Honestly this area is so interesting to me because of how incredibly strongly light (or lack thereof) affects in the winter. It also seems to affect me more strongly than most in regards to sleeping patterns. Too much blue light in the evening and bam, brain refuses to sleep until 2am or later.
So for me the biggest factor missing in these kinds of projects is a dynamic color temperature. While we get that from products similar to apples adaptive lighting, that’s missing in products like this. It seems we can only really have one or the other.
My dream is something like this build but with full adaptive and programmable color temperatures based on time and seasons.
Honestly I want to build something like this but my area of expertise is too far into the software domain, and not very far into the hardware or electrical engineering domain.
This is the reason I decided to use 4000K instead of the more physically accurate 5400K. I picked a less middle of the day color temperature and closer to evening time, basically.
I spent a lot of time looking at LED suppliers and there's quite a range of options in terms of color temperature. Some manufacturers even have 2 color temps on the same LED package, meaning you can sort of do what you describe by mixing two light sources at a distance less than a millimeter.
> Honestly I want to build something like this but my area of expertise is too far into the software domain, and not very far into the hardware or electrical engineering domain.
That was me last year before starting this project! You'd be surprised what you can achieve with time and effort!
Thanks for your response, that’s actually very encouraging. I e definitely spent a lot of time looking at LED suppliers too.
Currently my favorite bulbs are the ones that are as you describe- two LEDs, one as high as 6500k and one as low as 2200k and it mixes depending on the state of the dinner. Automateable!
Start small and this goal will give you a nice direction.
Don't think you'll be able to do this in 6 months or a year but if you had started doing little electronics/hardware projects 10 years ago, you'd be ready now.