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Ikea Lamp Hack

I wanted to create a new theme for his room to celebrate his starting school. He asked for a room decorated from the pages of one of his favorite books, The Octonauts. This was fun and difficult at the same time. One of my favorite elements turned out to be this gussied up lamp, which came from, you guessed it, Ikea.

LEDs light the LEGO skyline

LEDs light the LEGO skyline

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Micah’s Lego Sky project incorporates an Ikea LED light strip and touchpad control – The Altoids tin has the modified driver circuit: It’s the original circuit board with the microcontroller removed, then a homemade Arduino clone to control it. The orange box is an old Cirque PS/2 touchpad, removed […]