Community Corner – December 18, 2015: The Featured Projects from this Week
Featured Adafruit Google+ Community Project
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Tis the season to share your 3d printed ornaments! This week on our Community page, Chris Young shared his wonderful project.
I didn’t like any of the Christmas ornaments that I found on Thingiverse so I created my own. It came out kind of rough printed with no supports but it can easily be cleaned up using a fingernail file.
This week on the blog, we posted about awesome racelnicole’s DIY Automated Cat Feeder project, which features our Continuous Rotation Servo – FeeTech FS5103R.
Is a DIY cat (or dog, or human) feeder controlled over the web (though not over the public Internet for now).
There are two different feeding methods: instant feeding with the click of a button, or scheduled feedings (using a command scheduler like cron).(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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