Man at Arms Makes the Shovel Knight’s Shovel Blade
The team behind Man at Arms: Reforged at Baltimore Knife and Sword pursue a variety of fictional weapons in their series, and their latest project was inspired by Shovel Knight. They decided to make the Shovel Blade. They wanted to make it realistic while also attempting to retain the cartoon elements from the side-scroller game in tact. They have to apply a variety of techniques and materials to bring the desire aesthetic together. Learn about the materials, process, and more in the above video.
Make a robot friend with Adafruit’s CRICKIT – A Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It’s an add-on to our popular Circuit Playground Express, FEATHER and other platforms to make and program robots with CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. Start controlling motors, servos, solenoids. You also get signal pins, capacitive touch sensors, a NeoPixel driver and amplified speaker output. It complements & extends your boards so you can still use all the goodies on the microcontroller, now you have a robotics playground as well.
