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A collection of 7 posts

O' SMD O' Christmas Tree

O' SMD O' Christmas Tree

Need a cheap and easy intro to SMD soldering? Well Christmas might come but once a year, but these trees can be soldered all year round.

Christmas Neopixel Hack 2019!

Christmas Neopixel Hack 2019!

Turn a boring Poundland / Dollarstore Christmas star into an IoT colour changing star! All we need is a little time and some code!

Poundland Hack - Sound Reactive Christmas LEDs

Poundland Hack - Sound Reactive Christmas LEDs

Make Christmas dance to your beat...well ok make your Christmas lights flash to the beat of your music.

Traditional Christmas Neopixel Project 2017 Node-RED Edition!

Traditional Christmas Neopixel Project 2017 Node-RED Edition!

Get a coffee, put your feet up as this is a long one! A short time ago...in a street not so far away.... For 2016 I decorated our window with lots of neopixels Neopixel Christmas lights! pic.twitter.com/Rdyx47I8HI — biglesp (@biglesp) December 10, 2016 But for 2017 I

Invent:Advent

Ho Ho Ho Hacky Christmas! Invent:Advent is an accessible, fun and cost effective hack. Join us in creating new invention using components and stock from pound shops (such as Poundland or Poundworld). The theme for this hack is Christmas, and pound shops have a lot of cool stuff that

Walking in a Winter Pounder Land

Walking in a Winter Pounder Land

I popped into Poundland today and had a look around for stuff to hack. Electronics First up, LED lights! I chose some Christmas trees and some blue spiral lights. Both take 3V in the form of 2 x AA batteries, but you can snip the battery box off and use

Santa's New HAT (Explorer HAT Fun!)

Santa's New HAT (Explorer HAT Fun!)

Santa always wears a funky red hat when delivering presents across the globe, but the HAT we are looking at in this post is not that. Rather it is a funky board called the Explorer HAT Pro from Pimoroni. I LOVE this board, so much so that I wrote a