LED Wallpaper #ArtTuesday

@meystle_led_wallpaper cover walls in LED art with the tagline – When light becomes material

The concept of luxury and elegance is hard to define, yet we know them instantly when we see them. Commissioning a custom made wallpaper allows you to embrace your creative vision, make choices that are truly yours and give your project the touch that embodies the highest pedigree of interior design.

See more on Instagram and YouTube

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*No-Solder PaperCraft Crystal Light Strand

*Neopixel Crystal Chandelier with CircuitPython Animations and Speed Control

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

Crochet Meet Fallen Leaves in the Work of Sussanna Bauer #ArtTuesday

Craft meets nature in the work of Susanna Bauer. Leaves, crochet, balance, beauty. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:

Merging organic forms with timeless craft, Susanna Bauer emphasizes incredible details in her intimate leaf sculptures. Working with a range of foraged species, from ginkgo to magnolia to oak, the artist…meticulously stitches around the edges or fills in tiny incisions, creating intricate lacework compositions.

A new monograph Susanna Bauer: IN LEAF, published by 5 Continents Editions, celebrates her use of natural ephemera to create elegant pieces exploring the relationship between strength and fragility. “Nature becomes a metaphor for humanity: the artfully interwoven threads remind us that we are all part of a vaster network and therefore generators of connections,” Valentina de Pasca writes in an introductory essay.

See more!

 

LARS, the Looping Automated Rhythm Station #ArtTuesday #RaspberryPi @xythobuz

For the recent birthday party, Kauzerei had the great idea to build a DIY drum machine as a present, to allow them to play the bass without having to gather a jam session group. He recruited Thomas Buck for electronics design brainstorming and to write the firmware.

The drum body consists of a tambourine with a 3D printed frame attached, with three hand-wound solenoids mounted on there. The positioning and different hammers create some (slightly) differing sounds.

The electronics are made with a Raspberry Pi Pico (or Pico W in this case, although WiFi or BT are not used yet). This keeps the future option of a USB Midi input open.

The user interface consists of four buttons, each with an LED above, and a clickable rotary encoder, as well as a power switch and an 128×64 SSD1306 OLED display. To drive the solenoids, three step-up converters create ~16V from the single Li-Ion 18650 cell. Their output is then switched to the solenoids using MOSFETs. A small TP4056 module handles recharging the battery.

See more in the post here and on GitHub.

 

Repairing a mug with Japanese kintsugi #ArtTuesday

Fredrik Flornes Ellertsen provides a tutorial for Japanese kintsugi, repairing ceramics with a distinctive gold finish. Fredrik’s special mug was the target:

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. In Kintsugi, one uses natural lacquer mixed with various ingredients such as wood powder, polishing compound, and even bread dough to repair cracked pottery. The mended joints are then highlighted by dusting the final layer of lacquer with gold or silver.

See how this method is used to save precious objects and make new unique art pieces in the tutorial here.

 

Pokémon Macro Ball for Nintendo Switch

Don’t you want to be the very best? Like no one ever was? Check out John Park‘s guide.

Ever get tired of spinning your JoyCon thumbstick endlessly to evolve Milcery into Alcremie in Pokémon Sword and Shield? Or get bored riding your Rotom bike in circles to speed up egg hatching? You can create a special Pokéball that is a programmable macro controller for your Nintendo Switch that’ll do it for you!

Dr. Love: a Game of Love Detection #piday #raspberrypi

A barroom staple now in the palm of your hand. Uses sensors to ‘measure’ you’re excitement. The more excited you are the more in love? Ok, not hard science but fun for a flirtation or fight on the way home.

Excitement is measured with your galvanic skin response; or changes in the amount you sweat.

Full build guide from unkyulee on GitHub:

Dr. Love: is a business-card sized gadget to test if your partner is in love with you or just kind of meh. Simply place your fingers on Dr. Love, and it will reveal if neither of you, both of you, or just one of you is in love. Thankfully, it won’t spill the beans on which one of you is the lovesick puppy.

See the full guide!

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A DIY Raspberry Pi Document Scanner @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Flat bed scanners have been a thing of the past for quite some time, for most folks. When high quality scans aren’t required, a phone can work just fine. Here’s another approach from Caelestis Workshop at Instructables!

Welcome to my project where i build a Raspberry Pi Document Scanner! Utilizing the Raspberry Pi 4b, the Pi Camera V2, and custom 3D-printed components, this guide will guide you through creating a functional document scanner. This device is equipped to capture high-resolution images and process documents for perspective correction and cropping, making it an ideal tool for a variety of digitizing tasks.

The ability to digitize documents efficiently holds vast importance in today’s digital-first environment, serving purposes ranging from personal archiving to reducing paper clutter and facilitating educational activities. Assembling this scanner yourself not only provides a cost-effective alternative to commercial scanners but also enriches your understanding of hardware integration, software development, and advanced image processing.

See project!