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23 Aug

Teddy Ruxpin Hacking: Making a Custom Animatronic Toy with Personalized Voices

I just published my latest guide on the Adafruit Learning system: I hacked a Teddy Ruxpin doll from 2017 and turned him into a talking Figment the Dragon doll, with personalized voices and stories for my baby nieces. This...

animatronic, custom, disney, figment, hack, personalized, stuffy, talking, teddy bear, teddyruxpin

26 Jul

Tutorial: LED Water Drip Illusion Dress with NeoPixels and Arduino

Check my latest tutorial on the Adafruit Learning System. I built a dress using NeoPixel LEDs and Arduino code by Phil Burgess: the amazing Oozemaster 3000 code. This code does a mind-blowing job of mimicking the way water flows,...

bespoke, bridal, bride, custom, diy, dress, event, fancy, led, light up, prom, show, tutorial, wedding

06 Jul

Make a Magic AI Storybook from an Old Book with ChatGPT

‘I wonder,’ he said to himself, ‘what’s in a book while it’s closed. Oh, I know it’s full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there’s...

book, chatGPT, imagine, kids, language, Magic, story, Technology

23 Jul

Light-up Sound Reactive Ukulele Build Tutorial

LED Ukulele!! And a fun video shot & created by the increasingly awesome cinematographer Darrell St. Blaine. And of course there’s a tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/light-up-reactive-ukulele/ I have wanted Mermaid Glimmer photo-drone footage since.. well, since I built her 8 years ago. Even after...

acrylic, clear, hollow, light up, music, musical instrument, plastic, play, react, reactive, sound, strum, tutorial, uke, ukelele

10 Feb

Glowing Four Seasons Fairy Bottle Art Installation & Tutorial

Fairy bottles.I made my first glass fairy bottle almost 10 years ago, before I’d really started on my LED maker journey. It went a little viral on Pinterest and with good reason.. these little bottles are stunningly gorgeous and super easy to make....

adafruit, beautiful, costume, decor, diy, elf, essence, iridescent, kids, Learn, Make, neopixel, program, project, room, STEAM, stem, tutorial

01 Feb

Remote Controlling Lots of NeoPixels Wirelessly

I spend a lot of my time developing and performing with LEDs. My company, Fire Pixie Entertainment, offers a really popular LED dance show, with light-up hula hoops, poi, doublestaff, and of course, lots of light up costumes. The programming behind...

adafruit, controller, diy, feather, LEDs, LoRa, microcontrollers, pixel, program, programmable

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