Michael C Piccuirro
Michael C Piccuirro
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Michael C Piccuirro

Technical Director, Creative Technologist, Developer

I have over 15 years experience building amazing technology experiences for some of the biggest brands in the world.  

Bluetooth LED Pinewood Derby Car

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My son is in the Cub Scouts and wanted to build a "Star Power Mario Car" for the pinewood derby. There are a lot awards other than fastest that you can pickup so I decided to go for style points. I used a Tinket, Bluefuirt and Neopixel strips from Adafruit and basically combined this and this tutorial. It worked great for the judge but during the actual race the neopixels weren't working. I think didn't have enough power going to them.

Here's a video demoing what we built: