Solar flame light hacks.

If using a single LED that might work. But with multiple LEDs making up an exaggerated flame it's more complex.

Big Clive

Just an idea; If you record lightning through a simple photocell or transistor, then try to mimic that pattern, would that not work? Or the same experiment, but with a candle flame? Then just place a pattern in Flash data, rinse and repeat! One can have multiple routines going at the same time and interfering with each other's wave patterns?

MarkM

In its original form the light was covered in a recent video. The only difference is the processor being switched for another and two resistors. One to hold the processor's reset pin in a known state and one to limit the current to an uncontrolled LED.

Big Clive

We get a fair bit of stormy weather here too (north Donegal coast) but the IOM is in a bit of a funnel in the Irish Sea.

John Carr

Clive we know you love a schematic :) where is it for this one ??? :)

The pins are solid turned pin style. It also gives more to grip when pulling the chip out.

Big Clive

Also the pins on the socket are much more stable than the ones on the chip it's self.

Drachnien

There's always a storm here. We're in the middle of the Irish Sea. When we chose this place we took storms into consideration and got a detached bungalow on a hill with taller buildings around it. Even with that the storms are still pleasingly violent.

Big Clive

Hope you're well battened down Clive. Dodgy looking storm out there!

John Carr

Vermilion Hells YES! Rock and roll!

Michael Thompson

ah, so you added a "mid socket" to kill the sockets pins on swap-in/out, not the chip - but not to miss the advantage of a socket itself for easy removal. I got that right? Sounds reasonable ...

Peter Stimpel

The chip is soldered into a socket at each corner to protect the pins from damage when being swapped back and forth between the programmer and application's socket.

Big Clive

I simulated a flame on a WS2812 ring, using an occasional flash of white as stimulus, with blurring and fading out through yellow and red. It wasn't computationally cheap, but I had plenty of cycles to burn on an STM32F1

Reminds me of someone on stilts to cross a pond.

A chip in a socket in a socket ...suspicious ;)

Peter Stimpel

Look forward to seeing the results

Dr Andy Hill