Jinx LED Engine

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✨ Animated Showcase

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⚙️ Engineering Summary

The Jinx LED Engine is a custom embedded lighting controller designed for a Jinx statue display.
It runs on an Arduino Nano Every and drives 14× GRBW SK6812 NeoPixels using two independent real-time animation engines:

• Cloud Lightning Engine (LEDs 0–11)
  Randomized micro-timed lightning flashes running under diffused acrylic "clouds."

• Core Breathing Engine (LEDs 12–13)
  A cinematic breathing and color-mode core for the statue’s central energy node.

The system uses fully non-blocking scheduling (millis()), enabling deterministic timing and multi-layered physical lighting depth.

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🌩️ Cloud Lightning Engine (LEDs 0–11)

• Independent micro-timed LED engines
• ~70% ambient glow baseline
• Random lightning bursts
• Intensity & interval variation per LED
• Designed for translucent cloud diffusion
• Goal: dynamic "storm under glass" motion

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💗 Core Breathing Engine (LEDs 12–13)

• Fade-in → hold → fade-out breathing cycle
• Color-mode states: Pink / Amethyst / White / Gem-tones
• Half or full brightness scaling per cycle
• Mode changes only at blackout for seamless transitions
• Goal: rhythmic “energy core” pulse

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🧱 System Architecture

1. Cloud Lightning Engine

• Lightning probability per LED
• Brightness shaping
• Randomized timing windows

2. Core Breathing Engine

• Mode selection logic
• Per-cycle brightness multiplier
• Controlled color palette

Hardware Stack

• Arduino Nano Every
• 14× GRBW SK6812 LEDs
• 5 V regulated rail

Software Stack

• PlatformIO
• Adafruit NeoPixel
• VS Code
• Git (SSH)

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📸 Gallery

Prototype Sparkle Engine Early breadboard validation of timing, colour curves, and GRBW output.	Internal Lighting Layout Cloud-zone LEDs (0–11) mounted under the acrylic diffuser layer.
Nano Every Driver Board The embedded control stack running both animation engines with non-blocking scheduling.	Cloud Lightning Effect Randomized micro-bursts firing through the translucent resin cloud structure.
Final Assembly Fully integrated lighting system inside the statue base with balanced diffusion.

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