Category: LEDs

Purse Light with GEMMA & LED Sequins

Trying to find something in your purse at a dark restaurant or party? What a pain! Make it easy to see what’s in your bag with LED sequins, GEMMA, and conductive hook & loop

This beginner-level e-textiles project has you sewing with conductive thread and loading a simple Arduino program onto the GEMMA microcontroller. This project is perfect for use with the GEMMA Sequin Starter Pack! Just add hook & loop. Before you get started, follow the Gemma M0 guide or the Classic Introducing GEMMA guide

Gather up the following parts & tools:

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FLORAbrella – LED Umbrella with NeoPixels

You’ll be a rainbow in any storm with the FLORAbrella. With its NeoPixel LED strips and color sensor, you’ll be able to match your clothing, or display rainbow and rain patterns. Get ready to have an entourage at the next parade!

This is a collaborative improvement upon Leslie Birch‘s original FLORAbrella.

For this project, you’ll need to create the circuit, mount it in the dome of the umbrella, and then finish it off by creating clear vinyl hammocks for the battery and electronics.

This is an intermediate-level project that requires some precise soldering on the LED strips, so just stay away from caffeine and keep your cat away. Also, make sure you read and practice the following guides:

For this project you will need:

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LED Stego Flex Spike Hoodie

Dress up as a time-traveling dinosaur with these glowing stego spikes! This easy project mashes up 3D printing and sewing to make your own super-custom flexible spiky hooded sweatshirt.

Supplies and Tools

Check out Matt Pinner’s Stego Hoodie – which inspired this build!

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Cyberpunk Spikes – 3D Printed Electronic Fashion

Before you get started, follow the Gemma M0 guide or the Classic Introducing GEMMA guide 

Make your own flexible, spiky, glowing accessory using NeoPixel strip diffused by NinjaFlex flexible 3D printing filament! Magnets let you attach the spikes to anything in your wardrobe. The soft flexible enclosure holds GEMMA, the tiny microcontroller that animates the LEDs, and a rechargeable lipoly battery.

For this project you will need:

Portraits by Andrew Tingle.

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Light-Activated Pixel Heart

Wear your heart on your sleeve! Or at least on your lapel. This light-up heart display uses a light-dependent resistor and GEMMA, Adafruit’s tiny wearable electronics platform.

Supplies

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Circuit Diagram

NeoPixels are chained together with data input coming from GEMMA D1, all + to Vout, and all – to GND.

The photoresistor is attached to D2 and GND.

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NeoPixel Tiara for Birthday or Prom

You can make a crown of light for prom or your birthday this year! A few free-wired NeoPixels make you the cyber-pageant queen.

For this project you will need:

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