One of my first projects with Adafruit was Adalight, an ambient lighting effect for media PCs, similar to the Ambilight feature of mid-2000s Philips TVs. Basically, matching what's on the screen to a set of background lights to make the display pop! This pint-sized version of our earlier Adalight project brings easy ambient media lighting to laptops and small all-in-one PCs.

The Snake Eyes Bonnet is a Raspberry Pi accessory for driving two 128x128 pixel OLED or TFT LCD displays, and also provides four analog inputs for sensors. It's perfect for making cosplay masks, props, spooky sculptures for halloween, animatronics, robots...anything where you want to add a pair of animated eyes!

Use an Adafruit Feather M0 and MicroPython to make a retro mini computer

Animating NeoPixels can be challenging when using purely coding methods. This technique allows you to create traditional animation-style exposure sheets to control the color, position, and timing of your NeoPixel animation on the Circuit Playground.

Here's a guide to quickly and easily adding exciting, colorful lighting effects to your props. Using the accelerometer, speaker, and NeoPixel LEDs built into the Circuit Playground, you can have sounds and lights for idle animations, along with two different effects triggered by waving and striking your foam sword, cosplay blaster, magic wand, and more.

In this simple no-soldering-required project we’ll make the Adafruit Circuit Playground or Adafurit Hallowing board act like a flickering candle. Pop this inside a jack-o’-lantern (or any other item that might normally use flame) to create a spooky atmosphere. RAR!

Lessons learned while making absurdly small things.

Your world gets brighter when she's nearby. Your wedding flowers should too. This bouquet and boutonniere are paired with RF radios and neopixels. The closer the two are together, the brighter the flowers glow. Show the whole world the way she makes you feel.

It’s not pleasant thinking about one’s mortality, but that’s the point of this project: to make one aware of the passage of time and how precious each minute is. As you look at the clock, remember that you are never getting those minutes back. Stop watching internet cat videos and make the most of them!

Worn on a lanyard or clipped to a pocket or pack, this adorable camera snaps a photo every few seconds. Slide the SD card into your computer to review the day’s activities or merge all the images into a timelapse animation. Powered by the diminutive and affordable Raspberry Pi Zero, this DIY project is eminently configurable and customizable!

Pre-recorded video plays back on a handmade LED matrix, creating effortless and endless shifting light patterns on your wrists. Move over, Iron Man.

Though the Raspberry Pi computer is eminently networkable, some projects still just work best by physically moving the SD card to a desktop system to exchange data…but normally only a small section of the card is accessible to Windows and Mac computers. This guide explains one way of making more space available to both the Pi and other systems.

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.”

“Instant photography” with Polaroid cameras was a thing up through the 1990s until ubiquitous digital photography took hold. In this project, we’ll replicate that old-timey watching-the-picture-develop experience with a Raspberry Pi computer and a tiny thermal receipt printer.

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.