cool, but looks way too bright. time to add a potentiometer. also, would have been a lot more practical to build a simple pinprick projector... that way you could easily make adjustments and even take it to a friend's house, etc.
"Now the hardest part! Getting it on the ceiling without the LED's falling out or the wires breaking. I decided to get one side up first, and then work my way to the other side"
cool, but looks way too bright. time to add a potentiometer. also, would have been a lot more practical to build a simple pinprick projector... that way you could easily make adjustments and even take it to a friend's house, etc.
examples:
http://www.instructables.com/howto/planetarium/
commercial home planetariums go from around $30 up and have features like changeable skies and rotating in sync with the earth's orbit.