Project: “My heart beats for you” #NeoPixels #CircuitPython #QTPy

Charlie Schick was inspired by this clever little Valentine’s Day card from the delightfully creative Charlyn (left), made with a wee Trinket M0 (a fave), NeoPixels (blikenlights!), laser cut parts, a 3D printed case, and rechargeable battery.

I took a side step in my head and got a brainwave to do something similar on my 3D printer. And I could mount it all into an Ikea frame I had left over from my lithophane project.

Then I started thinking of my heartbeat, and that I always wanted to do something around it. Y’see, my wife has the same number of letters in her first name to match the PQRST of an EKG trace – hence there’s a connection between my EKG and her – my heart, indeed, beats for her.

I was experimenting and refactoring the (CircuitPython) code, such that when I was ready, I was able to just copy and paste it, and then tweak it, for the QtPy I ended up using (actually, a QtPy Haxpress I had made a long time ago).

See the details on this project in the blog post here.


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