It looks calm at first just a pair of normal eyes.But when the lights go out, it awakens.
This is the Mighty Sharingan Mask: a pop-culture-inspired wearable that transforms in real time, triggered purely by darkness.
Phase 1:In normal lighting, the mask displays human-like eyes.As ambient light drops, the eyes instantly transform, revealing the Sharingan.
Phase 2: Multiple Sharingan FormsOnce awakened, the mask cycles through eight different Sharingan designs, displayed simultaneously on both round screens.
Where It Began: The Junk DrawerThis project started by opening my junk drawer filled with unused parts and unfinished ideas waiting for a purpose.
From that drawer, I picked just a few components: an ESP32, two round TFT displays, an LDR, and a mask base.
This video shows the displays running the normal eye code while the LDR controls the transition in real tim
Loading All EffectsAll eight Sharingan animations were then uploaded to the ESP32 and tested with synchronized playback on both displays.
Final AssemblyWith everything working, the electronics were assembled into the mask, turning the prototype into a finished wearable.
The Visual EffectsA closer look at the Sharingan designs optimized for round TFT displays.
The animations were cropped, resized, and compressed using EasyGIF to fit the displays efficiently.
The optimized GIFs were converted into C arrays and embedded directly into the ESP32 firmware.
The Mighty Sharingan Mask proves that you don’t need complex hardware to create something expressive. With minimal parts and a simple idea, a forgotten set of components became a reactive, pop-culture-inspired wearable exactly in the spirit of the Junk Drawer Challenge.















Comments