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Special guest:
The sugru makers
in the house!

FLORA!
Coloring book
New OLED

New year!
New products!
Arduino Factory tour!

A two hour
new year's eve
special AAE!

Why spend time in a crowded and cold times square when you can make your OWN Times Square LED ball? Perfect for new years eve, disco parties, weddings, raves, bar mitzvahs, or just a romantic night in. This DIY LED Disco Ball is made using Adafruit's 12mm LED pixels, an Arduino and two 2.4GHz XBee's (for wireless disco control!). The LED pattern is controlled by the open source graphics language, Processing so it works on Windows, Mac or Linux computers. The ball pattern is made of a dozen laser cut acrylic panels that are ziptied together and the hanging cord is also the power supply cable.

We'll have a full tutorial after the new year so stay tuned and get your leisure suit to the cleaners!

Contains:
https://www.adafruit.com/products/322
https://www.adafruit.com/products/50
https://www.adafruit.com/products/128
https://www.adafruit.com/products/126
https://www.adafruit.com/products/247

Github:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-X2-Time-Ball