The latest cluster of LED mushrooms from China just arrived and rather tragically they've made them safe (ish) by soldering and sleeving the LEDs into position instead of having them in sockets.
It's probably more as a cost saving exercise, but spoils the hackability of the product a bit. They've also got rid of the pressure contact arrangement inside the plug and used wires to jump from the PCB to the mains pins. That's a big improvement, since the other connection arrangement was shady at best.
I've also realised that they INTENDED for the LEDs to be changeable by the buyer for customisation of the light which is nice. I'd originally thought it was just to make it easier to swap out dead LEDs. That's a really nice feature.
They're also offering variants with different fauna which is a nice option too.
It's probably more as a cost saving exercise, but spoils the hackability of the product a bit. They've also got rid of the pressure contact arrangement inside the plug and used wires to jump from the PCB to the mains pins. That's a big improvement, since the other connection arrangement was shady at best.
I've also realised that they INTENDED for the LEDs to be changeable by the buyer for customisation of the light which is nice. I'd originally thought it was just to make it easier to swap out dead LEDs. That's a really nice feature.
They're also offering variants with different fauna which is a nice option too.
I guess connectors cost money
I'd love to have a source for just the plastic mushroom caps.
The second one looks like a ducks skull.
Clive, are the lights magic? also are they LED or LSD
i see a pun in the title!
Disappointed that there were no diodes in the flowers of the first one! Still, that probably could be fixed, though ….. And uplights for the "vase" version. Probably wired in parallel so the current through the "auxiliary" LEDs is half that through the "main" LEDs; that ought to enhance the effect, rather than spoil it.
omg omg Ive got loads of these some of the simple ones and some w/ more flowers and folage theyre my favourite things I really want to take some of them to part and make a giant version in a plant pot w/ maybe 6 or 9 mushrooms but Im a bit scared of doing things that have mains electricity in them in case they go on fire or kill ppl so maybe I will make it so it has batteries
Yes of course hack it Clive and show us please!
anyone know a source for the mushroom caps? I need quite a lot of them, and buy the complete light and tossing the rest seems a bit too wastefull (and expensive) to me.
I wouldn't mind some usb powered lamps like these.
It's time to catch up on some Clive videos!
Interesting one!
You are an absolute joy to watch, sir.
Badum-psshh.