Getting ready for Halloween
Over a year ago I saw a post over on robotroom that talked about a LED light kit for a pumpkin. Having just acquired a Adruino Uno from Sparkfun I thought that this would be the perfect thing for Halloween however time constraints and a busy work schedule kept me from finishing the project.
After I thought about it though - who wants to throw their nice and shiny Ardruino into a pumpkin for an entire night of shenanigans? Turns out you can use your Ardruino to program a attiny85 chip to do the same thing and run it all with a 9V battery!
Parts
1 9V battery
1 9V battery connector
1 7805 Rectifier
1 .1 uF Capacitor (probably not necessary)
1 ATTiny85
2 Yellow LEDs
1 Red LED
3 330 Ω resistor
1 breadboard
And the code
// LED Fire Effect
int ledPin1 = 0;
int ledPin2 = 1;
int ledPin3 = 4;
void setup() {
pinMode(ledPin1, OUTPUT);
pinMode(ledPin2, OUTPUT);
pinMode(ledPin3, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
analogWrite(ledPin1, random(64)*4);
analogWrite(ledPin2, random(64)*4);
analogWrite(ledPin3, random(64)*4);
delay(random(20));
}
Looks pretty good in action - can't wait to test it out.
Edit 10/22/2014: Adding a cirtcuit board that I am going to try and fabricate.
