Category: Portfolio

IoT Muscle Sensing ‘Sup Brows with Kate Hartman

We spend a lot of time trying to send messages to each other through talking, texting, emailing, and more. What if you could send a message to your friend by simply raising your eyebrows?

This project is a collaboration with Kate Hartman.

In this wearable electronics project, we’ll learn to make muscles send text messages! This learning guide will show you how to use a MyoWare muscle sensor and a Bluefruit Feather microcontroller to transmit a signal through the phone to Adafruit IO and If This Then That to trigger an SMS. Let’s get started!

For this project you will need:

Before you begin, please review and understand the following prerequisite guides:

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WiFi OLED FeatherWing Brooch

Create an internet connected display brooch and wear your data on your sleeve (or jacket, or backpack…)! This simple Adafruit IO project pulls forecast data from IFTTT and displays it on a FeatherWing OLED display, made wearable with a magnetic pin back. It also toggles to display a favorite quote, or serve as a nametag!

For this project you will need:

Before you begin, please review and understand the following prerequisite guides:

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LED Matrix Snowflake Sweater with Bluetooth Control

Create a tacky sweater controlled by your phone! It’s easy to put together this Bluefruit and NeoPixel matrix circuit to display snowflakes in a sweater, and control the animation and color using the Adafruit Bluefruit LE Connect app for iOS or Android. 

This is an easy project to build but probably not best for a “first project” as there are a lot of concepts being mixed together and the matrix can use quite a lot of power. You can build it with any of our Bluefruit products and the microcontroller of your choice, such as FLORA with its BLE module, or the all-in-one Feather 32u4 Bluefruit LE.

Before you begin, read and understand the following prerequisite guides:

For this project you will need:

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