NEW GUIDE: John Park’s Mystery Box: Shutterglass Chamber @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit
Uncover the secrets of this new guide in the Adafruit Learning System and build your own Shutterglass Chamber, a mystery box containing three shadowboxes hidden behind magically transforming glass panels!
Astound people with a mystery box that will reveal secrets hidden behind its transforming panels! Build this secret shadow box using LCD shutter glass panels, a Trinket microcontroller, and a healthy dose of mystery! The Trinket adjusts voltage to fade the panels from opaque to transparent — all triggered by a hidden magnet sensor.
This guide will show you how to build the Shutterglass Chamber, the mystery box prop built for an interactive mystery performance.
You can also use this guide as a generalized technique for fading LCD panels up and down in any project you can imagine.
An Adafruit Trinket 5V microcontroller, charger, and LiPo battery, control the mysteries revealed by three LCD panels.
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
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.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
Python for Microcontrollers — Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: CircuitPython 8.1.0 and 8.2.0-beta0 out and so much more! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @ThePSF @Raspberry_Pi
Uncover the secrets of this new guide in the Adafruit Learning System and build your own Shutterglass Chamber, a mystery box containing three shadowboxes hidden behind magically transforming glass panels!
