About: Hey everyone! My name is Brian and thanks for checking my Instructables. I'm a software developer by trade but I've recently gotten into Arduino development after discovering the esp8266 chip, a WiFi enable…

For my daughters second birthday, we decided to get her a kitchen set. But I really wanted to make what we got her special and after being inspired by what some awesome makers had done with the Ikea Duktig Kitchen, we decided to get one and to make some modifications to it to make in unique.

The two new features we added to the kitchen are

Oven Mod:

Adding lights to the oven section that could be set to different colours and that the brightness could be adjusted. This is obviously is not a realistic representation of how an oven works, but our daughter was just starting to learn her colours and we thought that she would really enjoy swapping between the different colours. (sorry about my dog wanting to be famous)

Microwave Mod:

Adding lights and a timer to the microwave section. I went for a little bit more realism here, even trying to simulate the item in the microwave spinning by rotating the lit LED around the neopixel ring. This was bit too advanced for her at the time but now that she is a few months older she does really like this too!

Seeing my Daughter play with this for the first time is probably my proudest moment as a maker. A lot of the times the things I make might be kind of interesting or cool, but seeing the glow on my Daugther's face the first time she was playing with it is honestly one of the highlights of my Dad career so far (some of it was from the Oven lights, but there was serious joy too!)