Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Maker Update: Wearable Ouija”.
This week on Maker update building your own lightsaber, a wearable Ouija board 3d printed, earrings Snoopy gliders, a ultraviolet marble machine pop rivets screw threads on 3d prints, Google’s AI y USB stick and they look at different types of cable, wrap, hey I’m Tom Bell and welcome To another Maker update, I hope we’re all doing great. I’Ve got another project packed show for you today. So let’s get started with the project of the week. The Adafruit crew are busy making projects for their new Halloween board. John parks latest contribution.
Is this animated LED light saber? It uses the Halloweens, accelerometer and speaker output to trigger sound effects when he’s swinging it around John shows you how to make the blade out of a common plastic, tube and corrugated plastic for the hilt. You can either source one from a toy, lightsaber or John lays out how to make a convincing one from a sink drain extension. It looks like a fun project for a Halloween costume. Phil Burgess has another Halloween project. This one is a file you just drag and drop over USB. It turns the screen to a little tilt, controlled Ouija board by tapping on any of the pads on the teeth. You can trigger a preset message to be spelled out. It’S another cool idea that you can integrate into a costume or a party trick.
Penelope volnek has another great instructable on wearable 3d printing. This one shows you how to print up stranded earring designs by placing a single thread midway through the print she shows off. A few design ideas she created an in Tinkercad.
I think they look great and there’s a lot of potential for making your own designs plus, because the prints are so small they’re, quick to make which really frees you up to experiment. Gregg Zumwalt never seems to stop this week, he’s got to Snoopy, themed hand, launch glider, designs, ones, a single wing design and the other is a biplane. Both are quick, 3d prints with only a few parts, but they’ll need to get balsa wood and CA glue. To put it all together, what’s particularly neat about these is that Gregg includes 3d printed templates for cutting just the right wing shapes out of the wood maximizing your chance of success. Finally, the Ruiz brothers use this Hand, Crank marble machine design from Giulio Lannon and took it up a notch by adding a motor and LED lights.
The project uses a familiar combination of an Adafruit playground express and cricket breakout board. In addition, you need a gear DC motor, a battery holder, a switch and some LEDs. The version here uses ultraviolet LEDs and some frosted clear filament. To achieve this ice castle. Look. The base is printed with an opaque filament to hide the boards and the wiring and includes a cutout to mount the power switch.
Not only with this project make a great gift for someone, but I also love that it’s a great example of, what’s so, cool about makers sharing and re mixing each other’s ideas, I have a bunch of tips to share this week on Instructables Click. Clack Klunk has a quick and useful guide on pop rivets, how they work and how to remove them. Gareth Brandon’s tips of the week column on make has a great roundup, with styrene modeling tips from Adam Savage tips for cleaning an airbrush and an idea on how to literally shelve a project that you need to take a break from Bob Claggett has a new bits. Video up that covers best practices for soldering electronics, including soldering, wires together and using heat shrink Jimmy door.
Esta has a surprise tips, video that popped up on the making it show he’s shooting for NBC. It goes over some tried-and-true to rest the tips that includes a couple quick builds for making a tape caddy using compressed air to set hot glue and modifying a shop garbage can 3d printer maker formlabs has a well researched guide on its blog, showing different waste, as Screw threads to 3d printed parts and the benefits and drawbacks of each heat sets wood screws thread forming screws. There’S a lot to look at magpie issue 73 is out and available for download. This issue has a feature section about game design. It also has a first look at Google’s aiy USB stick for Raspberry Pi. That’S due out in the fall, it’s called the edge TPU accelerator and should help with local processing of machine learning projects, including high-res.
Real-Time video analysis prices TBD over on the cool tools. Blog I’ve got a roundup looking at five different types of cable, wrap, velcro, split flap spiral and others. I’Ve using this stuff to give a more finished look to projects with lots of wires that need wrangling. But some stuff looks better than others Maker Faires. There’S a ton happening this weekend, including Hannover Germany, Redding, California, Lehi Utah, Portland, Oregon, Toledo, Ohio, Zurich, Switzerland, Cincinnati Ohio, Idaho Falls, Idaho, parkland, County Alberta, Canada and Chicago Southside Illinois and remember the following weekend. We have world Maker Faire in New York I’ll, be there and I hope to see you alright and that does it, for this week’s show be sure to subscribe.
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