LED MatchStick

A fire-free and fire-safe LED matchstick. To light the matchstick you strike it against a normal matchbox filled with neodymium magnets. The LED matchstick has an inductive sensor that detects the magnetic field as you strike the matchstick against the matchbox and it lights up a LED in a flickering fashion. The power to the matchstick is through a 1F/2.7V supercapacitor and a DC-DC converter. As the LED lights up, the supercapacitor discharges and eventually the matchstick splutters off just like a normal matchstick.

The matchstick is controlled by a Tiny13 microcontroller.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• matchstick
• LED
• inductor
• magnet
• AVR
• microcontroller
• Tiny13

[dhananjaygadre]

Yeah sure it is windproof... what we could do easily is to add a sensor to blowout the matchstick

[GrandTheftAuto4Films]

cool man. Welcome to the internet, where everyone is immature and will trash you no matter what you have on the internet.

[moconnellus]

Wow! What a bunch of b*tches on here talking trash!

[Anthonyk312]

@WOLF2143WK I so LOLd when you said you should include a nichrome wire that heats up and burns the user's fingers after a couple of seconds!

[tjstouch]

I need this for a theater production where we are not allowed to have open flame. where do I find the components and how do I make it?

[InsaneTux]

how could u call it a match stick when it doesn't actually create a fire...

[ghpk]

Hi, where's the circuit diagram, I would like this flickering effect for L.E.D. Fireplace i want to make.

seems you didn't much time to post your instructable yet ???

[200176968]

thats cool

[noahlankford1]

thats awesome

[vamp2661]

why do all that when i have a lighter XD

[IndianMetalHead333]

Hmmm pretty cool but impractical.

[paintballgundown8]

eneloop batteries are great