Power Supply Considerations If you want your LEDs to light up, you’re going to need a power supply! These come in lots of shapes and sizes and you need to figure out what you are going to need for your project. Although overkill (in wattage or amperage) mostly isn’t a problem, an insufficient power supply […]
Tools and Equipment Next to the components needed for the boards themselves you are also going to need some tools and equipment to solder and hook-up the board. Below will be a convenient list with the tools and equipment I can recommend! It will also feature some additional items like screws, wires or anything else […]
QuinLED-Deca Hardware guide To build the QuinLED-Deca you are going to need several components which are listed below. As a little disclaimer, please take a look at this article about my shopping links. After reading that, make sure to also take a look at the additional hardware and tools you might need to be able […]
LED modules per meter When buying LED strip there are several parameters you should be looking at. One of those is how many LED modules have been placed per meter of strip. Price is very often directly tied to this parameter because the higher the density of LED modules on a strip the more the […]
RGB (Red Green Blue) strips RGB strips come in lots of different shapes and sizes. Most strips use a 5050 LED package (5mmx5mm) with 3 colors inside of them. This means that each little LED module has a tiny LED in it for each color. Since what you are trying to light is always “far […]
Analog vs Digital LED strip Analog Analog LED strips are either a single color (red, purple or for instance warm white) or can be RGB by using multiple tiny LEDs in all LED chips on the strip. This means the strip can only be a single color at a time and the dim level […]
QuinLED-Dig-Uno QuinLED-Dig-Uno has not been released yet! Will come somewhere in 2019! QuinLED-Dig-Uno is part of the digital LED controller family and is an ESP32 powered WiFi connected addressable LED (strip) controller. QuinLED-Dig-Uno is suited for 5v LED strips with various chips such as the WS2812b (Neopixel), APA102/SK9822 (Dotstar) or SK6822 LED chips. Features MH-ET-Live ESP32 […]
Programming for Home Assistant For the new modules Home Assistant is especially easy to use! Currently this website does not have a guide on how to setup Home Assistant, enough of those out there. To get the new QuinLED modules to work with Home Assistant you need a working install together with MQTT installed and […]
QuinLED Different Models This time around QuinLED isn’t just a single module like the QuinLED-OG but a sort of family of modules. Currently I’m planning two analog dimming versions (simple LED strip) and 2 digital versions (for per pixel LED strips). There might be more models to come in the future! To see the current […]
A new start, first some history! The QuinLED project originally started at the end of 2015. I was toying with building a house and since I’ve always been interested in lighting I wanted this house to be fully LED lit! But, I also wanted dimming for each of these lights, no matter what light it […]