Learn the fastest, easiest way to add programmable lights to your costume or project. Make it blink, pulse, animate, or change colors. From there, it's just a quick step to trigger your effects with a button press, sound reaction, or motion reaction. It's easy with Circuit Playground Express!

Turn your Circuit Playground Express into a custom game clock with lights and sounds. Hook up an LED strip or some capacitive touch triggers for extra fun. This is a great project for learning to program with Microsoft MakeCode -- no soldering required!

Here's an easy beginner guide to making a cotton face mask from everyday fabrics you have around your house. You don't need to be a seamstress or have a sewing machine or a well-stocked craft room to make yourself a stylish mask that keeps folks safe

Complete your cosplay with this lightweight staff made from expanding foam and topped with a plastic water bottle. It lights up and plays sound effects based on your gestures, and it's easy to customize to go with your own Wizard character.

Proudly wear and display animated GIF images using the magic inside you. This pretty pendant will change with the power of your breath. Circuit Playground's onboard temperature sensor interacts with the wearer to display a different image based on how warm (or how Frozen) the pendant gets. Astonish all the other kids with your magical ice powers!

Create a tree sculpture with deep and soulful woodgrain-inspired eyes using Adafruit's Monster M4sk. Add a PIR motion sensor so the tree "wakes up" when someone walks past, and "sleeps" after a few moments of looking around.

Create multiple separate but connected bottle lanterns with NeoPixels inside. Control them all using a Circuit Playground Express and its onboard capacitive touch pads. Code different light modes with MakeCode's drag-and-drop editor, and hook up custom touch controls to change modes. Fill your room with beautiful light.

Make a Christmas stocking that will light up both her eyes and her mind this year. Decorate it with sparkles, jewels, and googly eyes and hide her very best gift inside: a Circuit Playground Express. The Circuit Playground will sing and light up in her favorite colors, and get her excited about coding and creating her own magical toys.

Design and create custom Luminary lanterns for your home or yard. Control them with your phone and Adafruit's Bluefruit app, or change color modes with a touch of your finger. Circuit Playground Bluefruit's capacitive touch pads and built in bluetooth control make it easy to fill your home with magic light.

Create a furry puppet that's reminiscent of Fizzgig from the Dark Crystal movie. Give him lifelike eyes with an Adafruit Monster M4sk and an animated mouth with an adorable bark. He's a perfect guard for your Halloween candy, or he makes a great purse pet or costume accessory.

Design and 3D print a scale pattern in your favorite shape using Tinkercad. Align your scales to fit Adafruit's NeoPixel strands inside and light up your whole outfit. Make a necklace, armor, or embellishments for just about any high-tech costume.

Every cosplay needs the perfect prop. Complete your look with a glowing crystal staff that reacts to you as you hold it, tilt it, spin it and swing it. The Circuit Playground Express gives you so many options for triggering your custom light effects.

You've got your Pybadge up and running and are styling at the convention. Set yourself apart from the masses by hanging it from a custom LED lanyard. Use CircuitPython to remotely change colors on your lanyard. Make one for all your friends and use them as a signaling device!

Festival season can sneak up on you. Get started on your project today! This guide will give tips on how to light up your bike and get it ready for the harshest outdoor conditions, so you can ride around at night and shine all week long, without worrying about repairs on-site.

Add black light UV NeoPixels to the underside of a parasol and carry your own personal spotlight of fluorescence with you everywhere you go. Enhance your raver outfit and let the world see you shining like the magical creature you are.