c.hadleydikeTime to break out the Light-up Fedora Matrix hat and change the program to reflect the new year of 2022!!! I love how much variety this hat provides me. With a little work and a few attempts, I can have a fun new light-up Fedora Hat for your New Years Party!!!!
Gather your materials
- Fedora
- 8×8 Matrix
- Seeeduino IXAO board
- Thread
- Recharagable battery
- Computer
- Arduino Program
Brain Storming
I had many ways I could have programmed this hat but I specifically wanted the hat to write “Happy New Year!!!’ I thought about keeping the fireworks for a bit but I wanted a different program this time maybe in the future I will combine the two!!! Time to begin the programming!!!
ReProgramming the Fedora Hat for your New Years Party
I am going to begin by using one of the examples provided by Arduino. This way I have to change a few of the words in the programming to make the hat do what I want it to!!!
The first thing I always change in a program is the pin. You want to ensure that the pin is correct or else you will be staring at a light-up hat that is not doing anything!!! Then I read through the rest of the program and see if there are any other major details I need to change. For example the size of the matrix that I was using and how many matrixes I was using.
After opening the Matrix tile test and uploading the program to my board I got my board to write “Howdy” in the scrolling manner. Next, I could change the howdy in the program to “Happy New Year!!!” and be done with the hat. I wanted the wording to change colors so I worked a little bit more with this program to get a few changes of color of the fun “Happy New Year!!!”.
Final Fedora Hat for your New Years Party
I am ready to rock my new hat for this year’s Party!!! Rinning in the new year with a fun light-up hat makes me very happy!!!
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See the original version of this hat when it has the 4th of July Fireworks exploding!!!! Check out some of my other wearable projects like these fun Light-up earrings or this Temperature Sensing Light Up Scarf!!! Make sure to check back for other programs this hat can do!!!