DIY Light Ring from LED Strip

This is a DIY light ring made from LED light strip segments.The base positions them all symmetrically. It was designed around this strip (see link), but any 8mm wide by 100 mm long segments (or shorter) should work. Designed for the entire five meters (so 50 strips) as I wanted a brighter ring than I could buy cheaply, but you could add fewer.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HSF65MC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It's built pretty ruggedly and a tripod mount is integrated (just a holder for a 1/4-20 nut).

I used PETG as that will give more temperature resistance when soldering or from waste heat, but perhaps you can get away with PLA. If that works out, LMK! The model is 296 mm in diameter, so may require being split up on smaller printers.

I recommend clipping the corners of the strips (snipping off positive on one end and negative on the other) so that bare wire can be used as that makes it a lot quicker to solder (see pictures). Snipping and sticki