Fairies Don’t Poop
So if you’re after a weekend project, and you need to placate tiny humans, you could do a lot worse than a Fairy Cottage. A fairy cottage is like a dolls house except you don’t play with it, you put it somewhere and invite fairies to come and live in it by being quiet and going to sleep. I’ve taken the concept and made into a night light using an Arduino and a set of addressable LEDs. it’s powered by a USB wallwort and each room will randomly light between 5 and ten minutes. Theoretically it might not light at all, but statistically it should turn on at least one room after a while. Here it is: read on for build instructions OK, so the cottage itself is from here http://www.makecnc.com/berea-contrast-house.php and is really well designed and detailed. The zip file has versions for lasercut and CNC and for different thicknesses of material: 5 out of 5, would download again. The only thing i would say is that if you’re using cheap wood (and i would) its not going to hold up to much abuse. The roof is supposed to lift off but its a pain to get on and off and i broke a bit just tr