Have you ever come across an Internet meme and just thought to yourself, “I have to bring this into the physical world!” Well [0xb3nn] and [Knit Knit] did. They decided to take the classic nyan cat meme and bring it to life.
The frame is 24″ x 36″. Many hours went into the knitting process, but the result obviously turned out very well. The stars include 24 LED sequins to add a sparkling animation effect. These were sewn onto the back of the work using conductive thread. They are bright enough to shine through to the front where needed. These connect back to an Arduino Pro Mini 5V board.
The Arduino is also connected to a capacitive touch sensor. This allows the user to simply place their hand over the nyan cat image to start the animation. No need for physical buttons or switches to take away from the visual design. An Adafruit AudioFX sound board was used to play back a saved nyan cat theme song over a couple of speakers. The source code for this project is available on github. Be sure to watch the demo video below.
I thought most Internet memes are an abstraction of the physical world…
I’m rather disappointed the rainbow doesn’t wave. That’s what I was expecting when “animation” was mentioned.
I think it’s just groovy and I like it.
It’s just not the same in static
Anybody remember the Nyan Hat?
pretty cool, i’m working on a cross stitch doge myself.
Not sure how effective the twinkly stars are without the rainbow wave but the logistics for that are incomprehensible to me.