Franz Harary is an illusionist, a consultant, and a designer. And a maker! He created an incredible animatronic Medusa head for Jolin Tsai’s world tour. The dozen or so snakes are fitted to a headpiece that reminds me of Maleficent’s horns. Rather than being covered with a flexible fabric, it looks like they all have rubber, textured skin and glowing LED eyes. The headpiece is massive, and the snakes seem to move independently of each other. There are a couple more photos of the Medusa snakes below, but you can watch a video on Harary’s Facebook page to see the snakes in action.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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