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IKEA SAMTID modification — part 1
I have 3 Ikea Samtid lamps. They’re affordable, useful and the design is timeless. One is in my living room and started to bore me. That has to change. As the lamp can be dismantled very easily it’s...
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IKEA SAMTID modification — part 2
Not having the right tools is such a pain. The modification I’m planning to do requires cutting 72 round 35mm holes into the white plastic foil that forms the Ikea SAMTID’s “head”. I tried to do that...
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I.K.E.A. — Ich Kriege Einen Anfall
Sorry for the German title, but it is a perfect fit. And this very sentence might even be regarded as a pun. Here the German sentence “Ich kriege einen Anfall” is equivalent to “I’m getting a fit of...
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IKEA Sunnan – revisited
I’ve had my IKEA Sunnan since summer 2010. I put it into bright sunlight all the time. The only way I can make it light up full-blast is to dismantle it, charge the batteries externally and reassemble...
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Spontaneous LED bulb teardown — IKEA ledare 400lm
I bought this LED bulb about 21 months ago for €11.99. I liked it! Now, you’ve certainly noticed that I used the past tense in the previous sentence. It failed a couple of days ago. Today I tried to...
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Small project #10 — IKEA Samtid reading-light upgrade
Yet another reincarnation of a PT4115 based LED lamp. This time I chose to add a micro-controller to the mix. No, not an ATtiny13 but an ATtiny45, as it contains a much desired feature for this job:...
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Small project #12 — IKEA Samtid mood-light upgrade
This upgrade is based on the loved-by-everybody WS2812B intelligent RGB LED and works just fine with Adafruit’s NeoPixel library. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TPGtW_iQ8U The concept is – once again –...
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Spontaneous LED bulb teardown — IKEA 200lm candle
It has happened again! After about 2 years of very mild usage (bathroom mirror light), an average on-time of about 5-10 minutes per day, yet another of my many IKEA LED lamps has died. This time it was...
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Spontaneous LED bulb teardown — IKEA 200lm candle #2
Not too long ago one of these darn IKEA LED lamps (200lm, 4.3W) broke down after very mild usage. Well… it has happened again! When I went into my bathroom one or two hours ago, I thought I was going...
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Small project #12 ½ — IKEA Samtid mood-light-upgrade upgrade
Someone, I won’t mention any names here, practically coerced me into upgrading this little project a bit. Now there’s the option to add a bluetooth module (HC-05, JY-MCU “ZS-040”), which supports...
View ArticleSmall project #12 ⅔ — IKEA Samtid mood-light BT firmware
A user of the “new” version of the lamp has undertaken the heroic task of writing the Bluetooth code for controlling it! Here’s a sneak-peak: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbaoy3O4f4Q
View ArticleISML + WiFi — ESP8266 finally tamed, but…
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO0UN-gZF8 Preliminary testing of WiFi control using the ESP8266 module. But… there’s always a downside, isn’t there? As of now the #ISML uses the ATmega168PA-MU [QFN32],...
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IKEA Samtid mood-light BT firmware — simple_serial
This firmware for the ISML + HC-05 Bluetooth module currently implements the same simple interface as the current WiFi-code named ‘browser_control’....
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