2023 Ultimate Gaming Room Makeover - Chill Space Transformation - DIY Video

so about one year ago this is what my basement looked like from The Plaid couches the Death Star poster and the 32 inch flat screen I had the perfect setup fast forward to today and this is what it currently looks like now I've already made the complete how-to videos for all the LED projects you're seeing here but I thought it might be a good idea to put them all in one video to make things simple I'll make chapters you can jump around but here's the order in which they'll be shown in the description I'll leave links to the most common materials used but feel free to ask me any questions you might have and thanks for watching all right [Applause] to kick things off for this project I'm going to be using a white 48 by 24 inch pegboard now there are so many different pegboard sizes colors and materials available out there so feel free to use whatever makes sense for your space since there's really no wrong option since this will more than likely end up on my wall I'm going to be using some 1 by 2 inch boards cut down to size to create a frame around the back now to make this look more like an art piece and less like an old pegboard you'd find in your garage I'm going to be using some more 1 by 2 inch boards that I bought white to create a frame around the Border in the front looking back there has to be a better way of doing this step but it's all I could think of at the time I'm gluing the front pieces of wood to the pegboard and my plan is that once it dries I'll be able to flip it over and hopefully those front pieces will stay put long enough for me to secure everything together with some screws starting from the back pieces of the one by twos [Music] after about 12 hours of drying it was time for me to flip it over and reposition the back sections of wood [Music] after getting everything lined up I drilled small pilot holes and we'll be using one and one-fourth inch screws to secure everything together the screws are going to be just long enough to go through the back pieces the pegboard and about halfway through the wood in the front thank you so I ended up going a little too deep on some of the pilot holes so I'm going to clean that up with some spackling and finally after giving the dried spackling a light sand I'm going to give the front one by twos a Fresh coat of white paint at this point you may also decide to paint the sides of the back pieces since they'll also be somewhat visible [Music] now it's time to move on to the LED portion of the build in my last video I shared with you when I'm 100 convinced are the best aluminum diffuser channels that you can find on Amazon and I'll be incorporating those into this project for getting everything wired up I'm going to be using some 18 gauge silicone wires cut three wires at about 12 inches in length for each [Music] next take a wire stripper and cut back a little bit of each strand [Music] next I'll be doing what's called tinting the wires put a little bit of solder on your iron and use that to heat up the wires underneath so that the solder melts into the wire do this for all three [Music] since we're going to be attaching these to the pads of the LED strips we don't need as much exposed wire so cut it back to a smaller size [Music] foreign for the LED strips I'm going to be using some BTF lighting ws2812b pixels that have 60 LEDs per meter to fill up one section of the diffuser Channel I know I need 60 LEDs if I'm not going to put on any of the end caps or 59 if I plan on using the end pieces I personally like not having them on so I'll be using 60. so once you have your strip cut it's time to apply some solder to the pad to the LEDs [Music] for this step put the tip of the hot iron directly onto the pad and then quickly feed a little bit of the solder into that same pad you should then have a little blob that sticks the last thing is attaching the wires all you have to do is put the wire on top of the solder that's on the pad and gently press down with the iron everything should fuse together and when you remove the heat the solder will harden and it should now be attached to the pad [Music] let's do the exact same thing for the other side of the LED strip [Music] so now that I have one completed I won't show you but I'm going to make five more that are identical to this one control the LED lights I'm going to be using my usual wled installed onto a esp8266 module I've had good luck using this method and it's about as cheap as you can get instead of using jumper wires I'm going to cut three six inch long wires to solder into the board [Music] prep the three wires just like we did in the previous step on the ESP module I'm going to melt a little bit of solder into the VIN gnd and D4 pin to get them ready for the wires to be connected [Music] next you can quickly tin the three wires [Music] it does take a little bit of finesse to fuse the wire with the post but it's not too difficult this is where it definitely is nice to have the Helping Hands [Music] foreign [Music] figuring out the best way to mount these to the pegboard took me much longer than it should have I wanted everything to be able to get moved around with not much work in case I ever wanted to change up the design or layout I decided to try super gluing these little magnets to the back of the mounting brackets of the diffuser channels the idea was that these little magnets would fit into the hole and I would then have a little bit larger magnet behind the pegboard that would then keep the bracket in place [Music] while waiting for the glue to dry I'm going to start installing the strip lights into the diffuser channels [Music] all of the LED strips have arrows pointing in One Direction which is used to indicate the flow of the data line I'm marking the beginning wires for each section so that when I'm connecting everything from behind it's a little bit easier to tell what needs to go where [Music] foreign I can begin to attach the brackets to the pegboard in any sort of configuration that I like now I just need to put the bigger magnet behind the pegboard directly under the bracket that has a smaller magnet attached next I can simply snap the channels in place here I'll be feeding the wires through the holes to get them out of the way [Music] foreign [Music] so this is a good lesson that not everything works out as you planned it turns out that super glue does not create that strong of a bond between smooth metal surfaces and the small magnets could be snapped off the connector pieces with not too much effort on the bright side the magnet idea itself would have worked perfectly if I knew what type of adhesive to use that would create a stronger Bond if anyone has ideas please let me know as I'm all ears this time around I'm going to be using the screws that the channels came with and I'll be cutting some small cubes of wood to use to connect it in the back I'll also drill some small pilot holes in the wood to make the screws go in a little bit easier [Music] please [Music] to connect everything in the back I'm going to be using some Wago connectors I've really fallen in love with these because they're super easy to use they work great and I don't have to get all my soldering stuff out again so this here are the end wires of the first section and I'll be connecting them to the beginning wires of the section above for this step just make sure you're connecting the data to data ground to ground and voltage to voltage foreign [Music] I'll be connecting the end of the second channel to the beginning of the Third [Music] to get everything hooked up to the power and controller is super easy here you're looking at the three wires at the beginning of the first section I'm going to take the connector and feed in the data wire from the controller and the data wire from the LED strip [Music] [Music] next I'm going to take the barrel plug adapter that came with the power source and insert one six inch long wire into both the positive and negative terminals from here I'm going to be using a three slot wiggle connector and putting the voltage wires from the barrel plug from the controller and from the LED strip into it now maybe someone can help me out here is there any benefit to putting each wire into a separate slot like I'm doing here or would there be no difference if I just put all the wires into one slot [Music] I'll be doing the exact same thing now for all three ground wires [Music] I'm going to quickly plug things in to make sure everything works [Music] now depending on how picky you are you may want to hide the exposed wires I found this great mesh cord organizer on Amazon that you can wrap around the wires and it's just barely thin enough so that you can still feed it through the holes on the pegboard [Music] I might take the time to do the rest of them later but for now I'm going to begin sliding on the diffusers [Music] if you're going to hang this on the wall you should be able to hide all the cables behind it I'm going to drill a half circle in the back piece of wood near where my controller is so I can feed my power cord through it and still keep it flush with the wall [Music] now the other thing I did was I went back and put some heat shrink tubing on the pins of the LED controller to give them a little bit more protection so that about wraps things up please let me know if you have any questions at all and I hope you enjoy the final pictures and videos foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] for this first step I'm going to be using a one inch by two inch by six foot long piece of wood that I got at Home Depot for about four dollars and since the color of the wood is similar to the table I'll slide a piece of white board underneath so it's easier to see next I'll be putting a small dot in the middle and I'll keep doing this about every one or two feet until I get to the end now just take something that has a straight edge and connect the dots so that you have a line running down the center of the entire board for this project I'm going to be using some ws2812b strip lights that have 30 LEDs per meter and if you didn't want to use this exact kind you could easily substitute it with Govi but just make sure whatever you use does not have that silicone coating on it like it does in this picture here I'm going to be taping the LED strip down so that it's running right alongside the line that we drew down the center next I'm going to be putting a mark on the center line right where each LED is located on the strip for this step I'm going to be using a 3 8 of an inch forstner bit what's nice about this tool is it has that little sharp Spike at the end which is going to help us line up with the marks that I made down the center of the wood at each LED point when you're drilling the hole make sure to go down as straight as possible and go all the way through also make sure you have a scrap piece of wood underneath that you don't mind getting cut into this step would preferably be done with one of these tools but it worked out just fine doing it by hand thank you next I'm going to be using a half inch dado bit to cut a very shallow channel so that the LEDs have a place to rest in this step is not really necessary but it's going to help the wood lay flush against whatever surface you have it on I did a pretty bad job of centering that cut on the router table but I think it'll still work so here I'm going to be laying the strip of LEDs in the channel and the goal is that all the individual LED lights will fit into each circle that we cut out I'm going to be using some electrical tape to secure the strip to the wood and keep everything in place [Music] and for what I have in mind I'm going to need two of these with the second one being the exact same as the first now if you're going to use some Govi LED strip lights you would be skipping this next section but I wanted to at least go over how I'm connecting and powering these in case you end up doing it this way I'm going to be using my favorite method of controlling these lights which is W LED installed on an esp8266 module I've already soldered the voltage ground and data wire to the pins and I'll be inserting the red voltage wire into the first positive terminal on my power unit and the black ground wire into the first negative terminal next I'll be taking the red wire that I've already soldered into the beginning of the LED strip and putting that into the second positive terminal on the supply unit and then the black ground wire into the second negative terminal you do now you can just twist together the data wires and the first one's done to get the second one connected it's a little bit different than what I've done in the past normally I would connect the second strip to the end of the first but for what I'm wanting to do I'm going to need each strip doing the exact same thing at the exact same time so I'm going to be wiring them in what's called parallels which will accomplish that effect also make sure the arrows on both LED strips are going in this direction right now I'm just going to be splicing some wires together since the ones I've already attached the beginning of the second LED strip are not long enough to reach the power unit and at the recommendation of a lot of people I've ordered some Wego connectors which I'm really excited to try out but unfortunately they didn't arrive yet so I'll just be twisting them for now here I'll be inserting the red voltage wire from the second LED strip into the third positive terminal and then the black ground wire into the third negative position [Music] and finally so that the two parallel LED strips are doing the same thing at the same time I'll be twisting all the data wires together [Music] I'm going to quickly test them to make sure that a they turn on and that b the animations are identical and as far as I can tell both sides appear to be in sync which is what I wanted sadly one of the things I like to do on a regular basis is walk through Home Depot Menards with a flashlight and look for things that I could potentially use in some Led projects on one of my many trips I ended up finding what I have here which is some PEX tubing it's mainly used by plumbers and is available in different colors shapes and sizes unfortunately the stuff is pretty cheap and it comes in white which does a good job of diffusing light now from what I saw this stuff all has some print on the outside and if you can't position in a way that hides it you can easily give it a little sanding and it comes right off [Music] this is where your creativity can take off there's an unlimited number of ways you can cut these down and insert them into the LED cutouts to achieve different looks and designs you can also use a variety of ways to cut the tubing but I ended up getting a tool for about twelve dollars that makes it really easy foreign I'll go over a couple different designs I thought might look cool before getting into the one that I went with so if you only wanted to use one board you could start inserting the PEX tubing into the holes and if you put them in at all varying Heights I thought it would give off a nice wave-like effect when lit up and for this method I did end up cutting some shorter pieces of PEX pieces to use [Music] you can also take longer pieces and bend them so that they form an arch and since wled lets you skip LEDs if you'd like you could program it so only the holes with the tubing in it would light up now this is getting closer to what I ended up going with spacing the two boards apart and inserting the plastic into a hole on each side and even though the pieces I'm using here are the same length I thought it would look cool if you cut them at different sizes so that it would create what looks like small ripples in water now for what I actually did I believe it was Menards that had 25 foot spools of the quarter inch PEX tubing for about seven dollars each and I bought two of these and I cut out a bunch of pieces that were all 12 inches long foreign [Music] I took down one of my previous Corner projects to make room for this I was able to hang them with only using three small L-shaped brackets on the outside of either piece of wood I didn't use any drywall screws or anchors so if I need to take this down the repair to the wall would be minimal now you very well could go through the wood to secure it to the wall so that no Hardware would be showing but since the LED strip is in the middle you'd have to get closer to the edge and I didn't want to possibly risk splitting the wood since I'd probably cry if that happened so this is the fun part you can begin to put the tubing into each hole and I decided to stagger the two pieces of wood to create a little bit more of a downward slope which I hope is going to look good here's a little bit closer of a look so you can see what's going on [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] for the first step I'm going to be taking a 1 by 2 by 8 foot long board and cutting a small Groove near the edge that's about half an inch deep quack [Music] next I'll be taking another 1 by 2 by 8 foot long board and cutting a Groove in the exact same location as before but this time I'm going to raise my blade a little bit higher and go about one and a half inches deep foreign [Music] here I'm going to be taking the board that I just put the Deep Groove into and flipping it on its side I'm not even sure how to describe this cut so just watch closely and it should make sense [Music] laughs [Music] since I plan on having the eight and four foot long pieces coming together at a corner wall I'm going to make a 45 degree cut at the ends so that when they're pushed together they will form a nice 90 degree angle [Music] [Music] now for this step I'm just going to be painting the boards White thank you now this is where I plan on installing these the eight foot section will be on the long side and the forefoot section will go behind the speakers and disappear behind the center console now if I planned on staying in this house forever I would remove the brown baseboard trim that's there now but since we're hoping to move sometime in the near future I'm going to see if I can just temporarily install this over what's currently there [Music] after organizing things a little bit I still have the HDMI and sound cable that's connected to my projector a speaker wire and a power cord that's connected to the Govi LED strip lights that I used in my corner LED project I'll worry about the cable management later but for now I'm just going to tape them to the wall to open up space to work [Music] begin installing I'm first going to take the eight foot long piece of wood that I made the two cuts on and put some painters tape on the back side if I wanted to make this more of a long term setup I would use a finish nailer instead of tape foreign I'm going to be securing this as snug to the corner as I can and as close to the carpet as possible [Music] there's a lot of different ways you can go about getting strip lights to make a 90 degree turn but I'm just going to use these simple little corner connectors that I found on Amazon but if you didn't want to do it this way you could probably just bend the strip or solder some short flexible wires to make the turn here you can see how it's going to look and all you have to do now is attach the LED strips to either side [Music] as far as the LEDs I'm going to be using some 5 volt ws2812b strip lights and attach them to an ESP module with wled installed now if you don't want to do it this way I would just recommend using some Govi RGB IC LED strip lights which will work great as well foreign [Music] now it's time to install the top piece I'm going to be using painters tape again for this step and I'll be placing it about two inches above from the bottom section [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] so what will I be using to diffuse the LEDs I originally was going to just use some white acrylic and cut it into strips so that I could slide it into the channels I cut out I tested this method out and it worked perfect and looked great so that's definitely one way you could do it however I chose to go the cheaper route I had a leftover roll of paper from my previous project and I simply cut a long strip of it out and insert it into the grooves okay [Music] [Music] I'm now going to be cutting out another strip of paper to insert in the four foot long section since there is a little Gap where the paper comes together I'm just going to quickly cut a little piece of wood at a 45 degree angle and use that to fill in the corner and since I'm planning on putting a plant in front of it anyways I'm not too worried about making it look perfect foreign the cords I really don't want to spend any money so I'm taking a piece of poster board paper I had at home rolling it into a tube taping it together and sliding the wires through and again if this were something I planned on having up for a long time I would definitely make this look a little bit more professional [Music] the reason why this works so well is this piece of wood that Jets out so this is our bottom piece and I'll slide some acrylic in here so you can get a better idea of what I'm talking about so this is where our LED strips are going to be sitting and I'll just quick throw a strip there and if these were raised to right about here you it's way too close to the the diffuser so you're going to be able to see the individual pixels and that's not going to give the effect that I'm going for it's going to look just like those cheap diffuser channels that you can buy on Amazon because the lights are so close to the diffuser that you really just see the hot spots almost as if there was nothing there so having this piece of wood jet out in a sense it's kind of hiding and covering up those hot spots so that all we see up here is that nice warm glow [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] I was smart I find you to stop and we could be in love the first thing you're going to do is adjust your table saw to 45 degrees next you want to align your fence so that you're only taking off the small corner of your 1 by 2 inch piece of wood and once you're done with this cut make sure to save that little strip because we're going to be using that later on thank you thank you step number two we're going to be moving the fence a little bit closer and we're going to be lowering the blade so that it only goes about halfway through the wood this is going to create the channel that we can slide our diffuser material into [Music] [Music] thank you so I've searched high and low on Amazon for different things that diffuse LED lights and I don't think anything has worked as well as this 12 inch by 12 inch piece of white acrylic that's 1 8 of an inch thick it has the perfect balance of letting enough light through so it's bright but at the same time blocking enough out so you don't see the individual LED pixels and for this step You're simply cutting a square in half so this is the corner where I'm going to be setting things up it's just your average 90 degree angle that I would imagine most of your homes have if you remember back to the very first cut that we made I'm going to be taking this small piece of wood this is going to fit perfectly right up in that corner here just like that and this is where I'm going to be placing the LED strip now this is super lightweight and the LED strips aren't going to weigh much so I'm going to just first try attaching uh some pieces of painters taped a couple spots and then pressing it up against the wall see if that's strong enough to hold if not I can always just do a couple pilot holes and then use some screws but we're going to try the painters tape first see how that works using these golvi RGB [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] Overcomers [Music] but right in front of the acrylic in those grooves [Music] thank you baby [Music] between myself [Music] don't wanna overthink it baby [Music] but my appetite [Music] but I don't wanna jinx it baby [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] I was recently looking to buy a new lamp and stumbled on a brand called sunmori as I was looking at some of their products I kept coming back to this one now there are thousands upon thousands of lamps on Amazon many of which have some amazing RGB effects even though this particular product did not have any of the fancy lighting that I love the reason it stood out was its functionality it had three shelves and what I was most excited about was the two USB ports and two power outlets built into the third level and after looking at it online for a while I had a sneaky feeling that I could give this a DIY RGB hack with hopefully a few simple modifications I ended up ordering two white ones and setting it up was probably the most pleasant experience I've ever had assembling something let's get everything unpacked and I'll walk you through putting it all together [Music] here you have the light bulb unit Cable Management pieces pads to prevent scratches and hardwood floors some threaded rods a Phillips and hex screwdriver hex threaded screws and lastly you have your Phillips headed screws step one we need to take four legs four hex screws and the bottom base piece [Music] next you're going to take the pads and remove the sticky tape and place on the bottom of the base [Music] continuing step two you're going to screw the hex rods into each piece of wood this can easily be done by hand and it will not let you go any further than halfway [Music] step three and four will have you place the shelf that looks the same on both sides over the hex rods and then step five as you screw in four more wooden posts into those rods step six seven and eight are pretty much a repeat of what we just did [Music] now more than likely you'll continue to build this going vertical but I'm going to lay it on its side so I can keep the camera a little bit closer [Music] for step nine you'll use the hex screws to attach the top panel [Music] step 10 will have us secure the small piece of wood and the power unit to the shelf for this you'll be using the Phillips screws and screwdriver foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] we'll be installing a light and make sure to unscrew the black piece from the fixture [Music] next just take the cord from the light and plug it into the appropriate cable that's coming out of the power unit steps 13 14 and 15 will have us assembling the diffuser shade [Music] foreign [Music] the Metal Frames have velcro as does the inside of the material which will help keep everything in place [Music] foreign [Music] the last few steps include putting in the light bulb the small drawer and then securing the cables with Clips along the back of the wooden pieces and as always I'll leave links in the description below to everything I use in this video so make sure to check them out the light that's included in the lamp has three different levels of color a cool white medium White and then more so now the fun begins how can I transform this into an RGB IC color changing fixture the first thing you need to do is remove the light bulb next go in and remove the black plastic ring that's screwed into the lighting unit now you should be able to take the top lampshade off and then we just need to remove the light bulb housing parts [Music] and this next part's not a big deal but I think I want that rectangle cut out facing the back of the lamp versus the left side it's currently pointing I'm going to quickly fix that for lighting these up I'm going to be using some BTF ws2812b LED strips now if you don't want to go through the simple wiring that I'm about to do you could very well just use some Govi lights instead so there's quite a few different ways to get these connected let's say you have a brand new roll with the beginning wire still attached you can cut the black piece off and then use the white green and red wires to connect the controller however let's say you wanted to use some thicker wires or you're trying to use some leftover LEDs that you have I'll go over how to get things set up for that scenario I'm first going to apply some solder to the pads of the LED strip [Music] next I'll be using some 18 gauge silicone wires and cutting off three pieces it doesn't matter the color but to make things simple I'll use red white and green each piece is going to be about four inches long now you can strip one side of each color so that you have a little bit of the wire exposed here you can quickly tin the wire so that they'll be able to fuse together with the solder on the pads of the LED strips [Music] in this step I'll be taking the wires we just tinned and trimming them to about the size of the pads on the LED strip [Music] now you can just apply the hot iron to the top of the wire and it should melt into the solder that's on the LED pad beneath it thank you [Music] next just quickly strip the other end of the wires [Music] I'll be using my favorite setup which is wled installed on an esp8266 Wi-Fi board you could also use an esp32 module if preferred now I'll leave a link in the description for one of my previous videos where I walk you through the easy steps of getting the free wled installed on this device I've already soldered the wires to the pins so we can begin to connect everything together foreign a lot of comments from people suggesting I try using Wago connectors I finally ordered some the idea is that you insert the two wires that you normally would twist together into the two slots and simply press down on the lever to lock it in place then you can easily lift the lever to remove them if you're someone like me who's always doing new projects and reusing old materials [Music] I went out and bought a cheap one and quarter inch diameter dowel and cut it down to 13 and a quarter inches in length I'm not doing anything groundbreaking or original here but just wrap the LEDs around it until you have good coverage for reference I ended up using 93 LEDs before making the cut I'm just going to use some electrical tape for now to hold things in place because I want to make sure that this is even going to work and look cool before I'll take the backing off the LED strips and stick it to the wood [Music] I disconnected the controller during the wrapping part so now I'm going to quickly reattach things using the connectors and I must say I'm really starting to love these things so thank you to everyone who suggested I try them as I don't think I'll be going back to the old way anytime soon now this is where things start to come together perfectly you don't need to but to provide a little more stability while getting things set up I'll apply a little painters tape over the middle hole and then set the wooden doll with our LED strip on top of it next I'm going to connect an old white micro USB phone charger cord to the ESP module now just take the USB end of the cord and put it through the rectangle box on the platform all of the rest of the cables just position those towards what will end up being the back of the light and secure them down with a little white electrical tape here I'm going to be using a little more tape to hide the cord as I work my way down towards the plugs foreign now you can see in this shot that I have the micro USB cord plugged into the USB power supply on the top shelf it's almost as if this lamp was designed for this RGB modification alright so I promise this is the last step you're going to take the lampshade and all you have to do is literally flip it upside down and put it back on the center ring which was previously at the bottom should now slide perfectly on top of the wooden doll providing support to keep it upright so that pretty much does it I'm super happy with the lamps and even more excited about how they turned out after the simple RGB hack please let me know if you have any questions and I hope you enjoy the final pictures and videos [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] thank you hey thank you all so much for watching my name is Chris in this video I'm going to attempt to make something that resembles a couple of my favorite products which are the Govi Glide and the lifx beam however there is a catch I'm only going to be using paper and a little bit of tape to make this so I hope you enjoyed the video if you do please consider liking and subscribing and let me know how you think I did thanks for the first step I'm just using your average poster board I'll be cutting three individual strips that are approximately two and a half inches wide foreign next I'll be cutting one of the ends off at a 45 degree angle [Music] take the end of another section and make another 45 degree angle cut [Music] next I'll be making a few cuts to match the measurements of the Govi Glide [Music] for this next step you're going to be taking the pieces of paper that we cut out and take your ruler and for reference the ruler I'm using is about one and a half inches wide and you're going to place it in the middle and then just score along the edges this is going to make it a lot easier to fold those ends up and you don't want to cut through the paper so make sure you're just pressing gently with whatever object you're using [Music] thank you [Music] and for the two corner pieces that we have cut off those little sections that jet out on both of them so that when you place it together they form a Sharp 90 degree angle thank you next I'm going to be taping these sections together using some white duct tape [Music] for this step I'm going to be using some white electrical tape and I'm going to be putting a thin strip right down the middle of the track and this is where I'm going to be attaching the LEDs to [Music] if you want to make this project super quick and easy I would recommend using some Govi RGB IC strip lights however since I have some extra ws2812b lights lying around from a previous project I'm going to be using those instead if you end up using the golfy brand just cut those down to size and then lay that first strip on the long section [Music] as far as getting the lights around that corner you can buy these L-shaped brackets off of Amazon they're super easy to use in my experience they do work pretty well and especially if you don't have the tools or you don't want to solder this is a quick alternative to that now could you make that 90 degree turn with just one solid LED strip probably but I do think this looks a little bit neater and in case you're wondering I did test these connectors out with the Govi LED strips and they work perfect [Music] for this next step I went out and bought a roll of just regular craft paper and I used this instead of the normal printer paper because I wanted it to be one solid piece to cut back on the amount of seams that were visible once you have it rolled out you're going to be cutting a strip that's three inches wide [Music] here I'm going to be cutting another strip that's three inches wide but this is for the smaller section next you want to gently bend the paper in half and just feed it into that strip and you want to be careful you don't want to put any creases in it so just make sure you're doing this nice and slow and it should feed in there perfectly [Music] now just do the same for the long section [Music] so I know there has to be a way but unfortunately I'm not the smartest guy in the world so I could not figure out how to cut those paper tubes in a way that I could push them together and they would form a nice 90 degree angle what I ended up doing instead is just using some of the poster board and creating these round little end caps that I could put on there so at least I wouldn't see the LED lights considering this thing's only made from paper and tape I'm very happy with the way it turned out now during the day close up you can obviously tell that it was made from paper but if you're looking at it from a distance it's crazy how it actually looks very similar to the real thing we're not quite yet to the final pictures and videos but I thought it'd be fun to do a quick comparison of the two while I have them laying side by side and if you can't tell from this angle the Govi Glide is the one on top and my DIY paper version is the one on the bottom here I've set them both to the rainbow chasing effect [Music] before going to the final pictures and videos I did want to go over one other design idea that I had that closely resembles the lifx beam and also gets rid of that Gap in the corner I'm going to go back to that original poster board that we used in the first step to create the tracks and this time I'm going to be cutting three strips that are all three and a half inches wide foreign just like I did for the bottom pieces I'm going to be taking a ruler putting it in the middle scoring the edges and then bending the sides up [Music] now I can remove that paper tunnel that is in the tracks currently and replace it with the one that we just made foreign one of the benefits of this design and not having the rounded top is I can cut two of the pieces at a 45 degree angle so they slide together and fit perfectly at the 90 degree corner [Music] so I initially thought the poster board material was going to be a little too thick and not let enough light through but when I tested it out it looked just about as good as the paper I used in the previous design so that just about does it please feel free to ask me any questions and I hope you enjoy the final pictures and videos [Music] foreign [Music] [Music]

Channel: Chris Maher

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Id: JjTBYtAYjAQ

Length: 59min 47sec (3587 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 14 2022