Holiday Hats

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A favorite student project: a foam-core hat lit with the standard Moving Rainbow kit. Students reuse the same hat all year by changing the color pattern.

Source book: Moving Rainbow
Kit page: https://dmccreary.github.io/moving-rainbow/kits/holiday-hats/
Printable one-pager: holiday-hats-one-pager.html

Features

• Lab: 4th of July Hat
• Lab: Christmas Hat
• Lab: Halloween Hat
• Lab: St. Patrick's Day Hat
• Lab: Generating LED Patterns for a Valentines Day Hat

Benefits

• Free, open lessons: the Moving Rainbow textbook has the kit page, wiring, and MicroPython code.
• Ready-made curriculum: 5 additional lab pages walk students through the build step by step.
• Budget: about $15 (the Moving Rainbow base kit) plus a sheet of foam-core board.

Parts

• Raspberry Pi Pico ($4) — Microcontroller
• WS2812B NeoPixels — LEDs
• 830-Point Breadboard ($1.10) — Breadboard
• Micro-USB Data Cable ($2.50) — Power and programming cable