Ooh, lightsabres for a flea circus!

@RT-qd8yl

4 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly 🤣

@johntaylor8072

4 ай бұрын

Brings to mind ( Flea Circus (1950) on youtube!

@the80hdgaming

4 ай бұрын

Perfect size for LEGO figurines 😂😂

@MichaelOfRohan

4 ай бұрын

Rgb rectal thermometers

@robinbrowne5419

4 ай бұрын

Ha ha :-)

I've used them in props, they run for a whole day on a 2032 battery or 2 in series on 5v for a lower brightness. really useful for confined space.

@markfergerson2145

4 ай бұрын

Props was my first thought. I recall back when Star Trek TNG tricorders were the hot thing and folks went nuts trying to duplicate all of the blinky light effects. Now you can do it with a COB with a built in micro.

I think the lower LED count at the end more give the impression of variable speed, and that last bit where the drop hangs on for a sec before shedding off (drip wise).

Earrings necklace hat brim spiked Mohawk hair etc. Thinking party club cosplay. Really cool ornament. Love the 3V.

It still amazes me how 4 'channels' appear to flow so perfectly...

@bigclivedotcom

4 ай бұрын

It's six, but it is unusually smooth.

@helmutheller1538

4 ай бұрын

There must be more to it! It looks like individual LEDs, not LED groups, are switched. Clive, are you sure you didn’t miss anything? Can you do a slow motion recording of it? Then we can see whether it’s individual LEDs or LED groups that get turned on and off

@kimchristensen2175

4 ай бұрын

They might PWM them so that one fades out as the other fades in which would make it look smoother.

@theagileaardvark

4 ай бұрын

@kimchristensen2175 But even then, with pwm, how does the controller address individual LEDs, which it obviously does? Or is there some logic in the LED groups, hidden somewhere? If four are connected together with just one pin on the controller... How does it create a fading light effect from one side to the other, like a larson scanner? Clive must have overlooked something.

@atmel9077

4 ай бұрын

​​@@helmutheller1538It's using anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing can make text much more readable even on a low resolution screen. Same principle here. Note that, even if this is not the case here, it is possible to individually address up to 30 LEDs with 6 inputs thanks to the "Charliplexing" technique.

There are also variants with multiple patterns, triggered by shortly cutting the power to select the next pattern (upto 6 patterns in total)

It was one of those that killed the LED dinosaurs.

@stevecann3394

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@Schroefdoppie

3 ай бұрын

Diodesaurs..

Those are cute little LEDs. Thank you for showing them. I have seen those used on some car alarm systems here in the US, to make it very obvious the vehicle is armed at night. Personally, a simple single blinking red LED is more than sufficient in my vehicles.

I really like these! They could make for some very fun wearable lights.

@u2bear377

4 ай бұрын

For parties, yes. Outdoors, no. Just another unwanted distraction.

These would probably work well as pilot/indicator lights showing that the operator needs to do something left or right. Or in an arcade machine.

Oh darn you Clive... you got me. I ordered three different colours and then got entranced by all the other LED's on AliExpress.

@gavinthomas214

3 ай бұрын

Mine just arrived and they actually include a surface mount decoupling capacity on the pads below the IC.

I've had my eye on these for a while to do a retro future-esque lights on a retro car project

0:22 20 mega amps! Great Scott!

@M0UAW_IO83

4 ай бұрын

60.5 volts might fry them.

@sometimesleela5947

4 ай бұрын

Thus the name.

@RFC3514

4 ай бұрын

At 230 volts, that's 4.6 jiggawatts!

@keiths8700

3 ай бұрын

China don't really bother with caps or lowercase, they figure you know what they mean.

@RFC3514

3 ай бұрын

@@keiths8700 - China manufactures a lot of electronics. I'm pretty sure their engineers (and most secondary school students, for that matter) know SI magnitude prefixes, including the difference between "milli" and "Mega".

These are cool. Now I want a bag of each colour.

These were a good find Clive. I like these.

Thanks Big Clive. Those are supper cool.

Lighting has become so cool and hackable. Very interesting Clive.

Very cool, I love little things like this

Very cool little lights. I may have to order some too.

These are really cute...going to have to get some now :)

Oh, these have a wonderful dropping effect. I like them a lot, in fact, I can think of a few modelling projects out of them. Edit: Clive, I saw another listing for these. If you keep the neg attached to the power. Then add the pos by tapping it on the pos tab once each time. The LEDs will flash in 5 different patterns, one tap per flashing sequence, eg, like the KITT car L-R &R-L red strobe effect. This makes them even better for a visual affect.

I love meteor lights! Especially in trees

I love them, so many uses

runs to the store...ive needed exactly this for a project,,,thank you so much

Quite nice, very hypnotic.. I`m imagining them in the brake lights of my car..

Excellent video as always. Thank you sir!

@bigclivedotcom

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. Much appreciated.

I love these little lights. Must get my hands on some :D

Very cool little objects, I can definitely see some uses for them and pretty cheap for what you get. I was thinking maybe in a computer case, but that might just be me.

The band gap for blue leds is 2.6 volts so that's amazing it glows on such low voltage.

Always fascinating, entertaining and educational. Thanks, Clive! 🔵🔵🔵🔵

@bigclivedotcom

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Beautiful, thinking they'd be excellent for my taillight on a custom bike, and lots of other things. Well done Clive, the best little light show yet. Thank you 😊 ✌💚🇬🇧

@u2bear377

4 ай бұрын

Oh, those animated 'designer' lights on vehicles are very annoying.

My cobra furry costume is now complete, I found the eyes.

Oh wow never seen these, very cool 😎👍

Basically as simple as possible, just a microcontroller and some LEDs! Neat. 🙂

I'm very surprised at how well the groups LEDs simulate a finer grained meteor effect. Watching them I would have expected single LED resolution, but stepping through the video seems to show changes only in larger groups.

Those are good. If they made even more-near UV leds in that form it would be even better.

I gained new knowledge after watching your video!!

They would look really cool on city Christmas trees. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

They seem to be selling these with an attached battery pack for rear bike lights. It's exactly the same PCB with the same IC soldered into the little LiPo pack.

These are rad. Would look really cool in a sci-fi or Gundam model.

One area of my city used dangling string light versions of this same effect as part of their outdoor Christmas lighting displays this year. I was speculating that it might have been charlieplexing the LEDs. This is an even simpler method than I imagined.

@Stabby666

4 ай бұрын

Yeah they had those large ones in my city too. I thought Charlieplexing initially. It would actually be nice to have a Charlieplexed version, then they could drip or maybe sparkle instead as each of the 30 LEDs could be independent with 6 GPIOs.

@bigclivedotcom

4 ай бұрын

Many of the longer ones do Charlieplex the LEDs.

They look like dynamic indicators for cars 🚗

Awesome Video Big Clive 😊

I build miniatures for all kinds of stuff. but right now this has me thinking about using something like this for a landing lights on a landing pad. arranged so the light all cascades towards a center point would look epic.

That's so cool, I still remember the first time I saw the giant "snowfall" light tubes in a boutique Christmas store (for hundreds of dollars) as a kid. Now we've got these 😀.

Interesting little circuits! Lots of ideas. I think the gel is all around because they probably dip the pcbs after assembly (simpler and faster).

As a kid, I used to lie on my back out on a hill in the countryside for hours at night, watching those little meteor lights flash through the sky. They don't look so exciting any more now that I'm older...

Very cool, I have not come across these on my Ali surfing

I can see making a lot if little cool sci-fi props with these.

I made a bunch of these at 3x the length with an AVR ATTINY some years ago and 3d printed several spiral icicles variants in clear PETG. Came out very nice.

Nice little module. 😎

Very nice! Thanks for another great video. When you said “About 20 LEDs…”, I immediately thought, “Oh cool! a 5 pin Charlie-plex”, so I was a little saddened to see it was just four discrete channels. Could have been random access! :D

Super! Thank you very much!

that looks nice

Rad. Now, imagine an entire Rosco tassel ("slit") drape made out of those. Incredibly tedious to build, awesome to view!

My neighbor's got a bunch of these but they are larger, individual stakes you put in the ground and they charge from a solar cell. He's got them all along his driveway and the effect at night is very nice. (His are blue also)

Those are cool! 👍

They would be fun to stick in an auto-reverse tape deck to show direction of the tape. LOL.

@lesallison9047

4 ай бұрын

Brilliant idea 💡 👏

@frankowalker4662

4 ай бұрын

@@lesallison9047 I just thought it would look cool. 👍

@PinePondCTDevilsHopyard-fy3hj

4 ай бұрын

Tape deck?? I thought they were all gone! Kidding 😅

@frankowalker4662

4 ай бұрын

@@PinePondCTDevilsHopyard-fy3hj LOL.

@u2bear377

4 ай бұрын

@@PinePondCTDevilsHopyard-fy3hj Not so long ago I decided to compile a playlist of music I had had as a child. Done that and had listened to that all day. But something was missing, could not understand what... _Spinning reels!_

Perfect miniature laser cannons for model spaceships

Yep, I have seen the falling snow effest many times when going out during the Christmas season during the last decade if not even a bit more. Although it was always longer and wider lights than the tiny ones you just shown here.

If it could be guaranteed not to break, one as a house key might be interesting

@U014B

4 ай бұрын

They're what car keys of the future were supposed to look like.

Oooh cute. *must resist

I would have thought the leds were charlieplexed but this version seems much simpler.

@pileofstuff

4 ай бұрын

I had the same thought.

I do miss the long videos

These are great, I didn't see any meteor lights this Xmas in any of my local towns - seems to have gone out of fashion? Don't know why - I still like them.

Oooh...love to see a project where you built them into a spiral or circle or something cool...is that a possibility? Thanks again for the video and as usual the very easy to understand explanations on what is happening with all those little electrons! Love your videos and commentary!! looking forward to the next!

These would be perfect for SciFi table top terrain and various War Gaming models.

This gives me some ideas.

cheers Clive :)

The pattern somewhat reminds me of the lights before airport runways to mark the approach path.

@RFC3514

4 ай бұрын

They're designed to attract moths that went to flight school.

Very neat

Wake up everyone, Big Clive just uploaded!!

I saw much larger 'tube' lights which have a similar effect at the end of Newsnight, Friday 2/2/24. Stage props for a singer. Very cool.

Just received mine - note - they have different modes! Comet, flickering flame, blinking, steady on - just quick off on press to change mode!

We have an art/fashion show thing (World of Wearable Arts) here in Wellington I was involved in a few years ago and they had full sized ones of these in the auditorium as part of the show. It's a really nice effect.

Same as them flame LED's you showed months ago.....I ordered those a month ago, because they dropped significantly in price . And ordered a bunch of these with them.....

Oh! Include them in a wire sculpture of a bonsai tree….disco weeping willow!!!!

Would be really interesting to see a graphic eq/visualizer made from these. Can I be the first to request a Techmoan/BigClive collaboration?!?!?

so cool

Ah I’ve recently seen these in a video for a "Bike light" and I said to my self that these have to be pre made modules xD. I have to say they’re pretty cool. Probably gonna buy some.

I wonder how many LEDs can be run on each leg without damaging the chip. I could see this chip being useful for controlling direction pointers, particularly if it can handle considerably more current than the stated 20mA. If not, it could still be used to drive a mosfet on each leg and that would have the advantage of being able to switch higher voltages too, perhaps 3 LEDs in series to run off a 12v supply.

@debochch

4 ай бұрын

The listing states 20MA not 20mA. See 0:22 seconds into the video. You have plenty of current😂

These would go great with your 3d printed bulb covers.

Damn Clive. You just cost me money. Again.

Nifty little lights! How about building up an idea of your own, and making an episode out of it?! I for one would like to see it.. .

@bigclivedotcom

4 ай бұрын

I made a version of the meteor lights with software for a PIC microcontroller than can be downloaded.

On video they actually show more purple than blue. Does that make them... burple? ... I'll see myself out.

@Palmit_

4 ай бұрын

PUPP-ULE

If you want to smooth out the current reading, go power-source --> meter --> 470uF cap --> doodad. Charge the cap and measure if there's any significant leakage current to subtract out later. Let the doodad draw off the cap. It supplies current to the doodad even with spikes, and the meter reads smoothed-out current readings. I had to do that for a "beacon" light, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, huge current spike, nothing, nothing, nothing, etc. Only it needed something like a 20,000uF soup-can of a capacitor.

i love the effect, really very nice :) .It would be desireable for two or maybe three enhancements; 1. speed control 2. dim control and ..in a dream world perhaps being able to reverse the pattern so that they could be placed 'upside'down'.

I wonder if the microcontroller is one of those cheap PADAUK thingies that go for like three cents per piece in bulk.

I wonder if they'll push into a T10 bulb holder?

Just bought a few, they look very nice 2x👍 My Patreon email was missing the link to this but someone posted it as a reply for me. So not sure why it was missing. 🤷‍♂ Thanks Clive great video 2x👍

@strehlow

4 ай бұрын

Same. The photo in the email was a link to the post on Patreon, and on there was a link to the KZread video.

In Tunbridge Wells last Christmas there was LEDs Christmas lights strung up in the trees and they were doing the same thing has your LEDs lights but they were about 30cm long and I wonder how they work and now I know. Thanks Clive

I wonder what a chandelier would look like if there is one of these in place or behind of every crystal !

I need this for my rc hobby

I designed up a heart a bit like this last year and a circle like that back in around 1996 before some dude at Maxam got the technique known as charlieplexing. However my ones are wired to the spare pins for individual LED control. The one you've revealed is not so sophisticated.

Thanks :)

well i just bought 2 5 packs 1 red one blue, might use these on some halloween masks a friend makes and sells for a living thank you clive

I think these would be fun to embed these into little crystal shapes and run them off of some sort of wireless power. Highly realistic magic crystals

You should make a panel with them, similar to the supercomputers but lines instead of dots. Maybe put every other one going the opposite direction.

I wonder what it would take to make a 2 channel, 20 segment audio spectrum analyzer out of these?

i bought these, they never sent them... reordering them now lol