NEW GUIDE: Automation with Adafruit Crickit, Capsela, and @MSMakeCode
Open any toy closet and you’ll find them. Building blocks from your childhood or your children’s childhood. Be they Lego, Duplo, Mindstorms, Erector, Tinker Toys, or Capsela, they are a staple of creative building that never age. They just might go into hibernation as other things come along (like dating, working, cooking, life). But they are there waiting for discovery!
It turns out that it is SUPER easy to interface Crickit to the motors that come with Capsela kits. The guide builds robotics from a couple of kits and looks at what automation opportunities are possible. The robots are programmed in Microsoft MakeCode which makes it super easy to get started controlling your project in just minutes (and we mean that).
Adafruit Crickit can automate many classic building sets, get yours today!
Have you given classic toys some modern bling? Let us know in the comments!
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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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