9-year-old Boy Creating a Game to Help Learn Math Using a #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay @yukiko_kikuchi

Love it! Via Neuroscientist Yuki Kikuchi on Twitter.

My 9 year old son Ray who doesn't remember all the times tables yet is creating a game to learn Maths using #Python and #RaspberryPi for the upcoming showcase for @coolestprojects Power of SOLE @Sugatam @StartSOLE @raspberrypi @S4ALearningHubs @coding_kids @NCLsolecentra pic.twitter.com/wv9zv27PDy

— Yuki Kikuchi (@yukiko_kikuchi) February 22, 2019

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Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!

9-year-old Boy Creating a Game to Help Learn Math Using a #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay @yukiko_kikuchi

Love it! Via Neuroscientist Yuki Kikuchi on Twitter.

My 9 year old son Ray who doesn't remember all the times tables yet is creating a game to learn Maths using #Python and #RaspberryPi for the upcoming showcase for @coolestprojects Power of SOLE @Sugatam @StartSOLE @raspberrypi @S4ALearningHubs @coding_kids @NCLsolecentra pic.twitter.com/wv9zv27PDy

— Yuki Kikuchi (@yukiko_kikuchi) February 22, 2019

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Meet Zobbie, a Pi Zero W Hexapod #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

From Pi and Chips via raspberry pi pod:

So, this is what happened when I bought a cute robot, pulled its head off, and replaced its brains with a Raspberry Pi!

I had some time off over Christmas, which means I end up with time to do fun stuff like hacking toy robots, then making fun movies made with hacked toy robots….

Read more and see more on Thingiverse and/or GitHub

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Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!

Happy 7th Birthday Raspberry Pi!! #piday #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi

This weekend is the official birthday celebration for the Raspberry Pi. The little computer that can turns 7!!

All weekend long you can find Raspberry Pi Jams across the globe. These are great places to learn, share and make with the Raspberry Pi.

You can check back with the Adafruit blog later today where we will be sharing some of our favorite Raspberry Pi blog posts and Learn Guides from throughout the year!

Via RaspberryPi.org:

For our birthday this year, we coordinated over 100 community-led Raspberry Jam events around the globe. In a few months’ time, Raspberry Pi will be seven years old – and to celebrate we’re hosting another Big Birthday Weekend, which takes place all over the world on 2-3 March 2019.

Learn more!

DivX Player Restored with Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Via Hackaday:

It might seem almost comical to our more fresh-faced readers, but there was a time when you could go into a big box retailer and purchase what was known as a “DivX Player”. Though they had the outward appearance of a normal DVD player, these gadgets could read various digital video file formats off of a CD-R or DVD-R, complete with rudimentary file browser. Depending on how much video compression you could stomach, a player like this would allow you to pack an entire season of a show or multiple movies onto a single disc. Before we started streaming everything online, that was kind of a big deal.

[Roberto] hoped that he could tap into the player’s original power supply, but upon testing found that it wasn’t quite up to the task to reliably running a modern Pi. So into the cavernous enclosure went a powered USB hub, which he wired up to the original power switch on the player’s front panel. The original PSU couldn’t handle the Pi, but it does work nicely to spin up an IDE hard drive that he mounted to the top of the optical drive with zip ties.

Learn more!

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Moon lamp with base #3Dprinting #3DThursday

toolmoon shared this project on Thingiverse!

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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!

Particle Mesh Enclosure #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Shared by jotabeo on Thingiverse:

An enclosure for the Particle Mesh Argon, Boron and Xenon devices. Includes compartment for the battery and a lid. All three are designed to fit one above the other. Four M3 x 45mm screws, four M3 thin hexagon nuts, four M2 x 16mm screws and four M2 thin hexagon nuts are required.

Download the files and learn more

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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!

Similing Devil Emoji Keychain \ Decoration #3DPrinting #3DThursday

RonFalafel shared this project on Thingiverse!

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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!

Customized Pop Figure #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Shared by Bcallahan245 on Thingiverse:

This is our attempt at recreating the artistic style of Funko pop figures in our own likenesses. We chose to do this because there is a lack of female pop figures to customize on Thingiverse. We included our base so you can create your own!

Download the files and learn more

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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!

NEW PRODUCT – Element14 Desktop Enclosure Kit for Raspberry Pi Computers

NEW PRODUCT – Element14 Desktop Enclosure Kit for Raspberry Pi Computers

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Element14’s Pi Desktop Enclosure Kit gives you the gear to convert your Raspberry Pi into a mini desktop computer! The sleek, minimal enclosure is designed with an expansion controller that plugs into your Pi to give it all the extras you’ve been missing. It comes intelligent on/off power switch and RTC. It even has an mSATA SSD socket and controller so you can plug in a large storage drive to create a media center or network storage system. If you have a Pi camera, you can insert it into a special slot in the case, no dangly bits!

Includes:

• Expansion board with smart On/Off power controller
• mSATA SSD socket for up to 1TB on-board storage (storage drive not included)
• Built in RTC plus CR2032 Lithium coin cell battery
• Heat sink
• USB Adapter (Micro-Type A)
• 4 x Long spacer
• 4 x Short standoff
• 2 x Screws
• Enclosure (base and lid)

Please Note: This enclosure is compatible with Raspberry Pi 2 / Pi 3 only, and a Raspberry Pi is not included! You’ll also want a pre-loaded microSD card, power supply, and peripherals:

• USB 2.5A Power Supply
• 8 GB MicroSD card with NooBs
• 8 MegaPixel Pi Camera
• USB Keyboard
• USB Mouse

In stock and shipping now!

Tesla Model 3 deep/tall center tray #3DPrinting #3DThursday

lairdb shared this project on Thingiverse!

Deep tray for Tesla center console.

Has vertical pockets for sunglasses and reading glasses; two large pockets for curved/sculpted glasses, and one for flat-folding glasses, e.g.readers.

You may want to flock, or line with fleece or felt or microfiber.

Note that this is a very large print — 173mm x 136mm x 151mm tall.

See more!

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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!

Lilliput Rubberband Gun (by Parabellum Arms) #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Shared by Bengineer on Thingiverse:

This is a 3D printable recreation of Parabellum Arms amazing semi-automatic rubber band gun named Lilliput.

Please check out his youtube video:

It uses 70mm (2 3/4in) rubber bands as ammo.

Download the files and learn more

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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!

Eye of agamotto #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Laci_Legath shared this project on Thingiverse!

Eye of Agamotto inspired by the Dr Strange movie.

See more!

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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!

Braid Galaxy #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Shared by GesaPi on Thingiverse:

A braided knot, made from one continuous string, intricate and interesting to play with or keep on your desk for visual delight.

Can even stand up, if balanced on exactly the right spot! Looks really nice.

Download the files and learn more

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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!

Micro:bit Radio Control of Crickit Robotics

The BBC micro:bit continues to gain market share in the educational space. And why not, with an LED matrix display and a built-in Bluetooth LE radio, users can do some advanced projects.

In this guide, one micro:bit will be used as a radio control. Pushing the A and B buttons will transmit commands. A second micro:bit will be connected to an Adafruit Crickit robotics controller. The receiving micro:bit will translate the received radio commands into actions on the Crickit.

The Go bundle includes a battery pack, batteries, and a USB cable for a tiny bit more than the micro:bit alone. This is good for the transmitter.

The receiver is not battery powered, so the regular micro:bit pack is fine.

Adafruit Crickit for micro:bit provides robotics, sound, and light support.

We'll need a power supply for the Crickit and some interface items. You can choose, but for this tutorial we'll use a servo and an LED NeoPixel strip.

Tools

You can use your own wire stripper, but if you don't have one, this one is great.

MultiKey – Key Holder #3DTHURSDAY #3DPrinting

lumor07 shared this project on Thingiverse!

I wasn’t really satisfied with the key holders available so I made some myself in Fusion 360.
No logo’s or watermarks, using only 2 screws so it’s easy to assemble.
More designs to come, stay tuned! Suggestions or feedback, let me know via the comments!

See more!

Backpack Kid Robot #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Shared by EunchanPark on Thingiverse:

You can see more information on my YouTube Channel!

Download the files and learn more

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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!

Glass sword (Skyrim)

Verdugo Tepes shared on Thingiverse:

Glass sword (Skyrim)

Skyrim glass sword. Finished. At least according to me. Don’t really know what else to do with it.

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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!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!

Sugru: Inside the Mind of a Serial Maker #Makers #Making @sugru @johnedgarpark @adafruit

Via the Sugru blog:

Ever since John Edgar Park can remember, he’s been taking things apart to understand how they work. His earliest memory was dismantling a broken walkie-talkie set, putting it back together, only to discover it worked again. It made him feel like he had special powers. That was his epiphany moment, and his destiny as a maker was sealed.

John’s passion for dismembering and rebuilding things has taken him into the worlds of computer graphics and film animation for companies like White Wolf Studios, NovaLogic, and Disney Animation Studios where he worked as a Rigging Lead, CG Supervisor, and Director of Digital Production & Technology on films Meet The Robinsons, Bolt, Planes and Tinker Bell. His book, Understanding 3D Animation Using Maya, was written based on his experience teaching Maya at Sony Imageworks during the production of Spider-Man 2, The Polar Express, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

John is a prominent force within the maker movement. He hosted the public television series Make: television, he’s a regular writer for Make Magazine and presenter atMaker Faire events. He currently works for Adafruit Industries and hosts a weekly YouTube broadcast called John Park’s Workshop, you can check it out here.

You can read the entire article with questions and answers on the Sugru blog here.

3D Hangouts – PyPortal Projects

Files, code, learn guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pyportal
Project Video: https://youtu.be/9meeVehRS6A

Portable PyPortal learn guide:
https://learn.adafruit.com/portable-pyportal

Custom Fonts for Circuit Python Displays:
https://learn.adafruit.com/custom-fonts-for-pyportal-circuitpython-display

Getting Started with PyPortal:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pyportal

PyPortal 3D Printed Stand
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3457290

PyPortal CAD files
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CAD_Parts/tree/master/4116%20PyPortal

PyPortal
https://adafru.it/4116

PowerBoost 1000C
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2465

Rechargeable Lipo batteries
https://www.adafruit.com/category/574

Standoff Kit
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3299

3D Parts Library on GitHub
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CAD_Parts

Fusion 360 Tutorial – Mazes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7yLsWhgTrk

Glasses Stand
https://youtu.be/vafstqByqVo
Paul Battram
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2219936

2/27/19 community makes:

pi zero stand
https://twitter.com/jaydoscher/status/1099902112354394112?s=21

gopro hero 5 flex case
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3444109

feather snap-fit box
https://twitter.com/at_makers/status/1099549758312595458

unicorn horn
https://www.thingiverse.com/make:617907

PyPortal Stand

PyPortal Stand on Thingiverse

3D print a simple stand for the Adafruit PyPortal. Use M2.5 nylon standoffs and fasteners to secure the PyPortal PCB to the stand.

PyPortal documentation and code
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pyportal/

PyPortal Product Page
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4116

M2.5 Black Nylon Standoff Kit
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3299

Adafruit CAD Parts on github
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CAD_Parts

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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!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!

Adafruit Top Secret! (Video February 27, 2019) #AdafruitTopSecret #DontAsk #Adafruit @Adafruit

Adafruit’s Top Secret!

News comes from the Adafruit factory in New York. Broadcast February 27, 2019

Adafruit broadcasts the weekly ASK an ENGINEER video show and this is the segment on items or concept products that may/might/could be introduced into the Adafruit store in the future (or not)! It’s not out yet, so please don’t ask questions or ask when it’ll be available…. keep an eye on the new products list to see what we’ve put in the store or have coming soon.

Check out the latest video above!

Check out the Adafruit store for all the great products that are available and for coming soon products, you can sign up to be notified when they are in stock.
https://www.adafruit.com/

Join us on Discord for news, help, and community!
https://adafru.it/discord/

Timelapse Tueday – Glasses Stand

Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses!

Glasses Stand
Paul Battram
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2219936
Prusa MK2S
Noble Blue PLA
2hrs 11mins
X:179Y:162 Z:43mm
.2mm layer / .4mm nozzle
20% Infill / .8mm retract
210C / 60C
16g
60mm/s

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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!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!

Microscope Stand

Valera Perinski shared on thingiverse:

Microscope Stand

A few years ago I bought a microscope, but its stand was so uncomfortable that for a long time it was lying idle on the shelf. And now I need … And that’s what I decided to do …

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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!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!

Patapon Figure

Pedro Mejia shared on thingiverse:

Patapon with equipment

Patapon de ojo movible basado en la entretenida franquicia para PSP desarrollada por Pyramid. Incluye armas, cascos y escudo para convertirlo en Yaripon o Tatepon.

Mobile Eye Patapon based on the fun PSP franchise developed by Pyramid. Includes weapons, helmets and shield to be transformed into Yaripon or Tatepon.

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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!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!

TARDIS Jewelry Box

Paul Clemons shared on Thingiverse:

TARDIS Jewelry Box

Remixed this from TARDIS with drawers by theintrospective.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1257492

I really liked the idea, but wanted my daughter to be able to hang her necklaces.

Original design was modular, so I combined them all together and split horizontally to make stackable and fit my printer.

It prints in 6 pieces, bottom, middle, top, and 3 drawers.

I may end up adding support to keep the drawers from sliding out when tilted, natural colored windows to allow light through, and modifying the top to add the light back, but the parts take so long to print, I may not bother.

On my printer, with support, it took almost an entire weekend to print.

SMD soldering long clamp #3DThursday #3DPrinting

TK_DESIGN shares this great design for a SMD soldering long clamp!

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3386223

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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!

Apple II Prusa LCD Cover for MK3 #3DThursday #3DPrinting

pozzithni shares:

This is my attempt at a nice Retro Apple II Faceplace for the MK3.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3356448

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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 2/27/19 LIVE! @adafruit #adafruit #AskAnEngineer #DIY

ASK AN ENGINEER 2/27/19 LIVE! (video). 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.

http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Live text chat in discord in the #livebroadcast channel, and we’ll have live video on Youtube, Twitch, and Facebook.

2,000 thanks – Adafruit on Twitch @adafruit @twitch

Thank you to all the folks who follow Adafruit on Twitch for all the weekly shows, videos, and more! https://www.twitch.tv/adafruit

Vatican Swiss Guards Are Now Wearing 3D Printing Helmets

Since 1914, the Vatican’s Swiss Guard soldiers have worn a uniform inspired by Renaissance-era artwork — heavy metal helmets included. This year, they’re changing their traditional metal helmets for 3D printed headgear.

Click here for the rest of the story.

NEW GUIDE: Robotic Marionette using CRICKIT #CircuitPlaygroundExpress #CircuitPython

This guide shows how to turn scrap cardboard, paper clips, and hot glue into a customizable Robotic Marionette.

This marionette uses the Adafruit CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express to control its dancing limbs. Four arcade style buttons control the movement of four servo motors. Great for beginner programmers, this projects also shows how to use CircuitPython to control various inputs and outputs.

Check out the Robotic Marionette on the Adafruit Learn System to learn how to build your own!

NEW GUIDE: No-Solder Faux Neon Bike Lights #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit #Projects #Making

A new guide today in the Adafruit Learning System: No-Solder Faux Neon Bike Lights

Add a strip of flexible silicone faux neon lights to your bike basket in this great beginner project. No previous experience with electronics is necessary. If you can use a screwdriver and zip ties, you can add some bright glowy neon-like lights to practically anything!

This tutorial will cover how to connect a battery pack to a strip of Flexible Silicone Neon-Like LED lights and how to easily attach it to a bike basket.

Pick your favorite color and get started!

See this guide now.

micro:bit music experiments #microbit #music #electronicmusic

Giles Booth writes on blogmywiki on micro:bit music experiments

I’ve made a few simple projects to turn a BBC micro:bit into (sort of) musical instruments.

First, I made a simple arpeggiator. The micro:bit is, of course, only capable of playing 1 note at a time, but take 3 notes from a chord and break them apart and you get something that sounds… like music:

The code can be opened in using the simulator at https://makecode.microbit.org/_XRogJF6kzHWE

There are additional videos and experiments in the blog

Engraving Guilloché Patterns

Via the Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning blog by Ed Nisley comes a post about engraving Guilloché patterns.

Flushed with success from engraving a hard drive platter for the 21HB5A tube, I bandsawed an acrylic square from a scrap sheet and unleashed the diamond drag bit on it (above).

Despite an angular resolution of 2°, the curves came out entirely smooth enough. The gritty scratchiness resulted in a pile of chaff covering the engraved area; perhaps some oil or lube or whatever would help.

Rescaling the pattern to fit a CD platter:

Polycarbonate seems to deform slightly, rather than scratch, leaving the final product with no chaff at all.

In this case, the doubled lines come from the reflection off the aluminized lower surface holding all the data.

See the blog for for additional details and pictures.