Coolest Dad Ever Does It Again for Glowy Zoey 2.0

In case you don’t remember the pure joy from last year, YouTube user (and official Cool Dad) Visual Burrito is at…
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Coolest Dad Ever Does It Again for Glowy Zoey 2.0

In case you don’t remember the pure joy from last year, YouTube user (and official Cool Dad) Visual Burrito is at…

Words: Breanna Murphy

October 21, 2014

Glowy Zoey 2.0 / Youtube user Visual Burrito

In case you don’t remember the pure joy from last year, YouTube user (and official Cool Dad) Visual Burrito is at it again.

After making his twenty-two-month-old daughter Zoey a lightstick costume last year, her (and our) squeals of tech glee resounded across the Internet and scored the video over 22 million views.

This year, he’s back, with a special treat for his daughter’s upcoming trip to Disneyland. The tech gear on this thing is pretty neat, as Visual Burrito notes:

“After last year’s costume went absolutely nuts, I had to make a new one that was much, much better. The 2014 version is using digitally addressable LED strips hooked up to an Arduino microcontroller which I programmed (and still learning). It is responsive to sound and has 2 potentiometers and a button in the back of one of the ears for control and a microphone hidden in the front. It has 12 modes and 372 LEDs (124 chips with 3 each).”

And you thought your Halloween costume was going to be so good this year.