Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: March 15th – 21st

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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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Adafruit is pausing physical operation

We are still broadcasting live Wednesday nights for the biggest show and tell in the world at 7pm ET, and we’re still having Ask An Engineer at 8pm ET. We’ll see you there and we’ll provide any updates or information we have as things are changing moment by moment.

Check out the full post here

More BLOG:

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


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Burning Fire Wizard Staff

Make a Motion Sensitive Cosplay Staff with Lights and Sound Effects! Complete your Wizard or Druid cosplay with a glowing, ever-burning fire staff. This prop is lightweight and sturdy, and made from inexpensive materials. You don’t need much in the way of sculpting ability to create something organic and magical, that looks as though it was cut from the Yggdrasil with an enchanted axe and then imbued with fires from the Mines of Moria before serving the White Witch Jadis for a century or two and then falling into your hands at the end of a rollicking adventure.

See the full guide here!

More LEARN:

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

NYC Robo Week Events and a Few #Adafruit Robotic Projects @roboweek #NationalRoboticsWeek #RoboWeek #MakeRobotFriend

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As we’re sure you can imagine, we’re all about RoboWeek’s mission

to inspire students in STEM-related fields and to share the excitement of robotics with audiences of all ages.

And whoa, have y’all SEEN the NYC events available this month (yea, the whole month, taking it beyond RoboWeek)?! Brooklyn Robot Foundry is offering Super Tiny Builders and Tiny Builders while Robofun is hosting LEGO Robotics Kindergarten and Grades 1-2!

For the folks who want to celebrate Robo Week every week we’ve made a short list of some of our more recent robotics projects from the Adafruit Learning System ??


Robotic Xylophone with Adafruit Grand Central

This robotic musician uses miniature solenoids to tap out melodies on a toy xylophone. The Adafruit Grand Central M4 controls each of the eight solenoids using CircuitPython, one of the fastest growing programming languages, specifically designed to simplify experimenting and learning. Check out the full guide!


CRICKIT Flippy Robot

3d printing Long Clip

We found a cute little robot on thingiverse that used a simple, yet clever locomotion system. Simple in that it used a single yellow (dual shaft) TT motor to control both sides, with the addition of only a battery and power switch.

The basic design is, as I said, clever. What could be done to expand on it? We could use two motors. A CRICKIT would provide finer, individual control of the motors. Using the Feather M0 Bluefruit with the Featherwing CRICKIT would let us drive it remotely. All this additional hardware will require the robot to be larger. Check out the full guide!


Crickit Carnival Bumper Bot

A bumper car is usually driven by a crazed carnival-goer — but we’re going to build a self-driving Bumper Bot! This bot will use the Circuit Playground Express for brains and collision detection with its onboard accelerometer. The Crickit will provide all the muscle needed to drive two TT DC gearbox motors, as well as a micro servo direction indicator flag.
A small speaker and NeoPixels will also give us feedback while to bumper bot is out there having fun!! Check out the full guide!


CRICKIT Snake Bot

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This project guides you through building a robot that can wander around your floor. This riffs on John Park’s Crickit Carnival Bumper Bot. The difference is that the project progresses through several levels, starting with a very basic bot and adding capabilities. Check out the full guide!

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: February 10th – February 16th

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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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Presidents’ Day 2019 – Adafruit Not Shipping USPS Orders Monday February 18

Adafruit will not be shipping USPS orders Monday February 18, 2019 for the federal holiday, Presidents Day. Expedited USPS orders placed after 11am ET Friday February 15 will go out Tuesday February 19.

Check out the full post here!

More BLOG:

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


LEARN

How to Use Video Greenscreen in MakeCode

For creating video tutorials and livestreaming with MakeCode, there’s a simple, yet effective way to display video inside of your session. This mini guide will show you how!

See the full guide here!

More LEARN:

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