I’ve got a new tutorial up at Adafruit.com: make a jellyfish umbrella with lots of animated lights and WLED.
This is a pretty easy build, with spectacular results. The lights are easy to control with WLED, a free and open-source web app that allows you to control your lights over Wifi with your phone.
Full tutorial link is here: https://learn.adafruit.com/jellyfish-umbrella-with-easy-wled-wifi-control/
From the guide:
Make a jellyfish umbrella with animated lights, with no coding required. This is an intermediate project that gives you advanced results. The software is simple to load and use. Hundreds of animations and color combinations are available right through your fingertips, using any web browser or the free WLED app on your phone. The trickiest part of this tutorial is the wiring. There are a lot of connections to make and some challenging soldering to do, but the rest of the build is fairly easy. Make your jellyfish dance and flow with lights, tentacles, and iridescence. This project would make a great camp “totem” for festivals, or a wonderful costume if it’s built onto an umbrella hat. It’s also easy to synch two or more jellyfish together over wifi using WLED.
