Feed Me LED Fanny PackApril 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 |
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