Wearable Electronics with Becky Stern 9/10/2014 – LIVE 2pm ET
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Becky, I asked this at the end of the show (in comments) but I may have been too late for you to see it.
Do you have suggestions on making a circuit small enough to get into a toy? I have a prototype working (with great help from adafruit_support_bill)–playing music from an sd card while moving a servo. This will replicate a wind-up to I bought my daughter 36 years ago.
I need to get the microcontroller (probably a pro mini, but maybe a trinket pro), the sd card reader, the speaker (adafruit small plastic speaker), the mini servo, the components (2 resistors, a capacitor, 2 transistors), a battery pack and wires inside a stuffed donkey (12" nose to tail).
Am I dreaming? My fallback is to have the donkey pull a cart holding some of the electronics.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
Becky, I asked this at the end of the show (in comments) but I may have been too late for you to see it.
Do you have suggestions on making a circuit small enough to get into a toy? I have a prototype working (with great help from adafruit_support_bill)–playing music from an sd card while moving a servo. This will replicate a wind-up to I bought my daughter 36 years ago.
I need to get the microcontroller (probably a pro mini, but maybe a trinket pro), the sd card reader, the speaker (adafruit small plastic speaker), the mini servo, the components (2 resistors, a capacitor, 2 transistors), a battery pack and wires inside a stuffed donkey (12" nose to tail).
Am I dreaming? My fallback is to have the donkey pull a cart holding some of the electronics.