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**A DIY LED Lamp Project: Adding a Twist with WLED**

I recently embarked on a project to breathe new life into an old lamp by adding some creative flair with adjustable LEDs. The result was a stunning ambient light that I'm excited to share with you.

To begin, I purchased a basic lamp and some LED strips, which I connected to a small controller called WLED. This tiny device allowed me to control the color palette, speed, and brightness of the lights, making it incredibly easy to create different effects.

With the WLED controller plugged in, I was able to add a couple of different effects to the lamp. I started with a simple color Loop, which looked great against the neutral background of the lamp. The good news is that I didn't need to use a screw-on clamp anymore because the tape at the bottom allowed the LED strip to stick securely inside the lamp.

As you can see, I was able to turn down some of the lights to showcase the new look. Let's take a closer look at what this can actually look like. Here is the lamp itself with just a simple color Loop on the inside. The WLED has tons of different effects to choose from, and let me show you a couple demos of what this can actually look like.

This is considered "color twinkles," where you can see that there's kind of like uh I mean you've probably seen this before it's kind of like a watery type of LED visual to it. Another effect I'd like to share with you is called "color waves." This one, in particular, is pretty cool because it changes the color palette as it moves up the lamp.

One great thing about WLED is that it allows you to change the speed of the effects. If you want a slow transition and then switch to color waves, I can go ahead and change that for you. You can also change the color palette using the controller's menu options. For example, if I want to do black and orange, I can select those colors from the options.

I personally like to pick an effect called "wipe random," which will randomly select colors based on the chosen palette. This one is a bit harder to see on the screen, so let me turn up the speed to really fast so you can get an idea of what's happening. As you can see, the different colors are coming up the lamp and changing as it moves.

With just this small controller and the lamp I bought for a couple bucks, I was able to take this old lamp and make it into something truly special. You can power it through your PC or use a 5V wall brick to keep things running smoothly.

Let's take a look at what's happening inside the lamp from a top-down perspective. As you can see, the colors are climbing up the side of the PVC pipe that we put on the inside. I'll call this one a success! It was incredibly easy for me to get set up and get done something fun, and it's definitely doable for anyone.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everybody this is Carl from techful goodies and today I'm actually doing another W LED project basically taking a lamp and sort of changing it into a more of an LED ambient light so let's go ahead and get started so I will be starting out with some leftover LEDs that I had from a previous project that I'll put up here on the screen I am using the esp8266 a very easy chip and a very affordable chip to use that you can actually install wled onto this chip and it has Wi-Fi built in so you can actually connect over Wi-Fi to be able to control your lamp or any other project you have if you put LEDs in your room or you put them on your desk this allows you to do that I have another video that I said that I just put up in the corner that kind of shows you how to do that how to get wled installed but I'm going to go ahead and start with this already ready to go so my plan is to take this bad boy right here which is just a standard lamp standard uh desk lamp that has a white shade on it a base has a normal plug and a normal light bulb socket on the inside but I'm not going to use that I'm actually going to go ahead and I will leave the cord on for now in case I decide to change my mind and modify it later and what I'm going to do is I'm going to put LEDs on the inside of this as opposed to putting a normal light bulb so how am I going to do that let's get started so first thing I want to do is be able to remove this top part right here so it simply has the standard screw that pretty much every lamp has that keeps the lampshade connected to the base and that's this thing right here and that will allow me to basically pop off this lampshade and then I have my standardized base okay so how am I going to put LEDs in here my plan is to go ahead and take a small piece of PVC like this that I've already measured out and I'm going to attach it right here now in general a good idea would be to go ahead and use maybe a hot glue gun to connect this but I'm not going to do that right now first thing I'm going to do is connect the LEDs to this PVC so the good thing about these LEDs right here is that they have going to go ahead and unhook them here from the power source is that they have this sort of sticky backing right almost all LEDs have this so what that allows me to do is basically unpeel this blue backing on here and stick it right to the PVC piping so I'm going to do is go ahead and start it right down here at the bottom I'm going to give myself just a little bit of room so that I can go ahead and um pull the power cord down but what I want to be able to do is start to sort of roll this LED and I want to keep it as close as possible because I want the highest pixel density for this lamp so let me go ahead and do that and now that that's done I'm going to go ahead and trim off right at the connection points you can actually see right here that there are three little connectors little bronze connectors and those are your cut points and what that allows me to do is take this leftover LED portion right here and reuse it later and in order to reuse that you can either solder wires on there but I'm I'm using these uh LED light strip three pin connectors these work specifically because my LED light strips have three pins on them so you can see if I hold this up here that these have three pins on the inside and basically the LEDs sort of slide underneath there and then when you close that up then it makes the proper connection so right now here is what I have and I will go ahead and reinforce that in a little bit okay so here's what I have so I have basically have this full PVC pipe right here loaded with LEDs okay so when I install this on here I'm able to control exactly what effects and what shows up in wled on these LEDs when I turn them on so in order to connect this to the base I've decided that what I'm going to do is I am for the time being because I don't have a hot glue gun available to me I'm going to tape it on which isn't the best option because I don't think it'll have a lot of longevity but it's what I have and it's what I'm gonna do so we'll put this here we will go ahead and add a little bit of tape and tape this on to the bottom which is kind of why I left that buffer at the bottom for the wires because I knew that I would have this tape on the bottom here so let's do another one give it a little bit more structure may not be the prettiest thing you've ever seen but it will work it will work all right there we go so now we have the LED post on the inside of the lamp so I'm going to go ahead and do is get this plugged back into the power source and there we go and as you can see I can add a couple different effects to it let's just do like a color Loop there we go so once I go ahead and add this back on foreign the good news is I don't need to use that screw-on clamp anymore because the tape at the bottom allows this to basically stick in the lamp Okay so success I mean how easy was that the ability for me to be able to take an old lamp toss something on the inside with adjustable LEDs let me go ahead and show you a couple demos of what this can actually look like I'll go ahead and turn down some of the lights here so you can see all right so here is the lamp itself and it's with just sort of like a let's say call it color Loop um on the inside there wled has tons of different um little effects let's go ahead and see what we can figure out so this is considered color twinkles so you can see that there is kind of like uh I mean you've probably seen this before it's kind of like a I don't know watery type of LED visual to it there's color waves which I think is pretty cool that's probably something I'll end up using is color waves because I really like how it changes the good thing is that wled allows you to kind of change the speed so if I really wanted kind of like a slow transition and then color waves I can go ahead and change so I can go ahead and change the color palette on that and I'll go ahead and speed this back up a little bit turn the brightness up as high as possible so um a w LED does allow you to change the color palette so they're like for example if I want to do black and orange I can do that but what I want to pick on this is I I personally like to pick there's a one at the bottom called um wipe random okay so what that basically does is it'll go ahead and it'll wipe through the different colors randomly based on whatever color palette you have and you can see that this is kind of it may be a little bit more difficult to see on the screen let me turn the speed up to really fast here just so there you go so you can actually see that the different colors are kind of coming up the lamp and changing the different colors as it goes and with the color palette that I picked I picked sort of a wide color palette so it can basically go through and chose any color so I'm liking that a lot and like I said with just a simple small little controller like this the wled controller and the lamp that I bought which was probably only a couple bucks too I was basically able to take this and make it into a nice little ambient LED lamp that I can stick in the corner I can power it through my PC I can power it through like a wall brick a five volt wall brick this is just a lot of things that I can do with that I'll go ahead and clean this up a little bit in the future so make sure that everything works correctly um but let me show you a top-down view on the inside of the lamp itself okay so that's basically what's happening so you can see the colors are kind of climbing up and with LEDs it doesn't like to focus but the colors are basically climbing up the side of the PVC pipe that we put on the inside there so I'm going to call that one a success that was a lot of fun uh super easy I mean what that was only a couple minutes for me to get sup and get done something easy you can do yourself check out the esp8266 or the esp32 controllers that you can toss wled onto and then control any of your products but hey if you like this and you appreciate these kind of videos my name is Carl I'm a tech guy at my tech desk trying out all sorts of goodies protectful goodies seeing if they work and sharing with you but until next time this is Carl from technical goodies and I'm outwhat's up everybody this is Carl from techful goodies and today I'm actually doing another W LED project basically taking a lamp and sort of changing it into a more of an LED ambient light so let's go ahead and get started so I will be starting out with some leftover LEDs that I had from a previous project that I'll put up here on the screen I am using the esp8266 a very easy chip and a very affordable chip to use that you can actually install wled onto this chip and it has Wi-Fi built in so you can actually connect over Wi-Fi to be able to control your lamp or any other project you have if you put LEDs in your room or you put them on your desk this allows you to do that I have another video that I said that I just put up in the corner that kind of shows you how to do that how to get wled installed but I'm going to go ahead and start with this already ready to go so my plan is to take this bad boy right here which is just a standard lamp standard uh desk lamp that has a white shade on it a base has a normal plug and a normal light bulb socket on the inside but I'm not going to use that I'm actually going to go ahead and I will leave the cord on for now in case I decide to change my mind and modify it later and what I'm going to do is I'm going to put LEDs on the inside of this as opposed to putting a normal light bulb so how am I going to do that let's get started so first thing I want to do is be able to remove this top part right here so it simply has the standard screw that pretty much every lamp has that keeps the lampshade connected to the base and that's this thing right here and that will allow me to basically pop off this lampshade and then I have my standardized base okay so how am I going to put LEDs in here my plan is to go ahead and take a small piece of PVC like this that I've already measured out and I'm going to attach it right here now in general a good idea would be to go ahead and use maybe a hot glue gun to connect this but I'm not going to do that right now first thing I'm going to do is connect the LEDs to this PVC so the good thing about these LEDs right here is that they have going to go ahead and unhook them here from the power source is that they have this sort of sticky backing right almost all LEDs have this so what that allows me to do is basically unpeel this blue backing on here and stick it right to the PVC piping so I'm going to do is go ahead and start it right down here at the bottom I'm going to give myself just a little bit of room so that I can go ahead and um pull the power cord down but what I want to be able to do is start to sort of roll this LED and I want to keep it as close as possible because I want the highest pixel density for this lamp so let me go ahead and do that and now that that's done I'm going to go ahead and trim off right at the connection points you can actually see right here that there are three little connectors little bronze connectors and those are your cut points and what that allows me to do is take this leftover LED portion right here and reuse it later and in order to reuse that you can either solder wires on there but I'm I'm using these uh LED light strip three pin connectors these work specifically because my LED light strips have three pins on them so you can see if I hold this up here that these have three pins on the inside and basically the LEDs sort of slide underneath there and then when you close that up then it makes the proper connection so right now here is what I have and I will go ahead and reinforce that in a little bit okay so here's what I have so I have basically have this full PVC pipe right here loaded with LEDs okay so when I install this on here I'm able to control exactly what effects and what shows up in wled on these LEDs when I turn them on so in order to connect this to the base I've decided that what I'm going to do is I am for the time being because I don't have a hot glue gun available to me I'm going to tape it on which isn't the best option because I don't think it'll have a lot of longevity but it's what I have and it's what I'm gonna do so we'll put this here we will go ahead and add a little bit of tape and tape this on to the bottom which is kind of why I left that buffer at the bottom for the wires because I knew that I would have this tape on the bottom here so let's do another one give it a little bit more structure may not be the prettiest thing you've ever seen but it will work it will work all right there we go so now we have the LED post on the inside of the lamp so I'm going to go ahead and do is get this plugged back into the power source and there we go and as you can see I can add a couple different effects to it let's just do like a color Loop there we go so once I go ahead and add this back on foreign the good news is I don't need to use that screw-on clamp anymore because the tape at the bottom allows this to basically stick in the lamp Okay so success I mean how easy was that the ability for me to be able to take an old lamp toss something on the inside with adjustable LEDs let me go ahead and show you a couple demos of what this can actually look like I'll go ahead and turn down some of the lights here so you can see all right so here is the lamp itself and it's with just sort of like a let's say call it color Loop um on the inside there wled has tons of different um little effects let's go ahead and see what we can figure out so this is considered color twinkles so you can see that there is kind of like uh I mean you've probably seen this before it's kind of like a I don't know watery type of LED visual to it there's color waves which I think is pretty cool that's probably something I'll end up using is color waves because I really like how it changes the good thing is that wled allows you to kind of change the speed so if I really wanted kind of like a slow transition and then color waves I can go ahead and change so I can go ahead and change the color palette on that and I'll go ahead and speed this back up a little bit turn the brightness up as high as possible so um a w LED does allow you to change the color palette so they're like for example if I want to do black and orange I can do that but what I want to pick on this is I I personally like to pick there's a one at the bottom called um wipe random okay so what that basically does is it'll go ahead and it'll wipe through the different colors randomly based on whatever color palette you have and you can see that this is kind of it may be a little bit more difficult to see on the screen let me turn the speed up to really fast here just so there you go so you can actually see that the different colors are kind of coming up the lamp and changing the different colors as it goes and with the color palette that I picked I picked sort of a wide color palette so it can basically go through and chose any color so I'm liking that a lot and like I said with just a simple small little controller like this the wled controller and the lamp that I bought which was probably only a couple bucks too I was basically able to take this and make it into a nice little ambient LED lamp that I can stick in the corner I can power it through my PC I can power it through like a wall brick a five volt wall brick this is just a lot of things that I can do with that I'll go ahead and clean this up a little bit in the future so make sure that everything works correctly um but let me show you a top-down view on the inside of the lamp itself okay so that's basically what's happening so you can see the colors are kind of climbing up and with LEDs it doesn't like to focus but the colors are basically climbing up the side of the PVC pipe that we put on the inside there so I'm going to call that one a success that was a lot of fun uh super easy I mean what that was only a couple minutes for me to get sup and get done something easy you can do yourself check out the esp8266 or the esp32 controllers that you can toss wled onto and then control any of your products but hey if you like this and you appreciate these kind of videos my name is Carl I'm a tech guy at my tech desk trying out all sorts of goodies protectful goodies seeing if they work and sharing with you but until next time this is Carl from technical goodies and I'm out