Last month, I covered the wacky niche nerd sport of the Die Cast Racing League, recorded races of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars done on a super-detailed tabletop racetrack.
Here is a niche within a niche: The Gaslands Die Cast Racing League. It’s the same basic concept except it’s racing die cast cars that have been converted to the Gaslands tabletop car combat game. Instead of racing by measured turns across a post-apocalyptic landscape, Gaslands players send in their cars to be raced on a traditional plastic Hot Wheels track.
Like the DCRL, the racetrack is outfitted with stands, fans and fan vehicles (who sometimes fire on the cars), buildings, model camera crews, color commentary, and all the other trappings of real-world auto-racing.
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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