“Create an awesome looking motion activated RGB lights for any staircase under $20!
My staircase has claimed a broken toe some time ago. Fortunately, it wasn’t my toe, but I feel for the poor fella. The toe is OK now, but it got me thinking, is there anything I could do to reduce the risk of dealing with another victim? Plus if I could do this on the cheap, that would be super!
I created this tutorial for my personal blog (NotEnoughTech.com) where you will find more details about the build.
I came up with a rough sketch of what I have in mind just by staring at the staircase. To create nice lighting effect and keep things tidy, I would run the lights on the right side of the stairs. To trigger the lights automatically, I will need motion sensing.
The best layout I could come up with would be enclosed in some sort of trunking, with two LED’s per step. I have 13 steps which means I would need a total of 26 RGB LEDs to create the staircase RGB LED lighting.”