Have some serious fun with your fidget spinner with this tutorial from fab-lab.eu up on Hackster.io.
Fidget Spinners are little toys in the hands of many students and kids these days. They are built around a centered bearing and weight in typically three arms. The weight in the arms helps to spin the toy with up to 600-900 RPMs, or even more (max. we measured as of today was 1.500 RPM).
Now the challenge starts – how can you improve the speed of your spinner? You could do an upgrade of the bearing from ABEC7 to ABEC9 or higher. But will it run faster?
Adafruit 15×7 CharliePlex LED Matrix Display FeatherWing – Red: You wont be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this Adafruit 15×7 CharliePlex LED Matrix Display FeatherWing. This 15×7 LED display can be paired with any of our Feather boards for a beautiful, bright grid of 105 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C. (read more)
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