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Ever Blooming Mechanical Tulip

Mechanical tulip sculpture that blooms with just gentle touch and can shine into any color of a rainbow.

ji-prausJiří Praus
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Everlasting flower for your everlasting love. A perfect not-only Valentine's day gift to your loved one. This mechanical tulip will bloom into any color possible with just gentle touch of your hand. Its six petals will slowly open and light up. When petals are closed they create incredible ambient light with leaf patterns.

Tulip consists of 6 petals each with 5 SMD white LEDs. Each petal is connected with one of the Arduino output pins. Blossom hides 7 NeoPixel RGB LEDs. From an electrical point of view, the whole flower is ground and veins in petals are a positive voltage. Petals are opened by a pushrod which is going all the way down the stem to the base. The pushrod is controlled by a movement of a small hobby servo. Small leaf on the side of the stem is connected to TTP223 touch sensor inside the base and creates a capacitive touchpad. The wooden base contains a servo motor, touch IC and Arduino Nano. 

You can find detailed instructions on instructables.com. 

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José Manuel González wrote 09/16/2023 at 10:51 • point

Hi Jiri!!! Amazing project, very sutil and delicate. I was wanting to see the instructables profile but apparently is no supported anymore. Is there any way to understand how you made such a beautiful thing? Thanks!!!

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gtracy wrote 03/13/2019 at 19:00 • point

Alexa, open my tulip......Very cool. Maybe a project I need to put on the Christmas list. Well done.

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Jiří Praus wrote 03/14/2019 at 07:05 • point

I am planning to exchange the Arduino NANO with a wirelless controller to be able to do so :D

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Julian wrote 03/13/2019 at 16:30 • point

Beautiful! Thanks for showing :)

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Dan Maloney wrote 02/27/2019 at 17:48 • point

Hey, cool, I saw this on Instructables. Glad you posted it here - love the look!

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Jiří Praus wrote 02/28/2019 at 06:40 • point

Thank you!

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