Making an Ikea Mood Lamp Beyond All Repair


Posted on Feb 5, 2014

Since I first got my Arduino and some RGB LEDs I`d wanted to build myself a mood lamp with some funky features (note that I used the word funky and not useful). Well, I`ve finally done it, and here is the blog post describing how. For this project I used the Ikea GrG¶nG¶, which was £4. 99 when I bought it. It quite a nice matt glass finish, which


Making an Ikea Mood Lamp Beyond All Repair
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helps to diffuse light, and also it comes with the glass shade and the actual light fitting separate from one another (I put the light fitting to one side as I won`t be using it in this project). The brightnesses above were only chosen because they were the highest that were available at a fairly reasonable cost. It might be better to match the brightnesses of all LEDs, although if memory serves, human eyes aren`t as sensitive to blue light as they are red and green, so it might be worth getting a brighter blue LED (I advise doing some more research). Firstly, LEDs tend to be highly directional (i. e most light goes in front of the led). There seem to be lots of diffusing and mixing lenses available at various shops, but I decided I`d have a go at just scuffing the LEDs with some sandpaper. I was quite happy with the diffusion of light after having done that, so my next step was to breadboard the LEDs out. I arranged them into a triangular shape with a common ground rail on the breadboard, and individual positive rails for each diode. Therefore resistors must be added to stop the components from being popped` (trust me, blown up LEDs stink). The required resistance can be easily calculated using Ohms Law V = IR. Although you can`t see it in that video, with only one LED of each colour it was far too hard to see when the surrounding light levels were high so I decided I`d add another led of each colour so they were arranged...




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