Yvan 🔜(ish) #40c3 on Nostr: Heh, have just discovered that the RGB flasher LEDs on this kinda toy hexagonal board ...

Heh, have just discovered that the RGB flasher LEDs on this kinda toy hexagonal board I have have a range of different effects based on voltage. I don't really think this is a designed-in feature mind. The board is designed to take 5V... but if I turn the voltage down the voltage gets too low for the blue channel first, and then the green, leaving only the red. But the flashing does maintain, so you get a spectrum of interesting results.

This in fact makes the toy more interesting, more useful perhaps, to me... because at 5V it's just too damn bright and "party mode"... the slow red, and red with a little green, are more my usual vibe.

Only discovered by mistake as hooked up to bench supply rather than the 5V supply I was using before.

Now I need to make it a little variable-voltage controller... something with an ESP32 I reckon, want to have more of a play with them some time.

This is why I'm up past 3AM? No, that's just because I'm broken.