In October, we released our Solderless Flickery Flame project, based on a tiny breadboard with six red and yellow candle-flicker LEDs, to give a fun and semi-realistic flame effect. Today, we’re releasing two new Flickery Flame Soldering Kits along the same lines, each of which has 6 candle-flicker LEDs, a little circuit board, and a battery holder.
The Yellow/Red kit has the same mix of yellow and red candle-flicker LEDs that works so well in the breadboard kit. This one will look great in a jack-o-lantern, luminaria, or scale-model fireplace.
On the other hand, the White/Warm White kit has a mixture of (cool) white and warm white LEDs that give a modern wintery flame effect that has at least as much charm, but won’t be mistaken for a natural fire. This one will look great in all kinds of winter holiday decorations, luminarias, and props.
Both the Yellow/Red and White/Warm White kits are fun, low-cost, self-contained, and easy soldering kits, which will be right at home both as stocking stuffers and as bite-size first projects for soldering workshops.
Cool. Are you going to offer just the board for those of us who bought the solderless kit but would like to convert over?
We will, although it may not be until after the holiday. Contact us directly if you’d like one as a custom order. ;)
Awesome. I’m in no hurry, I can wait until you guys get it stocked. Great stuff!
I found this a few years back: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2008/a-dark-detecting-circuit-for-your-jack-o-lantern/ and used it to automatically turn a flickering candle-like set of LEDs on and off. I got about 2 weeks of my Jack-o-Lanterns lit without hassle each night.
My project that made this work, with some refinements is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/EFH52/PumpkinCandle
I just put 3 of them in my japanese lantern- it looks great!