I recognized a need in my gaming space for some fun décor to spice it up and make it more engrossing.  To do this I make a backlit plasma cut gaming gun for my gaming space.  Materials I used included Arduino, neopixels and plasma cutting for the actual showpiece.

Finite state machine changed by a button (second state includes the sound)

The final project design ended included the button, Arduino, external soundboard and neopixel strip.

Here I had completed the functional prototype with sound and neopixels.  The sound was the biggest challenge as I had taken a soundboard from a children's toy I got off amazon.  I was able to wire it to an Arduino pin and turn the pin on and off with different states in my finite state machine.

The final prototype with raw cedar backing and plasma cut vandal from Valorant.  Including working states and neopixels

This project was fun to make, as I got to use many skills including programming, woodworking, metal working, plasma-cutting and fusion 360 modeling.  It was a fun challenge to bring all of these resources together and make a cool project I can say I am both proud of and excited to improve upon.