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142

Adafruit Sparkle Motion

By Adafruit Industries

The Adafruit Sparkle Motion is the flagship in our series of "Sparkle Motion" boards, that are our attempt to make the best small WLED-friendly smart LED driving board in the whole world. Our resident mermaid, firepixie makes a lot of projects with WLED and she loves it!

PROJECT
1,175

Lighting LED Nets with WLED and xLights

By Adafruit Industries

Add hundreds of lights to your home or yard with these fantastic Pebble Pixel Nets. Adafruit ‎carries them in a variety of sizes, from 1x1m to 1x6m large, and they are chainable and ‎expandable, so no vision is too big.

PROJECT
26

Illuminated Butterfly Wall Art

By Adafruit Industries

Make animated wall art, powered by pebble-style LEDs, and controlled by a Mini Sparkle Motion.

PROJECT
89

Floor Lamp with NeoPixels and WLED Custom Animations

By Adafruit Industries

Make a lovely modern lamp and create custom animations with WLED.

PROJECT
17

Soldering Iron Automation: WiFi-Powered Convenience

By Zach Hipps

Effortlessly control your soldering iron from afar using WiFi. Explore this ingenious solution that marries automation, notifications, and a bit of wittiness.

PROJECT
48

Star Wars Scomp Link USB Port

By Zach Hipps

I decided to build a scomp link and make the center rotate like it does in the movies. Plus, I wanted to make it into a functioning USB port for my ‎computer.

PROJECT
16

Build an IoT Thermometer with Adafruit IO WipperSnapper

By Maker.io Staff

Create a compact, connected temperature, and humidity sensor with online datalogging that provides at-a-glance temperature display.

TUTORIAL
129

How to Install Adafruit IO WipperSnapper Firmware

By Maker.io Staff

WipperSnapper offers makers an advanced way to manage their connected devices, allowing configuring physical components without writing a single line of code.

PROJECT

Electronic Affirmation Mirror

By bekathwia

How to build an encouraging mirror which scrolls affirming quotes over your reflection.

PROJECT

Endless Seltzer

By bekathwia

Hooking my SodaStream up to an enormous CO2 tank for nearly endless seltzer!

BLOG
5,156

Looking to Cut the Cord? Power Your Arduino Project with a Lithium Battery

By Maker.io Staff

Learn what it takes to make your Arduino project mobile, or just add a battery backup, using a lithium battery as a portable, energy-dense power source.

PROJECT
81

How to Build an ESP8266 Based Connected Flower Monitor

By Maker.io Staff

Create a connected plant monitoring system that records the temperature, light level, and plant moisture level and publishes this data to a local website.