Arduino NeoPixel UFO
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I've just moved to Canada, and they take Halloween very seriously here! I decided to make a giant (2 meter diameter) UFO using cardboard, tinfoil, an Arduino Micro and 72 NeoPixels.
The design was made in Blender. Once I was happy with it I printed templates for each section, and got busy cutting the shapes out of cardboard by hand with a box cutter (the cardboard was liberated from the local cardboard recycling bin).
YouTube Videos
Progress Photos
Halloween UFO version 2
Racoons destroyed the original, so I made another. This time much smaller version 2.
See gitlab.com/retrojdm/ufo2 for source files and templates etc.
Links
gitlab.com/retrojdm/ufo
The 3D Blender design file, templates, and various source files.
gitlab.com/retrojdm/neopixelanim
The library I made for the light sequence, with an example sketch.
github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPixel
The Adafruit NeoPixel Library.
See the Adafruit NeoPixel Uberguide
| Last Update: | 23rd October, 2022 |
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| Reason: | Added links to repositories with cardboard templates etc. |