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Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 3D Printed Bladesaw

3D Print a Bladesaw

by Ruiz Brothers

Build this motorized Blade saw from Zelda Breath of the wild!

Make It Hot or Cold

Use a Crickit and Circuit Playground Express to heat or cool items.

Keeping things at a certain temperature, heating them up or cooling them off is something we all do daily. Learn how to use some common electrical parts and a microcontroller to automate your heating and cooling needs.

MIDI Solenoid Drummer

Use Crickit to build an automated percussive instrument.

by C. Cunningham

This project shows you how to use an Adafruit Feather, Crickit, & four 5V solenoids to build a MIDI sequenced miniature drumkit.

Automatic Cat Treat Dispenser

Train your cat to press a button to receive a reward

This simple robotics project uses CRICKIT for CPX to detect a capacitive touch press and dispense a reward.

Motorized Marble Machine

Build an Automated Marble Run!

by Ruiz Brothers

Add a Crickit and Circuit Playground Express to automate this mesmerizing marble run!

Crickit Lab Shaker

Build a lab shaker to agitate parts with PVA supports!

by Ruiz Brothers

Use an Adafruit CRICKIT, Circuit Clayground Express and 3D printed parts to build a DIY lab shaker. Dissolve 3D print supports or perhaps mix your favorite liquids.

Paper Airplane Launcher

Test your paper airplane designs with this DIY cardboard launcher

Build a launching device for paper airplanes. Test different designs and see which fly best! The project uses a Circuit Playground Express microcontroller and the Crickit robotics add-on board.

Make It Bubble

Make a soap bubble blowing robot for bubbly fun

Why waste your breath blowing bubbles when you can have your own robot continuously blow them for you? This guide gets you quickly started in making a bubble bot with tips and code for the Adafruit Crickit.

Rack and Pinion Bot

Make a reciprocating rack pinion mechanism that moves round and round!

by Ruiz Brothers

Use 3D printing, a DC gear motor and the CRICKIT robotics platform to make a kawaii monster. This reciprocating rack and pinion mechanism makes it side step!

Crickit Harmonic Drawing Machine

Create beautiful complex harmonic curves with this drawing robot!

Use LEGO and Crickit to drive this harmonic curve drawing robot. Two rotating drives running out of sync transmit motion to the pen mounted on your Technic beam pantograph.

Crickit Paddle Wheel Boat

Build a water rover with Crickit and Circuit Playground Express

by Ruiz Brothers

Make a Crickit powered water rover! Use 3d printing and makecode to build a boat with a camera attachment for research and photography!

CRICKIT Snake Bot

A CRICKIT based robot snake that can make it's way around a space.

Use a CRICKIT robotics board to build a robot that can maneuver around a space by interacting with its environment.

The Scream: Interactive Screaming Painting

Scream at The Scream and The Scream screams back!

Using sound level sensing to detect your screams, the Crikit and Circuit Playground Express control the servo-driven head shaking and amplified wave file playback of the existential scream in return, just as Edvard Munch would have wanted it.

LEGO Crickit Rover

Make a two wheeled robot

by Ruiz Brothers

3D printed parts and lego bricks come together!

Crawling Baby Sea Turtle Robot

Get this baby sea turtle safely to the ocean!

Build a robotic baby sea turtle that pulls itself along with its flippers. This project demonstrates beginner robotic skills and pairs electronics with household recyclable materials.

Make It Glow With Crickit

Use NeoPixels on your Crickit Projects in MakeCode and CircuitPython

Most robotics focus on the motors, the movement. Today, we can go beyond the status quo by easily adding stylish lighting effects to robotics using Crickit.

Using Crickit and Adafruit IO together

Use a Crickit and a Feather Huzzah to communicate with other objects using Arduino code

Cricket provides an easy way to add measurement and action to a project. Adafruit IO provides an easy way to collect data from devices, make some basic decisions based on it, and communicate back to devices. Putting them together by using a Feather with network capabilities opens the gates to some interesting possibilities.

Hello World of Robotics with Crickit

Starting out in robotics, get up and running in a single setting with Adafruit Crickit and Circuit Playground Express

Robotics has often been a lot of work. With modern hardware and software, it is now possible to get up and going quickly in a single sit-down, in as little as 15 minutes. Using Adafruit Circuit Playground Express with Crickit, you can actually have a movement + sound project running quickly with a satisfying sense of accomplishment.

Paper Craft Zoetrope with Crickit

Make a spinning optical illusion toy with some paper and a motor

A Zoetrope is a device for making a short series of images appear animated. This project shows how to build your own simple paper craft zoetrope, generate your own animations, and program it to run using CircuitPython.

Mount for CRICKIT

3D print a mount for your robotics projects

by Ruiz Brothers

3D print a handy mount for the CRICKIT board. Use screws or zip ties it onto attach the PCB to just about anything!

Stroboscopic Zoetrope

Use blinking light to animate spinning faces, all synced up by Crickit!

A disc powered by a Crickit-driven DC motor spins your objects, while the Circuit Playground Express NeoPixels strobe the light needed to create persistence of vision animation! All programmed with MakeCode. Make your own Zoetrope!

AdaBox 008

Explore and use the contents of your AdaBox 008

Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies. If they did, they'd know that making robots into slaves always ends up in a robot rebellion. Why even go down that path? Here at Adafruit we believe in making robots our friends! This ADABOX is based around CRICKIT a Creative Robotics and Interactive Creations tool KIT. When paired with motors, servos, a Circuit Playground Express and your own creativity, you'll be able to craft your very own Robot Friend!

Hammer Time Mini Golf Hazard with Crickit

Build a mini golf hole with crushing hammer hazard!

This mini golf hole will flatten your ball if your timing is perfect! OK, probably not flatten it, but you won't sink the ball either! Use a Crickit with Circuit Playground Express to control this TT motor driven cardboard constructed hammer.

Mini Golf Course with Circuit Playground and Crickit

Make an interactive miniature golf course

Use CRICKIT and Circuit Playground Express to create your own miniature golf game. This project can be built out of readily available household materials and uses MakeCode to control the obstacles which you must navigate your ball through.

Make it Move with Crickit

If your project needs to move, here is the guide to assist you.

Getting from the concept of "I want my project to move X to Y" to something which works like your concept can be surprisingly difficult in the past. With the Adafruit Crickit robotics platform, you can understand what motors you want to consider and create working code within minutes.

Crickit Powered Minerva Owl Robot

Eyes that move, wings that flap! Build your own owl robot!

Use Circuit Playground Express and Crickit to control your own owl robot that uses a clever, but simple to build construction trick using paper cups for moving eyes! Plus, your owl will be able to speak using a small speaker and some prepared wav files!

Adding an Accelerometer to your FeatherWing Crickit

Provide accelerometer information for your Feather-based robotics project.

When you use the Circuit Playground Express and it's matching Cricket you have access to the accelerometer on the CPX. Not so with the Feather version. This guide will help you add an accelerometer to the FeatherWing Crickit.

Sparky the Blue Smoke Monster Automaton

Talking Sparky guides you when you are wiring things up

This project for CRICKIT and Circuit Playground Express teaches basic CircuitPython programming skills and can be adapted into an automaton that performs multiple functions.