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Brewser is a homebrew web runtime for modded Switch consoles. The app Matrix Studio lets you drive an LED Matrix from your Switch!
Matrix Studio is a pixel art and animation app running in Brewser, a homebrew web runtime and app platform for modded Nintendo Switch consoles. It streams frames live to a 512-LED WS2812 matrix through an ESP32 over USB serial.
How it works: frames are delta-encoded with a full keyframe every half second. A write that runs long skips the next frame instead of queuing it, so latency never builds up. Clocking out 512 WS2812 LEDs takes about 15 ms, which sets a hard ceiling of roughly 65 fps.
Get a bonus inside look into a planer in Full Stack Woodworking’s modern grandfather clock build video on YouTube:
Building a sculptural, kinetic timepiece from Iroko hardwood. An ESP32 micro controller gets the time from NTP (Network Time Protocol) and positions a glowing, orb floating according to the time, along with lighting effects.
We have a few woodworking + electronics builds in the Adafruit Learning System viewers might appreciate:
Make pretty things you can touch and make bleepy noises
It’s never a bad time to make a NeoPixel project, but the holiday season certainly does lend itself to creating large-scale, blinky, colorful displays. In this project, we’re taking the classic Christmas tree shape, cutting it out of wood and mounting some NeoPixels in the tree to create a festive yuletide light display.
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September 12th is National Video Games Day!! Released 54 years ago in 1972 the Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial home video game console. And while there seem to bet a few different days claiming to be “video game day” we celebrate today for Magnavox. We remain agnostic on which is the official day and are happy to celebrate video games any day.
The hardware was designed by a small team led by Ralph H. Baer at Sanders Associates, while Magnavox completed development and released it in the United States in September 1972 and overseas the following year. The Odyssey consists of a white, black, and brown box that connects to a television set, and two rectangular controllers attached by wires. It is capable of displaying three square dots and one line of varying height on the screen in monochrome black and white, with differing behavior for the dots depending on the game played.
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!
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Newly launched Sept 2026 — the baynimals flexi collection expanding beyond the barnyard! Signature grumpy cartoon expression and highly articulated segmented body. Incredibly wiggly, lays perfectly flat in total defeat, dense satisfying weight makes it a great desk pet and fidget. Print profiles for classic cat coat patterns including a Siamese variant. No-AMS version added (print pink nose/toes/eyes separately). Longer print but worth it. By baynimals
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!
With the new Raspberry Pi Zero W (Pi0W) having been released, I decided to design a case and camera mount for my 3D printers. And what a better day to release it than Pi Day 2017! This should work if you don’t have the front acrylic panel attached. I’ve included a blank top as well as one made just for the Pi Zero W. It has a little Wifi symbol over the antenna. How else are people supposed to know you’ve got the new Pi0W if it’s in a case?
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!
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