… or, “How I nearly burned down the truck that was taking our camp to Burning Man.” One of my side projects for this year’s Burn was some bike underlights, the BikeBlinder. Pretty simple construction, just some WS2812B 144 LED/m strips mounted to RHS aluminium channel, controlled by a DFRobot Beetle, powered off a 125W DC-DC 5V buck converter and a 12V sealed lead acid battery. I had some SLA batteries in the blinky box my friend was going to send up to me from Vegas. He’s a champio...
