Halloween props help!

robot

Hey folks!· I have my first basic stamp and I'm new to programing and electronics, so I need a little help.

I'm trying to use my basic stamp to control a household lightbulb. I want to make the light bulb to do two things, (1) I want to make it flicker, and (2) I want to make it slowely dim and brighten.

I think I have (1) taken care of. I use the basic stamp to control a solid state relay. I possibly do this by sending a varying pulseout command to the lowvoltage side of the relay, this should cause the light to flicker. Is this somewhat correct?

I dont know what to do about (2). I could possibly hook up a servo to a regular household dimmer, but I'm sure there's probably a electronic way of doing it. Possibly some kind of digital potientiometer.

Thanks for any help

Shawn Lowe

Check out www.efx-tek.com. Its ran by Jon Williams, who used to be a parallax employee but branched into efx-tek. They specialize in prop building, and can help you out greatly.

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Shawn Lowe


Maybe I should have waited to do that......