Final Year Product Design

Adding lighting strips

Today I have received my LED strips, which I will be applying to the outer edges of the design to provide a steady all round lighting source!

I have found the strips to be relatively easy to solder, especially with my new gas powered soldering iron, which has been a real lifesaver!

Fortunately, it seems these strip LEDs create a huge amount of light in comparison with the single LEDs I have been using previously. Annoyingly however they require a 12v power supply, which might make it difficult to create a portable lighting system to be mounted on a bike…

All I need to do now is test my prototype in an outdoors environment!