Individually addressable on HE? If so, link & driver? I'm a huge fan of indicator/idiot lights & panelboards.
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Picture required! Sounds cool...
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WLED and the WLED community driver works great.
But i believe he was not talking about individually adressable but just RGB lights with an RGB driver like the Zooz Zen31
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Here's a bit more background on the dog light for those interested!
I used the pawprint lightbox here, but modified it to remove the heart in the center of the paw, mainly to have only 2 colors so I could have a black body with a white passthrough. Also added in a hole at the bottom for the power connector to plug into the controller. I don't recall if I scaled it up or down in size from the original in the link above, but I did check internal dimensions to ensure the LED controller would fit. Ended up chopping it up in Bambu Studio, since Solidworks really hates modifying STL files, this was the easier method of choice.
For this project I just used off-the-shelf components for the lighting, which I have used in many other places for accent lighting around the house. I definitely considered an ESP module with RGB capable lighting, but these Gledopto controllers are super simple, reliable, and work directly with Hubitat's built in drivers. The profile of the controller was definitely larger than what I could have made it, but considering the lightbox fit it inside, there was no need for a custom designed LED controller.
I used a Gledopto Zigbee compatible RGB+CCT controller: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KDL8MHX
These LED's, RGB+CCT compatible:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075DWDM5Z/
Tried to find a picture of the internals, but I must have deleted it (or never actually took one). I'll describe it though, its a simple layout. The LED controller was mounted in the center of the paw with the power connection facing downward, aligned with the hole in the printed body. The LED strips were ran around the perimeter of the body, then some jumper wires were connected to the controller. The back plate was just hot glued into place, and I command strip stuck it on the side of the shelf that holds the dog food (next to his bowls).
I use Webcore to manage all my logic, and monitor whether the dog needs fed, water, or needs to go outside. I've had this in use for a long while, with simple notifications / dashboard updates depending on statuses. It is just much more convenient to have the light near his bowls, and the door we normally take him outside with is also nearby. We can tend to ignore the notifications on our phones fairly easily if we are in the middle of something, but walking into the kitchen it is easy to just glance over and see if the light is illuminated or not. Also nice not having to bother the wife if she is busy with something, just to see if the dog has been fed.
Pic of it with the lights off (no current notification)
Pic of it illuminated blue (which means his water bowl needs refilled)
I also integrated the brightness control into my global accent lighting management, so if it is bright outside the light comes on around 70% brightness, but if it is dark outside, it is much dimmer around 30% brightness. Also have it turn off at night so it's not wasting electricity, when we are in bed.
I didn't want to talk too much in this post about food, water, and outside tracking, as this post is already getting long, and it is a fairly complicated setup, and fairly off topic in this thread. Though if anyone is interested, let me know and I can explain how that is automated in more detail.
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Exactly, not individually addressable, the whole thing is just one solid color
Thanks for the pics. That is just awesome! Really well done. 
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Same here. If you're not doing a large number of identical prints at the same time the wastage is horrendous.
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Yeah, but on-topic for the forum. We'll point to it when Bruce grumbles about this huge thread still rollin' in the Lounge for over 2.5 years, heh.
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I am 
... like what kind of sensor(s) are you using to know the bowl(s) need refilled?
@jakokln - I'd like to see that detail as well!
Probably better discussed in a separate topic, as more than just us 3D Kids here could find this very interesting. Maybe put it in the Lounge and link back to it here...
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The Bambu A1 is installed along with Bambu Studio. For the kids reading along at home, Bambu now uses Pin Binding for the printers ...which, for some reason, my original setup did not offer. Anyway, after some searching and reloading I was able to bind it and get the A1 connected via Lan Only mode.
After checking out Bambu Studio I figured I might as well try Orca one-more-time so @dJOS will quit nagging me, heh. New problem: Orca didn't show the A1 at all. After a quick search, reddit had the answer; Windows Defender now doesn't like Orca. Solution here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/OrcaSlicer/comments/1d1wdlo/lan_only_mode_for_a1_and_orca_not_working/
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There’s your problem! 
Ps, I don’t know why windows apps aren’t signed like they are in macOS, that would avoid this kind of issue.
Yeah, but UltraEdit ver6 -my all time favorite text editor (has Column Mode)- won't run on anything else. After 5 years of running linux and often thinking 'Hell, I could fix this huge text mess in about 5 minutes with UEv6' I went back to W11 gutted version.
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Fair enough, I used to use BBEdit on macOS and notepad++ on windows, but I’ve recently switched to VSCode for most of those duties on both platforms.
It’s a bit of overkill, but I do rather like it.
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They absolutely can be. Windows will warn you if you try to install an unsigned app. Every legit publisher and lots of kosher free software has been using signing for a long time.
Ah ok, must just be a windows defender issue then.
Then the latest Orca v2.1.1 Win 64 update was unsigned. I got the warning pop-up.
Notepad++ has column mode
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Has anyone made a shelf divider bracket for an IKEA Kallax shelf. Looking to divide one of the cube horizontally 
Have you dug through yeggi?
