# Totoro Light Box

# Introduction

A lightbox is a box with LEDs on the bottom, and several layers of paper or wood.

Because wood is much more expensive than paper, I searched on amazon for the best price.

I was able to find A4 (almost: 30cm x 20cm) plywood sheet of 2mm thickness.

With one A4 sheet, I can get 2 A5 sheets (20 x 15cm).

I designed this box for inserting A5 sheet + some error margin.

Plans are easy to make.

# Assembly

## Spacers

To help light diffusion, I putted some separator which are empty layers.

![](/assets/images/laser_light_box/000_converted.jpg)

They should perfectly fit in the box.

![](/assets/images/laser_light_box/001_converted.jpg)
![](/assets/images/laser_light_box/002_converted.jpg)
![](/assets/images/laser_light_box/003_converted.jpg)

## Totoro Template

I found the layers' template at [L'atelier du bois - Matindetempete](https://www.lairdubois.fr/creations/16758-totoro.html)

There are many copies available online (for sale).
Paper rendering is better than wood.
However, Wood will last longuer.


## Light


![](/assets/images/laser_light_box/006_converted.jpg)

I used an arduino nano (the cheepest you can get !)
and a LED strip with 30 LED / meter (RGB addressable LED).


![](/assets/images/laser_light_box/005_converted.jpg)

For now, the arduino is still on a bread board.
I will update this in the future.


## Result

![](/assets/images/laser_light_box/004_converted.jpg)