Wireless Control of Firecrackers

How lively and lovely it is to see the night sky bright with lights!!! We, the curious and experimenting species of all, have certainly found our own way to do this. Through firecrackers, we have expressed happiness, joy and showed alarms to save lives (Titanic!!!). But with these firecrackers, there always comes up a long list of precautions one needs to take care of: use a long candle stick, no sparks near it, kids to be accompanied with their parents and several other precautions are added to this never ending list. While a normal parent would make sure that his kid follows them in the best way possible, the geeky one will have his own way. This post tells more about this other way: wireless cracker ignition.

A remote control freak blog I came across on the Internet, named carymart, details with one such project where one can use relay based transmitter-receiver system to create wireless magic of crackers!!! Through this post, they also try to sell some of this kind of product but overall give a good idea to detail with some wireless magic.

Crackers used here are electrical and they get easily connected to the microcontroller. Running this whole circuit is a piece of cake for sure but making it is definitely isn’t.

Such projects carry a great potential for household as well as commercial purposes. It all depends on what you want achieve here: firing one cracker at a time or a dozen. How to do it? That is shown here!! Check this video out which details all information about such a project.