This DIY Strip Light Stair Lighting Design and Install over at Speedy Signals looks nice. The project uses a ATmega328P which is very common in the Arduino scene. The microcontroller interfaces with some shift registers to power the lights. Some 2N7000 mosfets are used to drive the actual LED lights. By using the Arduino ShiftPWM library he is able to have individual control of all the steps. Beam sensors were
Mike Szczys from Hack a Day shares a hack that he found by Geert on his Just a Thought blog. Geert wanted to jazz up his stairs but adding some DIY RGB LED stair lighting. He used an Arduino Uno for the brain and some TI TLC5940 chips to do the heavy lifting of doing the PWM (pulse width modulation) for all of the channels of LEDs. “We need a
Instructables member ganglion from England installed some LED stair lighting on his stairs. He built a custom DIY circuit that allows the lights to be dimmed. To make things a bit simpler he decided to only light every second step and simply run the wires on the edge of the stairs from top to bottom. We have seen other stair lighting systems like this one that have the wires run in
Those who are having foot lights in their stairway, then acme663ryo has an interesting stuff for you. According to acme663ryo, your foot lights are having epoxy pools of glass in the knot holes. These can be triggered by any light motion sensor, which in turn drives a solid state relay. The relay during its active cycle switches your DC power supply ON and through which you can connect your LED lights. In
Technabob shares a new light designed to look like the glass is filled with milk, yes milk!!. This impressive lighting gadget lights up when placed upright and turns off when tilted or placed upside down. It also capable of creating a graceful and warm-heart conditions. You can find it at eBay for $9.99 or you can head to Wholesale Forum to get it slashed by half to $4.50. Watch this video to
The shadow gap technique has been expanded and developed on minimalist staircase. An amazing effect is  created by letting the light through the gaps between the wall and the stairs. More such designs at lightiq.
