How-To: Space Face LED Galaxy Makeup
Bring some gorgeous constellation-inspired sparkle to your Halloween costume with this space face LED galaxy makeup tutorial and video from Becky at Adafruit!
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Seven Maker Faire NY Projects that Look Cool Before they Even Work
It’s a great feeling to look at something a maker brings to the Faire and know it’s going to be awesome even though they’re still putting the pieces together.
The Awesome LED Hat
I have to admit, I love LED, who doesn’t. But when i came across this awesome Instructable from user Sbbrain I started to go nuts.
LED Sneakers Brighten up Your Step
These Firewalker LED sneakers respond to your footsteps with a cascading rim of lights around the soles.
Makers Steer Project Aura Toward the Marketplace
Project Aura is a smart bike safety lighting system that creates POV light stripes on the wheels that change color depending on the bike’s speed.
Make a Glass Nixie-Like Display with LEDs
You know those nixie tube displays? Well, 14-year-old Spanish maker pinomelean made an edge-lit glass nixie that consists of ten etched glass plates stacked atop each other, with SMT LEDs lighting them up individually — similar to this display we blogged last year.
Soldering Surface Mount LEDs on a Through-Hole PCB
EMSL customer Peter T. painstakingly soldered surface-mount LEDs (tinier than a grain of rice) onto the through-hole PCB of a Peggy matrix. Peter soldered 625 separate LEDs onto the board with the help of a jig, and Peggy worked perfectly with the surface-mount LEDs.
