Color-Changing Prom Dress With Magic Wand #WearableWednesday
kellechu and their husband made this beautiful prom dress that changes colors with the help of a magic wand and published a thorough write up on Instructables! Sounds like a pretty epic Cinderella/Fairy Godmother build if you ask me. Cheers to kellechu and team, this dress is stunning!
had never sewed clothing before and still consider myself a beginner sewer. So why would I want to tackle this enormous project? Why not? I love to learn and make new things. I love to stretch myself to projects that are just outside my expertise so that I can move the goal lines of my abilities. I couldn’t do this project alone though. I know my strengths and weaknesses and I know where I am not confident, I can count on my husband to be the expert. He wrote the programs for the microcontrollers, modified and modeled the star wand and light caps, and soldered its electronics. Without him, I wouldn’t have been able to finish this project.
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!
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 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat and our Discord!