Lion-Dog – Light-up decorative ornament

For this project, I am using a porcelain container in the shape of a lion-dog.

The head of the lion-dog is the top/lid to the container (body). My idea involves placing LED lights into the head of the lion-dog (which is hollow), connected to a mini breadboard and the Arduino.

The head of the lion-dog contains openings in the eyes and mouth, which is where a touch sensor will hang out of the mouth, like a tongue. When a person touches the touch sensor, this will turn on the LED lights inside the lion-dog head and cause it to glow bright red, as if the lion-dog is angry.

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Porcelain lion-dog ornament

RIGHT / BELOW:

2 red LED lights attached to cables that will be placed inside the hollow head of the lion-dog.

This will allow the lights to glow red out of the eyes and mouth.

LEFT:

Placing the 2 red LED lights into the hollow base of the head.

RIGHT:

Lion-dog with a touch sensor.

Notice: the touch sensor will not be placed inside the mouth just yet, for demonstration purposes.

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Touch sensor being used, which activates the red LED lights inside the lion-dog.

RIGHT:

The lion-dog attached to cables that are connected to a breadboard and Arduino to make this mechanism possible.

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The actual product will have the touch sensor poking out of the lion-dog’s mouth, like a tongue sticking out.

If you touch the lion-dog’s ‘tongue’, it will react and it’s eyes will glow bright red in anger.

RIGHT:

The actual product will contain a mini breadboard and Arduino with all of its cables and necessary components tucked away inside the base of the lion dog. The actual lion-dog would be made larger to allow this.

Notice: due to size limitations, the breadboard and Arduino and its connections will remain outside of the actual lion-dog for demonstration purposes.