Hello Hack-a-day,

It's been a number of months since I first started this project, but now I've decided to go about talking about it on the internet.

For some context, I started the project at the beginning of this school year, when I decided I wanted to class up my dorm room with some home-made electronics, and some pretty lighting.

While it would have been nice to control the lighting in the room directly, Rice housing would not have been very pleased with me tampering with their wiring in order to insert relays and whatnot. Instead, this project is interesting, because I have to work around all of the issues that come with trying to improve a room you do not own, and therefore cannot easily modify. Herein lies the utility of the LED strip-lights. By placing the adhesive strips around the top of the room, I have been able to incorporate (non-destructively) a controllable set of lights in the room.