Introduction: Interactive Jewelry Box

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This is a jewelry box, made with laser cut baltic birch wood, with a moving dancer, lights (option with no lights for photo-sensitive viewers), music, controlled by a circuit playground bluefruit.

Made by Danielle O'Connor

Supplies

  • Adafruit NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Strip- 30 LED- 0.5 meters
  • Adafruit TowerPro SG92R Micro Servo
  • Alligator clips
  • Baltic birch wood (⅛ in) (optional)
  • Circuit Playground Bluefruit
  • Glue
  • Laser cutter and plans (optional)
  • Paint and brushes (optional)
  • Tape

Step 1: Make Your Box

You can use any box that you would like. For this project, I laser cut a box using MakerCase, glued it together, and painted it.

The link to the plans I used: click here

Step 2: Set Up Devices

Attach servo and LED light strip to the CPB. Glue the servo to the lid of the box. Tape the LED light strip into a circle that wraps around the bottom of the box.

Then attach your dancer to the top of the servo. I cut a white fabric, placed it over the servo to hide it, and added glitter.

I added two dancers on the side of the box to trigger the dancing but you can use alligator clips + your own object.


Step 3: Write the Code

I attached the code I used to power my jewelry box below. Feel free to use and adjust as you see fit! 


Attachments

Step 4: Use It!

Here is the demonstration video. The dancer on the left shows the dancer with lights and the dancer on the right shows the version for photo-sensitive viewers.

Enjoy!