Crazy Idea or Something Cool

 

Somehow I either bought or acquired these LEDs from somewhere.  They are RGB plus white.  Regardless of how I acquired them, they very similar in package to these.

I designed a similar PCB, 8mm x 16mm or equivalent to a 1 x2 plate/tile, which is what the picture at the top of this blog post is.

This LED can do RED, GREEN, BLUE, or WHITE or any combination thereof.  Now the downside to this is it will take up to four LED control lines to do this.  What I don't know yet is how bright these are.  Some of that can be compensated for with the individual resistors.  I suspect some experimentation will be needed to balance out the color intensity.

Here are three ideas so far.

1. In the Space Base that ability to switch between RED and WHITE (or WHITE and any RGB LED).  So a working space can be in WHITE light and then when activity is about to change, the LED will switch from WHITE to RED.  Now this can be done with two LEDs, but there is some convenience of having just one device installed.
2. Using random PWM signals to the RGB LEDs.  This might produce a much better Tesla Effect than just using a single white LED.  
3. Using RED and GREEN is some kind of stop and go scenario. 
   

As time goes by, I am sure I will think of other ideas.  While most scenarios can be done with multiple LEDs, the convenience of a single device is very strong. Also if all the LEDs are wired, then the designer will have ultimate flexibility.

 We will see what they can do a week or so.