The headboard of the IKEA Malm bed now has LED strips on the left and right, set flush into aluminium profiles and controlled with WLED, just like the glowing moon.
Cardboard
The headboard is basically just corrugated cardboard. Between two thin cover panels there is a cardboard honeycomb core, with a wooden strip only around the edge.
The slot
For each profile I made two parallel cuts along the guide rail and lifted off the cover layer in between with a chisel.
Underneath, the cardboard appears. I cut out the honeycomb with scissors.
Something for the screws to hold
Screws don’t hold in cardboard. So I glued wooden strips into the slot, and the aluminium profiles are screwed into those.
Electronics
The strips are connected to an ESP32 controller from Gledopto running WLED, bought on AliExpress. Power comes from a Mean Well power supply with 5 V and 6 A. That is more than the two strips in the headboard need, but I have installed more LED strips.
