From the Forums: Building the Pixel Box – a light-up NeoPixel coaster
Light up your drink in style! From the Adafruit Forums, user kazzle101 documents their build of a NeoPixel ring lighted drink coaster:
This all started with wanting to modify a cheap camping light replacing the LED’s with NeoPixels. So I made a PCB disc to match the existing board that held the LED’s, as well as a board for an ATtiny85 microcontroller, plus a microphone and vibrating motor. The battery and charging circuit came from a cheap (Poundland) USB powerbank. It turned out that the battery from the powerbank didn’t fit in the camping light, so what to do instead?
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