Quote Originally Posted by profezorn View Post
I think I'm going to give up on the LED filaments for now, and build an LED string out of APA106 LEDs instead.
The biggest problem with the LED filaments is that I would need to design some circuit boards (one for holding the LED filaments and one for the voltage booster), and frankly I really really hate all circuit board cad software I've tried so far. Eagle seems to be the least bad, and it is horrible.

I might re-visit this later if I can find some way to design circuit boards which is less painful than a razor-eating contest.
Yeah, without spending a ridiculous amount of cash on the software and annual renewal they are pretty bad...he User interface of the high-end software is still overly complicated and hard to use without the "Recomended" training. The only people I have ever encountered who enjoy or can understand the interface are EEs who choose to work in it daily.