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2 October 2023

How I created my own USB powered LED nightlight

If you wish to avoid tripping in a very dark room while not affecting sleep quality, then you can use a nightlight to succinctly lit up a portion of your room.

While there are many nightlight variations out there, it can be a meaningful exercise to try to create your own out of items that you already own or have in the house.

For example, instead of throwing away the Carrot Carotene Calming Water Pad container after the water pads ran out, I used it to create my nightlight.

Since it is translucent, this container can help dim the lights coming from the naked 5V Warm white LED light strip.

Given that, let us take a look at how I made use of the items that I already have to create a USB powered LED nightlight.

With some level of variations, you should be able to make your own USB powered LED nightlight too.

lights, SMD3528, USB type A

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11 September 2023

How to add an inline cord switch onto the cable of a USB powered device

Some time ago, I shared a post of how to make your own USB powered LED light. If you follow that post, you will be able to make your own USB powered LED light that can be attached to a USB 2.0 power adapter on your wall socket. When you turn on your wall socket, the lights will turn on. After you are done with using your light, you can turn off your wall socket to turn off the lights.

Sounds like common sense right?

However, your wall socket plug may be too far to reach at your convenience. In such a situation, you may want to add a switch onto the cable of your USB powered device.

Given that, this post discusses how we can add a switch to a 5V USB wire. In this post, I will use a white inline cord switch as an example to show how we can add an inline cord switch to a 5V USB wire.

inline cord switch, switch, USB type A

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