Adafruit has announced the arrival of its new fiber optic light sources and side-light fiber optic tubes which can be powered by 9-12V and 100mA of current include a metal body that acts as a heat sink. Price from $6.95 the fibre-optic lighting is available in a number of colours including blue, green, red, white and pink.
“This is a pretty neat way to glow up. Light in the fiber optic cable zooms through the core by constantly bouncing off of the edge of the molded plastic, a principle called “total internal reflection” (which also kinda sounds like a very expensive meditation island retreat). When the light pipe doesn’t have total reflection, you can get a nifty lighting effect from the light illuminating the plastic tubing.”
“Yay, a plastic tube! No, we jest. This is no ordinary plastic tube, but rather a side-lighting fiber optic tube. This is a pretty neat way to glow up. Light in the fiber optic cable zooms through the core by constantly bouncing off of the edge of the molded plastic, a principle called “total internal reflection” (which also kinda sounds like a very expensive meditation island retreat). When the light pipe doesn’t have total reflection, you can get a nifty lighting effect from the light illuminating the plastic tubing.”
For more details on the new fibre-optic lighting which is now available to purchase from the online Adafruit store, jump over to the official Adafruit website by following the link below.
Source: Adafruit
