The goal of this project was to make a musical instrument using wind-chime pipes and two servo motors. I was inspired to make something musically inclined by my Artist Presentation. I wanted to make something that interacted with light and sound such as in Janet Cardiff’s Experiment in F# Minor. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Animated Trash
The idea of this project was to bring inanimate objects to life an give them a meaning that most people don’t associate them with, such as trash being involved in an ecosystem. this instructable will show you how to attach one piece of recyclable. Materials: Double male-ended wires (3 per neopixel strip) Neopixel strips Adafruit…
Sound Reactive Back-Lit Canvas
For my project, I made a sound reactive back-lit canvas. The lights behind the canvas turn on based on the loudness level of the sound the sound sensor on the Circuit Playground Express picks up. Materials Needed: Your painted canvas A poster board (cardboard or any thin, sturdy material could work too) Soldering iron +…
Morse Code Encoder
Materials Needed: Circuit Playground Crikit (optional) 3 neopixel strips with at least 5 neopixels Thin wire Alligator clips with female end Soldering Iron Hot glue gun Solder Popicle sticks Glass Jars White paint Paint sponge Instructions Step 1 : Paint glass jars with a thin layer of white paint using a wet paint sponge, also paint…
An Extremely Bipolar Device
By Cassie Ogburn & Katrin Svadlena Our goal for this project was to make an interactive art piece to argue with/ let off steam. Inspired by Ulay and Abramović’s AAA-AAA; a performative art piece of which is a video of them just yelling at each other. So, we wanted something to prompt you, and suddenly…
RainDrop Detector Light Up Umbrella Wearable
Hello all. For my final project I made a rain detecting umbrella. To get started the things you will need are: An Umbrella 1 Adafruit Circuit Playground 1 battery pack with batteries 1 JST 2 pin cable for the battery 3 Alligator clips 1 strip of 60 LEDS Scotch Tape 2 wire nuts The first…
CPX Midi Controller
CPX MIdi Controller Instructables! Required items: Pizza Box White Paint Connection cable for CPX CPX Board Circuit Python Mu-Editor Laptop Midi-city loaded up in a new tab Adafruit page loaded up in a new tab Step1: https://learn.adafruit.com/cpx-midi-controller Access this link and view the tutorial of accessing the files Step2: Download Circuit Python, the…
Questions
How to correctly code on Mu-editor using a longer/ more complex code? What songs would people like to listen to using the midi controller? what design should I create using the LED lights on the circuit playground express?
Questions for final project
Q1. Should I include humidity sensor as well with sound sensor? Q2. Is it better to use neopixel strip with neopixel ring? Q2. Should I include butterflies in the interface as well by using LEDs?
Questions for final project
How many LEDs can be connected to one I/O pin? How can you make a for loop keep iterating for a specific amount of time?
Questions for Final Project
Is it better to have multiple lights representing dots and dashes or to have single light? What material would work best for diffusing light in the jar? To display “stillness”/”waiting” should all lights be off or on ?
Questions to be answered about final projects
in make code do you need to put in a specific input to have the program run to led lights attached by the conductive holes? once an animation is turned off is there a way to have it automatically come back on without using the onboard switch?