With this in mind, let's look at how we can make our own USB powered LED lights.<\/p>\n
Parts for making the USB powered LED lights<\/h2>\n
Since we want more flexibility in the form factor of our own USB powered LED lights, we can choose a SMD2835 light strip<\/a> as the lighting component.<\/p>\n In addition to that, we can get a 2 conductor cable<\/a> to link the LED light strip with a USB 2.0 type A pin plug<\/a>.<\/p>\n Apart from the parts for making the USB powered LED lights, here are some tools for building your lights:<\/p>\n Once you have procured the parts of making your own lights, you can proceed with building your lights. <\/p>\n First, cut a portion of LED light strip from the coil. You can choose to cut along the solder pads that separate the LED chips. <\/p>\n In order to have good spacing for soldering, make sure that you leave equal spacing between the severed strips.<\/p>\n Next, cut out a good portion of 2 conductor cable to connect the LED light strip to power source. <\/p>\n Once you had cut out the needed cable, strip out the wires at both ends for soldering.<\/p>\n At this point in time, you are ready to solder the cable to the LED light strip.<\/p>\n In order to have an easier time soldering, you can tape them to the surface.<\/p>\n After that, apply sufficient soldering wire and solder the cables to the respective soldering pad on the LED strip.<\/p>\n As shown above, we had soldered the red wire to solder pad labelled +<\/strong> and the black wire to solder pad labelled -<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At this point in time, we can solder the cable to our USB 2.0 type A pin plug.<\/p>\n Since we had connected the red wire to + and black wire to -, we can solder the cable without the use of a multimeter<\/a>.<\/p>\n When you are done with the soldering, cover up the USB 2.0 type A pin plug with the other side of the plastic cover.<\/p>\n After that, you will be able to light up your LED lights by connecting it to a USB power adapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Since upstream USB connectors can supply 5V of DC power to downstream devices, we can use USB connectors to power LED lights.<\/p>\nTools for making the USB powered LED lights<\/h2>\n
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Steps to building your USB powered LED lights<\/h2>\n
1. Cut a portion of LED light strip for your lights<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n2. Cut a good portion of 2 conductor cable to connect the LED light strip to power source<\/h3>\n
3. Solder cable to LED light strip<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n4. Solder cable to USB 2.0 type A pin plug<\/h3>\n
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