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“Several years ago we bought a designer lamp which had a lamp shade in form of a cigar and was made out of milk glas. We liked the particular design of the shade and the overall appearance of the lamp. But i’ve been not really satisfied with the light which came from five small standard light bulbs. Since the shade has a rather small radius, you got no continuous light impression but you could see the single bulbs through the shade. When i stumbled across a WS2812b LED stripe an idea was borne: I wanted to convert/upcycle the lamp and replace the standard light bulbs by RGB LEDs. Not to mention that the “new” lamp should be controllable by Wifi to get a higher WAF 8-).”

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