The Adafruit ESP32-S3 Feather represents an upgrade to ESP32-based microcontrollers in the popular Feather form factor. This new ESP32 chip is a dual-core design running at 240 MHz. It has built-in support for Wi-Fi and BLE. For comparison, the ESP32-S2 was single-core and did not support BLE. Both chips have native USB support, making it […]
Adding smoke and flame effects to your costume is easier than you might think, using a vaping e-cig loaded with vegetable glycol and pumped using a small aquarium pump. This effect, combined with some flickering LEDs tucked into inconspicuous places, can give a realistic fire and smoke look to your next costume. See it in action and […]
Make your Halloween the spookiest it can possibly be! There’s no way we could include all the wonderfully inspiring projects that we loved this year. Here are just a few that stood out.
The QT Py ESP32 Pico is a tiny microcontroller board featuring Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The heart of the board is the all-in-one ESP32 Pico V3 02. This chip provides 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (with BLE). It has 8 MB of flash memory and 2 MB of RAM. It even brings its own oscillator. […]
CARRIE SUNDRA is the founder of Alpenglow Industries in San Luis Obispo, California. She grew up on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, then attended Harvey Mudd College where she proudly scored a 19 on her first electrical engineering exam. NANCY OTERO is a Mexican-American entrepreneur, dancer, mother, and educator in Oakland, California. […]
Hi everyone! My name is Cecilia Hillway and I like combining art and technology. Today I will be talking about how you can use the new MakeyBit Adventure Board to make some spooky Halloween projects. For these projects, I chose to use the Microbit microcontroller with the MakeyBit. The Makeybit is such a fun-looking board […]
Buying a mask at the Halloween store is fun, but very few store-bought masks include lights. It’s a good thing we’re makers and can fix that! In this quick tutorial, Natasha from TechnoChic shows how to add a simple circuit to any mask so that it can light the night. The trick is to create […]
