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Brain Machine
Explore altered states of consciousness
The Brain Machine provides you with a fun, easy way to meditate, all the while being very photogenic! They work with lights and sounds that pulse at a 14-minute-long meditation sequence of brainwave frequencies. Your brain synchronizes to this meditation sequence, and you meditate. It's that easy! And the beautiful colors and patterns you vividly imagine along the way make it fun and enjoyable.
LED Origami
Papertronics!
Light up your favorite origami forms with this easy tutorial! We'll show you how to make a frog and lotus glow as they float on transparent conductive ITO, and also to install an onboard battery for more portable fun. No soldering required!
LED Gummy Candies
Gum drop LEDs you can actually eat!
Ever look at a pile of 10mm LEDs and think "mmm, they look just like gumdrops!" These LED gummy candies are so realistic they'll have your friends fooled at first, then delighted that they are actually edible (and delicious). This tutorial covers the basics of food-safe silicone mold making and provides a recipe for gummy candies you can make at home.
Skill Badge Sash
Make a cool sash to display your maker skill badges!
Make a place to collect all of your badges for modern technological skills. Print out the pattern and sew up your very own hacker scouts sash.
Cross Stitch
Stitches are like pixels
So you want to learn cross stitch! Cross stitch is the process of turning a grid of pixels into a stitched masterpiece with tiny Xs in colored floss.
Electro-knit
Hacking the Brother KH-930e knitting machine
This tutorial covers how to talk to a computerized knitting machine. Once the interface cable is made, we can create cool custom patterns and load them from a computer!
Resistor Helper
Papercraft resistor calculator!
We’re excited to share this Resistor Helper you can download and make yourself. It’s the newest tool in our Circuit Playground family– when you can’t get to your iPhone or iPad, use paper! One side helps you read 4-band types and the other side takes care of 5-band types.
FLORA TV-B-Gone
A tiny television neutralizer
The most wearable TV-B-Gone yet! Use freehand wiring with solder to whip up this pin capable of shutting off most television sets. Craft your own fabric ornament to match any outfit.
USB NeXT Keyboard with an Arduino Micro
Get out your 10 lb keyboards!
Ladyada and pt had an old NeXT keyboard with a strong desire to get it running on a modern computer. These keyboards are durable, super clicky, and very satisfying to use! We spent a few days and with a little research we got it working perfectly using an Arduino Micro as the go between. Now this lovely black deck works like any other USB keyboard. Sure it weighs more than our Macbook, but its worth it!
TIMESQUARE Watch Kit
Show up stylish AND on time to any event with this awesome looking DIY watch.
Show up stylish AND on time to any event with this awesome looking DIY watch. Build your own fashionable time piece, with multiple watch 'faces' and a bright 8x8 matrix display
Tiny Arduino Music Visualizer
Maximum blinkenlights, minimum effort!
This easy project combines an Arduino with our microphone amplifier and bicolor LED matrix to create a music visualizer that responds to ambient sound.
Wave Shield Voice Changer
Speak like everyone's favorite baritone Sith lord or sing along with the Lollipop Guild!
Like a fine wine, open source projects improve with age. We've taught this classic shield a new trick: a realtime voice changer!
Light Painting with Raspberry Pi
Awesome photographic effects!
Light painting — a technique mixing photography with electronics — becomes astoundingly simple when Raspberry Pi is involved.

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In 2012, after years of coding tutorials by hand, Limor put together a small team to build a custom tutorial management system from the ground up. The Adafruit Learning System allows us to make a wide range of awesome tutorials fast and efficiently. We hope these tutorials will help you learn something new, and inspire you to make something great!

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