Corner Floor Lamp With a Twist of RGB

I have always wanted some light in the corner of the rooms. I do not know why but it is just cozy. When I saw the RGB corner floor lamp for the first time I was just amazed. With such cool light, I can set a theme for the evening, and use it as a kid's night lamp or whatever I think of.

I definitely want at least one! OK, but the price of such a great product is outside of my range.

So it is time to build something similar that might do the trick for me.

First of all keep in mind that the products that are sold today a really minimalistic, so I like to keep it that way.

What we will need:

• ESP8266 or ESP32 board in my case I will use the D1 mini for the brain of the lamp
• 3D printed enclosure - https://www.tinkercad.com/things/49ocABSlpyZ to hold everything together and some glue
• wooden profile -18 mm x 18 mm for the legs to keep it stable
• jumper wires to connect the LED and the ESP
• RGB led strip - DC5V WS2812B Individually Addressable for the ligth
• Small Corner Aluminium Channel to look cool
• Internet connection to flash the controller with WLED (the easy way) and USB cable to connect the PC to the ESP

If you already have a 3D printer it is easy just take the 'stl' and print it.

Again big thanks to Kevin for the box. Go and check other models made by Kevin

For the stand, we can thank Martin Pascoe.

If you do not have a 3D printer it is not a problem! Try to fit it in a box of hand cream or any other big enough box.

I think it will be cool if something like that is embedded in a log or something.

How to flash WLED to D1 mini:

• In your preferred browser navigate to https://install.wled.me/
• Connect D1 with your PC
• Click the "Install" button
• Select the appropriate Serial port from the pop-up
• Follow the instructions on the page
• Wait till the installation process finishes

What we need here is to mount the LED strip to the aluminum LED channel. In my case, I start a new roll of LEDs and I will use the soldered connector otherwise you will need to solder a connector to the LED strip.

As I have 2 meters LED channel I decided to try to make two lamps each 1 meter long, so I cut the aluminum channel. At this stage, I realized that one meter is a little bit short but it will do till the next iteration.

For now, I will use a drop of hot glue at the end of the strip where the wires are soldered.

You may have noticed that I have forgotten to put holes for the wiring in the 3d print. Well, I need to rethink the stand for the lamp.

I accept any ideas please share them here :)

For now, we will use a little bit of glue and a soldering iron to merge 3d printed parts and make the holes for the wiring.

OK, so it is pretty simple we will use the board to power the LEDs so we need to solder the connector to the board. and thread the wires through the hole that we made in step 4.

We need to assemble every part together now.

• Connect LEDs in the aluminum channel to the board
• Put the legs
• Fire it up.

That is it. We are ready to test it. You can access the controls directly in the browser or you can use a smartphone app called WLED. On the getting started page you will find the most recent information regarding the app and how to control the LEDs.

Here you can find a couple of great tutorials on how to connect and use WLED and also how to make it sound reactive.