LED Cloud-Connected Cloud

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Contributors: Sarah Al-Mutlaq
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Installing the Lights in the Clouds

Now that we have the lights up and running, we can place them into the cloud and test out how it looks.

Evenly distribute the lights between all the paper lanterns and look at the light distribution, and adjust accordingly.

Putting WS2812 LED strip inside of paper lanterns

Putting WS2812 LED strip inside of paper lanterns

WS2812 LED Strip inside of paper lantern

After I felt good about the distribution, I tied the LED strip to the top of each paper lantern. Note that the LED strip isn’t very secured in the lantern. The reason for this is that I didn’t see a difference if I secured them or not. Since they will always be hanging in the same way, they aren’t going to shift very much, so just securing a part to the lantern seemed sufficient to me.

Tieing the WS2812 LED Strip to the paper lanterns

After the LED strip was in the cloud, I looked around and filled any bald spots on the lantern with more polyfil that I could now see due to the lights. I also covered any exposed LED strip with polyfil that I rolled to be more dense.

Cloud on with exposed strip

Filling bald spots on paper lanterns

Rolling polyfil

Gluing polyfil to exposed WS2812 LED strips

You can glue the polyfil on while the Cloud is lit to get a better idea of what it looks like.

After you have filled in all the uneven spots of the cloud with polyfil, you can install your cloud where you like and enjoy it’s colorful awesomeness!

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