Feed Me LED Fanny Pack

April 2017
Sewing  |  Fanny Pack  |  Adafruit LEDs

Jon Gooch is arguably my favorite artist, throwing down the heavy-hitting Drum & Bass alias as Spor and Electro-House funky beats as Feed Me. To celebrate his personal record launch, Sotto Voce and long-awaited Spor album, Caligo, I made a custom vinyl figure. With the help of friend of photographer, Christopher Larrazo, I was granted stage access at Webster Hall for Jon Gooch's debut New York Spor performance.


Normally, I work with Kidrobot Munny blanks, but for this Feed Me inspired figure, I went with the Zukie Art blank vinyl. Ears and nails were molded with oven-bake Super Scupey clay and the eye and mouth holes were cut with an Xacto Knife after heating the vinyl in a toaster oven.

The electronic components were fed through the mouth and hot-glued into place. The set-up for the NeoPixel RGB LEDs were fairly straight-forward with instructions from Adafruit (links below).

Materials and Tools

Zukie Art Blank Vinyl
[[ MyPlasticHeart ]] [[ ZukieArt ]]
Retails: $9.95

Super Sculpey Clay
[[ Amazon ]]
Polymer-based oven-bake clay. Used to fill in ear holes. Sandpaper to smooth finish. 1lbs box lasts forever for making these toys.
Retails: $14.99

Adafruit NeoPixel Jewel RGB LEDs (x2)
[[ Adafruit ]]
My first time using NeoPixel individually addressable RGB LED module. Extremely easy to use and fully detailed step-by-step instructions available on Adafruit's website. Stuck two of these NeoPixels in the head.
Retails: $5.95

Adafruit Trinket - 5V Mini Microcontroller
[[ Adafruit ]]
I did not spend too much time fiddling with the programming of the RGB LEDs, as I was in a rush to finish this build. But from the little I played with this microcontroller, it was extremely easy to access and set up. Will most definitely be working with more NeoPixels in the future.
Retails: $6.95

Lipo Battery
[[ Adafruit ]]
3.7V 500mAh battery was plenty sufficient for this little build.
Retails: $7.95

Micro Lipo USB Charger
[[ Adafruit ]]
JST plug micro Lipo charger, 100mA charge current, perfect for small lipo charging.
Retails: $5.95

​Xcto Knife
Dremel
Toaster Oven
Sandpaper
Compressor (Badger TC910 Aspire Pro)
Airbrush (Iwata Eclipse HP CS Dual Action)
Airbrush Medium
Acrylic Paint
Fishnet Gloves
Hot-Glue Gun