I would like to have a solution for my showcase lighting which is small, simple, inconspicuous, but chic.
There are 2 showcases to be illuminated. LED strips are already installed in the showcases, once 2 and once 3. The strips are operated with 12V. The power is about 3Wmax per strip. For 5 strips, this is 1.25 A, which is not to much. In addition, this is much too bright and will probably be operated mostly dimmed.
Power supply is a 12 V plug-in power supply. To build something by myself is not necessary.
Since I like to try other things, I did not take an Arduino, but a TI MC of the type MSP430G2553. For development, I got the launchpad MSP-EXP430G2 , which already brings the programming interface for programming my own board later. At the same time I didn’t want any buttons and found the idea of capacitive switch fields very elegant. The MSP430 Capacitive Touch BoosterPack is compatible with the Launchpad.
There are Code Composer Studio builds for Windows, MacOS and Linux, however, the MSP-EXP430G2 is not supported in MacOS, so I had to take the Windows version🙁.