My Virtual Life

With my grandchildren coming for the Fourth of July, I went looking for projects to do. This is one, thanks to John Wargo-- original  and F...

This was a fun project.  The final tiara project its for my granddaughter's pre-school graduation. I would have done a mortar board, bu...

I decided to make the Adafruit Neopixel Tiara .  I have ordered some tiara's (plural to allow for error), and will fix the gemma and n...

It's finished. See video The final steps were: desolder the floating wire on the LED+ desolder the GND wire, cut it to the same len...

I got the LEDs to work. I verified all the other connections I tried a 5mm LED in the circuit instead of the LED sequin I desoldered--no...

I drilled the hole in the case for connecting the Trinket.  From the webs, I ascertained that I needed about a 1/16" bit (.0625 for a ....

OK. Problem 1 is that, despite  +Phillip Burgess  ' warning, I soldered the Piezo to the Trinket before I wired it correctly (in my defe...

When last we saw this, I was waiting to get replacement 3D printed parts back from the service I used. The first print was missing the handl...

This is my next project, from a tutorial on the Adafruit Learning System .  I enjoyed working with the Pro Trinket in the Donkey project, so...

In 1978, I bought a wind-up donkey for my daughter, then an infant. The donkey moved its head while playing “Donkey Serenade.”  I...