Cute 3D printed Toy Story project made with some Adafruit parts. From P3 on YouTube:
3D printed in resin on the Peopoly Phenom and Phrozen Sonic Mini with Siraya Fast Gray resin. Painted with Badger airbrush and Molotow paints. Powered by an Arduino Nano, an Adafruit sound FX board,a servo and some LED’s.
Austin sent in this project he built. He added driving light/turn signals to his 2007 Honda CBR 1000RR. To get the job done he used a bunch of Adafruit gear and the Adafruit Bluefruit app!
Via the University of Wisconsin:
My 2007 Honda CBR 1000RR has flush mounted turn signals meaning that it is hard for cars coming head on to see which way I am turning, this is especially difficult at 4 way stops when I want to turn left and the car in front of me thinks I am going straight. COVID-19 left me at home with my thoughts long enough that I decided to not only fix my problem, but have some fun with it as well. Many high end cars such as Audi, Lamborghini, and Ford Mustang have dynamic turn signals and LED accent lighting that I decided to recreate for my motorcycle.
An LCD Alarm Clock using the Adafruit Feather M0 Express with automatic correction for Daylight Saving Time and plays a short WAV file for the alarm.
Items used were:
See this Adafruit Forums post for details and the code on GitHub.
From the Adafruit Forums, user czuvich demonstrates their Greenclay LoRaWAN Smart Garden project. It is able to monitor and manage an outdoor garden using LoRaWAN with an Arduino programmed microcontroller. It is a complete package which includes a dev kit, garden controller, and mobile app.
I am a software engineer by trade; however, I wanted to build a better garden that could scale in my backyard. I embarked on my hardware journey and 2 years later I finally finished the project.
I wanted to personally say Thank You to Adafruit for providing open source hardware and software and excellent customer help. I built several prototypes using the nRF52840 Adafruit Express and various other hardware components. I now have my own custom Arduino which I can use as a core LoRaWAN board to add more functionality to my homestead besides garden control.
See the Adafruit Forums post for all the details.
From the Adafruit forums, user Biod101 details how the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is using Adafruit.io to evaluate “how applying mulch might reduce demand for irrigation”…
The desert Southwest is experiencing record-high temperatures coupled with severe drought. In prior years, the monsoon season (mid-June through September) provided relief through daily afternoon thunderstorms, but the trend these days is one of brief, intense storms followed by weeks of dry weather. This trend is increasing demand for supplemental water resources in Arizona, which are pumped uphill from distant reservoirs like Lake Havasu requiring fossil fuels.
Hans Huth is a hydrologist with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ). Hans was interested in understanding how applying mulch to desert landscapes might reduce demand for irrigation, so he set up an experiment in his backyard using a Feather Huzzah ESP8266 coupled with air and soil temperature sensors (SHT10 and AM2315). The Feather Huzzah reports data to an Adafruit IO dashboard once every 40 seconds. He compared air temperatures and soil temperatures between an uncovered and subsequently mulch-covered basin in his backyard over time. He executed this experiment by measuring the temperature response before and after an intense summer monsoon, and then applying mulch to the basin to see how temperature dynamics would change. His experiment demonstrated that a thin layer of mulch can lower soil temperatures by 12 degrees Fahrenheit, thus reducing soil-water evaporation. He concluded that mulch can serve as an important tool to decrease irrigation demand, while strengthening climate change resiliency in the desert Southwest. He will soon be adding Stemma Soil sensors to his basin to measure water movement in shallow and deep-soil profiles over time.
You can view the experiment’s live Adafruit IO Dashboard here.
See the forum post for more details including a video of the experiment and a detailed listing of the equipment used
Cool concept + build from Mihir Khara up on Hackster.io.
There is no cure for CoViD-19 yet, although patients are given some medicines by nurses and doctors to ease the pain and reduce symptoms. But this puts our Healthcare warriors at risk when they give the medicine to patients, thus I developed a machine that can take in the Medicine Dozes of an Entire week, store them and supply them to the patient at the time set by the doctor once, at the start-up of the machine. This will ensure distancing from patients and nurses won’t have to risk their lives to go and give medicine to the patient. Once the medicine is on the given rack from where the patient can take it, he/she is alerted via a speaker on the system to take the medicine. The data of when the medicine is taken is stored in an SD card for further reference by doctors to monitor the effect on symptoms by the given doze.
Cool project + write-up via Hakin9.
The goal of this project was to create a Wi-Fi sniffer that I could carry around in my pocket, easily view real-time status, decrypt packets on the fly, and change antenna channels as needed. Also, I wanted this project to be cheap (less than $100) and require no soldering.
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Thanks to Tony for sending in this tip! Tony writes:
Just had fun with these little displays and have put up an instructable on their use.
I love your products and they are keeping me sane during the LockDown. Keep safe and I hope you can supply some Clues via Pimoroni in UK in the
near future.
Awesome project + write-up from Jim Lee, who shared on Show & Tell back in April.
Looking at the FeatherFONA, I got the idea that making my own cellphone might be a fun project. I mean, it already does everything. All I needed to do was write some GUI code and there I’d be. From doing the calculator and doorbell, I had a bunch of GUI code libraries already written up. So, how hard could it be?
Ok, I knew it would be a bit of a stretch, I just, as always, under estimated just how much.
So I bought one of these little guys and when I had some free time, begin to experiment with it.
Huge thanks to Seth for sending in this tip! Seth writes:
Students in Seth Thorn’s “AME 112: Computational Thinking for Digital Culture Majors” course at Arizona State University use Adafruit’s Circuit Playground Express development board in tandem with Max MSP to learn algorithmic thinking, recursion, conditions, procedural logic, modularity, and other computing principles. Students with little or no programming background are able to rapidly prototype and design smart home devices, wearables, and games in the first 8 weeks of the course, which emphasizes process-oriented learning and playful experimentation for development of rich, generative design media.
See more on YouTube and www.computation.site
Beautiful build from Martin Mander up on Hackster.io.
This old and unusual dial-less telephone now helps well-being and productivity to co-exist in the home office! Beneath its vintage grille a NeoPixel ring lights up its 24 LEDs in sequence for an hour, switching to an eye-catching rainbow display when it’s time to take a break. Ignore the rainbow and the LED ring starts flashing red, accompanied by a subtle but un-ignorable beep from the phone’s original buzzer unit.
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Excellent project + tutorial from Arduino “having11” Guy up on Hackster.io.
This project was created as a throwback to a much simpler toy, the Etch-a-Sketch, but instead of moving a tiny stylus to wipe aluminum particles off of a glass surface, this one plots pixels onto an RGB matrix.
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From the Adafruit Forums, Jeff Kaler demonstrates a Star Trek the original series (TOS) medical computer (video above). The Type 2 Bio Computer would analyze samples with lights and sound and this is a very faithful recreation. Jeff writes:
The electronics are an Arduino Mega, (an Adafruit) Music Maker Shield, and (an Adafruit) TLC5947 (24-channel 12-bit PWM LED driver).
See the forum post here.
Also see Jeff’s Star Trek TOS Type 4A Computer Replica, video below. lovely!
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Cute project from 8bitsandabyte up on Hackster.io.
A television that tells you off whenever you look at it. The future is now!
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We love the positivity behind this project! Cool build from TechAhoy Inc., Klinstifen up on Hackster.io.
essentialQuotes is a project designed to capture outpouring of community support from tweets and web posts and display them on RGB matrices
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Handy project to celebrate RoboWeek from Gautam Bose, Lucas Ochoa up on Hackster.io.
Hi! We’re Lucas and Gautam, two makers in New York 🏙 who have been collaborating on projects with friends at Google Creative Lab.
Using proper hand-washing technique is one of the five things you can do right now to help keep yourself and others healthy. The CDC recommends washing for 20 seconds, so while stuck at home, we made this DIY hand washing timer to help nudge everyone in the right direction. We call it – the Wash-A-Lot-Bot!
This project is for people of all ages and skill-levels, and all the parts can be ordered from Adafruit, SparkFun, or any electronics retailer for roughly $35.
Shout out to Roberto for sending in this documentation! Thanks for joining us on Show and Tell last week!
From onebeartoe.org:
This project uses 3D printing, a temperature and humidity sensor, and solar power to make a birdhouse with a simple weather station attached.
This really neat pendant features the Circuit Playground Express.
via Katherine Becvar on YouTube
This video describes how to set up the Blue Moon Designs programmable LED pendants for recharging the battery and reprogramming the Circuit Playground Express microcontroller which powers the lights and effects in the pendant.
Circuit Playground Express
Circuit Playground Express is the next step towards a perfect introduction to electronics and programming. We’ve taken the original Circuit Playground Classic and made it even better! Not only did we pack even more sensors in, we also made it even easier to program. Read more.
Great Circuit Playground Bluefruit project from grajohnt up on Hackster.io.
Rheoscopic fluids allow the currents and turbulence in fluids to be seen. They’re typically made with mica, a mineral that forms small shiny flat plates that easily moves within a fluid.You can find them in science museums (such as the Glasgow Science Centre), or as art displays (most famously, the Kalliroscopes of Paul Matisse)
I’ve always loved the way the fluid moved within these displays, and I wanted to build something that didn’t require interaction. I also thought it would be interesting to light them from within or underneath, rather than relying on light reflecting off of the mica plates.
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
Chris put in a FOIA request to the NSA for their Python training materials and got back a 400-page printout of their COMP 3321 training course – PDF. Read more.
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Tree with Animated Eyes and Motion Sensor – Bring Your Forest to life with MonsterM4sk by Erin St Blaine
This tutorial goes into detail about the Monster M4sk setup process, and gives a lot of info about how I built the tree to house it. It’s not a step-by-step tree-build tutorial, but it will definitely give you the tools and a road map of how to create your own tree or monster or movie prop using expanding foam and a few simple hand tools.
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