Build your own Overwatch Lucio Blaster! Use Arduino, NeoPixels, MP3 Music Maker, Audio FX board, and a 20 watt amplifier to drive the impressive blasting sound effects, lights, and music from this Overwatch prop gun! In part one, learn to build the individual electronic components.
Paint with light using the Circuit Playground Light Paintbrush for long exposure photography. Tilt the brush to change colors using the on-board accelerometer. Streaks of colorful light, suspended in midair — ever since people began to capture images on film we have had a fascination with light painting and light drawing. By simply moving a light source in front of an open shutter, motion over time could be captured on camera.
Here’s a quick tip on using a stencil mask for painting with conductive ink. Creating circuits with conductive ink is fun and easy. If you’d like to add form to your function and increase the design appeal of your conductive ink circuits, try using a stencil mask. This circuit was designed in Rhino to fit the Circuit Playground and laser cut from Mylar.
John Park testing the Circuit Playground light sensor and buttons as MIDI over USB triggers.
John Park creates a startup sound for the Circuit Playground dev board based upon the lovely Apple IIe beep.
Annoyed with his diagonal cutters clinging to snipped leads, John Park fixes things with a vintage Bergeon demagnetizer/magnetizer from the collection of automata builder Dug North.
Keep track of tricky schedules, Monday through Friday with the Circuit Playground Class Scheduler! The Circuit Playground’s NeoPixels are used as indicators for day of the week and class periods, color coded per subject. You can enter a complex schedule that varies daily in the sketch, and then click the buttons on your Circuit Playground to find out which class is next.
Electronic talking toys are fun, but the same old sound loops can get repetitive. This guide shows you how to swap out the original sound board for an Audio FX Sound Board loaded up with lots of your favorite sounds.
Long, random passwords are the most secure, but can be difficult to remember and tricky to type. Build this portable Circuit Playground Password Vault to remember and enter them for you! Store up to ten passwords and use them at the push of a button. You’ll create a unique unlock sequence so your passwords stay secure, and build a rugged 3D printed case.
Build a creepy, glowing test tube display… if you dare. A Feather microcontroller makes the UV LEDs shine to create dazzling effects in the fluorescent pigment-and-water filled test tubes. Easy-to-assemble black iron pipe forms the base of this labware set. The perfect prop for your own haunted house or creepy laboratory.
Build your own DJ controller using a cardboard pizza box, conductive paint, and a Circuit Playground! The PZ-1 pizza box DJ controller uses a Circuit Playground, which senses your capacitive touch and speaks MIDI directly to your software, such as Traktor, Mixxx, and others. With a stencil and conductive paint you’ll create a delicious, functional controller layout. Inspired by a limited edition pizza box turntable from a famous pizza brand, now you can make your own!
Add motion triggered sound and light effects to any prop with Circuit Playground. Here’s a way to quickly and easily add exciting, colorful lighting effects and sounds to your props. Using the accelerometer, speaker, and NeoPixel LEDs built into the Circuit Playground, you can have sounds and lights for idle animations, along with two different effects triggered by waving and striking your foam sword, cosplay blaster, magic wand, and more.
John Park make’s electroluminescent tape sleeves and a mask by following the great tip by @realSexyCyborg on using Tegaderm tape to affix wearable electronics to your skin
Perfect for escape rooms, magic tricks, and other mysterious events — this seemingly innocuous, sealed deck of cards contains a secret. When the puzzle is solved, the deck is thrown in the air, tossed to a friend, or dropped a short distance. Freefall is detected by the Circuit Playground embedded within, and it beeps a secret Morse code message.
Demo of the Adafruit Learning System project Mystery Box: The Nautical Crate, an easy-to-build locking box that uses a solenoid, reed switch, and a secret magnet to open the secured crate.
Mystery Box: The Nautical Crate, an easy-to-build locking box that uses a solenoid, reed switch, and a secret magnet to open the secured crate.
Build your own Overwatch Lucio Blaster! Use Arduino, NeoPixels, MP3 Music Maker, Audio FX board, and a 20 watt amplifier to drive the impressive blasting sound effects, lights, and music from this Overwatch prop gun! In part three, the final 3D printed gun with electronics is finished!
Build your own Cold War-era countdown timer prop with John Park’s Mystery Box: Crypto Countdown Case learning guide. This mystery box is a Soviet themed launch-code box complete with missile switch covered toggles, a Feather microcontroller with red 14-segment display, and stress-inducing piezo buzzer. Use it for an escape room, prop, or wedding proposal. Your players, or potential spouse-to-be, will need to enter the correct five-switch sequence to defuse the device before all is lost. (Note: this project is a harmless prop, not an actual bomb.) Customize it with your own secret message.
Use a high-voltage AC power source to trigger a Feather microcontroller-driven coffee grinder. This guide will show you how a magneto, generator, or other AC power source can be safely converted into a small DC signal easily read by an Arduino-compatible microcontroller. Then, the microcontroller can trigger a 120V relay to turn on any AC device or appliance, such as a coffee grinder, blender, lamp, or pump.