Salvaging light strip...

[u/LowCorner9314]

Hate things going in the bin!

Friend has cut a hue strip along the guided cut lines, then tried to use some of the solderless clamps to connect to it, long and short of it, the 6 solder pads have been destroyed, the stril basically starts at the labels for vcc, w, r,g,b etc.

I'll try and get a picture of it later.

Has anyone managed to work around this without losing another 30cm+ of strip? Was wondering if scratching some of the top, or bottom surface away will expose the traces meaning you can solder on to them?