Different Time Zone Birthday Reminder
Introduction: Different Time Zone Birthday Reminder
Do you also have that friend who moved far away and keeps forgetting everyone's birthdays because of different time zones? We have the perfect gift for them. Let's begin.
Supplies
Breadboard
Huzzah Board
Wires
Yellow LED
Button
Resistor
Felt Fabric
Small Chipboard Cylinder
Circle with a Larger Diameter
Masking Tape
Polyfill
Brown Paper
Sewing Kit
Sewing Machine
Hemming Pins
Hot Glue Gun
Scissors
Yellow Gel Sheet
Cylindrical Thin White Acrylic Tube
Tacky Glue
Step 1: Setting Up the Circuit
Following <PERSON> Lesson 5, set up your circuit, Adafruit command feed and IFTTT account. - https://www.instructables.com/Circuit-Displays-Internet-Data/
Step 2: Setting Up the IFTTT
Search for Google Calendar Applets on IFTTT
Click Create
Click If This and Search for Google Calendar triggers
Select Event from Search Starts
Select your preferred calendar
Type in the Keyword - Happy
Click Than That and select AdaFruit
Choose Action - Send Data to Adafruit IO
Select the command feed and enter 1 as Data to Save
Review and Finish your applet
Step 3:
Tally and test run the code by using the Add Data feature on Adafruit command feed.
Step 4: Setting Up Google Calendar Reminders
Create an event on your chosen google calendar and choose your preferred time zone by tapping on the globe icon. Set the event start time as 12 AM, so that you can wish your friend as soon as the clock strikes 12 in their time zone! Please name the event starting with "Happy" so that IFTTT applet can search for that automatically and send data to the command feed, and in turn, light up the candle.
Step 5: Making the Structure
Take a small cylindrical chipboard piece, the size of a large cupcake and a stiff circular piece slighter larger in diameter. Place it on top on the cylinder.
Step 6:
Take white acrylic tube and cut out a circle in slighter larger than the tube
Step 7:
Use masking tape to secure the structure in place and make sure to maintain the tapered shape of the objects together
Step 8:
Use polyfill to stuff inside the cavity created between the masking tape and the chipboard cylinder
Step 9:
Tuck in the polyfill and use more masking tape to further secure the structure. It should feel plushy and curved cupcake based on touch.
Step 10:
Take the felt fabric and cut three pairs of circles with decreasing sizes with a tiny circle at the centre. Take the two identical pieces and sew them together around the larger perimeter using either a sewing machine or by hand.
Step 11:
Take the three pairs of circular felt fabric pieces and stuff them up with polyfill and assemble on top on the cupcake base. Do not stick them together just yet.
Step 12:
Covering up a curved and tapered base is not easy and need to use principles of pattern making to achieve this task. 175
Take a brown strip of paper, approximately the same height and length (perimeter) as the cupcake base. Divide and cut it into tiny triangles as shown above and transfer onto a long strip of masking tape. You this to measure out the exact amount of fabric required to cover the base.
Step 13:
Once you have finalised on the ideal pattern, transfer that onto the piece of fabric. Make sure you cut the pieces 1/4th of an inch larger than the exact measurements to leave some scope for overlap
Step 14:
Use glue gun to secure the pieces together and wrap them around the base of the cupcake.
Step 15:
Make tiny slits at the bottom of the pattern and fold it inside the cupcake bottom and secure with some glue gun. Cut another circular piece with the exact same measurements as the top of the cupcake base, with a tiny hole on the centre.
Step 16:
Assemble all the elements and stick them together using glue gun. Be careful to not use extra as the hot glue hardens over time and make the fabric stiff and also stains it darker.
Step 17:
In order to give a more natural and droopy look to your cupcake, place it under a large heavy surface overnight, to push down the fluff.
Step 18:
To achieve the look of a birthday candle, we need to place the LED at the top of our acrylic tube candle. In order to do so, we will extend it by soldering it to two long wires. Since we are using breadboard for the circuit, make sure to attach jumper wires to the LEDs ends. 6