After seeing the second trailer for Breath of the Wild 2 last week, I couldn’t be more excited to dive back into that universe. Unfortunately, it looks like it could be more than a year before we see BotW2. Thankfully the Adafruit Learning System is filled with amazing Zelda projects to scratch that itch.
Most of the Zelda projects on the Learning System were created by the Ruiz Brothers. If you haven’t already seen these Zelda projects, you are in for a treat.
It’s half USB Key, half Adafruit Trinket, half mini slide pot… it’s Slider Trinkey, the circuit board with a Trinket M0 heart, NeoPixel glow, and a 35mm long 10KΩ slide potentiometer.
The PCB is designed to slip into any USB A port on a computer or laptop. There’s an ATSAMD21 microcontroller on board with just enough circuitry to keep it happy. One pin of the microcontroller connects to the middle of the slide potentiometer as an analog input. Another connects to two NeoPixel LEDs. The third pin can be used as a capacitive touch input. A reset button lets you enter bootloader mode if necessary. That’s it!
ALS Deep Cut
With so many guides on the Adafruit Learning System, some amazing guides of years past get buried and lost. ALS Deep Cuts brings these guides back up to the surface. This week’s guide is from back in 2015.
In this project, we’re 3D printing Link’s Hylian Shield from The Legend of Zelda. This is over 450mm long and prints in just 2 parts. Now you can build the shield to go along with Link’s wooden sword.
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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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