[Miria Grunick’s] son nephew is two years old. If you’ve ever looked at that age variety in the toy aisle we sure you’ve observed that there’s a mountain of inexpensive electronic stuff for sale. Manufactures are cramming LEDs as well as noise makers into just about all youngsters stuff these days. But [Miria] believed why not just make him something myself? She phone calls this the Blinky Box. It’s an acrylic enclosure stuffed with quite LEDs that is managed with a few buttons.
It’s driven by a Teensy 3 board which screens a half lots vibrant buttons, a mode selector on the side, as well as an on/off switch. The gadget is powered by a Lithium battery that recharges by means of USB. as well as of program there’s a strip of individually addressable RGB LEDs inside.
The demo shows that a person mode enables you to press a button color as well as have the LEDs modification to it. however there are other features like fade as well as scroll. She likewise mentions that considering that it can be reprogrammed the toy can grow with hime. perhaps it’ll be a Simon states game. however ultimately she really hopes he’ll utilize it to discover the fundamentals of programming for himself.