Are you ready to see a Batman costume we both need and deserve? Julian Checkley of Order 66 Creatures and Effects has a suit of armor based on the one worn by Batman in the video game Batman: Arkham Origins. It looks like it’s a movie quality costume, but that’s what Checkley does. He’s made screen accurate masks for characters like Plo Koon from Star Wars and Bane from The Dark Knight Rises. For this costume though, Kevin Curly LeProps 3D printed the armor pieces – assembling the pieces and printing them took approximately one month. Cantina Costumes made the undersuit and cape and Crimson Coscrafts helped with 3D modelling.
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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