Neil McRobert, an expert with a PhD in Contemporary Gothic Fiction, shares his list of the scariest sci-fi horror movies for Halloween. From weird to “what?”, check it out via New Scientist
I’m a horror nerd by trade. I completed a PhD on the subject and now I am the creator of Talking Scared, a podcast of conversations with the biggest names in the field. To settle on a concise list of science fiction horror films for spooky season, I had to winnow down the cross-pollinating history of the two genres. After all, horror and science fiction have had their tentacles entwined since Frankenstein’s monster first opened his yellowed eyes. My solution is to focus on films in which science and technology are the most substantial source of terror. That excludes a lot of amazing movies – there is no Alien, The Thing or Nope on this list – but here, in reverse order, are my choices for the greatest science fiction horror movies of recent decades
Don’t lose track of the days between now and your favorite holiday – Only 365 days until next Halloween!
This internet-connected LED matrix display running CircuitPython will tell you how many days, hours, and minutes left until Halloween! Uses Adafruit IO time server to keep in sync. And, it runs on either the Matrix Portal or a Metro M4 Airlift with RGB Matrix Shield.
Custom bitmap images make it spooky and festive!
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! You can adapt the code in this project to create a countdown display for ANY EVENT! Use any graphics and colors you like, too!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! All month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween!
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Jason Milldrum has been documenting the design of Project Yamhill, the successor to the Willamette Transceiver, also known as the qrp-l Group Project. The purpose of this endeavor is to provide a platform to learn about radio electronics at a system level.
The last circuit block in this first tranche of boards for Project Yamhill is an audio feedback amplifier specifically designed to be the first stage of audio amplification in a direct conversion receiver with a diode-ring mixer. This particular circuit was designed by the famous Wes Hayward, W7ZOI and can currently be found on his website.
You can see this project post here and all the posts in Jason’s blog. The GitHub repo is here.
Perhaps dissatisfied with what it’s done to Marvel and Star Wars, Disney continues devouring IP across the world. Even the venerated Doctor Who — as much a British national staple as James Bond, Manchester United, and beans on toast — is now a co-production with (still) mighty mouse. Disney+ recently revealed its trailer for the new Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials, beginning in November. But what is Doctor Who?
Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction show ever made. Its main character, The Doctor, is a space and time-traveling alien — equal parts hero, nerd, and weirdo. They bop around in time and space solving problems, helping people out, fighting iconic baddies, and occasionally saving the universe. The Doctor has the ability to regenerate at the point of death, which allows the show to re-cast its main character every once in awhile. The Doctor has been portrayed by English men, Scottish men, one (or two really, it’s complicated) English women, and in December of this year, the Doctor will regenerate into a Rwandan-born Scotsman. Doctor Who showrunners have varied wildly in skill, taste, and approach over the years, but the Doctor’s mysterious and charismatic persona has persisted through 694 episodes, for a total of about 295 hours of run-time. Appropriate, then, that this excellent explanation of Doctor Who by dwfan91 is a measly 5 hours long.
If you like your sci-fi a little silly, often scary, kind of campy, and sometimes filled with feels, Doctor Who may be for you.
If you’ve ever seen ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’, you know it’s filled with bizarre noises and synth goodness. Dread Central sat down with composer John Massari on what it was like working with the Chiodo Brothers to score this cult classic.
Upon its release in 1988, Killer Klowns from Outer Space was perceived as a bit of a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside a cotton candy cocoon. Vibrant, kooky, and weird, its unique fusion of comedy and horror endeared itself to equally as many folks who found it off-putting. While time is not always kind to some films, distance has only made the hearts of many horror fans grow fonder of this distinctive Chiodo Brothers’ creation. A true practical and visual effects marvel, Killer Klowns now rings in its 35th anniversary, more vital and more appreciated than ever.
Summed up best by Orlando Bloom: “He does the epic on small scale”
Ridley Scott‘s work spans genres and leaves an impression in all of them. But, his contribution to SciFi is untouchable. Fun retrospective from VICE.
Browse through all that’s new here!
Round RGB TTL TFT Display – 4″ 720×720 – NV3052C: This is a screen for advanced hackers who like the look of a nice, round TFT screen with tons of pixels. This massive 4″ diagonal-sized display has 720×720 16-bit full-color pixels and is an IPS display, so the color looks great up to 80 degrees off-axis in any direction.
Official Raspberry Pi 5 Active Cooler: The Raspberry Pi 5 Active Cooler is compatible with the Raspberry Pi 5 and the Raspberry Pi 5 Case. Designed for anyone who wants to push the performance of their Pi, as well as overclockers and other power users, it keeps your Raspberry Pi 5 at a comfortable operating temperature even when under heavy load thanks to both a mini heatsink that goes on top of your CPU and a fan that clips into the official Raspberry Pi 5 case.
Great for makers who wish to use the board uncased under continuous heavy load without throttling. It attaches to the board via two new mounting holes and connects to the same four-pin JST connector as the case fan.
Raspberry Pi 5 FPC Camera Cable – 22-pin 0.5mm to 15-pin 1mm – 300mm long: This 300mm long camera cable is specifically designed to work with the Raspberry Pi 5 series. Just plug it into your Pi 5’s camera port and then the other end into one of the official Pi Cameras for photo and video joy.
Raspberry Pi 5 provides two four-lane MIPI connectors, each of which can support either a camera or a display. These connectors use the same 22-way, 0.5mm-pitch “mini” FPC format as the Compute Module
Development Kit, and require adapter cables to connect to the 15-way, 1mm-pitch “standard” format connectors on Raspberry Pi’s current camera and display products.
Raspberry Pi 5 FPC Camera Cable – 22-pin 0.5mm to 15-pin 1mm – 200mm long: This 200mm long camera cable is specifically designed to work with the Raspberry Pi 5 series. Just plug it into your Pi 5’s camera port and then the other end into one of the official Pi Cameras for photo and video joy.
Raspberry Pi 5 provides two four-lane MIPI connectors, each of which can support either a camera or a display. These connectors use the same 22-way, 0.5mm-pitch “mini” FPC format as the Compute Module
Development Kit, and require adapter cables to connect to the 15-way, 1mm-pitch “standard” format connectors on Raspberry Pi’s current camera and display products.
Raspberry Pi 5 FPC Display Cable – 22-pin 0.5mm to 15-pin 1mm – 300mm long: This 300mm long display cable is specifically designed to work with the Raspberry Pi 5 series.
Raspberry Pi 5 provides two four-lane MIPI connectors, each of which can support either a camera or a display. These connectors use the same 22-pin, 0.5mm-pitch “mini” FPC format as the Compute Module Development Kit, and require adapter cables to connect to the 15-pin, 1mm-pitch “standard” format connectors on Raspberry Pi’s current camera and display products.
Raspberry Pi 5 FPC Display Cable – 22-pin 0.5mm to 15-pin 1mm – 200mm long: This 200mm long display cable is specifically designed to work with the Raspberry Pi 5 series.
Raspberry Pi 5 provides two four-lane MIPI connectors, each of which can support either a camera or a display. These connectors use the same 22-pin, 0.5mm-pitch “mini” FPC format as the Compute Module
Development Kit, and require adapter cables to connect to the 15-pin, 1mm-pitch “standard” format connectors on Raspberry Pi’s current camera and display products.
Adafruit LM66200 Ideal Dual Diodes Breakout: Most projects these days have multiple power supplies: say a battery or DC wall plug or USB for multiple powering options. Juggling these to have seamless hot-swap while avoiding back-powering is always a bit of a challenge: you want to keep things small, cheap, low power and of course reduce as much voltage drop as possible.
The Adafruit LM66200 Dual Ideal Diode breakout is a cute solution to dual supplies: it has back-voltage protection, and two ‘ideal’ diodes with RdsOn of 40 milliohms, support for 2.5A continuous draw and a separate enable input and status output.
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Space shares how NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope was designed to observe dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and explore infrared astrophysics.
According to the space agency, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, or just Roman, will provide an unparalleled view of the center of our galaxy, facilitating the hunt for objects ranging from stars, planets, and icy bodies to isolated black holes. It will do this by monitoring millions of stars in our cosmic backyard and looking for the tell-tale flickering that indicates something might be passing between its vantage point and these stellar bodies.
A SpoO0oo0oOky voice assistant from Bram van Zoelen on Hackster.io.
A little skeleton ghost will do your bidding. Powered by an Espressif ESP32 Development Board – Developer Edition and housed in a specially designed 3D printed case. The perennially amusing Pepper’s ghost effect is put to good use as well.
This is an offline visual voice assistant that connects via MQTT to any domotica system that supports MQTT. I use it to control my Home Assistant system. With over 90 animations and 150 possible commands it will suite most tasks.
Will there are more capable voice assistant those are not working offline and aren’t that visual appealing. To overcome this I decided to make my own voice assistant. May I present you this Ghost Pepper voice Assistant.
Have a conversation with one of the great Greek Stoic philosophers. This project uses a Rasperry Pi and AI to let Marcus Aurelius speak. Watch his brain light up as he ‘thinks.’
From Marcsimonfrei on Instagram
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A 3D print of Marcus Aurelius with LEDs that simulate the brain neurons when
he thinks. He takes on the role of Marcus Aurelius and summarizes the
complete knowledge of all famous philosophers.
The brain is 3D printed with clear plastic and the housing itself is printed from white plastic. The button is from Schurter and a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB is installed. The system role of chatGPT is Marcus Aurelius the famous philosopher and summarizes all famous philosophers.
Roughly speaking, his role is: He has emotional self-control and with the help of composure, peace of mind and ataraxia you can give answers to every question. He has an overview of all the famous philosophers and tries to summarize and communicate their thoughts. He strives for absolute wisdom and tries to achieve the maxim in every answer!
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Autumn Lights Festival in Oakland, CA is a long-running and beloved Oakland tradition. It takes place at the Gardens at Lake Merritt every October. This event is a fundraiser for the garden, which is a peaceful sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of the city, right on the shore of the lake.
Around 100 LED light artists bring their creations out to Autumn Lights every year. This year, we caught up with Yvonne Schindler, who created a giant Connect 4 game using laser-etched acrylic, NeoPixels and arcade buttons. It’s a fully functioning game where players can face off with each other by standing on either side of the board and pressing buttons to drop a “piece” wherever they’d like. This was a really popular installation — people were lined up to play all night long.
The game also functions as an art piece, with gorgeous colorful animations that run while no one is playing. It is one of the most beautiful and intuitively interactive use of pixels and Arduino we’ve seen.
Learn more at http://www.yvonneschindler.com
We have posted on Franchise Freedom in the past. Now Studio Drift has brought their 1000 unit drone show to NYC.
This past weekend onlookers in Midtown/UWS got to view one of the biggest art instillations in recent Central Park history. The show is meant to mimic a murmuration but it didn’t come without some migratory misgivings.
Franchise Freedom, presented by Dutch studio, DRIFT, is an open-air public art performance inspired by the graceful movements of starling flocks. It serves as a unique exploration of the interplay between humanity, nature, and technology. 1,000 drones will fly over the area and illuminate the night sky.
Learn more for Live Walking NYC and PIX11 News
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Who doesnt love fog at Halloween time. wannabemadsci shared this project on Instructables!
Want a tiny, completely self-contained fogging cauldron only suitable for the smallest of witches? Well, read on…
While walking through a store just before St. Patrick’s Day I saw some miniature cauldron ‘pot-of-gold’ party favors. I thought, “I’m not that into St. Patrick’s Day, but these would be great for Halloween!”
Why put gold coins in these mini cauldrons when they would be great for brewing a bubbling potion?
Then, as serendipity would have it, while looking for some electronic atomizer boards, I saw a very small battery-powered, self-contained atomizer circuit board. These atomizer boards are like mini versions of the larger ultrasonic atomizers I have used to create fog before; see my Water Only Fog Machine.
Youve still got a week to get all your halloween decor in order. thecryptoman shared this halloween project on instructables
Hi All,
This is a Halloween candy basket I made for my kid to use this year. My starting point was an ordinary fabric basket I bought. The front image on the basket inspired me to do something interesting to transform the basket into a more compelling object. I decided to replace the castle windows and the door with animated colorful LEDs to look amazing at night (which is when the candy collection takes place in our neighborhood!)
I hope you will find this project interesting and decide to build one for yourself.
Enjoy!
When a movie is over 5 hours long, it can’t quite be one genre. Wim Wenders’ cult classic from 1999 Until the End of the World is a near-future science fiction story, an epic road trip, a slow-burn indie love story, a fin de siècle meditation, and a political commentary all at once. It also has one of the greatest soundtracks of the 90s. Here’s more from Critereon:
You can sense this openness, this anxious awe at the vastness of the world, in every globe-hopping minute of Until the End of the World. Wenders famously reached out to twenty of his favorite international musical acts to contribute a song they might imagine themselves playing in the year 1999. Almost all of them accepted the challenge, and he wound up with an epoch-defining rock soundtrack, which could be heard only in bizarre snippets in the shortened version but is allowed to breathe in the full director’s cut, where the music becomes just as much a part of the aura of the film as its images. Meanwhile, Robby Müller’s colorful, eclectic cinematography incorporates multiple shooting formats and styles—from shadowy noir to urban grit to placid naturalism to elegant classicism to pixelated techno fuzz and more. Wenders was one of the world’s foremost filmmakers at the dawn of the nineties, but he also had a (not entirely fair) reputation for making grim, angst-ridden movies—reflecting the stereotype of the bespectacled, black-clad German artiste. Until the End of the World, however, feels like the work of a free man, working in a newly free world.
Wenders told the Los Angeles Times during production: “This is not a science-fiction film. It’s a contemporary film that we set ten years into the future so we could take a few liberties.” He took more than a few, and many of them turned out to be strikingly prescient. The characters drive cars guided by navigation systems not unlike today’s GPS. The internet had only just begun to be commercially available at the time Until the End of the World was made, but the movie accurately portrays the use of search engines, as well as our ability to find people anywhere on earth thanks to their digital footprints. Even the film’s framing device, involving worldwide panic over an Indian satellite crashing on the eve of the millennium and wiping out all electronic communications, makes for an interesting analogue to the very real fear many had in 1999 and the years leading up to it that the Y2K bug would plunge a technologically reliant planet back into the Stone Age.
While we generally prefer treats to tricks, this project from maker Natasha (TechnoChic on Instructables) is pretty neat.
They think treat, we think trick!
This DIY talking skull project can be controlled from afar so that you can prank your trick-or-treaters. They’ll think it’s a store-bought Halloween display, but then when it starts to say things that could never have been pre-recorded, they’ll think it’s possessed and run away!!!!!
Every talking skull project is a bit tricky, but this one is designed to be simple to build and fun to play with! If you have a drill, some zip ties, and a few fixtures from the hardware store, the project can be put together pretty easily.
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10-pin 2×5 Socket-Socket 1.27mm IDC (SWD) Cable – 300mm long
These cables are handy when programming or debugging a tiny board that uses 10-pin 1.27mm (0.05″) pitch SWD programming connectors. We see these connectors often on ARM Cortex dev kits and have a few handy in our ARM dev box. We thought you might want a backup cable as well, so now they are in the Adafruit shop!
ESP32-S3 Korvo 2 Main Development Board
The ESP32-S3-Korvo-2 is a multimedia development board based on the ESP32-S3 chip. It is equipped with a two-microphone array, which is great for voice recognition and near/far-field voice wake-up applications. The board can integrate multiple peripherals such as LCD, camera, and microSD card. It also supports JPEG video stream processing. With all of its outstanding features, the board is an ideal choice for the development of low-cost and low-power network-connected audio and video products.
Adafruit INA228 – I2C 85V, 20-bit High or Low Side Power Monitor – STEMMA QT / Qwiic
The INA228 is an amazing power monitoring chip, with best-of-everything support: up to 85VDC common-mode, high or low side measurements, 20-bit (!) ADC for precision measurements from milliamp to Amp, and I2C interface for easy configuration of alerts, oversampling, gain adjustments and more!
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Tonight is International Observe the Moon Night! The Moon is one of our most prominent celestial bodies so take some time to take a look.
If you live in NYC, where we are cursed with perpetual Saturday rain, you can observe the Moon virtually with resources from NASA.
If you do have a clear night check out the viewing guide.
International Observe the Moon Night is a time to come together with fellow Moon enthusiasts and curious people worldwide. Everyone on Earth is invited to learn about lunar science and exploration, take part in celestial observations, and honor cultural and personal connections to the Moon. We encourage everyone to interpret “observe” broadly!
Moon Phase Clock for Adafruit Matrix Portal
Follow along as Ben’s Electrical Escapades codes up a project for a smart washing machine. With the help of some sensors and a Rasperry Pi his ‘dumb’ washing machine will now send notifications and more.
Want to add a touch of automation to your home?
Join me as I show you how to turn receive notifications from your dumb washing machine when it has completed.
Using zigbee vibration sensors and door sensors, I write a Python script that receives messages through MQTT using Zigbee2Mqtt to determine when the washing machine has run and when it has been emptied.
Let’s get coding!
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The Adafruit Qualia ESP32-S3 for RGB-666 Displays guide has been updated with new pages on using the touch displays as well as information on determining the timing of displays that have not yet been added. The page for creating init codes has also been updated with more ways to find the init codes.
There are things everyone loves: ice cream, kittens, and honkin’ large TFT LCD screens. We’re no strangers to small TFT’s – from our itsy 1.14″ color display that graces many-a-TFT-Feather to our fancy 3.5″ 320×480 breakout screen. But most people who dabble or engineer with microcontrollers know that you sort of ‘top out’ at 320×480 – that’s the largest resolution you can use with every day SPI or 8-bit 8080 interfaces. After that, you’re in TTL-interface TFT land, where displays no longer have an internal memory buffer and instead the controller has to continuously write scanline data over a 16, 18 or 24 pin interface.
RGB TTL interface TFT displays can get big: they start out at around 4.3″ diagonal 480×272, and can get to 800×480, 800×600 or even 720×720. For displays that big, you need a lot of video RAM (800×480 at 24 bit color is just over 1MB), plenty of spare GPIO to dedicate, and a peripheral that will DMA the video RAM out to the display continuously. This is a setup familiar to people working with hefty microcontrollers or microcomputers, the sort of device that run cell phones, or your car’s GPS navigation screen. But until now, nearly impossible to use on low cost microcontrollers.
Go nOOd this Halloween. These bendy light filaments are any easy way to add some lighting to your costumes.
This Learn Guide from Erin St. Blaine will take you through the steps!
Adafruit nOOds are little noodles of light. They’re as simple to use as a regular LED – connect one end to power and one end to ground, and they light up and glow. They’re incredibly bendy and flexible, making them just perfect for small subtle costume details. A nOOds will last for hours on a single coin cell battery, with no big noisy EL-wire inverter to manage.
We’ll also get a little crazy and hook 3 nOOds up to a QT Py microcontroller, so they can be dimmed or sequenced using CircuitPython code.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! All month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween!
Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, Discord, Instagram or Twitter [aka X]– (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). You can also send us a blog tip!
Get inspired with the Halloween Gift Guide
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!
The Science Museum has a new exhibit investigating the science of sound. To celebrate its opening, Roger Highfield shares how a a Pink Floyd song was reconstructed from brain activity and what Turn It Up: The power of music will feature.
Now a major advance in understanding the ‘neural substrate’ of music has come from a study published in the journal PLOS Biology in which AI was used to recreate a piece of music after participants listened to Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1, from Pink Floyd’s 1979 album, The Wall. The haunting and eerie results are, says the team, “the first recognizable song reconstructed from direct brain recordings.”
Read more about how we understand sound!
9-5 linux shares how to upgrade your Pi!
The wait is finally over and Raspberry Pi OS is now based on the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” release and you can upgrade your Raspberry Pi right now. Here’s how!
The Raspberry Pi Foundation released new images for its Raspberry Pi OS that are based on Debian Bookworm. This is a major update that switches from X11 to Wayland by default with new apps, replacements for previous default apps, as well as other necessary adjustments.
The Bookworm-based Raspberry Pi OS also adopts PipeWire as the default multimedia backend and NetworkManager as the default network manager instead of PulseAudio and dhcpcd.
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Mark Roolaid was tired of the pesky trick-or-treaters knocking. He opted for some tricks. This FPV pumpkin drone will add some spooky fun this halloween season
Flying PUMPKIN HORROR STORY. Pumpkin panic speedrun.
The holidays are coming and annoying characters are everywhere. How to get rid of them on Halloween, you can already see in the video.. Very SCARY and SPOOKY
Welcome to drone day on the Adafruit blog. Every Monday we deliver the latest news, products and more from the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), quadcopter and drone communities. Drones can be used for video & photography (dronies), civil applications, policing, farming, firefighting, military and non-military security work, such as surveillance of pipelines. Previous posts can be found via the #drone tag and our drone / UAV categories.
AI is coming for your leisure time. Over 5 years of simulated gameplay this AI goes from nothing but inputs to learning to beat a gym leader.
Peter Whidden does a great job clearly explaining the project and the process. You can see the code on GitHub and watch on YouTube
Wicked Makers on YouTube specialize in spooky crafts and props. They are masters at taking ordinary, store bought, decorations and making them extra ghoulish. While they churn out videos year round, the projects really shine in October.
Checkout this video where they upgrade an inexpensive witch and only use items purchase at the dollar store.
MATERIALS USED FROM DOLLAR TREE:
Beige (2) and Grey (2) Creepy Cloth
Misting Cauldron
Flame skull
Twine
Gold beads
Wooden beads
Wood Curl Roses
Glow in the Dark mini skeleton
misc floral sprigs
Liquid Latex
Acrylic Paint
Hot Glue
Super Glue
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! All month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween!
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Doctor Sanjay Juneja answers blood questions from twitter! Wired shared this video on Youtube!
Hematologist and medical oncologist Dr. Sanjay Juneja joins WIRED to answer some bloody interesting questions from the internet. What happens when someone is injected with the wrong blood type? Why do mosquitos seem to prefer biting some people and not others? How do scabs form and what do they do exactly? Dr. Juneja answers all these questions and many more on WIRED Blood Support.
Get spooky for Friday the 13th! what better day to get ready for halloween than with this musical Jack-O’-Lantern Pi based project. Shared by Aaron Eiche on Hackaday.io
These Musical Jack-o-lanterns (or just pumpkins, as I more often call them) are halloween props where the internals have been replaced with Addressable LEDs and then chained together to allow synchronous Audio/Light control with a computer. All the construction is intended to be weather-resistant for a setup you can leave out all season long without worrying about it.
My current setup has 9 pumpkins which are sequenced to 3 songs that plays on a 10-minute loop. The pumpkins run on 5v DC power. The speakers have their own 12v power-supply and amplifier.
More details from Aaron’s Blog, Hackster.io, and YouTube
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Shared by opheophe on Thingiverse:
Door. This part exists in a 3 mm variant and a 5 mm variant. Only difference is how sturdy they are, but both are really nice. Print laying down. You might want to use a bit of support to keep the holes nice and tidy (though not really required). Since the holes will be standing upright the top part might easily get a bit deformed. Just take a knife and make it a bit rounder – this will make the insertion of the bottom plate look nicer. Layer height isn’t a big deal, but the forward pointing part on the bookrest might be prettier with a lower height. Print without brim. I suggest setting Z-seam alignment to random. Otherwise you will get a line in the middle where you are supposed to insert the figurines.
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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!
It’s JOHN PARK’S WORKSHOP — LIVE! — Coming up at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Today! LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat!
Today’s project: Bricktunes Glove
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Join maker John Park in his workshop each week as he builds, demos, hacks, and mods projects live on air! “John Park’s Workshop — LIVE” is the place to see creative projects come to life, as John uses a wide variety of tools and techniques to make everything from mystery boxes to synthesizer controllers to drink robots, using digital fabrication, hand and power tools, microcontrollers, and more. Come on into the chat to participate in the fun! Every Thursday @ 4pm ET/1pm PT!
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