Rooster Teeth Tackles Prop Builds with Master and Apprentice
Rooster Teeth has turned their eyes towards making and creating with their series Master and Apprentice hosted by Marcus and Adam. The show is starting to hit YouTube with two episodes out so far, one detailing the making of a Wardcliff Coil from Destiny 2 (above) and one focusing on a retinal scanner from Blade Runner (below). They don’t walk you through the process step by step in detail, but they show enough of how they make the props to inspire and make viewers (at least me) want to create. I especially like how they kitbash components of the props together but also tell you what you can substitute in if you don’t have the right scraps.
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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