BlinkenHat

Introduction

The blinkenhat is a little project to enable interrested people with little or less experience in electronics or programming into this field. It was founded to hold a workshop where people can build a blinking hat. The main parts are:

1. A little PCB with a microcontroller
2. The Software running on the microcontroller
3. A control-UI where the user can change the behaviour of the device.

The whole project is open source and completely available on Github.

User documentation

There are several parts of the usage to describe:

1. User Interface
2. LED channels

Project documentation

In this section we provide all the so-far available documentation of the device itself.

1. Hardware
2. Software
3. User Interface

There are also special topics like:

• Use the build system
• Create your own effect

Build your own BlinkenHat

You did not attend one of the workshops but wnat to build your own LED cloth using a BlinkenHat device? No Problem – you can build your own!

Everything you need to know can be found on the Build your own page.

Run your own workshop

We’re happy to support you running your own workshop based on this project. To give you something to start with we wrote our experience down here:

• Prepare your workshop
• Run your workshop