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Galaxy #3DPrinted Tech Fashion Collab with Kitty Yeung and Amie DD #WearableWednesday

Wearable collaboration from Kitty Yeung and Amie DD?! You read that right! From Hackster.io:

Kitty sent me one of her Starry Night Shirtsand I was excited to add my own costume pieces to this shirt that she deigned(she even created the print pattern herself)!

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!

3D printing & embroidery combined to create sustainable garments #WearableWednesday

Ganit Goldstein is working on innovative concepts with 3D print custom pieces. Via DesignBoom:

goldstein’s project focuses on the process of creating 3D printed garments based on measurements from a 360-degree body scanner, enabling her to create bespoke items perfectly fitting the person’s form. the result is a cutting edge concept of personalized garment production, in an effort to move away from the mass production of ‘fast’ fashion’ technology. drawing influence from traditional japanese techniques and ikat weaving, the ‘WeAreAble’ collection showcases a unique combination of handcrafted methods and 3D printing, of past and future technologies.

New Guide: Make Your Own Cosplay Fireball Props with Motion Sensing

Check out the latest tutorial from Erin St. Blaine: make a magical floating fireball prop for your Cosplay character. A snap of the wrist makes the LED flames flare up brightly! This is a fun beginner project, with no soldering required. The code is done in Microsoft MakeCode, with a drag-and-drop code block editor, so it’s easy to change colors or animation triggers.

From the guide:

Complete your cosplay with this Magical Item: a floating fireball that flares up at your command. Whether you’re portraying Kael’thas Sunstrider from WoW or trading flaming shots with Super Mario and Luigi, this fireball will push your outfit over the top. This is a very easy project, with no soldering required. The Circuit Playground board makes motion-sensing programmable lights a snap. Customize your colors and your animation speed with Microsoft MakeCode’s drag-and-drop code editor. You’ll be stopped for so many photos that you’ll never make it to that panel discussion at DragonCon.

Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/cosplay-fireball-prop-with-motion-sensing/

NeoPixel Coat Buttons #WearableWednesday

Add a little something special to your favorite winter jacket with this NeoPixel Coat Buttons guide in the Adafruit Learning System.

Animated Flame Pendant #WearableWednesday

A little fire for your heart! But there’s no actual flame here, no heat…instead, LEDs and a microcontroller make a virtual flame that dances like the real thing. (In fact it’s playing a tiny video loop of a real candle.)

We planned this animated flame simply as a piece of high-tech jewelry, but other uses are possible…a fire or lantern effect on cosplay props, a safer alternative to having candles on the table or as part of a holiday display, or a unique night light for finding your way to the bathroom at night.

It’s a simple circuit that can be built either as a pendant or as a tabletop piece. Fair warning though: the pendant variant is tricky…it’s a very tight space requiring ace soldering skills and some unconventional methods. As a tabletop piece, perhaps in a glass votive, or maybe you have a cosplay prop in mind, it’s much more forgiving.

Read the full guide in the Adafruit Learning System!

COVID-19 Social Distance Meter #WearableWednesday

A vaccine is right around the corner but we still need to be vigilante untill one has been widely distributed. Clear simple wearable to keep your personal space from barney.nicholls on Instructables:

Hi, this is a project that I put together with the idea of creating a wearable battery-powered device that would easily show another person whether they were entering inside the current recommended social distance of 2 meters.

This is an Arduino based project that uses an ultrasonic distance sensor and then turns on either a green led if there is nothing sensed within 2 meters or a red led if something is detected within that range. This is a just for fun project and although the distance sensor is fairly accurate I’m afraid that soft people don’t necessarily give as good a return signal as preferred when bouncing sound waves off them

See more!

How to Make a Bluetooth Controlled Sims Plumbob #WearableWednesday

No surprises here, 8bitsandabyte has put up another great project on Hackster.io:

We’ll be recreating the diamond that floats above the Sim’s head, also known as a plumbob, and making it Bluetooth controlled so you can set the colour to reflect your mood!

Assimilate to the Borg With Some #3DPrinted Help #WearableWednesday

Fantastic build from poblocki1982 on Instrucatbles:

For a quite long time I wanted to create a Borg costume and I finally finished it. I won’t lie to you, it’s not a quick and easy project, but if you are a Star Trek fan or you love cyborgs and robots, it’s probably project for you \//

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up October 18 – 24: #ElectronicHalloween, Metro ESP32-S2, E-Ink + WiFi Display & 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.

BLOG

How Could Your Ballot be Rejected?

This interactive article includes tips to pay attention to when you vote so your ballot doesn’t get tossed out

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

Matrix Portal Scoreboard

Are your backyard games of cornhole or horseshoes getting pretty serious? It may be time to build a professional-looking scoreboard!

Use the Matrix Portal and LED matrix display along with Adafruit IO to score a friendly competition between two players or teams! You can use your smart phone’s web browser to adjust the scores in real-time. All coded in CircuitPython.

See the full guide here!

More LEARN:

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

Wool-like material can remember and change shape #WearableWednesday #3DPrinting

The applications for this product are endless. Via Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences on YouTube

SEAS researchers have developed a biocompatible material that can be 3D printed into any shape and pre-programmed with reversible shape memory. The material is made using keratin, a fibrous protein found in hair, nails and shells, extracted from leftover Agora wool used in textile manufacturing. It could be used in anything from self-fitting bras to actuating textiles for medical therapeutics and could help reduce waste in the fashion industry.

Learn more!