Okay. We seem to have a problem.
I've never tried orange. I've got an idea for a fun project to really spruce up
my office here, my studio. You see these shelves right here behind me?
In fact, let me raise up my desk.
But see those shells over there. I want to add
some led lights to those.
They're waterproof.
That's how it'll go.
So, I went on amazon and got this box of led lights that's going to really help me.
Got some cable wire stuff and I got these little
adapter. Sure, let's open these up. I'm actually excited to see what is
inside this box.
Okay, I might need those. I don't know like, I usually throw stuff like that
away but I have no idea what i'm doing. Power cord. Ooh! This is like
some splitter switch. Oh, that's like a an antenna for the remote. Ooh and check
this out. I got to choose what color these led
lights are. What color my shelves are going to be? It's a little pull out thing
to activate the battery. These look like movie reels from
old-fashioned movies, obviously. So, the plan is with these is... Oh, good. And
there's i noticed there's sticky stuff on the
back. I brought my hot glue gun just in case. I didn't know what i was
gonna need there. But there is 3m sticky tape on the back
of those. My understanding is that i can cut these
and then attach these to it and do like a 90 degree angle thing. And
look there is little seams i can see here. So, I'm
guessing that would be a spot to cut. Because then i could attach it right
there. Oh, hopefully I can figure this out. Okay,
so I've got this wire. The purpose of this wire is I only have
light coming from the top of the shelves, not down the side. So, I can run the the
wire from the bottom piece to the top piece. And
then a question I ask is how am i going to do it so that the
wires don't show like going around the shelves.
Well, I brought in the drill so I can drill through my shelves. Should
we get to work? Combining the 2 rolls, I've got about 32 feet of this.
Now, each length is about 2 and a half feet. So, i'm going to have extra.
But i want to put a strip across the top and then have some of this
wire come down there and go through a hole
then go across the inner top here. And then come down and drill.
i'm going to drill a hole there and have another section go across
the inside there. Through there to this side so I can then go across the bottom.
Go up with wire, go across the bottom up with wire and
up through the top. So, that the power cords are going to go down behind it.
And the whole reason I've got these right angle things is because i'm doing
a lot of turns. I thought it'd be a good idea if i plug it in and check to make
sure it works before i start cutting this up.
Here to pop. Ooh! We've got blue, purple, red, that's supposed to be yellow.
Yellow. Well, it's green then. Okay, that's more green. Pink, there's
white. Okay. When you aim it it actually works good. So,
this little thing what happens if i cover it with my hand and I hit a button...
Okay, it doesn't work. So, this remote, I need to put this in a place that this
remote can aim. That's important. Before I drill the holes, I really got to
map out like what direction it's going to go. So, I'm going to just draw a
little map here of my bookshelves.
These are my cabinets down below. Okay, I want the little antenna
to be right there on top. I was trying to do this in my head and i was kind of
getting confused. But seeing it on paper, i think this will work.
I don't need to drill a hole here.
So, i have some good news. I only had to drill 3 holes. i had to drill there
and there, both sides. And i had to drill through
both cabinets. But that one those all these holes that
i thought i had to drill. There's actually a space between the
shelf and the cabinet. See, there's a space
right in here. And so, i can have the wire go down and
through there and back underneath without having to
drill down through that shelf.
Okay. We seem to have a problem. I had to go home and get my wire stripper so i
could strip the end of the wires and make the connections. So,
I've got the strip on here, it's blue, connected to the wire.
And I've got it connected to the led strip down here. But it's not turned on.
Alright, I have some bad news. Wires are not meant to go in these connectors.
No matter how hard I've tried, I haven't been able to connect 2
strips together. I know that i didn't ruin it
because i can connect it like that and it still
works. Okay. So, I've been working on this for a
couple hours. I cannot make these connectors
connect to the wire. But i was able to piece
2 cut pieces of the led strip together. So, there's actually a splice
right there. And i got it working. I had to mess
around with it a lot because when i would go to green.
This would be green and this would be red or something like that. But now,
I got it working but i didn't put brakes. So, there's actually a piece going
straight around just in the shape of an S. So now, I don't
know if i have enough length to do it that way for the other 2
shelves. But at least i'm making progress. I just
thought that it would look weird to have strips there and there. I guess that's
what I've got to do. So, I actually have 2 lengthy pieces
here. So, I should be able to connect it. It'll
take me some jury rigging to connect them. But I
should be able to have it reach the whole thing. So, maybe buying this and
buying all the connectors was overkill. Okay, I connected one piece. The joint is
right here. And it looks like it'll go right there.
So now, I'm just trying to connect one more.
I was fixing this one and I just wedged it in the shelf there.
Okay. The time has come to show you. Can they change color, you ask?
That's supposed to be purple. Well, if that's purple then what's blue?
That's blue. And that's teal. That's white. But I've never tried orange.
So, yeah. They can change color. So, I had to do a little bit of
jerry rigging. Corners right here and right here. Corners right
here and right here, the lights were too bright. You could actually see the LEDs.
And I didn't want any shown. So, I wrapped them in black gaffer
tape. I did use hot glue and i put it on there and I
stuck it up in there. So, they're kind of permanent. It's
gorilla hot glue. This is pretty fun.
Yeah, that's just flashing white, huh? I can slow it down.
I don't know why i would ever want this to flash. So, it is now 7:30 at night.
This has been an all-day project. It could have been a lot quicker as you saw.
What do you think? Is it worth it? Did i do a good job? Do you like how this looks?