Robot instrument builds are always fun, but the wiring can be cumbersome. However, this robot friend, built around a toy piano xylophone, requires zero soldering.
Build a weather station with retro inspired 8bit graphics! Use CircuitPython to display data from the Open Weather Maps API. Get temperature, weather conditions, location, time and date! All rendered in chunky fonts and blocky icons.
In this project, you create a temperature and humidity monitor that can record values as bread dough rises (the process known as proofing). However, you can use this for any situation where you want to record the temperature and humidity over time.
Light up your LEGO buildings, spacecraft, vehicles, and more with super-tiny LEDs. Sets such as the Winter Village and Star Wars lines are just begging to have lights added.
PyGamer and PyBadge have built in accelerometers - which you can use in your games or demos to make nifty motion-activated effects. In this mini guide we'll show you some examples of PaintYourDragon's PixelDust library but for Arcada boards.