Last year, we released our Flickery Flame Soldering Kits with six candle-flicker LEDs in red and yellow or white and warm white, to give a fun and semi-realistic flame effect. Now we’re releasing a new Psychedelic Flame Soldering Kit with six blinky-fading-flashy RGB LEDs.
Together the auto-changing LEDs make this a bright, colorful, and kinetic light show. Perfect for holiday decorations (psychedelic Jack O’Lanterns, anyone?), luminarias, scale models, stage props, and parties.
These 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.
Do the LED’s stay synchronized? I assume they don’t, because I can’t think of a mechanism.
Nope. They immediately drift from one another in time, making it that much more blinky.
Several years ago I built something nearly identical to this (6 self-color-cycling LEDs in a hex) as an accessory for one of Bathsheba Grossman’s science crystals. It worked well enough that I’m still using it. Like a color-cycling fractal in 3-D, sort of…