Stairs That Automatically Light Up with LEDs

[Guest]

Perfect for adding that Michael Jackson/Tron vibe to your home!

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[Silmarunya]

Cool. Completely unnecessary and hardly improving your quality of life, but really cool nonetheless...

 

[jamie_macdonald]

Hehe, Neat ... Would certainly stop a few of us falling dwon the stairs in our morning slumber. I guess it would be a pain to install in a regular english suburb house tho 😛

 

[alyoshka]

Coooooooooooool........... now all I need to do it find the right places on the steps for my HDDs, Display, Keyboard etc etc

 

[insider3]

Fake, Only Michael Jackson can light those stairs up.

 

[scryer_360]

Rico Mossesgeld? Don't think I've seen you post up stories before, are you new?

 

[jellico]

Stuff like this is actually pretty easy to do, with regard to the electronics portion. If you're building a new house or doing some fairly significant renovations, then you can do this kind of stuff with a fairly minor increase to the total cost. Now if you want to retrofit an existing house or apartment with these sorts of features, that is a major PIA! It's like adding structured ethernet to an old house... you can do it, but it's very time consuming, and it never turns out exactly like you want it.

 

[sliem]

Yes, it's only reasonable to install on a new house (ie: still under construction)... installing it on existing house would be pain in the arse and probably would not justify the cost on either case.

 

[babybeluga]

Do not want!

No stealth entrances for the loss!

 

[counselmancl]

Next, a device that when you push a button something happens.

 

[tleavit]

I need them for the stairs to my home theater which I have been fighting with cruddy small in wall stair lights.

 

[Ramar]

Eh, you could do this yourself for under a hundred dollars and a nicely productive weekend.

 

[delazaren]

Very good, they can prove essential in emergency situations when the evacuation of a building will require the occupants to use the staircases.

 

[sparky1248]

It's a great idea but it's already been done. http/www.instructables.com/id/IR-light-trip-sensor/

 

[warmon6]

[citation][nom]delazaren[/nom]Very good, they can prove essential in emergency situations when the evacuation of a building will require the occupants to use the staircases.[/citation]

I was just thinking that!

 

[nahdogg]

But does it have USB and can it multi-task?

 

[Gin Fushicho]

I could use a couple of these. I fall on the stairs every time I try to go up them at night, they're in a super dark hallway with no light.

I don't see why you would need one for every step however.

 

[thackstonns]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]Yes, it's only reasonable to install on a new house (ie: still under construction)... installing it on existing house would be pain in the arse and probably would not justify the cost on either case.[/citation]

Why they are led's I bet you could do it off of some batteries instead of running wire. The batteries would still last longer than an incondecent

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

[citation][nom]thackstonns[/nom]Why they are led's I bet you could do it off of some batteries instead of running wire. The batteries would still last longer than an incondecent[/citation]

Only problem with that is the triggering mechanism.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]I could use a couple of these. I fall on the stairs every time I try to go up them at night, they're in a super dark hallway with no light.I don't see why you would need one for every step however.[/citation]
For when you feel like dancing like MJ of course, can't do that without the lightup stairs.