More Ready-Made Designs for Adafruit Animated Eyes
Developing new eye designs for our Teensy-animated eyes project is a bit of an undertaking, involving an odd assortment of image filters and conversion code. Fortunately, Adafruit Forums participant merlins_ghost has you covered, with a bundle of new eye designs that plug easily into the existing eye code…there’s HAL 9000, a lamprey eye and a nifty camera aperture effect, among others. If you’re making one of our eye projects (like the bowler hat or purple people eater doorbell) or creating your own, it’s definitely worth checking out for more variety!
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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