My Virtual Life

I'm ready to start on this. First step was to gather the materials.  The parts list on page 268 is incomplete, although on p. 276 there...

Note: first, apologies to  +Eric Buijs  who noted that the TEA2025B runs hot at 9V.  I either did not notice or did not perceive that in ...

This was a fun project.  The final tiara project its for my granddaughter's pre-school graduation. I would have done a mortar board, bu...

I decided to make the Adafruit Neopixel Tiara .  I have ordered some tiara's (plural to allow for error), and will fix the gemma and n...

After the last experiment this one is pretty straightforward. One 74HC32 quad OR chip, 2 timers, one SPDT switch, 2 tactile buttons, 2 LEDs,...

Same project, hooked up to the  Adafruit Sound Reactive Inverter .

I've been fascinated by electroluminescent wire (EL wire) for a while. I just needed a project in which to include it.   I got the idea ...

It's finished. See video The final steps were: desolder the floating wire on the LED+ desolder the GND wire, cut it to the same len...

I got the LEDs to work. I verified all the other connections I tried a 5mm LED in the circuit instead of the LED sequin I desoldered--no...

I drilled the hole in the case for connecting the Trinket.  From the webs, I ascertained that I needed about a 1/16" bit (.0625 for a ....

OK. Problem 1 is that, despite  +Phillip Burgess  ' warning, I soldered the Piezo to the Trinket before I wired it correctly (in my defe...

When last we saw this, I was waiting to get replacement 3D printed parts back from the service I used. The first print was missing the handl...

Here are some of the great things that happened in 2014 (maybe the best year ever): I found Adafruit ! +Adafruit has made my life better. ...

This is my next project, from a tutorial on the Adafruit Learning System .  I enjoyed working with the Pro Trinket in the Donkey project, so...

In 1978, I bought a wind-up donkey for my daughter, then an infant. The donkey moved its head while playing “Donkey Serenade.”  I...