Using comedy as an excuse to play with python-programmed microcontrollers
summary
Recreates multiple stage props with actual parts and outcomes: CircuitPython on Adafruit Circuit Playground and Adafruit Flora, NeoPixels, servos, soldered LED strips, conductive thread (skirt version shorts and even a burn), FancyLED and RMS mic-based volume sensing, a wand that initially failed but a soldered v2 works, a theremin that goes from “game‑boy crash” to theremin shifted from noisy synth to chromatic‑mapped accelerometer and a Bluetooth Flora that emulates keystrokes to trigger QLab; code and designs live on GitHub.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 4:48Presentation overview
- 5:09Devices used
- 6:42Magic Wand (v2)
- 7:08Magic wand states
- 9:15Spinning flower
- 9:59Wand and spinning tie
- 11:16Cir-skirt playground
- 14:47Theremin v2 code
- 15:31Qlab software
- 16:19Qlab wearable remote
- 17:19QLab remote code
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