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Cupcade: the Raspberry Pi Micro Arcade Cabinet
A tiny tribute to classic 1980s games
If a tiny cake is a cupcake, what's a tiny arcade game? “Cupcade” is a laser-cut enclosure housing a Raspberry Pi computer and Adafruit PiTFT for pixel-perfect renditions of arcade classics.
Author Gravatar Image PHILLIP BURGESS
DIY Wireless DDR Dance Pad with Bluefruit EZ-Key
For everyones on the go arcade dancing fix!
Bluetooth enabled dance game controler. Use with a DDR simulator such as "Stepmania" "Flash Flash Revolution" for desktop or "Beats" for Android. Can double as a fold up box for portability!
Author Gravatar Image PAUL BEAUDET
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3D Printed Personal Monitor Game Controller Mount
Make a personal gaming session without the big screen
Ever find yourself play games in bed but your partner just wants to sleep? Save your relationship without sacrificing your levels by 3D printing your own controller-display mount. Our 7" HDMI 720p monitor is perfect for gaming without the big screen
Author Gravatar Image NOE & PEDRO RUIZ
Cell Phone Charging Purse
Inductive charging handbag
Mod your purse to charge your phone! Install an inductive charging coil in the bottom of a handbag or backpack, then wire up the other half to an AC adapter and charge your phone wherever you stash your bag!
Author Gravatar Image BECKY STERN
Make a Google Glass remote with Bluefruit
Reconfigure Bluefruit as a remote!
Use a few buttons and a Bluefruit to control Google Glass wirelessly. Give you another option besides voice commands and trackpad.
Author Gravatar Image DEQING SUN
Random Spooky LED Eyes
What's that hiding in the bushes?
This is a super-simple solderless & spooky Halloween project for the Arduino. In 15 minutes you can create 12 pairs of creepy eyes peering out of a dark window or the shrubbery.
Author Gravatar Image WILLIAM EARL
STEAM-Punk Goggles
Great Googly Moogly!
What do you get when you mix Neopixel goggles with some high-tech sensors plus a little physics and math? You get a pair of wacky-yet-mesmerizing electronic googly eye STEAM-punk goggles!
Author Gravatar Image WILLIAM EARL
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Halloween Pumpkin
Scary Pumpkin!
Here is a quick project for an electronic halloween pumpkin. With a bit of hacking a $1 plastic pumpkin is upgraded: a sensor embedded in the nose detects when people get close and will play scarey sounds and animates LEDs on the face. The sounds are stored on an SD card so its easy to change and customize what the pumpkin says, while the code is written for an Arduino so its easy to modify the behavior. I'm going to have this pumpkin outside my door to freak out the little kids who go to daycare nearby. Boo!
Author Gravatar Image LADY ADA
Adafruit Kegomatic
The latest from Adafruit's kegerator
Team Adafruit is augmenting our kegerator to talk to the internet. More features being added every week!
Author Gravatar Image BECKY STERN
WiFi Weather Station
Make a WiFi-connected weather station using Arduino & the CC3000 WiFi chip!
The Adafruit's CC3000 breakout board allows to easily connect your Arduino projects to your local WiFi network! This project details how to build a simple weather station that records temperature & humidity in your home, and how to transmit the data to an interface on your computer using WiFi.
Author Gravatar Image MARC-OLIVIER SCHWARTZ
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Google Glass talks to Raspberry Pi with XMPP
Connect Raspberry Pi with Google Glass
This project enables Google Glass to talks to a hardware platform, raspberry Pi, with Mirror API and XMPP protocol. So users can access physical stuff with their Google Glass via voice commands.
Author Gravatar Image DEQING SUN
Internet Streaming "On Air" Sign
Quiet please! Live broadcast in progress.
Near-realtime live stream monitor. Inspired by the studio warning lights used in radio broadcast and TV production…with an internet-connected twist!
Author Gravatar Image PHILLIP BURGESS
Experimenting with NeverWet + Electronics
Circuits under water and more!
We tried out Rustoleum's NeverWet spray-on hydrophobic coating on some Adafruit electronics-- don't try this at home!
Author Gravatar Image BECKY STERN
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Solar Charging Handbag
Put a solar LiPoly MintyBoost on any bag
Soak up some rays and charge your phone at the same time by building your own solar charging circuit for your favorite tote.
Author Gravatar Image BECKY STERN
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Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi
Authentic sights, sounds and feel of 1980s arcade gaming.
With a Raspberry Pi, game emulation software and genuine arcade controls from Adafruit, you can build a dedicated retro game station and re-live these classic quarter-chompers. (Members Only jacket not included.)
Author Gravatar Image PHILLIP BURGESS
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Electronic Demon Costume
RAAAAAWR!
Spark the demon is a costume featuring an Arduino-based voice changer, an animated LED matrix face and glowing EL wire wings. This short guide answers some common questions and collects links to the relevant tutorials and videos that may be helpful in your own Halloween creations.
Author Gravatar Image PHILLIP BURGESS
Affordable HAL 9000 Replica
Why yes, Dave. As a matter of fact I CAN do that.
WIth the right Adafruit parts and a little crafting ingenuity, you can make a pretty decent replica of HAL 9000 to decorate your workshop or hackerspace.
Author Gravatar Image PHILLIP BURGESS
How To Take Great Photos of Your Projects
The Adafruit Photo Tutorial by Johngineer
This tutorial by John De Cristofaro (johngineer) aims to teach you how to take photos of your hacks and projects for sharing on the web, and perhaps even in print. It focuses on smaller items, less than 6”x6”x6” in size. Bigger projects present their own unique problems that are beyond the scope of this article. However, you can always “scale up” the methods presented here to take pictures of larger subjects, at least to a point.
Author Gravatar Image JOHNGINEER
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TV-B-Gone Kit
Make every day a "TV-free" day!
Tired of all those LCD TVs everywhere? Want a break from advertisements while you're trying to eat? Want to zap screens from across the street? The new Universal TV-B-Gone kit is what you need! This ultra-high-power version of the popular TV-B-Gone is fun to make and even more fun to use.
Author Gravatar Image LADY ADA
Drawdio
Drawdio: A pencil that lets you draw with music!
When I first saw the Drawdio at Maker Faire I knew it would be a great project for beginners: A lot of fun with instant gratification! Essentially, it's a very simple musical synthesizer that uses the conductive properties of pencil graphite to create different sounds. The result is a fun toy that lets you draw musical instruments on any piece of paper.
Author Gravatar Image LADY ADA
Minty MP3
Fresh Breath, Fresh Tunes, Fresh Design
Tired of not being able to find cases for your projects? Stuck with those hideous ABS plastic RadioShack boxes? Try those ubiquitous tin boxes, not only do they block EMI, they come with free mints! Fresh breath and fresh design in one.
Author Gravatar Image LADY ADA
Dimmable Li-Ion Halogen Bike Light
Biking in the winter, or at night, is dangerous without a front light.
A good front-light is essential, not only for being seen, but to see the road. LED lamps will not illuminate the road, and they can be too dim for cars to see you (1W or better LEDs are quite nice as headlamps.) I offer here a simple (but high-quality) design to build your own 5 or 10W halogen lamp, which runs off of a rechargeable 7.2V or 7.4V Lithium Ion battery pack.
Author Gravatar Image LADY ADA
Matrix 2 Mod
Upgrading the Matrix2 Headlamp for Fun & Profit
We hand-upgraded a headlamp that requires 2 alkaline AA batteries to also work with 2 rechargeable NiMH batteries by replacing the lamp with a custom boost converter.
Author Gravatar Image LADY ADA
DIY Welded Bike Stand
For Fun & Profit
This projects is kinda fun, pretty easy so it's good practice if you're just learning how to weld, and is really useful after you're finished! For less than $50, you'll have a nice bike stand for repairing your bicycles.
Author Gravatar Image LADY ADA
Low Level Magstripe Reader
Swipe swipe...data!
To make a custom credit card swiper, we purchased a raw magstripe decoder head with track 1 reading. By writing some parity checking code, we were able to read the raw data off of the magstripe, and parse it into output that would be 'typed out' as an emulated keyboard using a USB-enabled Teensy.
Author Gravatar Image LADY ADA