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LED Campfire
Because it's not camping without a fire
by Erin St Blaine
Sit around this mesmerizing LED campfire and tell stories, sing songs and bask in its firey glow -- no lighter fluid required.
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Adafriend the Virtual Pet Cube
Need a friend or a workbench buddy for long hacking sessions? Build one that responds to your interactions, sings, and shows emotion!
by John Wall
In this Pro Trinket powered project, build and 3D print yourself a friend, an Adafriend! This little colorful guy with an eye responds to taps and vibrations, and shows emotion on its little LED matrix face with a sad, neutral, happy, or angry face. It plays tones that correspond to it's emotional state, and even sings some recognizable tunes and themes when it's in the mood! If left alone for too long it gets lonely, but pester your pet too much and it may get angry at you! Build yourself an Adafriend and keep it happy to sing along with the coolest cube around!
Dauntless Dotstar Gauntlets
This is some serious cosplay tech. Throw it down.
by Erin St Blaine
Pre-recorded video plays back on a handmade LED matrix, creating effortless and endless shifting light patterns on your wrists. Move over, Iron Man.
CheerLights
Twitter connected Neopixel lights
by Marc de Vinck
Have some fun with the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH and the CheerLight project. Originally created by Hans Scharler, CheerLights allows people’s lights all over the world to synchronize to one color set by a specific Twitter feed. In this interpretation, Marc de Vinck creates a WiFi enable CheerLight using the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH, Neopixels, and some clever code.
Fake TV Light for Engineers
When fake "FakeTV" is too fake
by Phillip Burgess
Sometimes simple ideas get hung up on the most persnickety details. This NeoPixel project makes a window look like someone’s home watching “Wreck-It Ralph.”
Imaging & Choreography for KineticPOV Toys
Tell a story with your poi or staff project
by Erin St Blaine
How-to video that goes through choosing music, creating and converting images, and choreographing a timecode-scripted performance for the Supernova Poi or MorningStar Double Staff projects, or any project using the KineticPOV code.
Remote Controlled LED Tea Light Sconce
Dotstars and IR control bring your wall to life
by Erin St Blaine
Turn an old candelabra into a colorful 3d Printed LED display that will enhance the decor of your home or office. Change modes and brightness with a remote control, and harness the power of FastLED to add your own color animations.
Alohamora Bottle
Cast a magic spell with capacitive touch
by Erin St Blaine
Create a magical interactive potion bottle costume accessory with lights and mystical touch interaction. Unlock all the magics with science!
Animated Flame Pendant
Turn on your heart light!
by Phillip Burgess
There’s no actual flame here, no heat…instead, LEDs and a microcontroller make a virtual flame that dances like the real thing.
Pixie CyberWig - A Wearable WiFi LED Visualization
Wireless video on your head
by Erin St Blaine
Dotstar LED cyber dreds wirelessly reflect the colors and movement on your computer screen. Use music visualizers to effortlessly project sound reactivity and color to your costume.
Personalized NextBus ESP8266 Transit Clock
Spend more time chillin' and less time at the bus stop
by Phillip Burgess
For transit-bound people, the NextBus service is a tremendous convenience. Knowing when a bus is due means less standing out in the rain…one can use that time inside to get a little extra work done, or finish that cup of coffee. In this tutorial we'll build a handy desk-top or wall-mount countdown display that lets you know when the next bus or train is on the way!
Smart Toilet Light
Make your toilet bowl glow with data from Adafruit IO!
by Tony DiCola
Use a Feather Huzzah ESP8266 to light a NeoPixel shining into your toilet bowl. With Adafruit IO and IFTTT or Zapier you can change the toilet light color based on the weather and much more!
Twinkling Neopixel Parasol
Subtly Shifting Lights and Lace
by Erin St Blaine
Bring a beautiful light show with you wherever you go. Customizable colors of twinkling neopixels light your way at night.
Bluefruit Controlled Macetech RGB LED Shades
Upgrade "Hacker Edition" Macetech RGB LED Shades with Adafruit sensors and BLE control!
by John Wall
How do you make a pair of Macetech RGB Neopixel LED Shades even better? Custom hardware, sensors, and bluetooth from Adafruit of course! Read on to learn how to turn a pair of "Hacker Edition" Macetech Shades into fully controllable "smart shades" with the Adafruit Bluefruit app for iOS and Android and some clever Arduino programming!
IS31FL3731 16x9 Charlieplexed PWM LED Driver
144 individually dimmable PWM LEDs over I2C
by lady ada
The IS31FL3731 will let you get back to that classic LED matrix look, with a nice upgrade! This I2C LED driver chip has the ability to PWM each individual LED in a 16x9 grid so you can have beautiful LED lighting effects, without a lot of pin twiddling. Simply tell the chip which LED on the grid you want lit, and what brightness and it's all taken care of for you.
LED Barn Doors
Shape light beams!
by Ruiz Brothers
Restrict light from areas, prevent glare or control the throw of LED lights with Barn Doors!
Supernova Poi
They'll be able to see you spinning from Planet 9
by Erin St Blaine
These prodigious POV poi pack a pretty punch. Super fast and super high resolution Dotstar LEDs a giant 2200mAh battery, easy control with an infrared sensor and remote, and a galactic amount of memory so you can upload hundreds of images and spin all night.
TIMESQUARE Wordclock
Wordclock add-on to TIMESQUARE wristwatch
by Andy Doro
A wordclock you wear on your wrist!
LIGHTSHIP: LED Animation over WiFi
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
by Phillip Burgess
Use the Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi board and DotStar LEDs to create mobile luminous art pieces — one or many — synchronized from your computer via wireless networking.
Sound Reactive NeoPixel Peace Pendant
Make this sound reactive NeoPixel LED peace pendant and help radiate some love!!
by L. Jayatilleke
In this project you will make a sound reactive NeoPixel LED pendant using an Arduino Gemma.The pendant is also rechargeable, and the electronics housed in a 3D printed enclosure.
Halo Energy Sword
Master the legacy weapon of the Covenant!
by Ruiz Brothers
3D Print an Energy Sword with NeoPixel LEDs
Adafruit NeoPixel FeatherWing
32 NeoPixels atop your Feather
by lady ada
This is the NeoPixel FeatherWing, a 4x8 RGB LED Add-on For All Feather Boards! Using our Feather Stacking Headers or Feather Female Headers you can connect a FeatherWing on top or bottom of your Feather board and make your Feather board strut like a peacock at a rave
Raspberry Pi Physical Dashboard
Build a dashboard to visualize data on LED displays and automotive gauges!
by Tony DiCola
Use a Raspberry Pi and Adafruit Motor HAT to control LED backpack displays and automotive stepper motor gauges built into a reusable dashboard. Great for monitoring anything you can imagine!
Bluetooth Controlled NeoPixel Headphones
Animate your headphones with NeoPixels!
by Ruiz Brothers
Here's a DIY upgrade to your headphones that will light up the spectrum!
3D Printed Daft Punk Helmet with Bluetooth
Build a Daft Punk Thomas Helmet with bluetooth control!
by Ruiz Brothers
In this project we'll build the iconic Daft Punk Helmet with the ability to change animations and colors with your smart phone and watch!