Living Lamp
Last Updated: 2010-08-03
According to the specsheets, each of these LED arrays should pull 2A and crank out 3500lumens. I haven't hooked them all up yet but I do confirm that the first one I hooked up was super bright. I'm making a trio of power efficient room lighting fixtures.
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In English :
It's a little circuit board that you can program with your computer to do neat stuff like control lights, motors, actuators and more.
I actually built this one myself from a kit. All of those components were lovingly soldered onto the circuit board.
The idea of the "Living Lamp" is such :
- The lamp's body is 6' high and has a 12" diameter. By all appearances it's a long tube of nylon material suspended by a metal ring at the top and weighted with a ring at the bottom.
- The circuitry of the lamp will permit it to turn on and off like the famed "clapper".
- A carpet switch will trigger the microcontroller to actuate muscle wires to contract segments of the body when someone approaches the lamp.
In English :
It's a little circuit board that you can program with your computer to do neat stuff like control lights, motors, actuators and more.
I actually built this one myself from a kit. All of those components were lovingly soldered onto the circuit board.
The idea of the "Living Lamp" is such :
- The lamp's body is 6' high and has a 12" diameter. By all appearances it's a long tube of nylon material suspended by a metal ring at the top and weighted with a ring at the bottom.
- The circuitry of the lamp will permit it to turn on and off like the famed "clapper".
- A carpet switch will trigger the microcontroller to actuate muscle wires to contract segments of the body when someone approaches the lamp.
