Hello everyone from Peru. I made a small project of an automatic light with LDR, which turns on when there is darkness and it works. I AM NOT ELECTRONIC, BUT I AM VERY AFFECTED HER. I wish to consult the following: How would you make the light of an LED (white or bright light) radiating to the sides? I wish that the light was not towards a point, but that it radiates at 180 degrees, like the neon fluorescent tubes. It's possible? What would I do it with? The LED screens of TVs or similar, have in front of the LEDs (which are small squares) some accessories that seem very transparent acrylic and that allow the light to radiate horizontally and not in the form of a halo of light forward. That same effect I want to do with conventional LEDs. I don't want to use LED strips, but normal LEDs. Thanks for your support.

hello odyssey: you can start by testing with mirror strips (2 to 45 ° above one and below the other led together as a lamp) and your led to the center greetings

Hi. Essentially what you need is an optical collimator. It is a lens that, from a light source, modifies its "shape" in various ways using parabolic effects and lenses. It seems quite complicated but to this (only in another format) you can see it in some LED lamps. In this case they concentrate the light beam but in a house of lamps or electronics you can buy these lenses at a few pesos. Even infra red alarm system detectors have these lenses to convert the IR detection beam into a curtain. Regards