Kitchen LED Lights
The third room in the Magnolia LED rollout, introducing physical constraints around heat, grease, and the need for actually useful task lighting.
Individually addressable LEDs — WS2812b strips controlled by ESP8266/ESP32 microcontrollers running WLED firmware — are the common thread across these projects. The hardware and software stack is nearly identical in each case. What changes is context: a room has different constraints than a backpack, a backpack has different constraints than a full-body suit, and a bedroom has different constraints than a kitchen. Building the same technology into multiple form factors is the fastest way to understand which parts of a system are universal and which parts are entirely situational.
LED Backpack
A portable, wearable LED display built into a backpack — same individually addressable technology as the house projects, but with battery power, outdoor visibility, and durability constraints.
LED Baseboard Lights — Bedroom
Soft baseboard lighting using the WLED ecosystem that shifts color temperature through the day — and revealed that bedroom smart lighting has near-zero tolerance for latency.
LED Lights — Office (WLED & WS2812b)
Individually addressable LED strips controlled by ESP8266/ESP32 running WLED, integrated with Apple HomeKit and Home Assistant to respond to time of day, calendar events, and sensor data.
Light Suit with Camera
A full-body wearable LED suit — programmable, camera-equipped, and built entirely by hand — that taught more about power budgets, wearable ergonomics, and heat dissipation than any datasheet.