Christmas lights in a bottle

iseries

I think a great use of a propeller mini board and some LED's is to make a bottle with
lights in it and have the propeller drive them.

I have seen where they take a glass drill and make a hole in the bottom of a wine
bottle and then feed a string of lights into it.

This could be a simple project for the propeller along with maybe playing jingle bells.

The trick will be getting all the LED's in the bottle.

Tubular

I had a play with something like that, iseries, and it has been a lot of fun. There's something about the 'things in a bottle' form factor thats attractive, I don't know why

This is a 5m long ws2812 strip, complete with silicon, stuffed into a fairly standard water bottle. It's meant to emulate the captured 'trogglehumper dream' from Roald Dahl's BFG, though we departed from the original color set. You can see the propeller driving board in the background.
http://www.hackmelbourne.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014-07-15-20.12.41.jpg

It would be even better to get the propeller, a wireless programming adapter, and lipo or perhaps a wireless charging coil set (adafruit) into the jar or bottle. If an accelerometer was added you could respond to shaking, or 'flow' the light from one end to other as if it were a liquid.

Publison

For a museum exhibit, I put a 5M LED strip embedded in a hollow shell representing a cochlea for the inner ear that I molded and filled with Smooth-On Clear Cast tinted with a little blue tint.

Of course it was driven by a propeller!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qpJ-QDRzwY

Tubular

Thats brilliant Jim! Very effective