One of the best things about working at Adafruit is sharing open source electronics with friends and family members who might not have known about all the cool projects you can make with them. Ian from the Adafruit receiving department did just that and he shared with us this photo of his mom in her Mardi Gras Parade costume made with NeoPixels and a Gemma. It looks great! You can check out more photos and read more about her parade group here. Below is a close up of the NeoPixels in action!
Featured Adafruit Products!
Adafruit GEMMA v2 – Miniature wearable electronic platform: Love FLORA but want a bite-sized version? Look no further, GEMMA is a tiny wearable platform board with a lot of might in a 1″ diameter package. Powered by a Attiny85 and programmable with an Arduino IDE over USB, you’ll be able to realize any wearable project! Read more.
NeoPixel Mini PCB – Pack of 5: These are the smallest NeoPixel breakouts around! Tiny, bright RGB pixels to your project. These little PCBs are only 8mm x 10mm and have two sets of three pads on the back for soldering wires. These ultra-bright LEDs have a constant-current driver cooked right into the LED package! The pixels are chainable – so you only need 1 pin/wire to control as many LEDs as you like. Read more.
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!