Building a controller for self-made daylight lamps or softboxes

I got the original idea for this project after watching a video by DIY Perks.

He shows how to extract the backlights of old monitors as well as TVs and explains the effects of the different layers build into them and how they make for a better light source:


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.athrunen.dev/recycling-old-display-backlight-as-daylight-lamps-or-softboxes/