maker – <Brooke> <Codes>

Light up the sky

I recently added a WRGB LED strip to the top of my bookshelf using WS2811 LEDs or as my friends at Adafruit call them NeoPixels. I chose RGBW LEDs so I could get a nicer white and use less power than a traditional RGB strip.

O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!

Last year while making popcorn and cranberry chains the only thing missing from the tree was a star. One was made posthaste. However, it was missing a very important feature, lighting up. We couldn’t let that happen two years in a row so this year we added a color changing light to our homemade star.