DIY GOVEE GLIDE / LIFX BEAM USING ONLY PAPER - NO TOOLS REQUIRED! 

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Those final results look great! I wouldn't have thought to make the whole thing out of paper like that. Thanks for sharing those techniques.

I was reading the comments and I just wanna say that it's amazing how good you interact with your viewers. You make realy cool stuff with the cheap things you have so keep up the great work!

Love your videos, really impressed with the DIY lighting you create!

That is an amazing and creative idea to get that light bar look on a budget! Very nice job and great content on your channel!

This is great ! Thank you for sharing. This is exactly what I was looking for 🎉

paid 8 euros for 15 meters, was shocked by how much more expensive the diffusers were than the LEDs itself. After 2 hours of searching this is definitely the best cheap DIY diffuser video I've found so far

You are so under rated. Great job 👏 👍.

Bro literally you answered every problem of viewers in comment section, Great video 👍. I'll make these for my setup

This is really smooth, cheap and super cool! 💯👍

Wow, great video and amazing method. Grateful! Thanks for sharing

Hi, thank you so much for making these great videos.

Another great video Chris!

You are so underrated, again a fantastic design!

Thank you. This is almost exactly the solution I was looking for in a place where I can't change any of the fixtures

Superb. Thanks.

Awesome how good this worked

thats soo sick man, thanks for this tutorial, def gonna try this

Paper is the best thing since papyrus 😊👍 let’s go paper-light but never paperless!

Absolutely amazing! Been looking for someone to explain this method. Glad I found you! Aloha’z

Just saw this and this is Awsome!!! Nice work. subscribing to see more. Keep up the great work.

You are everything that I have to know before doing my own project

Nice project i will try it thx❤️

im gonna do this for my desk setup thanks bro 👊

I love it!!!

Great nice change of pace. Suggestion: u can cut the rounded covers at 45 deg angles before putting them on top. It should close the gap.

awesome bro 👏 😎

I tried this whit a €2 ledstrip 50cm and it worked really well!

Another grate idea for my under construction gaming room. Thank you again Chris. 😍👌 And um waiting for DIY RGB Mouse pad video 😁❤

Never thought of this 😅. You did a great job. Thank youu po

Good job. Subbed for the pixelhead content.

dude you are the best....

Wow awesome idea 🥳👍🏼🤟🏼😃

Didn't even watch the whole video but subbed anyway. I can already tell I'm going to like what u do

Gracias, lo intentaré. 👍🏻

Creative... You saved me lots of money from buying aluminum profiles , thank youu

Nice!

Awesome video as always. Thanks so much for making these tutorials. By chance do have a link you could provide for the L connectors? Current one links to a different brand of led lights now. Looking forward to you future projects.

Wow ! niceeeee now i know!

This was a great video and I will definitely try this out! One question, in the final videos and images, did you use the Govee lights or the other ones?

great informative video!, Question(s) 1. Since I’m using govee rgbic strips will I need to raise the roof of the paper to have it diffuse nicely to avoid hot spots? 2. Would you recommend using 2 pieces of stencil paper from hobby lobby to diffuse the lights instead of paper? I Appreciate your craftsmanship and editing in your videos, you’re very inspirational to thousands of people!

NICE

Amazing job! How did you attach these to the wall, and did you tape the top overs to the bottom to keep from falling off?

It’s amazing,just wondering paper can start a fire with the LED lights

Did you use clear tape when you put on the lifx beam design. Because when I do it it keeps on falling of

Nice video and funny solution for your 90° angle. I'm gonna rebuild my bedroom and I wanna place some good adjustable led strips but I cant get much wiser. I've seen a lot of shitty lightning effect tutorials, things like the lightning scene in the groove app etc. But those aren't adjustable in speed or anything. So can you please do a full tutorial of a lightning effect?

I love rub stuff and you just inspired me to do some things, also probably saving a lot of money, do you think the brightness of the bar is the same using this method as having the actual thing?

For rigidity take thin aluminium or steel V or U shape profiles and wrap it with paper or white fabric

This is great, with the channels costing 2 or 3 tines as much as the lights. A diy solution will help a lot of people out. Hiw would you recommend fitting them to less already on the wall?

how d hell did this dude fr make a relica out of paper that looks even better than the real thing

if i cut the round one at 45 before folding them, the tube will come with 45° edge right? so you could join simply doing the same as the las design but with the rounded one.

Thank you for your tutorial. Just in case that's a concern for you: In your time lapses there is some weird lighting going on. It could be that the Hz frequency of your lights doesn't match the shutter speed in your camera settings.

Can i use the regular paper roll to make the lifx lookalikes one? Or it has to be the poster paper due to thickness and the sharp edges form?

Please tell me, is it not dangerous, will it not catch fire?

That looks so good, I would make it but I'm a little scare of it being a fire hazard.

I am so doing this. Every other option is expensive, but this is all paper. Putting these on ceiling

I subscribed to you! This looks awesome. I don’t have wood cutting machines so I can’t replicate your other projects but I like watching your videos. This however I can try to replicate and I’ll try to do it with a 3d printer. Hopefully it comes out as good as yours. Thanks again

so, in the end. u use paper roll? if we use aluminium foil on the poster board, will the light get better?

Hey Chris, love your DIYs! Govee RGBIC LEDs say you can’t cut them but I’ve heard you say you can cut them to size. Can you explain how to do this without ruining the strip of lights? I’d appreciate it!

What was the dimensions of the poster board i am making one too and what length of led you used

Will the L shaped connector work with the Govee M1?

I might have missed it but did you use glue to keep the paper connected? Like the bottom and then the bent pieces of paper?

where do you connect the led light strip the usb from it?

Is there any brand of rgb that can do the Gliding mode? I mean outside of Govee...

Ok, last question I think. What thickness of poster board did you use. I want to be sure I grab the right one. I’m very excited to try and build this.

Whooooooaa.. New subscriber here and i love your channel.. 😊 What specific paper we can use? A bond paper will do to diffuse it? Please share us more DIY ideas because cant afford those awesome products..

Bonjour c’est du papier normal, comme une feuille A4?

on my way to walmart now and second guessing myself lol. would regular poster board for like a school project work? just don't know exactly how thick

Love it! Question.. I think you can give us some info on the controller your using? I know you can roll your own with a ESP8266. What’s your preferred method.. box, controller, smartphone?

So when making the creases, you used the edge of your protractor ruler thing. Something that is sharp but dull so it doesn’t cut through?

my mans all you had to do was cut a 45 degree to get those to meet in the corner. Bring one strip all the way over, make a line at the inside corner and one at the outside corner, take it out, connect the lines, cut it and insert it back. do it for both sides.

Amazing vid, never knew this was possible. Just wanted to ask what other materials can be used for diffusing the light as an alternative to poster board? I’m looking for something that can last much longer on the wall than just paper. Cause unfortunately, Aluminum channels found online don't bleed to the sides like the govee glides do, and they don’t diffuse the light enough for individual leds to blend with the rest.

I wonder if you could get the rounded pieces to a 45 degree angle by drawing a top-down view of a 45 while it's in the groove, then take it out and cut on the line. I imagine it would produce a curve on the paper similar to a "straight" flightpath on a globe. Easier than trigonometry I suppose.

you know if govee leds has the same final result has ws28 ???

Do you think if I wanted this to go around the whole ceiling of the room the weight of led’s would make it fall down?

Is there any difference to using normal printer paper? Should I do for like a cardstock or is crafting paper the best choice? Do you have a link by chance?

what can i do if one of my led broke? my whole strip is dead after that?

Is it a 5a power supply that you used? Can you tell which power supply did you use in this project?

Is it possible to make the corner round somehow?

What kind of power supply did you use And power supply? Sorry if you said it already but my English is not so good

I have some posters from "kurzgesagt" that would be amazing with some diffused background LED lightning. Can you think of a design made with paper to lid them up?

Awesome idea, but just wondering how would you make this an angled version?

this was an awesome idea!! may i know what kind of stuff did you use for lifx beam? is it both sides poster board? does it have a brand or i will just tell to the store the poster board and they already know it? thanks in advance 🥳

great job but couldn`t you cut 2 45 ° pieces and then round it of? (my english is not that good but i hope you understand what i mean)

Hi Chris, wont the paper burn? i mean from the heat

Could i do this juste taping them to the lights ? Or would it be a fire hazard?

Hey what's up Chris.. I am brand new to this and have started doing this project as a beginner. I noticed that the ESP board gets insanely hot so I have stopped for now. My question, I had a total of about 112 LED's, and doing the math that was provided on another youtube channel.. that amount of LED's calculated from the specifications on BTF amazon page where I bought them, shows that 112 LED's would need almost 10 amps? Is this correct? Asking because I bought the 5v 2amp charger that's in your description to power them, and wondering if I need more power to run these, and if that's the reason why the board is getting so hot. Not sure why the ESP board is so damn hot in places, it worried me a bit so I am buying a bigger power supply to see if that helps.

Tools required: Pencil, Ruler, Scissors, Knife, and an Angle Finder 😎 Edit: Also, the angle needed for the arched paper won't be 45 degrees. To get the right angle, you would need to measure the width of the channel and use that as the starting point for the cut on the inner corner. Then just use a strait edge to mark the line from that point to the outer corner.

jus curious as to how u cut the corner using a RGBIC led strip, as i thought RGBIC strips were NOT CUTABLE because of the IC chip inside them?

Hello, what paper did you use for the top.

This makes me regret not recording all the diy stuff I do sometimes I'll just walk around diy stores and Lowes wal mart ect looking for ideas for every thing led! I f#kin luv led light so dam much. U prolly seen it already but they have led tape now its as thin a piece of paper it's super cool but it whines this high pitch sqeal like it's in pain when it's on. U could have just cut them slanted again and there would have been a seem at the top obviously but that would have done it, I think im not the smartest dude either so idk what tf im talking about holy shit that's amazing this is why I love led's. Are those lights addressed or are they drem color strips? And do u glue the top poster board into the track somehow? U would have to right if u ever wanted to place it on the wall? I plan to use this idea and jus attach a design of tracks on my accent wall I was looking for an idea for that I was gunna use wood bit f that this is amazing thank u so much. Jus lemme kno yer thought on instalation to the wall please

Hi! What Psu did you use?

Govee claims you can’t cut their strips on Amazon . Any info?

Hey what to do with the balence light strip is there any way to make them work plz reply

These are pretty delicate though, and may fall apart if its much longer, say 5m

What's the color rendition index of the BTF LEDs?

How Thick Is the Poster Board?? Thanks

Which type of paper you used

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So how did you hide the wiring for everything?