I’ll get right out there and say it. I love Eurovision. It’s one of my favourite televisual events of the year (right up there with Tom Hardy reading the cbeebies bedtime story). I decided to mark the occasion by making a visual excitement indicator. The tweets came later.
I wanted to show how excited I was about each song during the contest using bright shiny lights, and LOTS of them. I have been doing a lot of stuff with Flotilla, a bright and cheerful system from Pimoroni that supports up to 8 little modules running off a dock (which has an actual octopus printed on the back). One of those little modules, the Rainbow, is a stick with five lights on that you can change the colour of. Bingo. I would actually put seven of them on the crown, but I am a muppet and cut my cardboard too short, and am skilled in the art of being lazy.
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