NeoPixel Ring Light

This 3D printed lighting rig is a great DIY build for your photo and video projects. It uses an Adafruit Trinket and NeoPixel LEDs. It’s also portable and battery powered or you can plug it into the wall. Your phone snaps onto the 3D printed bumper, making a great lighting solution for your front facing camera.

Dedicated white LED

 

In a previous project, we made a ring light for DSLR camera using a 60 NeoPixel ring. This new version uses RGBW type NeoPixels which produces much better lighting. White light from RGB type NeoPixels produces a reddish hue on skin tones and gives an unnatural color temperature. RGBW type of NeoPixels provide dedicated white light which produces much better color temperature. Combining RGB colors together creates a white light but this just doesn’t look too good on camera.

Prerequisite Guides

We recommend walking through the following tutorial to get familiar with the components used in this project.

Hand holding Adafruit TriHand holding small Adafruit Trinket - Mini Microcontrollerket board.
Deprecation Warning: The Trinket bit-bang USB technique it uses doesn't work as well as it did in 2014, many modern computers won't work well. So while we still carry...
$6.95
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Adafruit LiIon/LiPoly Backpack soldered onto a Pro Trinket, plugged into a solderless breadboard.
If you have an ItsyBitsy or Pro Trinket you probably know it's the perfect little size for a portable project. This LiPoly backpack makes it really easy to do! Instead of wiring 2...
$4.95
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Breadboard-friendly SPDT Slide Switch
These nice switches are perfect for use with breadboard and perfboard projects. They have 0.1" spacing and snap in nicely into a solderless breadboard. They're easy to switch...
$0.95
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Camera and Tripod 3/8 to 1/4 Adapter Screw
Whaddya got a screw loose or something?This 3/8" to 1/4" Adapter Screw is super handy if you're building projects that...
$1.50
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Lithium Ion Polymer Battery 3.7v 2500mAh with JST 2-PH connector
Lithium-ion polymer (also known as 'lipo' or 'lipoly') batteries are thin, light, and powerful. The output ranges from 4.2V when completely charged to 3.7V. This...
$14.95
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NeoPixel Ring with 60 x 5050 RGBW LEDs lighting up rainbow and white
What is better than smart RGB LEDs? Smart RGB+White LEDs! These NeoPixels now have 4 LEDs in them (red, green, blue and white) for excellent lighting effects. Round and round...
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Angled shot of long rectangular PCB with 8 NeoPixel LEDs
What is better than smart RGB LEDs? Smart RGB+White LEDs! These NeoPixel sticks now have 4 LEDs in them (red, green, blue and white) for excellent lighting effects. These...
$7.95
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A white hand holding a Adafruit Flex Perma-Proto - Half-sized Breadboard Flex-PCB.
Make your next project super-flexy with a prototyping board that can twist and bend. We took our lovely classic perma-proto design and had it made from incredibly thin polyamide film....
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This guide was first published on Feb 08, 2017. It was last updated on Feb 08, 2017.

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