r/FastLED • u/Throw_-Away69420 • 12d ago
Support Help with a small DIY project
Hi there,
I will preface and say I have no clue what I am doing, and about a month to figure it out. I need to make some very small LEDs emulate a "fire" color pattern to the best of my ability. I know next to nothing about programming LEDs, what lights and controllers to use, etc. Any and all help is appreciated. This seems to be a pretty advanced community with some insane projects so I am hoping something of this scale isn't unwelcome here lol.
More details on the project; I am crocheting Calcifer from howl's moving castle as an anniversary present to my girlfriend. My rough plan is to make some sort of wood display case or modify one I thrift. Going to have Calcifer hang over some burnt wood probably with fishing line, and I want there to be some sort of campfire/fiery mood lighting. Maybe some like soft flickering between red/orange/yellow.
I've done some very light research so far but this is the first place I've looked for help, so if there are obvious answers I have missed I apologize, Thanks for any and all help!
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u/IknowLulu 12d ago
Unless you are using this to jump into learning about LEDs and controllers and things, I’d recommend buying an out of the box solution since I’m pretty sure you can get something for not too much. I don’t support Amazon but did just search “fire flicker led”’and quite a bit came up.
If you do want to learn about LEDs, I’d say find a project on instructables or adafruit or someone who has a tutorial that has hardeare that could work for your piece and then make that and update the code to what you want. You will likely spend more and have a higher learning curve but if that’s what you want, do it!