Flashing light and way of creating a blinking light?

[okieordie78]

Is there anyway to slow that down at all? It rotates to fast.

And is it possible with the electronics to make a light (or a series of lights) blink? I'm still trying to figure out the chips. But I love learning them!

[Valdez]

For sure you can blink a light, my base has a 15m tall tower that flashes a large green LED console in each direction (which currently has infinite draw range, so you can see it til it's less than a single pixel).

The circuit is two memories, a writer, and logic compare. You set one of the memories to a zero, the other to a 1, compare the two with an EQUAL, and write the result back to the memory you set as a 1.

When M1 = 1 and M2 = 0, they are not equal, so compare returns 0. You write that to M1, so M1 = 0 and M2 = 0, so compare returns a 1, writer that to M1, and you get the point.

That design flashes very quickly though, basically on off every half second. You can do some cooler stuff using solar angle and MOD, but it's a little more involved.

Hope this helps!

Das

[okieordie78]

Originally posted by Valdez:

For sure you can blink a light, my base has a 15m tall tower that flashes a large green LED console in each direction (which currently has infinite draw range, so you can see it til it's less than a single pixel).

The circuit is two memories, a writer, and logic compare. You set one of the memories to a zero, the other to a 1, compare the two with an EQUAL, and write the result back to the memory you set as a 1.

When M1 = 1 and M2 = 0, they are not equal, so compare returns 0. You write that to M1, so M1 = 0 and M2 = 0, so compare returns a 1, writer that to M1, and you get the point.

That design flashes very quickly though, basically on off every half second. You can do some cooler stuff using solar angle and MOD, but it's a little more involved.

Hope this helps!

Das

Any chance I can ask you to share your world with me? Sounds cool!