I feel like a student coming to Becky's office hours saying "I know I should be alot further along, but this is what I have." One element of the costumes that I wanted to incorporate was one person's costume reading the light pattern of a...
Just a quick little update. Sewing with stainless steel is an interesting experience. I used super glue instead of clear nail polish to keep the fraying in check. I think that the stitching itself looks pretty good. I left the tails very long an...
You may remember that I had an LED strip that I needed to separate, so I visited my hackerspace to venture into the desolder realm. I set up at the solder station and followed the step-by-step instructions given on Adafruit's site. ...
I'm still on the fence about whether to connect all eight LED strips through their communication line, or have them wired individually. In the meantime, I decided to check out some Neopixel code to see what my options were. Obviously that...
For our furry cosumes, I want the orange leds in one costume to trigger red neopixels in another costume to light up. However, whenever I shine the light of the orange led strip on the FLORA color sensor the color sensor shuts down after about ...
I'm sorry that it's been a long time since my last post - sorry about that. Let's get to good stuff! After testing the parts and proving that they work, I felt compelled to see how hard it would be to make a compass out of them. Test...
I took all of my things to Cape May thinking I would do some coding tests with the individual Neopixels. Between all the walking around and all the Victorian architecture, I never got to it. I did get very inspired to someday create a lam...
Unfortunately I haven't found much time this week to do anything more on the electronics side of the project, hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to get back on to it and get a nice chunk of it sorted as I've got nothing else planned. I have h...
This project is my second wearable project. The materials have improved significantly in the past two years. My first project was a Lilypad based Tieduino. The thread was silver instead of stainless steel, the pixels were monochromatic, and unch...
Working on the basics to ensure the parts are all in good order. I clipped the leads to the FLORA and the GPS and ran a simple echo sketch to verify the GPS is talking. The next step is to code the math calculate distances to the Geocache. I kn...
Well it might not be a good storyboard but its my storyboard and i’m sticking to it (Unless somebody points out a big mistake and I change it)I have annoted each step but will put the text under each photo in case you can’t read my really bad handwri...
Holidays are over! So I finally have the time to work on my ColorCam again! I was getting kinda tired of having to set up my circuit with the alligatorclips over and over again. So I took some time to sew all my pieces to a bit of fabric. This saves ...
I just couldn't stand the Adafruit Neopixel LED Strip 30 sitting in its box any longer. It looked so lonely and dark in there. So, I decided to take the risk -- hook up the FLORA with the LiPo (2600 mAh) and strip. I was so scared a wire...
Hi, I've been busy gathering ideas for my umbrella. Here's the mighty beast -- a large dome umbrella with silver trim and a ginormous handle that's even too big for Mary Poppins. I can tell you that no matter what size the power supply, t...
Here is the next update for the Get Closer Get Closer challenge. Our mailwoman is starting to drop off materials for our costumes DC plugs, LED strips, faux fur. We love the faux fur. I am underwhelmed by the brightness of th...
Just a quick update on the current progress, which may help others in using the GPS module: Firstly I started off with the Adafruit Flora GPS parsing example, and used this to become familiar with the GPS library. I then based my code to st...
It took a while to come,but after watching the delivery tracking website for what seemed like days on end and having to explain what a AdaFruit Flora is so the kit could be put through customs. Well after all that I now have my kit. So lets have a qu...
I spent last week camping with my 5-year old. I didn't take my laptop with me, but I did take some stuff to make the camera I had in mind for my project This is how my work-/sewingstation looked like! An herd of sheep standing on the other side o...
I finally received my package on Monday! Here's my very own GPS Starter Pack! [I am not entirely sure why I was compelled to open the bag of test leads] And here are a few other things (Tactile On/Off Switch, FLORA Lux Sensor, FLORA A...
I've spent the last couple of days reading up on the Adafruit Neopixel RGB LED strips -- especially how to cut them apart and use them in combination. The FLORA doesn't scare me as much as the strips LOL. On the Adafruit forum, I've seen ...
Still a ways to go in unpacking at our new place (and building our light-up costumes) but I found enough time for a small arduino project (and time to blog about it ). Our baby is really turning on to his mobile but we did not like the music tha...
I got back from a week's holiday at my parents late Sunday night, which was a great time away although I also was really happy to get back to my own home especially as my Flora kit was here waiting for me! Last night I finally had time to open t...
After looking at the images of tattoos that I posted recently and thinking about my ideas for the project I decided there was only one thing for it and that was to break out the felt tips and get something on paper.I wasn't too bothered exactly what ...
After a week Ellison, Rowan and I have just about finished moving in to our new place in Minneapolis. The weather is amazing and the people as nice as advertised. The FLORA package arrived while Rowan and I were working on building ikea f...
Today the Flora kit came in! All kinds of sensors, wires and of course the Flora itself came out of a black cardboard box (check Leslie's or Bill's unboxing videos to see exactly what was in the box). So as soon as my son was sleeping, I set to work ...
