consider supporting me through my patreon campaign to keep such videos coming just $1 can really make a difference stay creative and I will see you next time