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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Asi Wearable Robot Friend #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Asi, short for Anansi, from the African folklore tale, is a wearable robot that can be worn on your head.

Find the full build tutorial here: https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/projects/asi-a-3d-printed-wearable-robot-friend/b5dc4b947afc40348c391a78856dc731

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5095636

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!

LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord

Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit

Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting

3D Printing Projects Playlist:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:

Timelapse Tuesday Playlist:

Connect with Noe and Pedro on Social Media:

Noe’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/ecken

Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Mando’s N-1 Naboo Starfighter #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Runecaster shares:

My take on the heavily modified Naboo N-1 Starfighter as seen on the Book of Boba Fett episode 5.

Proxy for use in the X-Wing Miniatures Game.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5219863

LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord

Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit

Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting

3D Printing Projects Playlist:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:

Timelapse Tuesday Playlist:

Connect with Noe and Pedro on Social Media:

Noe’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/ecken

Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil

3D Scans Repository #3DThursday #3DPrinting

bitbuilt.net shares:

Have access to a 3D scanner? Have some 3D scans to share? Share them here!

Check out all of the models on: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?forums/3d-scans-repository.183/

LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord

Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit

Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting

3D Printing Projects Playlist:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:

Timelapse Tuesday Playlist:

Connect with Noe and Pedro on Social Media:

Noe’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/ecken

Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil

Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit finally exits Beta #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi @TomsHardware

February 2, 2022 marks the day that 64-bit flavor of Raspberry Pi OS moves from a rather lengthy beta, into the world at large. The news, announced via a blog post by Gordon Holingworth, Chief Product Officer at Raspberry Pi Ltd sees the 64-bit OS move to being released. But this new release isn’t set to replace the 32-bit version just yet, according to a Tom’s Hardware article by Les Pounder.

For now, the 32-bit image is still the default and recommended image promoted by the Raspberry Pi Imager tool. This move ensures that new users can get up and running no matter what model of Pi they may have. If you really want to take the 64-bit image for a test drive, it can be found under Raspberry Pi OS (other) via the Choose OS option.

We asked Hollingworth if the 32-bit OS will be phased out as more 64-bit compatible models are released? “While we manufacture hardware with 32-bit processors then we will still continue with the 32-bit recommended image. (We still make original Pi model B’s because we always said we would continue to do so while it was possible),” he said.

For now, 32-bit and 64-bit will run in parallel, affording users of Pis both new and old the opportunity to squeeze the most from the popular single board computer. But how long until we see the 64-bit OS become the dominant choice?

3D Hangouts Livestream Today with @videopixil @ecken

Hi folks, we’re doing this thing today☕️⚡️ Livestream starts at 11:00 am ET on all the socials. Hope to see you on the Discord, bye!

This week @adafruit we’re making an audio reactive light bar using NeoPixels and CircuitPython. Prototyping a zoetrope with Adafruit Crickit featuring Party Parrot. The timelapse this week is a fractal star fidget printed using quantum filament from Matterhackers. It’s quite colorful this week!

Learn Guide
https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixel-mini-vu-meter

YouTube Project Video
https://youtu.be/9lymyZkPWMk

Code on GitHub
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Learning_System_Guides/tree/main/NeoPixel_Mini_VU_Meter

QT Py RP2040
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4900

PDM Mic
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4346

Mini Skinny NeoPixel Strip 144/meter
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2969

Black LED Acrylic
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4594

10-wire ribbon cable
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3890

Stemma QT Cable
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4209

M2.5 Hardware Kit
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3299

Quantum Filament Matterhackers
https://www.matterhackers.com/store/c/matterhackers-quantum-pla

Timelapse Tuesday

Fractal Fidget Star – Chuuck Hilliard
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4802126
https://youtu.be/jUvZTScusi8

Community Makes

https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/124241-tusken-chief-staff-remix tusken staff remix
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5222539 feather box for USB C
https://skkaw.blog/2022/01/30/building-my-own-darksaber/ darksaber
https://www.thingiverse.com/make:1007847 16×16 neopixel matrix display
https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/7149-links-hylian-shield/comments#comment-143710 hylian shield

BASIC Interpreter for the Raspberry Pi Pico #BASIC #RaspberryPiPico #Programming

The PicoMite is a Raspberry Pi Pico running the free MMBasic interpreter.

MMBasic is a modern Microsoft BASIC compatible implementation of the BASIC language with floating point, integer and string variables, arrays, long variable names, a built in program editor and many other features.

Using MMBasic you can use communications protocols such as I²C or SPI to get data from a variety of sensors. You can save data to an SD card, display information on color LCD displays, measure voltages, detect digital inputs and drive output pins to turn on lights, relays, etc. All from inside this low cost microcontroller.

This is a port of the BASIC that’s used on the Maximite virtual retro computer platform, which means that there are many working examples out there for you to crib from, and even a forum. Add in the incredibly nice user manual and tutorial (PDF), and you’ve got the perfect weekend afternoon.

The PicoMite firmware is totally free to download and use.

See the author’s page, the GitHub repo and a Hackaday review.

Adding MIDI to an organ pedal keyboard with Raspberry Pi Pico and CircuitPython #CircuitPython #MIDI @diyelectromusic

diyelectromusic on Twitter has added MIDI to an old organ pedal keyboard using a Raspberry Pi Pico programmed in CircuitPython.

Quite a number of years ago, I found an old set of organ pedals and MIDI’d them up by the crude method of wiring the pedal switches onto the connectors for the keys of an old Amstrad MIDI keyboard… It was the technology and expertise I had at the time!

I stumbled across them a few weeks back in the garage and thought it was time to bring the idea back to life with a microcontroller.

See the video below and details in the blog post here.