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Cheshire Cat Pumpkin animated with LEDs

Cheshire Cat Pumpkin animated with LEDs
How to carve a Cheshire cat pumpkin with LEDs animated by an Arduino.

The smile of the cat first lights up white, then the eyes green, followed by the body lighting up blue starting at the tail and moving up to the ears.

 
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Step 1Materials and Tools

Materials and Tools
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Tools:
- X-Acto knife
- Paring knife
- Various small drill bits
- Soldering Iron
- Large pin

Materials:
- Pumpkin (I hope you picked this one out on your own)
- newspaper (for putting under the pumpkin while carving)
- heavy paper (card stock)
- LEDs
- solder
- wire
- Arduino
- scotch tape
- 1 paper clip
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Author:J_Hodgie
Currently doing masters in Mechatronics Engineering, but still create in my spare time