We have all seen the flickering candles they sell in stores. In order to make this effect you had to use a microcontroller to make the flicker. Now you can get the effect built into this tiny 5mm LED. All you need to make your own flickering candles is to add a current limiting resistor and this LED. If you combine it with a 3v coin cell battery, you don’t even need the resistor – just tape it on the battery and make your own electronic birthday candles!
Click the image to watch the flicker in action!
Details
- Package: 5mm
- Forward voltage: ~2 volts
- Forward current: 20mA
- Color: yellow (flickering)
Flickering LED, 5mm by Provide Your Own is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
