Working on improving the lighting for Jacki’s Slide Lamp. I got some PCBs a while back from here. They are made to run LED arrays. If you don’t want to run a ton of LEDs you can cut the board in half and use jumpers to fill empty holes. At least that’s what I did. We’ll see how it works in the long term.

Here is a board I did with half bright white and half soft white….

Not asleep yet? More after the jump….

The little work area that I setup on the kitchen table.

Top of one of the PCBs. This one was all bright white. You can see where I cut the board in half on the left. It isn’t very pretty, but it was the first one cut. Now I know the best way is a hacksaw.

A look at the bottom of the board. You can see my not very good soldering and the little jumpers I made out of the metal that I cut off the LEDs bottoms.

An upskirt shot of the PCB mounted in the lamp….

And finally the finished lamp!

This is a much better solution than anything I have used in the past. I really like being able to do a little math, solder stuff up and it works great.

Stumble it!