DIY LED lighting Guide

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Phillip Torrone

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Matthew has a super LED lighting guide – “LED lighting is becoming increasingly popular in fish tanks, case mods, and even household lighting. This article intends to be a comprehensive guide to their advantages, powering them, and creating dimming solutions.” Link.

Pictured here, LEDs from HOW TO – Build a 1,024,000 mcd portable light – Link.

Related:
Tons of LED projects and more – Link.
HOW TO – Make a LED Blinky – Make 04, page 165.

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bwente says:

February 27th, 2006 at 9:42 am

Here is a handy version made for “off-line” use. It’s a mod for PocketMod.

The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDAs are too expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper.

The forums seem to be down for the moment, but here is link to the resistor calculator mod.
MrH says:

February 27th, 2006 at 12:59 pm

Most of my resistors have 4 colour bands these days. very confusing but the worse part is I can no longer see the colours! a blue background makes it even worse.

Sorry to say I usually resort to using a meter – and me a trained electronics engineer!
todbotdotcom says:

February 27th, 2006 at 2:41 pm

Hey PT,

You should have the MakeBot do resistor calculations too.

Like maybe:
input: “resistor 220”
response: “red-red-brown”
input: “resistor 10k 5%”
response: “brown-black-orange-gold”
input: “resistor green-blue-yellow-silver”
response: “560k 10%”
BobSyris says:

February 27th, 2006 at 3:13 pm

Here’s my favorite resistor color code page:

http://samengstrom.com/elec/resistor/index.html

I like its interface best, and you can choose 4,5, or 6 band codes. But it only works as a reader: you pick the colors, it gives you a value.
simonking says:

March 2nd, 2006 at 6:52 am

You might be intersted in this OSX Dashboard Widget by Nicholas Zambetti: Resistulator

It calculates the value of a resistor from the sequence of colored bands painted on the resistor. It also displays the corresponding color sequence when a resistor value is entered.
simonking says:

March 2nd, 2006 at 6:53 am

You might be intersted in this OSX Dashboard Widget by Nicholas Zambetti: Resistulator

It calculates the value of a resistor from the sequence of colored bands painted on the resistor. It also displays the corresponding color sequence when a resistor value is entered.