u/Ketzer_Jefe

Hello, I am attempting to make a light up, magic sword for my renaissance faire outfit. however I can not get my circuit to work, and I have no Idea about the code.

all I want it to do is have one button to turn the whole thing on or off, then another that will cycle through 6 or 7 different color presets. It will have 3 LED strips. each with 15 LEDs. all the LEDs will do the same thing, even though I know they can be programmed separately.

I have included a pic of the circuit (not like it helps, its rough and has wires just out there not cleaned up. I intend to make it all neat once I get it working, a crude drawing of my circuit (and noticed a mistake, my capacitor is 1000μF not 100μF), and a image of what I made for the sword in Fusion 360.

I was following youtube tutorials but my LEDs wouldn't light up. I have been at this for a couple weeks and I am out of all ideas.

any and all help would be greatly appreciated, I can also provide more info if it its needed.

I am working on making a prop sword for a renfaire outfit. The Idea is that the sword will have 3 strips of LEDs in it and at the push of a button in the hilt, will cycle through each color. There is also an on/off latching button for powering the whole thing. However, I am stuck and not sure what to do. It isn't working. I am not sure if it is my python code, or my circuit, or both. this is a diagram of the circuit I built and I will post my code below in the comments. any help would be greatly appreciated!