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photo of an electrical socket, behind the plastic cover the wires glow bright orange. blue flashes escape from the edges of the cover

  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    those leds draw 10w maximum though, they shouldn’t need to be at full brightness (I know from having some of those that they’re extremely bright) but a coin battery isn’t going to last very long if you use all 30 (using more means you don’t need as thick of a diffuser and can separate the colors more)

    the idea is you would partially disassemble the charger to put it and the microcontroller in a custom, miniaturized case, and remove the outlet and usb connectors from the charger so you can solder and wire everything yourself

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 hours ago

      Ah I see, makes sense. With one of those full led strips I think it would be tough to cram everything in there if you’re leaving the outlet in tbh, I installed a wifi controller for an outlet a while ago and even just that seemed like kind of a tight fit. Idk how to realistically do it smaller though.