This project is made from a neopixel ring (24 pixels), and an ADXL accelerometer.
This video shows the internals of the project inside the 3D printed case.
It is very compact because I wanted to make this a handheld device that responds to the user's shaking movements.
See the video here!
In this video, the demo code shows a the neopixels responding to tilting movements.
It also shows the PCB that contains the accelerometer.
This was my 3rd attempt at using this same accelerometer.
I'm lucky that it didn't break after de soldering and resoldering it so many times.
The way this project works is that it has a persistent light animation that circles the ring.
The lights were teal, amber, and pink colors.
The print quality of my case wasn't very good in the cetner and it was bothering me.
Since the showcase was so soon, I decided to put my vinyl cut sticker in the center to cover it up.
This doubled as a way to show off my sticker.
Overall, this project came from mutliple weeks of work trying to get the accelerometer PCB working.
In my earlier attempt, I tried to create this PCB AND tried to include a level shifter as well as a switch and updi line.
These ended up being so challenging that I almost gave up on the project and woul have decided on something else for the final project.
When I tried looking at other projects to create, and I explored existing versions of those as official products,
it seemed like those ideas were either too simple or more had issues with consistency.
One of those ideas was to create a minature car dealership tube man.
I bought one from Barnes & Noble.
The official version was hardly working.
How would I get a miniature tubeman working, if the one they're selling won't even stand up straight?
I had already put in so much work into the accelerometer project, and David already approved it.
At that moment, I decided that I might as well continue the work I was doing for weeks now.
I had decided; I was going to finish the accelerometer project!
Credits for these images go to Matthew Reichard. Thank you so much for taking these photos!