Toon Beerten, a guy with some LED experience, has put together an amazing 3 watt LED mood light pretty much from scratch. The device actually plugs into a wall socket, while his previous lamps have run off batteries. Using batteries actually significantly reduces the overall efficiency of any electronic device, so I like this one for that.
I also like it because it's really well done. He's programmed the LEDs to fade between colors, or go through a variety of transitions that he can control with an input. If I went over to his house, I'd probably assume he bought it from Target for fifty bucks.
Definitely a worthwhile project.
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written by Nathan, February 15, 2008
After seeing this lamp, I made something similar and a little more versatile (I think!). Check it out. I am planning on adding data input, but that's under construction and I wanted to get the lighting part done first.
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Then you could sync some moods to some types of music, flash it in red when you got mail, in green when there's a news on Ecogeek, etc... ;)
If anyone got the schematics... ? ;)