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Monthly Archives: September 2012

Hacking the Ikea DIODER in ten minutes flat

Monday, September 17, 2012

Last week I bought a set of DIODER lights from the Ikea down the road, pretty much on a whim. They’re not the cheapest way to buy RGB strip light­ing, but I did like the mod­u­lar design. And it’s remark­ably easy to modi­fy the con­trol­ler to drive the sys­tem with an ardu­ino. The sys­tem comes […]

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Controlling external lighting with Arduino

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The path to my front door is long and very poorly lit. There’s a sensor light moun­ted above it, but that’s nev­er worked and, liv­ing in a rent­al, get­ting it fixed has been a bit of a task. So I bought a roll of 3-wire LED rope light on eBay. Cable-tied it to the under­side […]

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