If you’ve ever been to the museum of Science and Industry then most likely you have come across their giant miniature scale model of Chicago that comes with working model trains that go from the city to the countryside. If you travel to the city frequently like myself then most likely you have taken public transportation…
Final Project: Sound Reactive Sweater
For my final project decided to make a wearable so to experiment with LED Neopixel strips and sound Reactivity. Materials Needed: Soldering Iron kit Alligator Clips Circuit Playground Express Sweater with metal zipper (cannot be plastic zipper) Sandpaper (in case you need to sand off Paint of the zipper if it’s painted) Conductive thread and/or…
Sound Reactive Interactive Painting
Interactive Painting : For my project, I made a sound reactive interactive painting.Interactive painting is project consisting of floral painting. The main two flower are made up from neopixel rings and they keep on glowing on and off. They change their color based on the loudness of the sound that the sound sensor picks…
Final Project- Long Distance Lamp
Afnan Ellythy and Johanna Bonilla Dedicated to Sabrina Raaf for helping us with this project, we couldn’t have done it without you!! Our goal for this project was to create a way for two long distance persons to be able to communicate by only looking at their lamp. This project is designed to be used…
The Reluctant Shield (Please Don’t Hit Me!)
The concept behind this project was to make a shield that demonstrably does not want to be hit. It bleeds when you hit it, and if you keep hitting it, nature itself rises up against you for harming the shield. What did shields ever do to you anyway? (Original concept also included as a bonus goal…
Final project: Call And Response
My final project was inspired by Camille A. Brown who is a performative artists and centers her work mainly around African-American experiences. For my project I wanted to do a call and response theme which is a performative act that is well-known in African-American music and rituals. The project is very simple; individuals who have…
Frequency To Light: Chromesthesia Abstraction
By Parvathi Krishnan Background: My interactive project is inspired by the ability of some people that see colors when listening to music. The set up aims to display different neopixel lights onto a reflective surface by matching the frequency it hears with the color of that note, creating an abstract mixture of colored lights. Materials:…
Final Project: Musical Instrument
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…
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…