CARDIFF, Wales, U.K. – LED lighting company Sedna once again teamed up with Cardiff University to support the school’s engineering students as they worked on an LED-lit CR12 series race car outfitted with Sedna’s flexible LED strips. The project, which also involved students from Cardiff Metropolitan University, focused on the LED-lit vehicle’s ability to light up in the dark for a night race around a test track at Llandow last December.
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After last year’s success, Sedna has once again partnered with Cardiff University to support the local Cardiff Formula Racing Team and create new opportunities for the young engineers of the future. The partnership highlights the engineering talent of lighting manufacturer Sedna lighting and talented engineers from Cardiff University’s school of engineering, Formula racing team. In a collaborative test of racing light in the dark, Sedna Lighting raced the CR12 series car around home test track at Llandow last December.
The car, fitted with 1500 individual LED’s from Sedna’s flexible LED strip range, was the joint effort of designers from two universities (Cardiff University and Cardiff Metropolitan University), film makers and engineers who translated the brief idea into a realistic design and created an inspirational video featuring the project; now available on the Sedna website.
As a local technology company, Sedna once again demonstrated that being creative, thinking outside the box and working with engineering talents are the core elements of the company’s philosophy. This time Formula 1 style driving was given an unexpected twist with driving taking place in the night and cars generating exterior lighting on their own.
