It’s no secret that Lego is experimenting with more sustainable ways of producing its signature bricks and minifigs. They’re taking a big step toward that goal with the release of a new Lego Ideas set this week.
The latest fan-submitted set to get the green light is the Tree House. Its creator, Kevin Feeser, first posted the incredibly detailed, sprawling scene in the fall of 2017. By Halloween it hit 100 votes and earned 365 days to get the other 9,900 needed to make it to the review round.
It took less than four months. Now, Kevin’s set has been tweaked, packaged, and it’s ready to go on sale. And it’s Lego’s most sustainable set ever.
Eink, E-paper, Think Ink – Collin shares six segments pondering the unusual low-power display technology that somehow still seems a bit sci-fi – http://adafruit.com/thinkink
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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