2009
10.04

Ikea Spöka Teardown, or "This Could Be A Little More Sonic"

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The Ikea Spöka, a rubber light up toy, just look at the picture.

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I figured this would be a perfect platform to do a color mixing, PWM, RGB LED mood light.  So, $14.99 later, I began the teardown.

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The rubber cover came off with some effort, but nothing was glued or otherwise permanently assembled.

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The faux-lightbulb splits in half easily revealing 4 LEDs, 3 AAA sized rechargable batteries and a charging circuit.

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I’ll be retaining the pushbutton/charger PCB. battery pack and the charger plug of course.  One of the 8pin PICs will fit inside nicely.

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I’ll be adapting this article to this project.

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  1. ka1kjz.com » Chip Of The Week, Alegro A6281 3-Channel Constant Current LED Driver w/ PWM said: 2009.10.31 09:53

    [...] lamp based on an Ikea Lampan table lamp. I was simply going to use the same code as I plan in the Ikea Spoka hack, but I want to try this chip and off load the PWM generation and such from the [...]