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Making Adabot: Part 2
Make your bot move, blink, and smile!
by Rick Winscot
Ready to add electronics to the body and breath a little life into your Adabot?
3D Printed Google Glass Adapter
A 3d printed plastic adapter turns any frame into prescription google glasses.
by Ruiz Brothers
Upgrade your google glass with your own frames using a 3d printed adapter.
3D Printing with NinjaFlex
Print your next creation in flexible material with ninja flex.
by Ruiz Brothers
Find out how to use this flexible material for creating awesome 3d printed projects.
3D Printing for Chocolate Molds
Make custom chocolate treats with 3D printing!
by Ruiz Brothers
3d printing food is here and its delicious! Although we cant 3D print chocolate on our Makerbot quite yet, you can design and print your own chocolate molds just in time for Valentine's Day.
3D Printed Valentine with Bare Conductive Electric Paint
Light up your valentine'ss geeky heart
by Ruiz Brothers
Light up your valentine's geeky heart, with our 3d printed AdaBot card, using LEDs and bare conductive paint.
3D Printed Camera LED Ring
Turn a 24x NeoPixel ring into a light for a DSLR camera
by Ruiz Brothers
Trying to get those pixel perfect macro shots on a budget? Build your own diy low cost ring of light with a NeoPixel Ring and Trinket, Adafruit tiny arduino micro controller.
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NeoPixel Coat Buttons
Make glowy buttons for apparel
by Ruiz Brothers
3D Print coat buttons and sew together NeoPixels for an awesome glowy coat!
3D Printed Flora Band
Make a flexible motion-activated LED arm/wrist band.
by Ruiz Brothers
Stay safe and look stylish with a 3D Printed Flora safety band.
Trinket Powered Rover
Small and sweet this rover can't be beat.
by Rick Winscot
Here's a low-cost and ultra fun rover to make yourself or use as a teaching aid.
Trellis 3D Printed Enclosure
Build an enclosure for your Trellis project
by Ruiz Brothers
Customize and 3D Print our enclosure for the Trellis, open-source button platform to fit your project.
3D Printed LED Microphone Flag
Build a sound reactive LED microphone flag
by Ruiz Brothers
Want to wow the audience at your next gig? Light up those parties with a 3D Printed, LED sound reactive microphone flag. This project uses a microphone sensor to illuminate a custom 3d printed mic flag. You can design yours, or use our STLs to print and make your own!
3D Printed NeoPixel Ring Hair Dress
Build a Fabulous LED Hair Dress
by Ruiz Brothers
Build a 3D printed hair dress powered by Gemma to sequence LED animations!
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3D Printed Animatronic Robot Head
An entry-level robotics / animatronics project.
by Rick Winscot
Transform a pair of desktop speakers, two servos, and a handful of 3D printed parts into a fully functional animatronic robot head.
3D Printed Wireless MIDI Controller Guitar
Make your own awesome wireless MIDI controller guitar for rocking out
by Ruiz Brothers
Rock out with your very own wireless Keytar, a bluetooth MIDI controller that works with any computer or tablet! Jam out with up to 12 buttons that can be customized to trigger sounds or effects.This project uses the E-Z Key bluefruit wireless controller from Adafruit. The guitar features 4 arcade buttons and 6 LED push buttons. The guitar can be used as a MIDI instrument, video game controller and even DJ controller. You can customize and configure your guitar to be whatever you want.
3D Printed LED Goggles
Why mod when you can make?
by Rick Winscot
Make it easy for your friends to find you in a crowd with some blinky awesome scratch-built headgear. PLA plastic from your 3D printer is a fine match for NeoPixel Rings.
3D Modeling Negatives
For all the things you can't print...
by Rick Winscot
People are creating all kinds of amazing things with inexpensive 3D printers. But realistically... not everything can (or should) be 3D printed.
3D Printed LED Buckle
Combine Gemma & 3D printing for your very own glowy wearables project
by Ruiz Brothers
Here's a stylish weekend project with this 3D Printed LED belt buckle, powered by GEMMA Adafruit's wearable electronics platform and three RGB NeoPixels
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Making Adabot: Part 1
Chassis / body construction.
by Rick Winscot
Robots don't have to be made out of titanium... to be awesome!
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Silicone Robo-Tentacle
Build your own soft pneumatic robot using 3d printing and silicone casting
by M. Borgatti
This squishy tentacle robot has no hard moving parts. It's entirely powered by air pressure. If you've got a 3d printer chances are you can make your own working tentacle in a matter of days.
Skill Badge Guide: 3D Printing
An informative guide for meeting the requirements to earn your 3D Printing Skill Badge!
by Adam Kemp
This guide is designed to provide all of the information and skills necessary to earn the 3D Printing Skills Badge!
3D Printed Watch Body for the TIMESQUARE DIY Watch Kit
Model and print your own enclosure!
by Matthew Griffin
The Adafruit TIMESQUARE DIY Watch kit already ships with style to spare, but why stop with the silicone band that comes with the kit when you can make your own? Here are the steps taken to create the "Circling the Square" custom 3D printed TIMESQUARE watch body.