When we met the team from Build My LED at MACNA four years ago, we saw a novel concept and a great product. Sadly, after four years the Build My LED team is hanging up the aquarium cleats and will…
Build My LED gets multi-channel control, taking beta product orders
Build My LED MC Series is showing the company is getting even more innovative by bringing multi-channel control to its custom LEDs. The new MC Series is being debuted in a small, beta product launch before the final launch later…
BuildMyLED XB Series are ready to really brighten things up
BuildMyLED is ready to follow up on their award winning customizable striplights with a new series which is brighter and more colorful than any other on the market. The XB series of striplights from BuildMyLED uses the latest and greatest…
Pick your algae color, Build My LED launches genius refugium LED fixtures
We usually stick with a simple 6,500K or lower light for our refugiums but Build My LED is challenging this point of view with its new line of custom LED fixtures designed with your color of refugium macroalgae in mind.…
BuildMyLED Apex-Ready striplights now available in 5 & 6 ft lengths
Where LED spotlights dominated the frontier of aquarium lighting in 2009-2010, recently the LED striplight has taken over as the fastest growing segment of the lighting market. If you needed any evidence of this you need only turn to BuildMyLED…
Build My LED aims to satiate your purple desires
As coral nuts, we have an incredible appetite for blue and purple lighting. The short wavelengths help our fluorescent colors pop and flood our rooms with the calming glow. To satiate our hunger for the purple lighting, Build My LED analyzed one of…
Jim’s temperate pico aquarium is a spectacular example of craftmanship
Jim’s temperate pico might be very simplistic in color, but it is certainly not lacking in form. Owned by the same hobbyist as the azoox fish bowl, this is another awesome setup. Both the imposing aquascape and beautiful corals really…
Build My LED goes head-to-head with T5 fluorescent lighting
We appreciate a good head-to-head competition and you know that if an LED manufacturer is going to release a video against a bank of T5 lighting, you can expect the LEDs to win. In this case upstart Build My LED…
Build My LED adds two new lengths and tutorial video
We covered the launch of Build My LED at MACNA, a DIY approach to designing and customizing an LED fixture but allowing the experts to put it together for you, and found out they have added two new lengths of…
Build My LED launches at MACNA, allows you to DIY design your custom LED array at a great price
LED light strips are starting to become the status quo for most aquarium lighting manufacturers and besides, they allow hobbyists to tap into LED lighting at an affordable price point. One of the more innovative ideas we’ve seen was just…
