Community Corner – February 19, 2016: The Featured Projects from this Week

From blog.adafruit.com 7 years ago in Platforms Stores

Featured Adafruit Google+ Community Project (Note: Google+ login required.) Paw Pedersen shared his finished DIY Camera Slider Project this week in our Community! Looks great. My slider is finally done. (read more) Featured Community Project from the Adafruit Blog This week on the blog, we featured forums user HarpDude’s impressive...

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Making a SpongeBob Goo Lagoon Aquarium Inside of a Small Honey Jar

From blog.adafruit.com 13 hours ago in Platforms Stores

In this ClayClaim video, Simon constructs a teeny-tiny underwater diorama themed around the SpongeBob Squarepants video game, The Cosmic Shake, and its Goo Lagoon level.It’s insane to see the amazing work in clay done at this Lilliputian level. There are...

Dark Matter Garden Studio

From blog.adafruit.com 13 hours ago in Platforms Stores

London-based architecture studio Hyperspace converted a suburban garage into a garden studio in Hertfordshire, England. Built from 850 pieces of charred wood using a process called Shou Sugi Ban, they named the studio Dark Matter. dezeen shares how it was...

Devoted Teacher Makes Personalized Plush Toys Based on Students’ Drawings #ArtTuesday

From blog.adafruit.com 15 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Talk about going above and beyond. This Melbourne teacher demonstrated the power of her pupils imaginations and turned their pictures into plushies. Via My Modern Met:According to Parker, the educator started making these plushies in 2020 and delivered them to...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 4pm Eastern TODAY! 1/31/23 @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick

From blog.adafruit.com 15 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, TODAY!Check out the livestream right here inside this product page — you won’t want...

The Reviled Society, a Fantastic Fantasy RPG Adventure

From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in Platforms Stores

On the DungeonCraft YouTube channel, Professor Dungeon Master has been running (and presenting through summaries and miniature sets) a “low fantasy tabletop roleplaying adventure” called The Reviled Society. In this video, he does a supercut of the video footage, tells...

Learn to Programming with The Ramones on an Apple II+ / Atari 400 #VintageComputing #Music #ArtTuesday @bourgwick

From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in Platforms Stores

I’ve seen may ways to teach programming, but this is a first. DIY 8-bit Ramones, 1984, from k-power, Scholastic’s computer magazine for kids, by John Holstrom, co-founder of the ’70s zine punk.The Apple II+/e/Atari 400/800 program plays the Ramones’ song...

Video Games at the Metropolitan Museum of Art #ArtTuesday

From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Thankfully, there is now a definitive answer to the question of whether or not video games are art. As has been clearly proven by Marcel Duchamp’s commode sculpture “Fountain,” anything that makes its way into an art gallery is art....

Mac 30th Anniversary Icons #VintageComputing #Art #ArtTuesday

From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in Platforms Stores

A group of talented folks have SVG icons extracted from the 30th Anniversary Mac Font.The full art can be downloaded from the github.io page and are also in a GitHub repository.

Lunatico End Part performed on the Amiga “Paulimba” #ArtTuesday #Music #VintageComputing

From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in Platforms Stores

lftkryo on YouTube discusses making an electronic Kalimba, dubbed the “Paulimba” after the sound chip in the Amiga computer named Paula.Paula, the Amiga soundchip, is designed for sample playback. It has four independent channels where you can play a sound...

Making a Steel Marble Track

From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Daniel de Bruin has put together an excellent step-by-step guide on building a fun marble track using galvanized steel wire and simple tools.