Arduino

Yes. I did.

For my son's theatre company in Chicago, he needed a way to make it look like an actor was carrying a metal bucket with a small fire in it. The "fire" had to start on cue at a certain point and, later, glow brighter when the actor added more fuel to the fire.

What I did was use a receive module that cost only about $2 and plugged it into the Arduino. Inside the bucket was a few LED light bulbs that were yellow enough to look like fire (fortunately). The audio guy had a car key fob and, on cue, would press a button that would start up the program in the bucket and light up the LEDs to about 60% at a flickering rate. When the actor added more lighter fluid to the bucket, the audio guy would click another button on the key fob which would bring it up to 100%, simulating an increase in fire intensity.

If I have a chance, I'll look for the video I took in my basement of a test.

Anyway, I'll also see what links I still have.
 
I'll add to this as I go through my hundreds. Some you probably already have. Some may be too old.


This can get a little crazy cause, as I said, I have dozens--if not a hundred-- links to various sites that happened to have maybe one article of relevance to what I was doing at the time so I'll stop at this point.
 
An Arduino board cannot run FreeBSD 😁

FreeBSD provides the toolchain to easily compile and upload C/C++ code for Arduino, either with or without using the Arduino GUI framework. Or perhaps I misunderstood the question :-\
 
doul and drhowarddrfine -- I was wondering that myself, about the intent of the post. I'm too lazy to look but I wonder if there is a "freeBSD does not run on microcontrollers or devices without an MMU" in the FAQ/info pages for freeBSD.

Sounds like a cool project though, with the artificial fire in a dumpster. LED color quality is such a PITA for many things.
 
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