For my groomsmen gift for my wedding, I decided to do an LED tie bar. I think it turned out pretty well. Hopefully they will all like them (and they don't see this before they get them!)
The bar is a metal tie bar with a 8 NeoPixel (WS2812B) LEDs on it. There is a microcontroller with a push button switch on back for changing the effects and colors. However, as the wedding colors are blue and silver, there is a jumper in place that limits the colors to blue. Cutting this jumper will enable the full range of colors.
The effects are:
- Fickering
- Cylon
- Theater chase in one direction
- Theater chase in the other direction
- Fade between dim and bright and back
- Fade between on and off
- Fade between on and white
- Sin mix between color and black (like Cylon, but only one direction)
- Sin mix (black) in other direction
- Sin mix between dim and bright in either direction
- Sin mix between on and white in either direction
- Blinking
- On Dim
- On Medium
- On Bright (very very bright)
Once the jumper on the back is cut, the full list of colors is:
- Blue
- Purple
- Red
- Yellow
- Green
- Cyan
- Rainbow (each led a different color)
- Rainbow cycle slow (bar is a solid color, but it cycles through the HSV spectrum by hue)
- White
- Rainbow cycle fast