Light Up Your Eyes (Literally) With LED Lashes! #WearableWednesday

From blog.adafruit.com 4 years ago in Platforms Stores

You may have seen these amazing LED lashes trending on Twitter this past weekend, and if you’re like me you were curious as to how they work. Hackster.io has the details over at their site. Glowing wristbands. Neon sneakers. RGB shades. Blinking cat ears. Fiber optic braids. Just when we...

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The Cameras on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover

From blog.adafruit.com 4 hours ago in Platforms Stores

There are a total of 23 cameras on the Perseverance rover. Learn about the functions of these cameras from NASA:The Perseverance rover has several cameras focused on engineering and science tasks. Some help us land on Mars, while others serve...

Erez Nevi Pana’s Dead Sea Salt Small-Scale Architecture

From blog.adafruit.com 6 hours ago in Platforms Stores

The Israeli artist examines the boundaries of the material and its sustainability.via dezeenIsraeli designer Erez Nevi Pana used five tons of salt from the Dead Sea to create his Crystalline collection, which showcases how the material can be used as...

Sony’s latest patent application: a banana PlayStation controller #PlayStation

From blog.adafruit.com 8 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Is Sony taking a cue from MakeyMakey and turning fruit into controllers?From Polygon:The patent (spied by GamesIndustry.biz on Tuesday) is actually for a method that turns a “non-luminous passive object being held by a user” into a controller, recognizing virtual...

Summer Winston Questions and Starts To Answer, “Where Are All the Black Photographers?”

From blog.adafruit.com 10 hours ago in Platforms Stores

So excited to watch through more of Summer Winston’s videos, the suggested creator’s videos and see how my own YouTube algorithm changes! From Summer Winston on YouTube:I decided to start the year by paying respect and appreciation to Black photographers...

Dr. Paul Fuchs Explains Our Ears

From blog.adafruit.com 14 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Dr. Paul Fuchs explains how damage and hearing-loss can lead to the degeneration of neurons connected to inner ear hair cells.via The Johns Hopkins News-LetterUnderstanding the gritty details of mechanotransduction is important, Fuchs said, because the several dozen proteins that...

CHAIN – The Secret Life of Components, A series of guides for designers and makers

From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Tim Hunkin is an English engineer, cartoonist, writer, and artist best known for creating the television series The Secret Life of Machines. Tim Hunkin shared the first episode of a new series The Secret life of Components on Youtube!

Making a Mandalorian Flamethrower Gauntlet #starwars

From blog.adafruit.com 21 hours ago in Platforms Stores

On Hacksmith, the team has just launched a new series where they are going to build a head-to-toe suit of Mandalorian armor, complete with blaster, grapple gun, jet pack, all of it. In this first episode, they build a flamethrower...

Custom PCB Silkscreens: Moving EAGLE CAD to Adobe Illustrator

From blog.adafruit.com 21 hours ago in Platforms Stores

The custom PCB silkscreens you see on many Adafruit boards avoid that common “CAD look” while making these devices easier to read and more enjoyable to use. Sadly there is no “make silkscreen” button — it’s quite a process to...

Making a Fantasy Shield for Cosplay @NerdForge #cosplay

From blog.adafruit.com 24 hours ago in Platforms Stores

In January, I wrote about a fantasy suit of armor that Martina of NerdForge had made out of leather. In this project video, she decides to make a gorgeous shield (out of wood) to go with it.

It’s Not Out, So Don’t Ask: Sneak Preview of ItsyBitsy RP2040 Silkscreen Revision

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in Platforms Stores

Coming soon! Now that the Feather RP2040 is out, we’re looking at our next board using the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, this time in the small-yet-capable ItsyBitsy form-factor.It’s got all that RP2040 goodness — dual-core M0+ at 125 MHz with...