Han Solo Blaster Toy Upgraded to Incredible Wedding Gift with Interactive Audio Elements | #StarWars #HanSolo
Jon made this incredible wedding gift from a $11 Walmart Han Solo toy gun (SKU # 551649289) and upgraded it with an Arduino-compatible brain powering interactive audio elements (including the … ability to shoot Jar Jar).
Here’s the IR ‘blaster’ tucked into the barrel of the gun:
Clever!
Here’s some more build shots and diagrams of the gun’s features:
My friend and his wife both love Star Wars, so I got them a Star Wars-themed gift for their wedding. This is an album about that gift, which is basically a four-piece decorative set that consists of a Han Solo blaster and edge-lit LED displays of Boba Fett, Darth Vader, and Jar Jar Binks.
The blaster uses TV IR codes to do several things: it can shoot the LED displays (and they’ll respond by blinking and playing audio recordings unique to each character), change the color and brightness of the displays, and it can act as a TV remote by turning on or off the couple’s TV.The blaster also has a pushbutton that when pressed plays a recording of my voice impersonating Darth Vader, telling the husband that the wife is right. There are also a few Easter eggs that the couple can find by trying to control the displays with their actual TV remote.
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.