Making difficult decisions can be tricky and stressful. This new learn guide by John Park will help take off some of the pressure, instead letting your HalloWing-based Magic 9 Ball do the heavy lifting of your decision making!
By harnessing the HalloWing’s accelerometer to detect when the ball is turned upside down and right side up (or shaken), we’ll then run a highly mysterious algorithm (OK, it’s just a random number generator, sorry) to choose an image file to show on the TFT display.
A stylish housing filled with swirly mystery fluid completes the effect. Will you love building this project?
INDICATIONS SAY YES
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.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell with Google Hangouts On-Air is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
