DIY Smart Nanoleaf Lines (WLED)

This is a DIY RGB light that uses WLED. This means that you can control the light from your phone, computer, home assistant and others It's very easy to do

What you will need

3D Printed parts:

• diy smart lines controller top.stl (1x)
• diy smart lines controller bottom.stl (1x)
• DIY smart lines connectors.stl (however many you need for your design)

Electronics:

• WS2812B LED Strip (whatever length you need for your design) US | UK | CA | DE | FR
• Aluminium Led Diffuser Channel Shallow w. Mily Cover: US | UK | CA | DE | FR
• ESP8266 or ESP32 NodeMCU (1x)
• LOWESR Capacitor (i used 6.3v 3300uf)
• 5v power supply (required current depends on how many LED's your LED Strip has. Use the equation Number of LED's x 0,06) to figure out how much current your power supply needs) US | UK | CA | DE | FR

Wiring:

• Cables that are as long as you need for your design, you only need power cables running from the controller to the power supply
• 2-pin Wago connector (3x)
• 3-pin Wago connector (2x)

Others

• Aluminum LED Diffuser channel shallow, milky cover (however long you need for your design, i recommend around 330 mm for each LED channel section) US | UK | CA | DE | FR
• Nano Gel double tape US | UK | CA | DE | FR
• cable channels (Optional) US | UK | CA | DE | FR

Tools

• Soldering Iron w/ solder
• Saw

Saw How to assemble

Step 1: Install WLED

plug your ESP8266 into a computer through USB

go to https://install.wled.me

Install WLED onto ESP8266 Step 2: solder cables to ESP8266

Solder cables to the ESP8266 - black to GND, red to VIN and a different color to GPIO2/D4 . The cables should be very short (around 100 mm)

put the other end of the black and red wires into holes in seperate 3-pin Wago connectors

do the same for the last cable, but use a 2-pin wago connector instead

cut a black and a red wire to size so that it fits in between the ESP8266 and power supply

connect one of the ends of the wires so that there is 2 red cables in one wago and 2 black cables in the other wago Step 3: put parts into case

place the ESP8266 into the controller box

cut a piece of nano gel double tape that fits on the bottom of the controller and stick it onto the wall at the place where you want your lines to begin Step 4: Adding voltage-drop protection

Voltage drops can break a WLED project. That's why, i added a LOWESR capacitor which reduces the chance of failure. Here's how to add the LOWESR capacitor

• connect the positive pin of the LOWESR capacitor to the 3-pin wago with the red (positive) wires connected to it into the same port as one of the already connected wires
• do the same for the negative pin and the black (negative) wires Step 5: Install cable channel (optional)

Cable channel is for red and black cables from ESP8266 to power supply

Cut cable channel to size with a saw or box cutter

Peel off protective on the back of cable channel

Stick cable channel to the wall

peel off the cover for the cable channel Step 6: Connect power supply

Connect the red (positive) cable from the ESP8266 to the red (positive) cable from the power supply to the 2 terminals of a wago 2-pin connnector

do the same for the black (negative) cables Step 7: Connecting LED Channel with connector pieces

Cut your LED Channels to Size with any Saw. I recommend cutting them to around 330 mm in between connector pieces. Cut as many as you need for your design

on a table or the floor, connect the LED channels with the 3d-printed connector pieces to create your design. Make sure that the LED channel is flipped correctly (see image below) Step 8: Making sure, there's cables at the end of the LED Strip

if there aren't any cables connected to your LED Strip, solder 3 cables to the 3 pins on the LED Strip. These cables need to be around 200mm long

if there are cables connected, you don't need to do anything Step 9: placing LED strip inside of LED Channels

cut the LED Strip to size first

To place the LED Strip inside of the LED channels, you have 2 options

Option 1: Requires soldering, very flexible

• cut the LED strip into sections so that each section fits into a cable channel
• Solder 3 wires to each end of the LED strips: black for negative on the GND pin, red for positive on the +5V pin and a different color on the DIN pin
• connect all of the strips together so it becomes a chain
• route the LED Strip chain through the LED Channels and the connector pieces

Option 2: No soldering, not very flexible

• route the LED Strip through the LED Channels and the connector pieces

"flexible" means how flexible you can be with your design, as with option 1, you can rotate the channels to any of the holes on the connector piece, but with option 2, you can only move max 120 degrees. See picture below

Step 10: hang it on the wall

put Nano gel tape on the back of the connector pieces and place it on the wall, making sure that the connector piece with a cable in it is touching the controller box

route the cable from the LED Strip into the controller box and connect the black wire to the wago with the other black wires and do the same for red and the other color you chose, which is data

put on the cable channel covers and turn the project on Step 11: Controlling the LED's

download the WLED app on your phone

click the plus icon and click "discover lights". The app should discover trhe light and you can click the checkmark in the top right corner

now, you can control it from your phone or go to the ip address, found in the app, in a web browser

Category: Decor