Trackmate :: Classy Hardwood Curio

Step 4 Install the lighting

For the lighting, use white LED strips. These lights are low power, stay cool, and give nice uniform light. They are sold for a lot of different purposes, but I found some of the best prices are related to LEDs used for car lighting (such as Oznium's 4.7" white LEDs). If you use LEDs that already have resistors built-in (like the ones mentioned), they can be simply wired in parallel later.

Hot glue two LED strips into the box pointed at slightly different angles. The lights should be mounted on the same side as the camera to reduce reflections and glare potentially seen by the camera.

Solder and glue the connector for the lights to the box. The particular mounting will vary depending on the type of lighting you get, if you want a switch, you have access to a soldering iron, etc...