The Vulture flapped into Spider-Man: Homecoming and made an impression. The villain had a slightly different look than his classic comic threads, and maker Christian Umali replicated the updated style. His costume incorporates LEDs to illuminate the mask, wings, and gauntlets. I wouldn’t want to attempt walking through a convention floor with that wingspan, but they look light enough to hold up. Christian made the framing for the harness with PVC pipe and used EVA foam for the wings. You can see the costume in motion in this Facebook video.
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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