When I saw these lamps in the hardware store, they just seemed to be begging out to have some LED strips installed. Also, my daughter now likes to invent new modes for the lamp - she coded the “rain” mode and one of the firework modes and is now working on combining “rain” and “lightning” together…
What a great mod! And that’s super you’re inspiring your daughter to add to the modes.
Nice! I’m currently working on upgrading my similar IKEA HOLMÖ lamp from a single strip to a spiral matrix for more omnidirectional light.
The only thing I don’t like about these lamps is there’s no great place to hide the electronics. The base is concrete filled plastic. Where’d you mount yours?
I replaced the wire that goes up the inside with the wires that run to the LEDs (actually 5-wire thermostat wire), and that runs down to an Adafruit small enclosure, which holds everything just perfectly, and on the other side of that is the 10A power supply, so the enclosure ends up just looking like one more power supply box.
Ultimately, there’s supposed to be a light sensor, microphone (for “clapper” mode and spectral visualizer), and a couple of pots to manually control hue, brightness, and couple of switches to turn on/off, etc. That will have to go in a separate enclosure, or I could at that point mount the particle in the same box. I think 3d printing that enclosure is the current plan…
@David_Shay rain and fireworks are awesome ! Maybe you can share the code.
If you are using @Jason_Coon 's or my ESP2866 control you need no HW buttons. The ESP (Huzzah or Feather) can be heatshrinked and placed directly at the LEDs.
The code is a bit of a mess - it grew completely out of control, but you can see what rain and fireworks (there are 3 different ones - fireburst and firegrav look the most like fireworks…) basically do.
Boah ey ! (= Holy Mackerel)
Hi,
I used the same lamp and loaded Fire2012.
It was great!
Francois
Looks good. I had the same lamp and ended up replacing the shade with some puzzle lamp pieces from Amazon. I use bluetooth for remote control but will end up switching to an ESP8266 and integrate with my Blynk server for even more control. Was going to hold off on that until RGBW support gets added to FastLED since that is what I’m using for my strips. Figured it would be nice to have a warm white in a lamp instead of the white that is produced by the RGB strips.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNcBbbOsfBfPpENmbElSQ5bVnyFRc-0khZmeItmuoTm7HfE2XuUwCNMJCHg-aMc0g?key=WmluRm1aLTFTQ3Vfbi1OUTBXMkt1RjNmRTFLNUJB Link to a picture and video of my lamp. Got the idea from someone else on here awhile back.
Cool lamp, @Brian_Lewis ! Where’d you get it? Looks like a “puzzle lamp”.
@Jason_Coon Thanks. I had the same lamp and ended up replacing the shade with some puzzle lamp pieces from Amazon. Had to buy 3 packs of the pieces to get it big enough and it required some structural work made out of plexiglass and dowels to support the wait and not fall apart.