I like your spark-o-phone very creative 😎

I think it was Mouse who mentioned that a while ago. I heated the centre of a panel during a stream and then turned it on and got a nice circular burst effect.

Clive always got cool content. But taking what you posted and the visual of the lights at the start of this video as they blink on and off with varying brightness also reminds me of a (still theory) theory of time I made up several decades ago about “ what is time” if those LEDs were RGB and each shrunk down to a Planck scale size which is about the smallest hole/orb theoretically possible which not even quantum particles can pass through and if you gave each color of the RGB which combined creates white and when off creates black or darkness correlate density of brightness with a temperature as in dimmer is cooler brighter is hottest that would make that single board of 18x13 Planck scales wide which there is yet an instrument built capable of direct observation since there are no materials fine enough to make one from its effect can be observed and in turn proves time exist as a temporal effect of what is to this day being denied “ the aether” . I know what everyone’s thinking WTFs this guy talking about? Sorry . 😁 just saying time exists and the board serves as an example of what can’t be seen if those LEDs were as tiny as they can be , but if you could see it, maybe one day someone will after all we now have images of an actual atom but here’s my theoretical equation in layman’s term. The Planck hole will appear like a quasi crystal orb but that visual which like the first image of an atom will have more questions then answers because nobody can definitively confirm it’s not just an illusion.

and the lead in the smoke works so nicely as hair gel when I lean right over my work. The non-leaded solders are too stiff and make my hair too finicky.

The lead oxide leaves a nice sweet note on the aftertaste.

Especially when carbonated.

The smoke is from the flux/resion, not lead vapor.

@@mernokimuvek and, fun fact, the higher temperature fluxes used for lead free solder apparently tend to be more californian

That is a great idea.

Likely would need a diffuser layer but it should look great and not as patterned

I could see that, but you'd want to mix it up a bit. Orange, red, white, and warm white/yellow.

@@tbelding The options are certainly there to customise a lamp to suit your own tastes.

Put some music on and do it LED by LED. It will go together fast.

Hm. I’ve had RISC conversations with colleagues. Boring to me.

Patreon's get videos up to 1 month before anyone else though, isn't that already enough of an incentive to subscribe? As I always say, with regards to nice products that are worth getting: pay twice, or miss out forever.

ooh, hey that's a good thought. Can you design one so when a "rocket engine" LED fails, it emits a little fire from the side of the housing?

Simplicity is reliability.

I did the same thing in the 90"s with 500 Led's in matrix and tons of IC's .... Stupid me !!!! lol

How many years of research have you done on that and, more importantly, how much would you be willing to bet? Also, are you taking any bets on leaded petrol?

@@RFC-3514 No research myself, just common sense, practical experience and reading others' research papers. Lead-free solder has (re)introduced many issues we don't currently have with leaded solder. Like I said, certain categories of electronics are exempt from the ban on leaded solder and that's simply because the use of lead-free solder causes a marked increase in the failure rate of electronics. Taking into consideration the absolutely miniscule amount of lead present in a complete device, the environmental benefits of using lead-free solder are marginal at best. Meanwhile the aforementioned increased failure rate generates more e-waste than if we'd continued to use leaded solder. So now we have a larger pile of trash, just with less lead in it. Regarding leaded petrol, what kind of a weird comparison is that? Of course leaded petrol is horrible and it's a good thing we (finally) got rid of it. But unless you plan to run your car on leaded solder, it won't be combusted throughout our streets and cities to then be inhaled or ingested by anyone. Unless you're worried about the burning of e-waste, but that's something that needs to be addressed by better recycling and waste management, not by making it slightly less bad by banning leaded solder, that's just gesture politics.

Leaded petrol was a completely different thing. Genuinely airborne lead smog as opposed to solid blobs firmly attached to a PCB.

Well, I replied to this and the reply seems to have been deleted, which has been happening a lot in this channel. Maybe KZfaq is in the pocket of "Big Lead". :D

I was actually thinking the same thing.. if you used static LEDs with a higher forward voltage, then when either of the flashing ones turned on, it would drop the voltage below the static LED's cutoff and the "static" LED would turn off, so they would only turn on when both of the others were off. Might take some work to find a combination of static and blinking LEDs with the right relative voltages, though... You could also use all blinking LEDs, but solder some zeners to the back to ensure if they were all off that the voltage didn't go too high. (or you might be able to get away with just some resistors, I'm not sure)

Completely normal on this channel.

@Echo the Husky normal for the channel at least.

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@@RFC-3514 arf arf!

Our library uses those, also the tall plastic containers from Crystal Lite drink mix, for kids' craft supplies. I must have given them dozens over the years.

May I also suggest " Kremelta " containers After " cocoa powder + rice puffs + Kremelta " = snacks Empty container is reporpoised

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Perhaps put two flashing leds in each pair and an SMD non-flashing LED on the back to clamp it.

Same here. Put the bulp inside a difused orb and it turned out quite well.

Ah, OK.

unleaded solder is awful, unfortunately more and more difficult for' hobbyists' to get it, but manufacturers can? you'd think it'd be the other way round, its the mass manufactured stuff more likely to pollute via landfills rather than small quantities of home built stuff! both types of solder now getting stupidly expensive , £30 ish, or more, for a 500g reel 😲 i used to pay £5 plus vat per reel from Grandata in the mid 90s!

I used to make those for friends many decades ago.

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" I grew up with leaded fuel" ??????, strange upbringing , I grew up with my brother.😏

As far as I can tell, the major point is to be a DIY kit. And a minor point is that yo can make it with any colour LEDs you want. I've built a smaller versio of this kit with near-UV leds to make a "blacklight", and did another with RGB colour changing LEDs for a disco light effect.

Just for the sake of building a custom lamp.

120 real UVC LEDs would cost about £600, so I may avoid that project.

You can find my version of this with neon oscillators buried in my older videos.

Or something to mimic an ocean like environment, with maybe some kind of oil to fill the bulb? In my head the ambiance would be so soothing...but to cast shadows the way I'm thinking the oil would need to be circulating in some way....hmm.....😅

yep, i started tinkering with electronics and soldering since i was about 8 ish,

? surely you'd need a zener across them in case of all leds going 'open' at the same time?

I'm sure all the B-movie computers were just a bunch of off the shelf panel lamps (probably incandescent) and a commercial sign controller.

you could, but capacitive droppers are ok, you could clamp the voltage with a zener, smpus too 'noisy' in terms of interference, and more likely to fail ,,