Donald Bell Maker Update Fading Triangles

2019-08-15 | By Maker.io Staff

Wearables

This week on Maker Update, adding nuance to your LED projects, Teensy 4.0, machine learning for knitting, hello drinkbot, AI wearables, and toy hacking.

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++Show Notes [Maker Update #136]++

-=Project of the Week=-

Making a Great LED Triangle By Micah Scott (aka Scanlime)

https://www.instructables.com/id/Making-a-great-LED-triangle/

Processing sketches on Github

https://github.com/scanlime/triangle

Original project notes

http://www.misc.name/triangle-attractor

Introduction to LED art with Fadecandy

https://learn.adafruit.com/led-art-with-fadecandy/intro

-=News=-

The New Teensy 4.0: Big Brains, Tiny Body

https://makezine.com/2019/08/08/the-new-teensy-4-0-big-brains-tiny-body/

https://hackaday.com/2019/08/07/new-teensy-4-0-blows-away-benchmarks-implements-self-recovery-returns-to-smaller-form/

MIT Researchers Create Automatic Knitting Machine Software

http://news.mit.edu/2019/computer-aided-knitting-mit-csail-0806

-=More Projects=-

Hello Drinkbot! by Rich Gibson

http://hellodrinkbot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/60273...(Video)

Metro Mini and BlinkyTiles Combine for a Bit of AI Powered Bling by Stephanie Codes

https://github.com/traumverloren/blinkytiles-mini-metro

https://twitter.com/stephaniecodes/status/1159161535220125697?s=20

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/08/08/metro-mini-and-blinkytiles-combine-for-a-bit-of-ai-powered-bling-machinelearning-wearables-metromini-tensorflow-tiny-yolo-stephaniecodes/

-=Tools/Tips=-

Travel collection on Thingiverse

https://www.thingiverse.com/hopewithus/collections/travel

Is the Raspberry Pi 4 really that bad? by Thomas Sanladerer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOboAW5RqAg

Take Apart and Rebuild Toys By Colleen and Aaron Graves

https://www.instructables.com/id/Take...

East Bay Mini Maker Faire Sunday, Oct. 27th

https://eastbay.makerfaire.com/

Review: Tub O' Towels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVENlvUyO48

-=Product Spotlight=-

Sparkfun Papa Soundie | Maker Minute

https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/videos/2019-maker-minutes/sparkfun-papa-soundie

Little Soundie

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/sparkfun-electronics/DEV-14006/1568-1853-ND/8702488

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