We’ve posted about Adafruit customer David’s awesomely blinged out NeoPixel Goggles before – he also made the above Auer Goggles using a Gemma and some Neopixels rings for Santa Skate 2014! He wrote in to tell us more:
Thought you might be interested in seeing a pair of ultra bling welding goggles I put together.
There’s a ‘santa skate’ event every christmas in London and last year I thought it would be good to accessorise our santa suits with neopixel goggles.
‘u-boat’ goggles for myself, but special bling-ed up welding goggles featuring several hundred individually glued swarovsky crystals for my wife.
One pair use a Flora board, the other a Gemma. Both use adafruit neopixel rings and are powered via the tiny adafruit Lipo. A couple of disks of frosted plastic are used to diffuse the lights.
Check out the bling goggles here and the ‘u-boat’ goggles here. Below is a video of Santa Skate 2014.
Featured Adafruit Products!
Adafruit GEMMA v2 – Miniature wearable electronic platform: Love FLORA but want a bite-sized version? Look no further, GEMMA is a tiny wearable platform board with a lot of might in a 1″ diameter package. Powered by a Attiny85 and programmable with an Arduino IDE over USB, you’ll be able to realize any wearable project! Read more.
NeoPixel Ring – 16 x WS2812 5050 RGB LED with Integrated Drivers: Round and round and round they go! 16 ultra bright smart LED NeoPixels are arranged in a circle with 1.75″ (44.5mm) outer diameter. The rings are ‘chainable’ – connect the output pin of one to the input pin of another. Use only one microcontroller pin to control as many as you can chain together! Each LED is addressable as the driver chip is inside the LED. Each one has ~18mA constant current drive so the color will be very consistent even if the voltage varies, and no external choke resistors are required making the design slim. Power the whole thing with 5VDC (4-7V works) and you’re ready to rock. Read more.
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