Community Corner: Tentacle LED Trace Art from RobotGrrl and Other Bright Shiny Things from the Past Week In Adafruit’s Community


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Erin RobotGrrl shared: “This is a long exposure photo from my tentacle mechanism robot” (read more)

There are people making amazing things around the world, are you one of them? Join the 56,938 strong! And check out scores of projects they shared this week after the jump!


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phenoptix shared: “The most popular part of our MakerFaire display made into an Instructables post” (read more)


Matt Heilman shared: “Got bored of looking at stable waveforms.” (read more)


100 Miguel Castillo Google Tutorial on How to control your water consumption with an

Miguel Castillo shared: “Tutorial: on How to control your water consumption with an Arduino a RaspberryPI and a flowmeter. This easy tutorial (step by step to DIY) helps you to control the water used in your garden watering. To do this, we use Arduino and Raspberry Pi to get the best of both. All the source code is included.” (read more)


Jaidyn Edwards shared: “The first part in a multi part video series where I show you how to make your own robot!” (read more)


Hackinformer Google Time to get busy found a broken dreamcast

Hackinformer shared: “Time to get busy.. found a broken dreamcast.” (read more)


Miguel Castillo shared: “How to make an internet Stuffed Toy with Raspberry Pi and Carriots: A few months back we had a developer contest @Carriots to build an IOT Stuffed toy. As an example we build a Domokun that was able to:

  • Tweet
  • Talk (with Text To Speech)
  • Download video from Dropbox and play it on a video screen (placed at the mouth of the Domokun)

Here is the tutorial to DIY (with all steps, source code and schemas). You can use this example to build a toy of the future for a kid of your family! The video was done by our team of engineers to promote the challenge. You can build all the components in Adafruit for less than 150$ Enjoy it!” (read more)


Alexis Wiasmitinow shared an EveryCook update: “We finally made it! After many hardware troubles and software bugs it works! see: EveryCook digital cooking success…” (read more)


Paolo Galeone shared: “This is the alpha version of a 16 bit synthesizer that some day will be completed. It works with a PIC32 (on board PIC 32 Pinguino OTG, designed without pinguino language [the same of Arduino] but in C with the MIPS toolchain patched by pinguino team [pinguino.cc] to work with gcc interrupt attribute). It use the ADC module, and the timer1 that works with the secondary oscillator.” (read more)


100 Sven Haiges Google The 555 timer ic finally works Second try and i am a bit

Sven Haiges shared: “The 555 timer ic finally works. Second try, and i am a bit frustrated as all these cables and resistors are quite easybto get wrong. Little bang for the tons of cables. Doing this to get a more fundamental understanding of electronics. Is that worth it or should i just concentrate on Arduinos, Beaglebones, etc and do all logic in code?” (read more)


Michael Overstreet shared: “DARwIn-OP climbing a Ladder!!! The programming of the robot was done by the Autonomous Agents Lab, University of Manitoba.” (read more)


Thomas Edwards shared: “I’ve got some inverse kinematics going on the robot arm – you can see me drive it in kind of a circle. More calibration is required though!” (read more)


Gabriel perumal

gabriel perumal shared: “My Arduino RF Remote Control Shield for kids(RFDuino)” (read more)


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Heather Solvers shared: “Commissioned sculpture that has gone to live Australia. Mixed media, polymer clay, wire coiled into awesome limbs and varnish for protective shiny goodness. Final size 6″ inches in height.” (read more)


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Thomas Wright shared: “Building a 45 drive storage monster…very interesting stuff” (read more)


JeremyCook

Jeremy Cook shared: “Solid Industrial-Style DIY Tripod” (read more)


RyanWilliams

Ryan Williams shared: “So I posted my first Instructable; it’s a different method of DIY PCB etching. Take a look and let me know what you think!” (read more)


MartinAtkins

Martin Atkins shared: “Continuing my little notifier/clock project I posted about last week, today I made a cardboard prototype of the enclosure to check the dimensions. Eventually I plan to get this cut out of acrylic but I don’t have access to a laser cutter myself so I use the cutting service from +Pololu Robotics and Electronics . I’ve been bitten before by not prototyping my design before submitting it; in one project (the “Radiant Mural” I posted a video of some months ago) I accidentally lost a millimeter on a repeated part while making my design file and it added up to 24mm lost over the full width of the product, which required some hackery to work around once I got the parts…. My previous post showing my breadboard prototype is here.” (read more)


IanHenehan

Ian Henehan shared: “All the staves have been scarfed together. Today I got to glue up the ‘ladder’ with the sides and blocking for the mast.” (read more)


Jeff Karpinski

Jeff Karpinski shared: “#DEFCON IoT project hardware complete. Cramming Twitter calls, smooth LED scrolling, and WiFi all into an ATmega328 turned out to be decidedly non-trivial. I’ll publish the full set up post-defcon.” (read more)


kenneth christian shared: “555 timer and some components I had laying around.” (read more)


Soloud

Jari Komppa shared: “SoLoud, my free (zlib/libpng licensed) audio/sound effect playing library now includes a speech synth. That’s the biggest news, but I’ve also torn through my TODO list quite a bit. Still a lot to do, though.” (read more)


Gert Galjoen

Gert Galjoen shared: “Extruder Optical Filament Control Retract Load Feed , Exercise. Setup for this try out: arduino nano 3 + finger mouse + SPI display “open jumper 12864″. The sensor has 1200 DPI (theoreticaly). For a distance of 10.00 mm I get a value somewhere around 220 steps….” (read more)


JustinShaw

Justin Shaw shared: “Russian classic now available for FREE in WIF format.” (read more)


Leon_Nicholls

Leon Nicholls shared: “Another batch of color sandstone models arrived from the 3D printers. I designed these myself in Blender. You can get your own from Shapeways.” (read more)


XTIDEController01

William Garrido got his hands on one of the “free PCB” build challenges from Dangerous Prototypes. (read more)


Mano Biletsky shared: “Finally got my code to work! And with bluetooth!!! It’s far from ready and as you can see in the video, there is a lot that needs to be calibrated. Half of the sensors isn’t even on there yet. Just trying to get a base code that works. I’ll go from there…” (read more)


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Stephen Becker shared: “Boarduino, thermocouple amplifier, and seven segment display backpack from +Adafruit Industries . This is the beginnings of my beer fermentation temperature controller!” (read more)


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