Here LED Hack word is used because system is developed in such a way that when human touches the LED Strip it will glow automatically, it seems like a magic because there is no change in LED Strip.

The physical concept behind this magic is related with one electrical property of any material and that is Capacitance.

Capacitance of any material can be influenced by Human because human can make very strong capacitance with other metal.

Basically in LED Strip there is a parallel connection of all the small LED lights. So I use negative terminal as a one plate of capacitor.

When human go near to this negative terminal which is basically throughout the length of the strip, He/She will influence the capacitance and when touches it, the value of capacitance will increase tends to infinity.

This effect can be sensed using any microcontroller and here I used Arduino.

Arduino provide frequency input to measure capacitance and also trigger the relay to activate the LED Strip.