RC Helicopter LED navigation lights using Arduino board

A 10 minute project to create a strobing helicopter lighting system using the Arduino board, a few resistors and 3 LEDs

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• arduino
• led
• navigation
• rc
• helicopter

[DJPaulgee1]

Question........would you spend all that money on an Arduino board and place it into a model plane or boat?? It look too much hassle to connect the board to a pc and program it, and how do you get the sequence and flashing rates to how you want them?? I am making these circuits out of a few high brightness led's, a few resistors, a small i.c and a small vero board, very cheap and simple to make a working flashing navigation system. I sell them on ebay.

[johnsoncp13]

@DJPaulgee1 You are right, of course. This was more a theoretical exercise rather than a practical project. However, now that it is easy to program a $2.50 ATtiny chip from the Arduino, the components on the helicopter are down to about $4. Good luck with your sales.

[LSLencrypted]

...Why all the hostile comments?

[johnsoncp13]

@LSLencrypted Thanks. I have no idea why this has caused negative comments.

[zacker2000]

your bad and you should feel bad

[johnsoncp13]

@zacker2000 I feel really bad that you didn't like the video. I don't know what I can do to improve the situation.

[brlvldvlsmrtnz]

oh! you are a master ( its a joke, obviously you are not a master)