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Cardboard Fundamentals
Learn to build mechanisms, structures, and more with cardboard!
by John Park
A fundamental guide for creating things with corrugated fiberboard and paperboard, scavenged from cardboard shipping boxes, tubes, and other packaging. You'll learn to cut, crease, score, bend, and fold cardboard to meet your design goals. We'll cover gluing, taping, and mechanically fastening cardboard edges, faces, and joints for building an array of essential designs.
Using Cutting Machines for Projects
Make Blinka, Minerva, Crickit and Adabot!
by Ruiz Brothers
Learn how to use a vinyal cutter to create papercrafts for electronics and more!
Trash Panda
Adorable Hugging Panda Friend
by Dano Wall
An animal panda you can build out of a scrap Amazon box. Demonstrates how to use CRICKIT paired with Circuit Playground Express to control multiple motors at once.
Snake Charmer Box
Fun beginner's project for Circuit Playground Express
by Dano Wall
Learn how to use Circuit Playground Express and MakeCode to charm Blinka out of her box! This guide will show you how to control a servo motor and play music with your Circuit Playground Express, as well as use different inputs in MakeCode.
Ever-Burning Flame Painting
Illuminate your artwork from the inside
by Erin St Blaine
Neopixel strips and acrylic paint create the illusion of a roaring fire you can hang on your wall. A capacitive touch button makes the flames burn high or die down. Powered by Circuit Playground and the FastLED arduino library.
Bunny Ears with MakeCode
Motion Reactive LED Costume Ears
by Erin St Blaine
Use Circuit Playground Express and MakeCode to build an interactive set of costume bunny ears. Hop up and down or tilt your head to trigger custom neopixel animations.
How to Construct Crosswords & Word Searches
Use simple online tools and apps to make your own puzzles!
by John Park
We've filled our custom crossword puzzle and word search with fun STEAM/STEM, high-tech, and Adafruit terms. You can make your own to share with your students, classmates, and friends!
Circuit Playground: M is for MOSFET
Learn about the super powers of MOSFETs!
by C. Cunningham
Visit Circuit Playground and find out how MOSFETs can make small electrical signals POWERFUL!
Circuit Playground: L is for LED
LEDs are glowing crystals!
by C. Cunningham
Billie's got the blues and Adabot has lots of questions. Learn about how an LED works with Adabot and the Circuit Playground components!
Circuit Playground: K is for Kits
Build some kits with Ladyada & the Circuit Playground gang!
by C. Cunningham
Adabot & the Circuit Playground components love to jam, but they could use some new instruments. Luckily, Ladyada has few kits up her sleeve!
Circuit Playground: J is for Joule
Learn about the Joule - a unit for measuring work
by C. Cunningham
Adabot gets working with James Prescott Joule and learns all about the Joule, a unit which measures work itself!
Circuit Playground Lesson #0
The first step on your electronics journey
by lady ada
If you're here, it's because you want to learn how to build and make stuff with electronics! And, you're in luck: there's never been a better time. Gone are the days where you need thousands of dollars of equipment and lots physics/math background. Nowadays, if you want to learn to work with electronics, you can jump right in for $20 or less, and any sort of computer.
Introducing Circuit Playground
Your playground for exploring the world of electronics
by lady ada
Would you like to learn electronics, with an all-in-one board that has sensors and LEDs built in? Circuit Playground is here, and it's the best way to practice programming on real hardware. No soldering or sewing required!
Adafruit 3D Printed Chess Set
Get ready to play Circuit Playground Chess!
by Ruiz Brothers
3D print a lovely electronics inspired chess set from metallic filament. Each piece is inspired by Circuit Playground, and has a lovely metal sheen. We even designed a 3D-printed snap-together chess board.
Circuit Playground: D is for Diode
Learn about the electronic one-way valve!
by C. Cunningham
Join Adabot & Woz as they explore how a diode controls the flow of electrons and how it's used in a circuit.
Circuit Playground: F is for Frequency
Learn about frequency from a talking oscilloscope!
by C. Cunningham
Frequency is how often something happens over time - and it's important for many things, including radio broadcast & sound.
Circuit Playground: C is for Capacitor
Capacitor basics for everyone
by C. Cunningham
"C is for Capacitor" - Circuit Playground Episode 3! Learn all about electronics and how capacitors work with Ladyada, Cappy and ADABOT!
Circuit Playground: B is for Battery
Learn all about batteries!
by C. Cunningham
"B is for Battery" - Circuit Playground Episode 2! Learn all about electronics and how to make a lemon battery with Ladyada and Adabot!
Circuit Playground - A is for Ampere
Adafruit’s new kid’s show is here!
by lady ada
Circuit Playground “A is for Ampere” – Episode 1, learn all about electronics with Ladyada, ADABOT and special guests! Ampere describes the number of electrons that flow through a circuit in one second. It is named after Andre-Marie Ampere.
Skill Badge Sash
Make a cool sash to display your maker skill badges!
by Becky Stern
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.