# Festive Feather Holiday Lights ## Overview https://youtu.be/XjWElHjqNTw Spice up your holiday decorations using [Adafruit's Feather boards](https://www.adafruit.com/category/777) to add interactivity in a tiny package.  Feathers are little Arduino-compatible microcontrollers that give you all the functionality of a full-size Arduino in a much smaller and battery-friendly package.   You can put a Feather into almost any project, like these festive holiday lights that animate and change color at your command.  The [32u4 Feather](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2771) combined with a [color](https://www.adafruit.com/product/1334) and [proximity](https://www.adafruit.com/product/466) sensor lets you change the color of holiday lights by holding up a brightly colored object to them.  The [Bluefruit LE Feather](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2829) lets you change the color of lights using a smartphone or tablet and the Bluefruit LE app.  Your holiday decorations will be full of joy with Adafruit's Feathers! ![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/029/276/medium800/leds_IMG_4397.jpg?1450808897) To build these projects you'll want to be familiar with the basics of Arduino.  Check out these guides for some background information: - [Learn Arduino Series](../../../../series/learn-arduino) - [Adafruit Arduino IDE Setup](../../../../adafruit-arduino-ide-setup/overview) You'll also need to do a little bit of soldering to assemble Feather boards.  If you're new to soldering be sure to see the [guide to excellent soldering](../../../../adafruit-guide-excellent-soldering/tools). Finally for Bluetooth Low Energy it will help to skim these guides for some background information: - [Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy](../../../../introduction-to-bluetooth-low-energy/introduction) - [Bluefruit LE Connect for iOS](../../../../bluefruit-le-connect-for-ios/settings) - [Next Page](https://learn.adafruit.com/festive-feather-holiday-lights/color-sensing-lights.md) ## Featured Products ### Adafruit Feather 32u4 Basic Proto [Adafruit Feather 32u4 Basic Proto](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2771) **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 cores. **This is the Feather 32u4 Basic Proto,** it has a bunch of... In Stock [Buy Now](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2771) [Related Guides to the Product](https://learn.adafruit.com/products/2771/guides) ### Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit LE [Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit LE](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2829) 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 cores. This is the  **Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit**  - our take on an... In Stock [Buy Now](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2829) [Related Guides to the Product](https://learn.adafruit.com/products/2829/guides) ### Adafruit Feather M0 Basic Proto - ATSAMD21 Cortex M0 [Adafruit Feather M0 Basic Proto - ATSAMD21 Cortex M0](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2772) 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 cores. This is the  **Feather M0 Basic Proto** , it has a bunch of prototyping space... In Stock [Buy Now](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2772) [Related Guides to the Product](https://learn.adafruit.com/products/2772/guides) ### VCNL4010 Proximity/Light sensor [VCNL4010 Proximity/Light sensor](https://www.adafruit.com/product/466) The VCNL4010 sensor is a nice way to add a small-distance proximity sensor to your microcontroller project. For longer distances (in the range of cm, you can use a [SHARP IR distance sensor](https://www.adafruit.com/products/164), but those are only good if the object is over 10 cm... In Stock [Buy Now](https://www.adafruit.com/product/466) [Related Guides to the Product](https://learn.adafruit.com/products/466/guides) ### RGB Color Sensor with IR filter and White LED - TCS34725 [RGB Color Sensor with IR filter and White LED - TCS34725](https://www.adafruit.com/product/1334) Discontinued - **you can grab** [**Adafruit APDS9960 Proximity, Light, RGB, and Gesture Sensor - STEMMA QT / Qwiic**](https://www.adafruit.com/product/3595) ** instead!** Your electronics can now see in dazzling color with this lovely color light... No Longer Stocked [Buy Now](https://www.adafruit.com/product/1334) [Related Guides to the Product](https://learn.adafruit.com/products/1334/guides) ### 5V 10A switching power supply [5V 10A switching power supply](https://www.adafruit.com/product/658) This is a beefy switching supply, for when you need a lot of power! 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In Stock [Buy Now](https://www.adafruit.com/product/368) [Related Guides to the Product](https://learn.adafruit.com/products/368/guides) ### Adafruit NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Strip - Black 30 LED 5m [Adafruit NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Strip - Black 30 LED 5m](https://www.adafruit.com/product/1460) You thought it couldn't get better than [our world-famous 32-LED-per-meter Digital LED strip](http://adafruit.com/products/306) but we will prove you wrong! These NeoPixel strips have 30 digitally-addressable pixel LEDs per meter and are very affordable and are only 12.5 mm... 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