I'm going to show you how to make such an LED strip! What do you need? an ESP 32 an LED strip stripping pliers a soldering iron cables in three different colors Jumper cables, to test it We use this to test whether everything works. A USB-C cable a Connector for the power supply the power supply The power supply has 5V and 10A and solder I open the ESP This is an ESP 32 cp2102 with USB-C Now I'm going to install the software on it. I connected it to the computer with the USB cable. Then go to install.WLED and press install You select your ESP and press connect. Then press install. It is important to press the boot button while you press install, otherwise it will not work. This may take a while, but normally not that long. After this, you still have to enter the WIFI network and the WiFi password. You can also operate the LED dot from the app. After everything has been installed you will end up here Here you will soon be able to operate the entire LED strip. Now I'm going to cut the jumper cables in half, Then strip the ends of the LED strip connector. Then also strip the ends of the jumper cables. And then tin the ends of the other cables as well. This step is only to test the LED strip Now I am going to solder each end of the LED strip connector to 1 jumper cable. Like the diagram above I'll put heat shrink tubing around it to prevent a short circuit. Now the power supply connector, I solder it to the 5v (red cable) and the gnd (black cable). After this we can attach the jumper cables to the ESP. Red cable must be on the Vin The black/white cable must be connected to gnd We attach the green cable to the D16 pin. Now I can test the LED strip. Back to the computer. There you press config and then LED preferences. Here we can set the number of LEDs and the current. My LED strip has 300 LEDs. Leave the current at 850 mA as long as you power the LED strip of the USB cable. Then press save. These are already some effects that we can do with the LED strip. Now I'm going to connect the power supply. So back to config, led preferences and then I set the current to 8000mA / 8A. And then Save again. This is a cool effect. It's actually cool what all that can do. Now we have seen that it works. Now I'm going to show you how I put this in a case. I found the case on PRINTABLES link in the description. Now I can print the case and then I just have to wait for it to be ready. Okay, it's ready. This turned out to be pretty cool. Now I'm going to try to get everything in there. That's going to be difficult. The shrink tubes have to be removed again. I'm going to do this carefully with a knife and then I'm going to solder the cables back together. The connector fits perfectly here. I'm going to try to place the ESP over it so that the USB-C port also fits in and there is no short circuit. I also put shrink tubing around the cables that go to the power supply connector so that no short circuit can occur. I cut the cables a little shorter so that they end up exactly where I will solder them. The ends also need to be tinned a little bit Now comes the hard part, trying to fit everything in. Solder the cables in the right place on the ESP. I think this looks pretty good. Now I'm going to test whether it works. The lights are on, so it works. Now I put a little glue over this so that it certainly cannot come loose. Here you can see the points where I applied glue. When you pull on the cable, the entire printed circuit board does not immediately come loose. And now the final step is to screw on the lid. Which I had found somewhere. These screws come in handy for this. This is the end result. Until the next video!
