Community Corner – March 27, 2015: The Featured Projects from this Week
Featured Adafruit Google+ Community Project
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Riley Harrison shared his beautiful, laser-cut board game project this week in our community!
I’ve started teaching laser cutter classes again at The Hack Factory in Minneapolis, the space run by Twin Cities Maker .
Here’s one of my laser cutter projects that I was very happy with.
This is custom designed set of tiles and pieces for the game Carcassone.
I ended up making an acrylic laser cut bux to store it in, came out really slick.(read more)
Featured Community Project from the Adafruit Blog
I guess the theme this week is board games! Thanks to Mike for sending in his awesome interactive board game with Makey Makey and Scratch! Very cool project. (read more)
There are people making amazing things around the world, are you one of them? Join Adafruit Community! And check out scores of projects they shared this week after the jump!
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