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Making a robot to carve photo real pumpkins #ElectronicHalloween

Stuff Made Here makes some of the whackiest over-engineered projects on the tube. Its exciting to see how much thought and work they put into less serious projects. Have you carved your pumpkins yet? Via YouTube

I’ve been wondering if I could turn my haircut robot into a pumpkin carving robot. Cutting hair and carving pumpkins isn’t really that different if you think about it – both cut stuff off a roughly pumpkin sized spheroid. In this video I do just that and carve some pretty amazing pumpkins with it. This was a bit of a sprint to get done – I can’t wait until next year to make even more insane pumpkins with it!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Every day this month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween! Expect wearables, hacks & mods, costumes and more here on the Adafruit blog! Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, Discord, Instagram or Twitter— we’d love to see what you’re up to and share it with the world (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). You can also send us a blog tip! Tune in to our live shows, 3D hangouts with Noe and Pedro, Show and Tell and Ask an Engineer, featuring ideas for projects, costumes, decorations, and more!

“Best of Adafruit” Photo & Video Series Day 50 #photography #art #design #wfh #bestofadafruit

Throughout this week, the Adafruit photo team will be posting a “Best of Adafruit” photo each day!

Check in as we take you back to all of our favorite photos and videos.

For our day 50 post, here’s a throwback to one of our favorite wearables learn guides, Cyber Punk Spikes, made out of NinjaFlex 3D printing filament!

Day of the dead mask #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Shared by TheMaker77 on Thingiverse:

Designed by a very talented game designer friend of mine, this beautiful day of the dead mask will suit any day of the dead festival ! decorate as you please, wear with pride and show off to all family and friends.

This design features a head and separate jaw that can be brought together with a hinging mechanism of your choice, providing you with a dynamic mask design to wow anyone and all. The files of the mask are rather large and I found that printing the mask at 60% scale allowed for a perfect fit for a head size that has an ear to ear dimension of 170mm and a chin to top of head dimension of 250mm.

Download the files and learn more

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!

Ghostly Pumpkin Zeotrope #ElectronicHalloween #4-Mation #3DPrinting

A 3d printed zeotrope (or 4-mation) of ghosts and pumpkins. Shared by Mike Rigsby on Hackaday.io:

Of course the “flashing bars” don’t appear in real life. An Arduino with a motor shield is used to control a bipolar stepper motor and led light strings. The twelve inch diameter turntable rotates at about 60 rpm (one revolution per second). The turntable is divided into 20 sections and a ghost/pumpkin is placed on each section. The led’s are “flashed” every 1/20 of a second to provide the illusion of movement.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Every day this month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween! Expect wearables, hacks & mods, costumes and more here on the Adafruit blog! Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, Discord, Instagram or Twitter— we’d love to see what you’re up to and share it with the world (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). You can also send us a blog tip! Tune in to our live shows, 3D hangouts with Noe and Pedro, Show and Tell and Ask an Engineer, featuring store discount codes, ideas for projects, costumes, decorations, and more!

NEW GUIDE: Alien Xenomorph Halloween Candy Bucket with CPX & MakeCode #adafruit

Why roam around with a boring pumpkin bucket when you can collect delicious candy with a robotic Xenomorph head? This NEW GUIDE takes you through the process of turning an ordinary halloween candy bucket into a terrifying robotic alien head.

This robotic candy bucket shoots out a small receptacle to retrieve candy and bring it back into the bucket.

Learn how to build your own Xenomorph on the Adafruit Learn System!

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: September 15th to September 21st, Celebrating the Adafruit Discord Community, National Hispanic Heritage Month, All the Internet of Things – Ep. 5 and more!

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP

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.

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14,000 THANK YOUs! Celebrating 14,000 members in the Adafruit Discord Community!

Together as a community, we reached over 14,000+ humans thank you! We share projects, coordinate events, make new friends, build open-source together like CircuitPython, we’ve worked really hard to make this a special place for everyone to share their projects, code, and things they make.

Join today! https://adafru.it/discord

Check out the full post here!

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Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:

All the Internet of Things – Episode 5 – The S in IoT is for Security is on YouTube!
National Hispanic Heritage Month has begun!
Hey, folks in and near Virginia – go see Bob Ross’ Happy Little Paintings!
Teddy talks BuzzFeed’s list of Amazon owned businesses
Kelly wants you to know how to ferment (almost) everything
Scott announced CircuitPython 5.0.0 Alpha 4
Becca summarized some key takeaways from the Artificial Intelligence Panel earlier this week
HackSpace Magazine Issue 23 is Halloween Builds ?

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Magical Cardboard Craft Obsidian Sword

This guide takes you through the process of creating your own fantasy weapon that begins to glow as soon as you pick it up.

The design for this sword is taken from the Cartoon Network animated series ‘Steven Universe’.

See the full guide here!

More LEARN:

Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!

Ghostbusters Proton Packs, Goggles, PKE Meter, Ghost Trap all based on Adafruit components #ElectronicHalloween

Super impressive Ghostbusters builds (links in project description below) from maker Martin von Siebenthal. Scroll down for more about the project , and follow the links for video clips and more! Thanks for sharing, Martin.

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I did four Ghostbusters proton packs for
the whole family, Ecto Goggles and a PKE Meter, all powered by Adafruit
products. I also did the 3D Printed trap based on Sean Charlesworth’s design
that you had covered in the blog already, and which contains various
Adafruit products. I did some modifications to add NeoPixels, my favorite!
See links below. Regards from Martin and the Swiss Ghostbusters!
PKE Meter with Feather M0, OLED display, NeoPixels, and sound amp:
https://www.facebook.com/martin.vonsiebenthal.7/posts/1749012988545331
Proton Packs with Arduino Uno, FX Sound board, sound amp, bargraph and tons
of NeoPixels.:
https://www.facebook.com/martin.vonsiebenthal.7/posts/1576057772507521
Ecto Goggles with Trinket and NeoPixels:
https://www.facebook.com/martin.vonsiebenthal.7/posts/1682932941820003
Ghost Trap with Arduino Uno, Sound FX board, sound amp, Servo driver,
bargraph and …. of course …. NeoPixels:
https://www.facebook.com/martin.vonsiebenthal.7/posts/1637411676372130

#3DPrinted Spider Web Earrings #ElectronicHalloween #WearableWednesday

We’d rock these earrings from Penolopy Bulnick on Instructables any day of the year!

I was looking at Halloween jewelry when I came across a pair of spider web earrings. They made me really want to make a design of my own. So after some tests, I came up with a simple 3D printable spider web design that allowed for a bead to dangle off the bottom and cutouts for rhinestones.

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!

This Jack Skellington Halloween Head is Assembled from Two Dozen 3D-Printed Parts | #ElectronicHalloween

bermantdesigns has a few Jack Skellington designs (including the finger tip glove extenders) on their Thingiverse profile and this version was recently reworked to make it more breathable. If you begin today printing one part per day you’ll still have a few days (including an entire weekend) to finish the exterior and pad the interior.

I redesigned my prior Jack Skellington head to make it more breathable with the mouth and nose. The bottom hole for the head has also been expanded to fit better. Don’t quote me on if it will fit perfectly some adjusting may still be needed after printing. Supports will be needed for the mouth and a little around the eye sockets. Enjoy.

Download the files here on Thingiverse.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Every day this month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween! Expect wearables, hacks & mods, costumes and more here on the Adafruit blog! Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us on Google+, in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter— we’d love to see what you’re up to and share it with the world (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). You can also send us a blog tip! Tune in to our live shows, 3D hangouts with Noe and Pedro and Ask an Engineer, featuring store discount codes, ideas for projects, costumes, decorations, and more!