Hard Light exotic rifle from Destiny. Full detail with a removable ammo clip, and fully functional trigger 100% printed. Placements for LEDs, acrylic Holo Sight, small speaker, and a limit switch for the trigger are designed into the models.
Parts were design to print in ABS and fit a Flash Forge Creator Pro and are at 90% true scale.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
“What is the question when the answer is extinction?”
Here is the Nemesis Star, an exotic machine gun from Bungie’s hit game Destiny. This prop prints at over 3 feet long and sports a removable ammunition drum, printable ammunition belt, and an opening shroud with hollow scope and full interior details. The model includes channels for reinforcement, making the machine gun sturdy enough to carry around and cosplay with. If you want to make a big impression, this gun will do it.
Thanks to Gerry Alden who was kind enough to print and assemble the prototype shown above, making sure everything works properly and letting me know about the tweaks and changes that needed to be made. You can check out more of his work on Facebook in his group 3d Printed Prop Geekfest: http://ift.tt/2gXueoq;
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
ASK AN ENGINEER – LIVE electronics video show! 8PM ET 11/30/2016. What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer your engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week.
Disney Parks are home to a number of attraction specific characters, and my favorite of them is the Tightrope Walker in the Haunted Mansion. She’s featured in one of the stretching portraits in the entrance. Prolific cosplayer Kelldar made a costume based on the character earlier this year. She followed patterns for the various pieces of the character’s dress and sewed the entire thing herself. The white skirt features a flower pattern that Kelldar had to apply by hand. She said:
For the flowers, I decided I wanted to go with evenly spaced flowers from earlier art instead of the staggered flowers. I created a stencil to use as a guideline, using a thin plastic “For Sale” sign, then marked the center of each flower on the skirt and used the stencil to get the basic shape in place with fabric paint. Then I went back through and beefed up each petal.
You can see an image showing off the flowers below.
View a ton more in-progress pics and get additional build information from Kelldar’s website. While you’re there, take the time to flip through her portfolio. She’s made and documented a huge number of costumes.
Disney Parks are home to a number of attraction specific characters, and my favorite of them is the Tightrope Walker in the Haunted Mansion. She’s featured in one of the stretching portraits in the entrance. Prolific cosplayer Kelldar made a costume based on the character earlier this year. She followed patterns for the various pieces of the character’s dress and sewed the entire thing herself. The white skirt features a flower pattern that Kelldar had to apply by hand. She said:
For the flowers, I decided I wanted to go with evenly spaced flowers from earlier art instead of the staggered flowers. I created a stencil to use as a guideline, using a thin plastic “For Sale” sign, then marked the center of each flower on the skirt and used the stencil to get the basic shape in place with fabric paint. Then I went back through and beefed up each petal.
You can see an image showing off the flowers below.
View a ton more in-progress pics and get additional build information from Kelldar’s website. While you’re there, take the time to flip through her portfolio. She’s made and documented a huge number of costumes.
The VL6180X is a Time of Flight distance sensor like no other you've used! The sensor contains a very tiny invisible laser source, and a matching sensor. The VL6180X can detect the "time of flight", or how long the light has taken to bounce back to the sensor. Since it uses a very narrow light source, it is good for determining distance of only the surface directly in front of it. Unlike sonars that bounce ultrasonic waves, the 'cone' of sensing is very narrow. Unlike IR distance sensors that try to measure the amount of light bounced, the VL6180X is much more precise and doesn't have linearity problems or 'double imaging' where you can't tell if an object is very far or very close.
This is the 'little sister' of the VL53L0X ToF sensor, and can handle about 5mm to 200mm of range distance. It also includes a lux sensor. If you need a larger range, check out the VL53L0X which can measure 50 - 1200 mm.
The sensor is small and easy to use in any robotics or interactive project. Since it needs 2.8V power and logic we put the little fellow on a breakout board with a regulator and level shifting. You can use it with any 3-5V power or logic microcontroller with no worries. Each order comes with a small piece of header. Solder the header onto your breakout board with your iron and some solder and wire it up for instant distance-sensing-success!
Communicating to the sensor is done over I2C with some simple commands. Most of the work is handled inside the sensor itself, so its very easy to port our Arduino library to another microcontroller.
Last updated on 2016-11-30 at 02.44.55 PMPublished on 2016-11-30 at 02.46.26 PM
Thanks to Yveaux for sharing this project over at OpenHardware – Yveaux shows how to turn a cheap, $5 lamp into a project with wireless/radio functionality and Arduino Pro Mini compatibility.
Original features
Powered from 3 AAA batteries
Motion PIR sensor, which switches on the LED light for some time when detecting motion.
Nice, compact enclosure
Mounting plate
Cheap, approx. E 4,99
Hacked features
Atmel ATmega328P microntroller, compatible with Arduino Pro-Mini
nRF24L01+ 2.4GHz radio module (not WiFi!)
Optional ATSHA204 CryptoAthentication chip
Default sketch implements a MySensors enabled motion sensor
Serial connector for programming sketches
ISP for programming the ATmega directly
LED light function can be removed, either partially or complete, to save battery power
Quite cheap, around E 10,- including Molgan.
The project consists of a custom PCB, which is mounted on top of the original Molgan PCB. I had the custom PCB produced in white, to prevent it from being visible trhough the semi-transparent cover of the Molgan.
When Tony Luciani’s mother was no longer able to look after herself, the Canadian-Italian artist took it upon himself to become her full-time caregiver. But instead of just taking care of her basic needs, Luciani decided to include his mother in his art so that she’d feel more productive.
“I noticed how alive she felt by participating,” said the artist to Feature Shoot. “Her youthfulness and eccentricity started to show through”. And as you can see in these playful pictures, his mother still has plenty of joie de vivre despite being over 90, and through the project her son also found a new perspective on his own life. “The more I reflect on Mom’s story by posting these photographs on social media, the more people who see the pictures express a profound association by relaying their own experiences with age and dementia. These images have struck a chord with many individuals. Life is not about waiting to die. It’s about wanting to live.”
Adafruit 16-Channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Driver – I2C interface – PCA968: You want to make a cool robot, maybe a hexapod walker, or maybe just a piece of art with a lot of moving parts. Or maybe you want to drive a lot of LEDs with precise PWM output. Then you realize that your microcontroller has a limited number of PWM outputs! What now? You could give up OR you could just get this handy PWM and Servo driver breakout. Read more.
PowerBoost 500 Charger – Rechargeable 5V Lipo USB Boost @ 500mA+: PowerBoost 500C is the perfect power supply for your portable project! With a built-in battery charger circuit, you’ll be able to keep your project running even while recharging the battery! This little DC/DC boost converter module can be powered by any 3.7V LiIon/LiPoly battery, and convert the battery output to 5.2V DC for running your 5V projects. Read more.
Lucii Cosplay recently worked on her first build with guns and armor and shared the results on Reddit. She made a Fallout Vault Dweller costume. She started with an off the rack mechanic’s jumpsuit and modified it to make it fit the post-apocalyptic aesthetic of the game. She said she learned a lot about weathering with this costume, and that aging all the props and accessories was her favorite part of the construction process.
Lucii used different techniques for the costume. She went high tech and 3D printed the Pip-Boy and printed and dyed it (she used her phone for the screen). And on the other end of the spectrum, she started with a paper pattern for the gun and made it from pink insulation foam — you can see a photo just below.
Lucii Cosplay recently worked on her first build with guns and armor and shared the results on Reddit. She made a Fallout Vault Dweller costume. She started with an off the rack mechanic’s jumpsuit and modified it to make it fit the post-apocalyptic aesthetic of the game. She said she learned a lot about weathering with this costume, and that aging all the props and accessories was her favorite part of the construction process.
Lucii used different techniques for the costume. She went high tech and 3D printed the Pip-Boy and printed and dyed it (she used her phone for the screen). And on the other end of the spectrum, she started with a paper pattern for the gun and made it from pink insulation foam — you can see a photo just below.
In 2014, Stanford professor Manu Prakash designed a paper microscope and sent it to 50,000 people. This year, he hopes to reach a million.
The Foldscope—a super-cheap, origami paper microscope that can fit in your pocket—has made its way around the world, landing in some unusual markets. In the Peruvian Amazon, entomologist Aaron Pomerantz used the microscope in his fieldwork studying plant cells and insect larvae, without having to worry about the effects of mud splatters or rain on the instrument. In Tanzania, school kids used Foldscope to explore local water quality as a part of Project SHINE, a sanitation literacy project through the University of Calgary. It has also been used in India, Argentina, Mexico, and all over the United States, by everyone from groups wanting to detect fake drugs to kids examining the microbial quality of camel milk.
When a new pair of prototype Adidas sneakers wears out after a couple of years of use, you can put them in the sink, add a small packet of an enzyme, and naturally dissolve the shoe upper. Within 36 hours, you can safely rinse it down the drain.
The shoes, made with an extra-strong, nature-inspired new material called Biosteel, are designed to take the idea of closed-loop products one step further: If they make it to the market, you’ll be able to recycle most of the shoe inside your own home. (The sole, at least in the prototype, is not made from the new material.)
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
A few years ago I had the excitement of meeting Thomas Gnahm and the rest of his glowing friends at Wear It Berlin. I say glowing because they are known for creating the coolest bike gang blinged out with LED denim jackets—Trafo Pop. As if things weren’t crazy enough with their events, they just celebrated a world’s record for having a fashion tech party in zero gravity thanks to a campaign for Desperado called “Bass Drop”. It was like this:
A party is taking place inside of an airplane 30,000 ft. above Las Vegas. As the plane drops to 15,000 ft. so does the bass, and when the bass drops so does the dance floor, sending the crowd floating and dancing in zero gravity.
Not only was the plane decorated with LEDs, but Thomas and his team created trash tech style wearables for the group, including video capable vests. The best way to describe their work is graffiti street fashion through LEDs. They know how to combine texture, paint and tech to produce a mixed media effect that is sure to bring smiles. This Bass vest not only shows nice font work using LED strips, but equally nice cabling which allows the strips to make sharp bends.
This party helmet uses the knobby LED style that Trafo Pop is known for, and the ribbons of cable make it appear brain like. Of course my fave piece is this backpack style large numeric display. What does that readout mean? Knowing Thomas it is probably an IoT thing!
I’m really excited to see the success of this group, and they continue to grow the maker and wearables spirit in Berlin. If you want some of that crazy spirit, you should take a look at our tutorial for the EEG Costume Cap. It features our bright and colorful mini NeoPixels topped with some NinjaFlex diffusers. Will people believe your brain activity is affecting the lights? Let them wonder, because you are the one that can secretly control the colors with your phone through Bluefruit LE. This is a challenging project with big rewards.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
American-Israeli architect, designer, and professor Neri Oxman has created a series of 3D printed death masks, Via DeZeen
Neri Oxman and her Mediated Matter group at MIT Media Lab have created a series of colourful death masks that explore the transition between life and death.
Designed in collaboration with 3D-printing company Stratasys, the Vespers collection is made up of three series of five death masks.
The first series to be released is named Present. Conceptually, it is the second in the three series, and it aims to prompt discussion about the transition period between life and death.
The first collection – which is yet to be released – will look to the natural world, while the final instalment revolves around rebirth.
American-Israeli architect, designer, and professor Neri Oxman has created a series of 3D printed death masks, Via DeZeen
Neri Oxman and her Mediated Matter group at MIT Media Lab have created a series of colourful death masks that explore the transition between life and death.
Designed in collaboration with 3D-printing company Stratasys, the Vespers collection is made up of three series of five death masks.
The first series to be released is named Present. Conceptually, it is the second in the three series, and it aims to prompt discussion about the transition period between life and death.
The first collection – which is yet to be released – will look to the natural world, while the final instalment revolves around rebirth.
A few years ago I had the excitement of meeting Thomas Gnahm and the rest of his glowing friends at Wear It Berlin. I say glowing because they are known for creating the coolest bike gang blinged out with LED denim jackets—Trafo Pop. As if things weren’t crazy enough with their events, they just celebrated a world’s record for having a fashion tech party in zero gravity thanks to a campaign for Desperado called “Bass Drop”. It was like this:
A party is taking place inside of an airplane 30,000 ft. above Las Vegas. As the plane drops to 15,000 ft. so does the bass, and when the bass drops so does the dance floor, sending the crowd floating and dancing in zero gravity.
Not only was the plane decorated with LEDs, but Thomas and his team created trash tech style wearables for the group, including video capable vests. The best way to describe their work is graffiti street fashion through LEDs. They know how to combine texture, paint and tech to produce a mixed media effect that is sure to bring smiles. This Bass vest not only shows nice font work using LED strips, but equally nice cabling which allows the strips to make sharp bends.
This party helmet uses the knobby LED style that Trafo Pop is known for, and the ribbons of cable make it appear brain like. Of course my fave piece is this backpack style large numeric display. What does that readout mean? Knowing Thomas it is probably an IoT thing!
I’m really excited to see the success of this group, and they continue to grow the maker and wearables spirit in Berlin. If you want some of that crazy spirit, you should take a look at our tutorial for the EEG Costume Cap. It features our bright and colorful mini NeoPixels topped with some NinjaFlex diffusers. Will people believe your brain activity is affecting the lights? Let them wonder, because you are the one that can secretly control the colors with your phone through Bluefruit LE. This is a challenging project with big rewards.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
A few years ago I had the excitement of meeting Thomas Gnahm and the rest of his glowing friends at Wear It Berlin. I say glowing because they are known for creating the coolest bike gang blinged out with LED denim jackets—Trafo Pop. As if things weren’t crazy enough with their events, they just celebrated a world’s record for having a fashion tech party in zero gravity thanks to a campaign for Desperado called “Bass Drop”. It was like this:
A party is taking place inside of an airplane 30,000 ft. above Las Vegas. As the plane drops to 15,000 ft. so does the bass, and when the bass drops so does the dance floor, sending the crowd floating and dancing in zero gravity.
Not only was the plane decorated with LEDs, but Thomas and his team created trash tech style wearables for the group, including video capable vests. The best way to describe their work is graffiti street fashion through LEDs. They know how to combine texture, paint and tech to produce a mixed media effect that is sure to bring smiles. This Bass vest not only shows nice font work using LED strips, but equally nice cabling which allows the strips to make sharp bends.
This party helmet uses the knobby LED style that Trafo Pop is known for, and the ribbons of cable make it appear brain like. Of course my fave piece is this backpack style large numeric display. What does that readout mean? Knowing Thomas it is probably an IoT thing!
I’m really excited to see the success of this group, and they continue to grow the maker and wearables spirit in Berlin. If you want some of that crazy spirit, you should take a look at our tutorial for the EEG Costume Cap. It features our bright and colorful mini NeoPixels topped with some NinjaFlex diffusers. Will people believe your brain activity is affecting the lights? Let them wonder, because you are the one that can secretly control the colors with your phone through Bluefruit LE. This is a challenging project with big rewards.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
A few years ago I had the excitement of meeting Thomas Gnahm and the rest of his glowing friends at Wear It Berlin. I say glowing because they are known for creating the coolest bike gang blinged out with LED denim jackets—Trafo Pop. As if things weren’t crazy enough with their events, they just celebrated a world’s record for having a fashion tech party in zero gravity thanks to a campaign for Desperado called “Bass Drop”. It was like this:
A party is taking place inside of an airplane 30,000 ft. above Las Vegas. As the plane drops to 15,000 ft. so does the bass, and when the bass drops so does the dance floor, sending the crowd floating and dancing in zero gravity.
Not only was the plane decorated with LEDs, but Thomas and his team created trash tech style wearables for the group, including video capable vests. The best way to describe their work is graffiti street fashion through LEDs. They know how to combine texture, paint and tech to produce a mixed media effect that is sure to bring smiles. This Bass vest not only shows nice font work using LED strips, but equally nice cabling which allows the strips to make sharp bends.
This party helmet uses the knobby LED style that Trafo Pop is known for, and the ribbons of cable make it appear brain like. Of course my fave piece is this backpack style large numeric display. What does that readout mean? Knowing Thomas it is probably an IoT thing!
I’m really excited to see the success of this group, and they continue to grow the maker and wearables spirit in Berlin. If you want some of that crazy spirit, you should take a look at our tutorial for the EEG Costume Cap. It features our bright and colorful mini NeoPixels topped with some NinjaFlex diffusers. Will people believe your brain activity is affecting the lights? Let them wonder, because you are the one that can secretly control the colors with your phone through Bluefruit LE. This is a challenging project with big rewards.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
