Enginursday: Light Up Your 3D Printer's Bed
Try adding a LED strip to your 3D printer for better lighting with this quick and simple solution!
Viewing your 3D print in a room at night with barely any light can be difficult, especially when the light source above you creates a shadow over the print bed. That's the problem that I came across when inspecting prints at SparkFun during odd hours. The quick and simple solution: Add a non-addressable LED strip, switch and power supply to the 3D printer's frame!
The lighting made a big difference when inspecting a print after dark.
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| Darkness Starting to Loom Over the Horizon | Print Bed with LEDs Illuminating the Print Area |
If you would like more details about how to add lighting to your 3D printer, check out the tutorial!
Light Up Your 3D Printer's Bed
Have you added LEDs to a 3D printer's frame? If so, did you add a microcontroller and sensors? Let us know your thoughts below in the comments. Until next time!
Interested in learning more about LEDs?
See our LED page for everything you need to know to start using these components in your project.
