Community Corner – August 26, 2016: The Featured Projects from this Week
Featured Adafruit Google+ Community Project
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Who knew Circuit Playground would ever team up with a Pringles can? Great project from Mike Barela shared this week in our Community!
Using your snack can to do fun things with an +Adafruit Industries #CircuitPlayground board. A hint: First lit up with a NeoPixel, second – using the accelerometer to change which NeoPixel is lit. Fun, inexpensive, informative. (read more)
Featured Community Project from the Adafruit Blog
This week on the blog, we shared Andrew Staroscik‘s awesome sound sensitive LED baseball cap project.
This is my first foray into wearable electronics. It is a sound activated hat. There is a microphone below the bill of the hat that picks up the voice of the wearer as well as ambient noise. The sound is converted to light using a small board sewn into the back of the hat. The light patterns in the animated image to the left are random flashes triggered by sound. The intensity of each flash varies with sound level. (read more)
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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, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, 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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