HalloWing Light Paintstick
You can create beautiful light paintings with pixel art magically floating in mid-air using a strip of NeoPixels and the HalloWing or Circuit Playground Express! Start with a bitmap up to 30x100 pixels, and then capture the image with a long exposure photograph!
Adabot Operation Game
Use the Circuit Playground Express programmed with CircuitPython or MakeCode to detect capacitive touch at each "incision" point. Touch the copper tape edges with your tweezers while trying to extract a part and the buzzer will buzz and the NeoPixel ring will light up red!!
Neon LED Signs
Use MakeCode or CircuitPython to code the animation of multiple "neon tubes" connected to the Metro M0 and an 8-channel Darlington driver. Mount it into an enclosure with buttons to turn the sign on and off and to start and stop the blinking!
Crickit Harmonic Drawing Machine
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.
The Scream: Interactive Screaming Painting
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.
Stroboscopic Zoetrope
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
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
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.
Cardboard Fundamentals
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.
Crickit Powered Minerva 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!
Crickit Controlled Animatronic Eyeball
Using two servos, the Crickit robotics platform, Circuit Playground Express, with cardboard and a ping pong ball, you can build an interactive all-seeing eye!
Crickit Carnival Bumper Bot
Crickit and Circuit Playground Express control and drive this cardboard chassis, tail-dragger robot car. The accelerometer built into the CPX senses bumps, and the MakeCode program you'll create tells it to react and drive around things!
Cam Follower Automaton
Cams and followers are fundamental mechanisms to convert rotation to linear motion with interesting patterns. Different cam shapes produce different results!
Tightrope Unicycle Bot
Crickit and Circuit Playground Express drive a motor that rides the line! With a cardboard chassis designed to keep the pulley wheel right over the center of gravity, your circus robot will soar overhead with ease.
Animatronic Hand
Use the CRICKIT board with your Circuit Playground Express to control a cardboard animatroinc hand. Four servo motors pull the fingers into position using cable drive systems made from cord and straw guides. Program it all with CircuitPython to actuate as you press the capacitive touch controllers. You'll also learn to use the CRICKIT as an audio-animatronic controller with pre-programmed sounds and motions, such as counting in binary!