I’m obsessed with candles. The scents! The mood lighting! The aesthetic! My candle collection ranges from affordable single wicks from Ikea that I burn with abandon to three-wick splurges that I light ...

The amusing circuit of electronic candle was designed to react by blowing or giving a puff to a microphone, causing the bulb or LED to turn OFF like a normal candle. BC550 – an NPN general purpose ...

Editor's Note: There is a photo associated with this release. Ignite Lighters, creators of an award-winning line of flameless, electronic USB pocket lighters, is crowdfunding their latest innovation, ...

Humans like things that look like other things. A great example are faux LED tea light candles, with a plastic “flame” and flickering orange LED to recreate the effect of their waxy brethren.

This circuit creates a set of LED-based electronic birthday candles that are just as much fun as blowing out wax candles, but are also reusable, scalable, and even eco-friendly. It uses a thermal ...

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An earlier Idea for Design described LED “candles” that you could blow out just like normal birthday candles. This update provides a better "blow-out" simulation ...

[William] developed this temperature candle as a tool to help keep babies safe as they sleep. It seems that ambient temperature has an effect on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). This device is ...

This design was developed by request of a correspondent having made a sort of LED candle and needing to switch off the LED with a puff. This simple, easy to build gadget can be useful as a prop for ...

142 years ago this description was published of a development in electrical lighting by a Russian scientist and inventor who has a crater on the moon named after him. ”Experiments have been recently ...