Les's Flame Effect WS2812B

[charliecoutas]

Les, I have incorporated your Flame Effect WS2812B driver into my Flame Effect Fire. It really adds a sense of realism. I have also got crackling fire sounds and the whole thing now just needs finishing off, wood-work etc.

So many thanks for the Flame Effect code. I'll do some photos....

Charlie

[top204]

I look forward to a video of it Charlie.

Are you using the first or second demo I created? The second demo is much gentler.

You could be even more creative and play converted WAV files with certain fire sounds, when the colour of the LEDs change. 8-bit WAVs converted to flash memory on a 128K device will sound OK, with a decent filter, amplifier, and speaker. Or use a seperate MP3 player board with several fire noises that get triggered depending on the LED colours.

[charliecoutas]

I'm using your vsn4 Les. I have a DF_Player with a BBC soundtrack of a fire popping and crackling but it's not in sync with the LEDs. It's looking really good and I will synchronise the flashes with the pops and crackles when the time is right.

Right now I'm cutting up a huge sheet of 18mm MDF to make the upper and lower "boxes" that make up the fire. This involves using power tools and my history with these devices is not 100% but fingers crossed....

Charlie

[top204]

Your experiment with an electronic fire effect, triggered my creativity again, and my fascination with the WS2812B RGB LEDs. So I wrote some code that animates a flame on a 16x16 WS2812B matrix board:

WS2812B Matrix Board - Flame Animation