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Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: add animated seed pixel lights to a Chinese Dragon kite and watch the lights animate as it twirls through the air. This is a fairly easy build with a wonderfully dramatic result that will make you stand out at any Lunar New Year parade. Learn to use the free, open-source WLED software to control your lights. WLED’s Segments feature to light the head, eyes, and tail in different animation modes while using just one long LED pixel strip.

From the guide:

May the spirit of the Dragon bring courage to your heart and fire to your dreams.

These glowing Dragon Kite Poi use flexible LED seed pixels and a Mini Sparkle Motion controller running WLED. Create flowing ribbons of animated light that float through the air, with no coding required.

These props are so much fun to customize with dazzling colors and animations. In this tutorial, you’ll build your own illuminated Dragon Kite Poi and learn how to bring a little extra fire-breathing magic to the night. These are perfect for Lunar New Year celebrations, festivals, dragon dances, flow arts, and nighttime performances,

WLED makes it easy to add fire, water, or air color schemes to bring your Dragon Persona to life, and to make them pulse or blink or dance to your whim. You can even make them sound-reactive with the Mini Sparkle Motion’s onboard microphone.

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Mini Sparkle Motion: https://www.adafruit.com/product/6160

Seed Pixels: https://www.adafruit.com/product/6023