RGB upgrade for Ikea single color fiber optic lamp

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Five bucks will buy you a STRÅLA lamp from Ikea. It's a battery operated hanging lamp that pipes the light out through multiple branches of fiber optic bundles. But you'll only get white out of this, which is pretty boring. [Boris] decided to swap out the stock LED for an RGB unit and drive it with an Arduino. The lamp nucleus is just a couple of pieces of plastic which can be popped apart to … [Read more...]