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Learn how to create a stunning lightning cloud with blue-shaded white lightning using WS2812b LED strips and an Arduino board. This DIY project features varying lightning brightness, color effects, and a customizable thunder audio soundtrack. Follow step-by-step instructions with a kit that includes a circuit board, speaker, SD card, and LED strip.
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A tutorial for making circuit using a circuit board that will provide versatility as well as save you time and labor.
The Circuit Board
This project uses a kit that includes this circuit board and all the parts necessary to complete the board as shown below.
Included also is a speaker, SD card loaded with sounds and a 62 pixel ws2812b LED strip.
Features
- Uses a 62 pixel WS2812b LED Strip
- Strip can be coiled inside puff ball cloud.
- Number of pixels that light vary with the sound of the thunder audio.
- Full white is when 62 pixels light. As the number of pixels decrease, the colors shades toward blue.
- Shading a puff ball cloud with black paint increases lightning effect.
- There are screw terminal connections for a Bluetooth transmitter which will control an external Bluetooth speaker.
- The storm can be initiated with a switch or the switch can be bypassed for control by another application.
- Arduino Board is programmed and SD card loaded with thunder sounds.
How Too Assemble The Circuit Board
The procedure for assembling the circuit board is here.
Lightning Displays
You can choose from a collection of programs that display lightning flashes in various color combinations. Click Here
And then you can coil the one or more strips inside a puff ball cloud. Do this by either making a frame (cardboard or wire) to which to attach the strip or simply coil the strip in a puff ball.
Finally strips can laid out on a flat surface.
Video Demonstrations
These videos provides visual guidance for doing any of the above.
This video shows what looks like in a cloud. Click here.
This video shows an alternative approach. Click Here
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