This project combines two of my passions: holiday ornaments, and fun, mostly pointless gadgets.

The South Berkeley Electronics Electronic Snowflake takes light-up decorations to a new maker-friendly nerd aesthetic!

Description

The Electronic Snowflake is a white, snowflake-shaped printed circuit board, bristling with 30 WS2182C full-color RGB LEDs, an ambient light sensor, a microphone, an IR receiver, and more! It runs on 3xAAA batteries or a micro USB charger and comes ready to play with an array of fun light patterns, variations, and modes.

But that's not all. the Electronic Snowflake is also a "duino." You can program it using the Arduino IDE using a serial cable to write your own effects or even build on add-ons using available remaining GPIO pins. You don't have to reprogram it, but the manual includes the necessary documentation if you want to!

Features

• Runs on either 3xAAA batteries or any USB power supply with a micro connector
• 30 WS2182C full-color addressable LEDs
• Atmel Atmega328P processor, just like an Arduino Uno
• ambient light sensor to auto-darken in dim rooms
• microphone and sound-level detector to pulse lights to music or speech
• infra-red sensor to control by remote -- remote control INCLUDED
• three buttons including reset
• Headers (not populated): FTDI serial, ICSP programming, and two custom headers including four Arduino digital IO, 2 analog inputs, and I2C, as well as power and ground
• Designed and assembled in the USA by me