Mood lamp without mcu

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majkl7777777

Joined Sep 18, 2009
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Hi there,

I want to make a "mood lamp". Is there a way how to do it without need of a MCU?

There should be 16 red LEDs, 16 green LEDs, 16 blue LEDs.

And if it is possible there should be a potenciometer which will control the speed of transition. Maybe via PWM.

Anyone can help???
 

tom66

Joined May 9, 2009
2,595
Get some automatic rainbow color LEDs which cycle color over a few seconds. Wire them in series. The LEDs need to be powered from about 15V for 5 LEDs.

The varying voltage across each LED due to sudden transitions will create a quite nice mood light, causing the LEDs to reset mid-cycle and run at different speeds.

However the speed cannot be easily changed.
 

Audioguru

Joined Dec 20, 2007
11,248
Years ago I made many Mood Lamps with opamp triangle-wave generators. The 3 oscillators oscillate slowly at different frequencies so the RGB colours add "randomly" and produce millions of colours at all brightnesses. The LEDs have a wide-angle beam so their colours overlap on the ceiling.
 
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