Well Lighting Control

Warm light at night, cool light in the morning.

 
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A dreary bathroom with a single overhead bulb was a great opportunity for an experiment in lighting improvement. The room now has dimmable indirect lighting and can adjust from warm 2700K to daylight 6500K. A $5 touchpad salvaged from a laptop provides 2 axes of control; touch anywhere along the vertical axis for brightness, anywhere along the horizontal axis for color temperature. Powered by an Arduino.

Interface

A 3D printed mounting bracket and cover houses the touchpad and power switch. Absolute X and Y are mapped to color temperature and brightness, respectively. The switch is not necessary, but cuts power to the system for extra conservation. A printed wire transition cover brought together two different brands of cable hiders.

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Lights

A 3D printed transition cover was made to match the crown molding, hiding the crimes of the wiring. Two rows of LED’s are hidden away inside the molding that now wraps around the perimeter of the room.