Light Up the Season: Custom LED Class

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Light Up Your Holidays with Custom LED Magic!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — so why not make it shine even brighter? Join us for a fun, hands-on, three-hour workshop where you’ll learn how to create your own smart, color-changing LED lights that can flash, fade, and dance in any pattern you like. Perfect for holiday decorations, art projects, or just adding some glow to your space year-round!

In this class, you’ll learn how to: Program LED lights Use simple software to create your own light patterns and colors Control your lights from your computer or phone using a free program called WLED

What you’ll need:

• An ESP32 board – This is a small, affordable controller that runs your lights.

• ESP32-WROOM32 – The best choice for most people (recommended!)

• ESP32-WROVER – Great if you want to run huge light displays (1,000+ LEDs)

• ESP32-S3 – Best if you want your lights to move with sound or music

• USB cable for the ESP32

• WS2812B LED lights – You can get these as light strips, panels, or shapes.

• IP30 – For indoor use only

• IP65 – Weather-resistant, great for outdoor setups

Bring your creativity — and leave with the knowledge to make your lights sparkle, dance, and shine however you want this holiday season!

We have 6 Laptops for students to use. If you can bring your own laptop to work on that would help us allocate the ones we have for those who may need one.

Age 10+, under 18 must be accompanied by a guardian.

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