We are talking about making some night light using some quick hacks here. If you use a bit of creativity along with technology, the result may be beautiful. The kind of light we will be creating here will have numerous features like automatic on/off, perfect dispersion of light through neopixels, gradually fading colors, and very little efforts. Here we kept it simple so never added RTC, the light here remains on for 12 hours and off for next 12. With the NeoPixels you can always do some animations apart from the fading effect that we have applied here.
The video can be seen here https://twitter.com/Ady/status/686778912186105856
The main components that you will need for this project will include Ikea Solviden, Digispark, Adafruit Neopixels, and a phone charger. You can purchase IKEA Solviden for $1.99 from IKEA, the minimum number required in this case will be 12 casings. Next, the digispark wouldn’t costs more than $2 but make sure it comes with an integrated USB connector. The Adafruit Neopixels can be the genuine ones and if you are just making the project on a trial basis, you can purchase some from AliExpress. The phone charger can be any and if you can find one with USB port nothing like it. More can be seen through the pictures below.
There is a big scope of improvement in this project. For example, if you use ESP2866 in place of digispark you can make your lights lot more sensible. You can sync the on/off function with sunset and sunrise timings. However, you will to manage or make a ESP8266 board in this format, if you can meet that requirement you can really do wonders. You could also add add a PIR motion sensor to it to make things smarters in your resting place. For arduino sketch programming, you can check out the following link:
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