Ok, so my son is 8 and that means he automatically likes Pokemon and minecraft.
He also likes anything with LED’s (geek in training I believe… blinky oooooh shiny…. sorry, distracted.)

So awhile back I came across this post BLE controlled Minecraft nightlight.  I figured, this is perfect.  So I started order some parts (making a few changes of my own along the way) and printed out the cube and base.

Parts:
Adafruit Pro Trinket – 3V 12MHz
Adafruit Neo Pixel Strip
Capacitor
3d Printer
Adafruit BlueFruit LE Bluetooth module

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I then soldered up the led strips I had from a different project.  Finished wiring everything up based on Mr. McMillan’s guide.  One of the changes I made was I needed to make a different base piece.   The cover originally designed required some larger feet than I had for it.  So I designed a new piece.

Here is the alternate piece.  Thingiverse

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Had an issue the weekend before christmas and had to order some replacements.  So here I was Christmas Eve soldering everything up.

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And I got it all working just in time.  So Christmas morning it was sitting beside all the presents already lit up.  I didn’t get a pic of it under the tree.  Kind of wish I had.  But here is a pic of it light up on my desk.

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