Garden lighting

Last weekend the lad and I built some state of the art, experimental garden lights.

The remit was very demanding. The lights had to be extremely low cost and simple to make. They had to be quite pretty. So far easy enough, but, they had to use zero energy. Nil, nada, none. Magic. The prototype has worked quite well, giving really strong bars of vivid colour, but better, the colours change depending on the viewing angle and even the breeze. They do not cast much light, but that was the plan, more of a show piece than to illuminate. Here is a night time photo of the prototype in action. See if you can guess what technologies we utilised.

 

Has nobody figured it yet? After my beer I might post up another, slightly more revealing photo. And maybe another one of the prototype light.

 

Are they windmills or something?

 

Have you discovered cold fusion ?Perpetual motion ? or tapped into next doors power supply ?

 

I think it's powered by solar gain and you've made plastic shapes and stuck coloured foil on them.
Jenny

 

Formation Flying Fireflys? FFS @JWK I fink you've flipped

 

Good theories so far. Here is another photo, this time with the floodlight also switched on. A clearer picture will follow if nobody figures it soon Another clue. The most high tech components started to hit the mass market in the early 1990s, and by the early naughties had become so cheap you could buy them in packs of a hundred or more for around a fiver.

 

OMG scrungee, I want one for xmas, looks so cool.

 

Is it time for the next (clearer) photo, or are we having fun?

 

I'm not having fun, @Scrungee has irradiated us all!!

 

Oh, come on grumpy Boots - give us a smile...