LED Art

As if walking through a psychedelic African safari, the Electric Giraffe, Russell is one of the largest LED projects at Maker Faire. Named after his programmer, Russell delightfully speaks the facts in a robotic tone: “Hello, my name is Russell.” “I am the Electric Giraffe.” “Lindsay is my owner.” Everyone wanted to pet him even if made Learn More

One of the more ethereal LED installations at Maker Faire was the inflatable glowing forest hand crafted by O Yeah Toys based in Oakland. The color changing LED forest is made up of Glow Pillars and exemplifies O Yeah Toy’s mission to “promote creative play, and to encourage cooperation through the combination of animal and plant shapes.” Learn More

In the Fiesta Hall of Maker Faire was the home of all LED light fun. I’ll be highlighting my favorite exhibits, starting with the interactive Light Trikes by design studio frog. They reincarnated the “Tron” arcade game into a physical competition with tricycles lit with RGB color changing LED lights around the wheels and still Learn More

One of our customers, artist, Grahame Lynch, just wrapped up his LED-strip-lit installation “The Logic of Subduction” at the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. The exhibition will be traveling to the Kennedy Gallery in North Bay, Ontario and also the Esplanade Gallery in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Here is his statement about his show: Learn More

Elemental LED Customer Service Representative Tara shared her LED night light project for July’s DIY Employee Projects, and explained how she used High Density LED Strip Light, a connector and a couple of low voltage batteries to transform a wine bottle into a night light. She said: “I thought it would be cool to illuminate Learn More

Elemental customer service representative Tara Bowerman turned in another great DIY project for the month of July, a shadowbox made of cut paper silhouettes lit by LED light strips. The low heat and zero ultraviolet (UV) emissions of 12V LED strip lights are ideal for making a shadowbox or light box, as they cause minimal Learn More

Elemental Product Coordinator JB Lowe made what he describes as a “steampunk” lamp using 12V LED lights. Steampunk means that it combines old and new technologies and/or design, which in this case means a 19th century hurricane lamp and some 21st century LEDs. For the cost of a new store-bought lamp, JB instead created a Learn More

Barsha Dahal is an illustrator and collector. Her illustrations often feature items of nostalgia from her childhood – anthropomorphized animals, TV show characters and comic book heroes. She collects items that inspire her work, including antique doll heads, which she says represent the intersection of decay and innocence. For this piece Barsha used a doll Learn More

Elemental customer service representative Bret Rood added some color-changing LED lights to an already constructed helmet, and he’s now able to (in his words) “vaporize some bounty hunters.”

Barrett installed several feet of blue LED Strip Light in a phone booth near his house in Oakland, California “in an attempt to brighten up my neighborhood.” All it took was 7 feet of Flexible LED Strip Light sold by the foot, a Flexible LED Strip Light DC Plug Connector, a 9V DC battery with Learn More