RGB Color Controllable High Power LED Room + Spot Lighting

Step 19 Power it up, and adding a lampshade

if you are making a room light, you'll need some sort of lampshade. without a shade, the led's will be painfully bright to look at, plus they will create strange, color-offset shadows because the different LED colors are not right on top of each other. this is great for a dance party but otherwise really annoying. for my 4-foot long lamp frame, the cover from a fluorescent fixure makes a perfect shade - these covers are designed to have very high transparency (= low light loss) while scattering the light effectively. more typical lampshades from paper or translucent plastic will lose quite a lot of light, but will look very nice.

for a spot-light, glue the lenses on top of the LED's if you haven't already.

now power it up! what's your favorite new skin color?

Comments

[Knutselprutser]

Hello! This project is amazing - I would like to make it for some friends of mine that just got married and a house. They built their own bath tub, which is amazing in itself. Now, they would like to have some rgb LED's to light the tub romantically and who am I not to provide? But I would like to offer them some dynamics and a remote. I have found the following product:

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=/specs/LDRF-RGB4.htm

but I am not quite happy since the analog driver that makes this project so beautiful is not included, which is neigh impossible with a remote I imagine. Anyway, do you have any advice for me? Thanks in advance!