So as a second iteration for my fire fly jar, I got feedback from a few users on my first iteration.
My findings were as follows:
The Two 'ambient lights' worked together and didn't capture the notion of multiple fire flies.
The wires coming out of the top, took away from the mystery of what was happening.
The lights didn't seem to communicate with eachother the same was fire flies in a jar would.
And lastly - "There should be plants to feed the fire flies in the jar"
All of these items seemed very inline with the directions I needed to take to improve my product.
In order to update, I added another LED and put each LED on its own PWM output, so they could all fade individually, this gave me three seperate lights.
Once I had the three lights I needed to make the appear to be communicating/moving - so I created a randomizer that would only light certain LEDs during the loop.
This is a video of my results:
View the code here:
Download AmbientNightLight1_1
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