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ws2812b strips in a commercial lighting fixture

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It's a lamp. Of sorts

What's to explain? It refreshes *really* fast.

Deadlined
zeldasixactual • 04/19/2014 at 18:31 • 0 comments

Currently Deadlined for power, managed to run for about 24 hours before i melted a 2.1mm power socket.

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Step 1

Buy a florescent lighting fixture. These come with nice diffusers which is nice when you're playing with led's too bright to look at.
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Step 2

Gut the poor thing. Keep the ballasts maybe, you're bound to find something fun to do with them.
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Step 3

Put the led's in the enclosure. I just eyeballed placement until final assembly.