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Sword & Wand Prop Effects with Circuit Playground
Add motion triggered sound and light effects to any prop with Circuit Playground
by John Park
Here's a guide to quickly and easily adding exciting, colorful lighting effects to your props. Using the accelerometer, speaker, and NeoPixel LEDs built into the Circuit Playground, you can have sounds and lights for idle animations, along with two different effects triggered by waving and striking your foam sword, cosplay blaster, magic wand, and more.
Circuit Playground PZ-1: Pizza Box DJ Controller
Make a DJ controller from conductive paint, cardboard, and a Circuit Playground!
by John Park
Make your own PZ-1 MIDI pizza box DJ controller using a Circuit Playground, which speaks MIDI directly to your software, such as Traktor, Mixxx, and others. With a stencil and conductive paint you'll create a delicious controller layout.
Circuit Playground Kaleidoscope
Make intricate colored patterns using Circuit Playground and some household items
by Mike Barela
The NeoPixels on Circuit Playground make pretty colored patterns but they can get rather predictable. Remember using a kaleidoscope as a child? Using your Circuit Playground, a battery pack, and some household items, you can construct a turnable Kaleidoscope of your own.
Adafruit Trinket-Modded Stuffed Animal
Use Trinket as a platform to make animals come alive - you chose the animal
by Mike Barela
Making animals come alive with sound and motion is easy with Adafruit Trinket. This tutorial shows you how to animate an animal of your choice. You can be creative on what type of animal you make using paper, fabric, or even 3D printing.