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Animated Flying Toaster OLED Jewelry
The flying toaster screen saver from After Dark makes great inspiration for a retro project using 3d printing, and DIY electronics. In this project we'll show you how to make very cute and adorable electronic jewlery.
Audio FX Remote Control
The Adafruit Audio FX Sound Board makes custom audio projects as easy as they can be! This project shows how to add a wireless remote control. Great for Halloween pranks, cosplay outfits and other shenanigans, or maybe you want to design the whoopee cushion of the future.
Bonjour (Zeroconf) Networking for Windows and Linux
This simple addition makes your embedded Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone projects easier to access across a local network…no more hunting for IP numbers!
Maker Faire: Tips for First-Time Exhibitors
Whether a local “Mini” or a regional full-size event, exhibiting at a Maker Faire is an amazing experience! Here are some lessons learned on putting on a good show (and surviving to tell about it).
Let’s Put LEDs in Things!
For adding flair to a costume or prop, nothing offers more bang-for-buck than LEDs! Getting started is easy, and opens doors to more advanced projects.
LED Tricks: Gamma Correction
A fluke of human perception makes LEDs appear brighter than you’d expect, skewing RGB color mixes. Here’s a software trick to work around this and get the colors you want.
Wave Shield Talking Clock
Using the Adafruit Wave Shield for Arduino, this chatty clock can be customized with your own voice.
1,500 NeoPixel LED Curtain with Raspberry Pi and Fadecandy
What your new apartment really needs is an upgrade to that beaded curtain - why not liven it up with a massive 1,500-LED NeoPixel curtain? NeoPixels + Raspberry Pi + Fadecandy == AWESOME!
This project will show you how you too can build this massive and enjoyable flexible display. If you're interested in any other kind of large-scale NeoPixel project, this guide will help with all your detailed questions with Phil Burgess' hard-earned tips and techniques.
Adafruit Pi Box Plus
Made of crystal-clear acrylic, this case keeps the Pi secure, has a hinged top for connector access, and even has little feet cut into the sides so that it stands up above your desk. You can use all of the connectors on the edges of the Pi: HDMI, Audio/Video, microSD slot, micro USB power, Ethernet and the 4 USB ports. There's also a cut out to allow a 40-pin IDC cable to the GPIO breakout pins.
UNTZtrument: a Trellis MIDI Instrument
Build and customize your very own open-source button grid controller. This DIY kit comes with delicious translucent button pads, driver boards, diffused white LEDS and a custom laser cut enclosure. The result is a sturdy and elegant but also super-hackable controller device for music, video…or something else???
3D Printed LED Fire Horns
These horns are flexible to the touch and use LEDs to make it look like they're on fire! With a tiny micro-controller and some NeoPixel LEDs, you make can a devlish costume with small or large 3D printed horns.
Make a Guggenhat: Bluetooth-connected wearable NeoPixel marquee hat
Adafruit’s Bluefruit devices are hands-down the easiest way to get Arduino communicating over Bluetooth. Taking inspiration from the helical Guggenheim museum, this project coils a contiguous reel of NeoPixels around a dapper top hat to create a wearable scrolling message display you can control with your iOS/Android phone or tablet.
Cupcade: the Raspberry Pi Micro Arcade Cabinet
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.
Raspberry Pi Face Recognition Treasure Box
Use a Raspberry Pi, Pi camera, and the OpenCV computer vision library to lock and unlock a box using face recognition.
DIY WiFi Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Camera
This project explores the Adafruit PiTFT touchscreen and the Raspberry Pi camera board to create a simple point-and-shoot digital camera. One can optionally use WiFi and Dropbox (a cloud file storage and synchronization service) to automatically transfer photos to another computer for editing.
