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The Mask Of Mentions

Made by 8BitsAndAByte / Communication / Notifications / Wearables / IoT

About the project

A delightful oddity turned into a Discord fuelled spreader of gloom!

Project info

Difficulty: Easy

Platforms: Adafruit, Raspberry Pi

Estimated time: 6 hours

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA version 4.0 or later (CC BY-NC-SA 4+)

Items used in this project

Hardware components

	LiFePO4wered/Pi+ (Optional)	x 1
	Duct tape	x 1
	Jumper wires (generic)	x 1
	Adafruit NeoPixel Ring: WS2812 5050 RGB LED	x 1
	Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless	x 1

Software apps and online services

Discord

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Soldering iron (generic)

x 1

Story

Project Video

A delightful oddity turned into a Discord fuelled spreader of gloom!

Hardware

There are two main components making up our project: a Raspberry Pi to provide computing power, and a NeoPixel Ring to shine bright.

To avoid messy wires appearing, you can also add a power source, in this case the LiFePO4wered/Pi+.

That's all, wire it all up, and take a well deserved break!

Discord Bot & Code

After setting up the Raspberry Pi, we can jump right into the code.

Creating a Discord bot by following these quicksteps is a great start. After which, we write the code controlling both the NeoPixel ring and interacting with Discord. The full code is included in this very article, happy copy pasting!

Construction

Last but not least, elegantly duct tape all your hardware in place.

*This experience may vary depending on your chosen oddity.

Result!

Turn on the Raspberry Pi, run the python script, mount the mask on a wall, and now you can enjoy a warm glow whenever your Discord bot is mentioned!

Code

MaskMentionsCodeClean.py

import discord
import json
import time

import requests

import board
import neopixel

pixels = neopixel.NeoPixel(board.D18, 12) # Raspberry Pi wiring!

def brightnessBeat():

    steps = 72
    start = time.time()
    startBrightness = 0.01
    brightnessSteps = 0.014

    for i in range(1,steps):

        startBrightness = startBrightness + brightnessSteps
        pixels.brightness = startBrightness
        pixels.fill((255, 0, 0))

        time.sleep(0.04)

    print(startBrightness)
    time.sleep(0.1)

    for i in range(1,steps):

        startBrightness = startBrightness - brightnessSteps
        pixels.brightness = startBrightness
        pixels.fill((255, 0, 0))

        time.sleep(0.04)

    time.sleep(0.1)
    end = time.time()
    pixels.fill((0, 0, 0))
    pixels.show()
    print(end-start)

class MyClient(discord.Client):

    async def on_ready(self):

        print('Logged on as', self.user)

    async def on_message(self, message):

        if "<@!YOURIDHERE>" in message.content:
            brightnessBeat()

client = MyClient()
client.run('YOUR TOKEN HERE')

Credits

8BitsAndAByte

We’re Dane & Nicole, two makers that create tremendously terrible tech, which we happily share with you on our channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/8bitsandabyte

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