Formats

For this project, I decided to use boards in the Feather ecosystem.  Because it was going to need WiFi connectivity interact with the HUE system, I chose the Feather M0 WiFi.  It also needed to know what time it was (we'll see why later) so I chose the DS3231 RTC featherwing. To display some status output I added an OLED featherwing. I make use of the A and C buttons on the OLED wing to provide a manual override of lighting for testing. These can stack up (with the OLED and sensor wings on top!) with the right headers and a FeatherWing Doubler or Tripler. I used the tripler in my build since I had one sitting around unused.

To round it out I built a custom feather wing with the sensors I needed and a NeoPixel for a status indicator.

Angled shot of rectangular microcontroller.
Feather is the new development board from Adafruit, and like its namesake it is thin, light, and lets you fly! We designed Feather to be a new standard for portable microcontroller...
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Angled shot of a DS3231 Precision RTC FeatherWing - RTC Add-on For Feather Boards.
A Feather board without ambition is a Feather board without FeatherWings! This is the DS3231 Precision RTC FeatherWing: it adds an extremely accurate I2C-integrated...
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Angled shot of a Adafruit FeatherWing OLED - 128x32 OLED Add-on For Feather connected to a white breadboard and a lithium battery.
A Feather board without ambition is a Feather board without FeatherWings! This is the FeatherWing OLED: it adds a 128x32 monochrome OLED plus 3 user buttons to...
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Close up head of CdS light sensor showing sensor element
CdS cells are little light sensors. As the squiggly face is exposed to more light, the resistance goes down. When it's light, the resistance is about ~1KΩ, when dark it goes...
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PIR (motion) sensor with a cable around it.
PIR sensors are used to detect motion from pets/humanoids from about 20 feet away (possibly works on zombies, not guaranteed). This one has an adjustable delay before firing (approx...
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Four glowing Breadboard-friendly RGB Smart NeoPixels wired up on a breadboard
This is the easiest way possible to add small, bright RGB pixels to your project. We took the same technology from our Flora NeoPixels and made them breadboard friendly, with two rows...
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Prototyping feather wing PCB with loose headers
A Feather board without ambition is a Feather board without FeatherWings!This is the FeatherWing Proto - a prototyping add-on for all Feather boards. Using our...
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Triple prototyping feather wing PCB with socket headers installed
This is the FeatherWing Tripler - a prototyping add-on and more for all Feather boards. This is similar to our
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