Dangit! A typo in my VERY FIRST thread title!!
Hey there, folks! So, I've been using the search function to find and read about different types of LED flasher circuits, and the closest thing I've found are the "Emergency Vehicle" flavor of flasher.
I need to figure out (if it's even POSSIBLE) how to build a circuit that will make 2 LEDS (one Red and one Green) blink, but not one right after the other. I'm gonna link a YouTube video to show Exactly what I'm trying to do, and hopefully that will make everything clear. The important part begins at 1:20
So, it looks to me like Mark Hamill is controlling all the "effects" in this short deleted scene from Return of the Jedi. He's got his little "space-compass-tweaker tool", and it looks like he flips a switch on that starts the green triangle LED flashing, and it flashes 7-8 times. Then he moves to the rear section inside the "control box" and it looks as if he touches a momentary switch or bridges a connection or something, which interrupts the green LED's flashing, and makes the red LED flash 5-7 times, then he "lets go" of that "switch", and the green LED starts flashing again, as he slides the circuit card closed, and "tests" the functionality of his newly constructed lightsaber.
I'm curious as to what the simplest way to achieve this would be. I've got VERY limited space inside the control box, around 47mm x 16mm, roughly, and about 10mm in height.
I'm hoping I can fit everything I'll need in there, along with a couple of small coin cells, like LR44 size.
I did build a 555 flasher on a spare bit of proto-board, and those components would definitely fit, and so would a transistor flasher. The thing is, that's not exactly what I need, I'm afraid. I'd REALLY like to get the LEDs to flash the way they do in the deleted scene. And I don't mind having it be "user"-operated, as it appears to be on the real hero prop, though it'd be pretty sweet if it were just automated after pressing or flipping a switch.
I've done a lot of soldering, and have experience installing electronics into replica lightsaber hilts and such, but I'm pretty clueless when it comes to actually designing or figuring out a circuit.
I'd really appreciate any help, suggestions, ideas or advice on this!!
Thanks everyone, for taking the time to read such a nerdy dilemma!!
Hey there, folks! So, I've been using the search function to find and read about different types of LED flasher circuits, and the closest thing I've found are the "Emergency Vehicle" flavor of flasher.
I need to figure out (if it's even POSSIBLE) how to build a circuit that will make 2 LEDS (one Red and one Green) blink, but not one right after the other. I'm gonna link a YouTube video to show Exactly what I'm trying to do, and hopefully that will make everything clear. The important part begins at 1:20
So, it looks to me like Mark Hamill is controlling all the "effects" in this short deleted scene from Return of the Jedi. He's got his little "space-compass-tweaker tool", and it looks like he flips a switch on that starts the green triangle LED flashing, and it flashes 7-8 times. Then he moves to the rear section inside the "control box" and it looks as if he touches a momentary switch or bridges a connection or something, which interrupts the green LED's flashing, and makes the red LED flash 5-7 times, then he "lets go" of that "switch", and the green LED starts flashing again, as he slides the circuit card closed, and "tests" the functionality of his newly constructed lightsaber.
I'm curious as to what the simplest way to achieve this would be. I've got VERY limited space inside the control box, around 47mm x 16mm, roughly, and about 10mm in height.
I'm hoping I can fit everything I'll need in there, along with a couple of small coin cells, like LR44 size.
I did build a 555 flasher on a spare bit of proto-board, and those components would definitely fit, and so would a transistor flasher. The thing is, that's not exactly what I need, I'm afraid. I'd REALLY like to get the LEDs to flash the way they do in the deleted scene. And I don't mind having it be "user"-operated, as it appears to be on the real hero prop, though it'd be pretty sweet if it were just automated after pressing or flipping a switch.
I've done a lot of soldering, and have experience installing electronics into replica lightsaber hilts and such, but I'm pretty clueless when it comes to actually designing or figuring out a circuit.
I'd really appreciate any help, suggestions, ideas or advice on this!!
Thanks everyone, for taking the time to read such a nerdy dilemma!!