Connect Colorwell to the battery holder using conductive thread, conductive paint, or regular wire Use two separate threads, one for plus and one for minus Go through each hole 4-6 times to make a good connection, not just once Make sure there is no short circuit Insert a 3 volt battery. It should start changing colors NOTE:Don't connect to other LEDs or Sparkle.

The tiny red light never goes all the way off: it stays on when Colorwell is running, flashes rapidly when waiting for a program, and flashes once per second while sleeping. If you cannot see this light at all, try a fresh battery and double-check your connections. Look for places where two threads might be touching.

If you can't quickly figure it out, it's best to totally undo the circuit, and sew only two things: Colorwell , and battery. Once this works, add the sensor (if you have one).

 

In this case, the first thing to do would be to reset Colorwell, to make it change colors again

turn Colorwell over connect the plus and minus holes to a 3V battery briefly connect the reset pad to the reset hole with tweezers or needle wait 1 second repeat steps 1-3 until Colorwell's starts change color again You can do this even after the project is sewn down, just use a pair of tweezers.

 

 

• Hold your finger, a needle, or tweezers to the strip under the tiny red LED
• After 1 second, the tiny red LED should start flashing
• Keep your finger on the touch strip for more than 1 second
• The red LED will fade off, and Colorwell will go to sleep
• Press the touch strip again to wake it up.
• Check out the video for more

• Go to: aniomagic.com/program
• Hold your finger, a needle, or tweezers to the strip under the tiny red LED.
• After 1 second, the tiny red LED should start flashing.
• Put Colorwell in front of the icon on the screen and click send.
• Check out the video for more

The touch strip measures the capacitance in your finger. It might help to use a needle or paperclip for better contact. Moistening your finger works too.

• Hold Colorwell closer to the screen.
• Make the screen brighter or change the contrast.
• Dim the lights; a brightly lit environment overpowers the sensor.
• If your web browser is playing a video or doing some other activity, it throws off the timing.
  Close all other browser windows and see if this solves the problem.

Colorwell changes color between two points (BEGIN and END), and also displays the intermediate colors as it changes.
 

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There is also a textual programming language, so you could write more expressive programs:

This causes Colorwell to gradually change between two colors, where the number (1 - 10) corresponds to the 10 colors in the PANTONE® fashion color report.  

 

This causes Colorwell to change colors depending on how fast you move (you'll need to attach a sensor):  

 
 

 
Get more in-depth with programming.