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Thor Hammer

A cool Thor's Hammer prop for your school's hallway decorations during Spirit Week!

Thor Hammer

Yumee Chang
14
eChain: A Fun Digital Key Chain

Display memes, cartoons, and photos to your keys or bag with eChain: a smart ePaper tag that lasts weeks on a single charge!

eChain: A Fun Digital Key Chain

Ameya Angadi
95
DIY String Shooter

A fun little gadget that shoots a string with surprising speed β€” fully 3D-printed and super easy to use!

DIY String Shooter

Next Builder
2.5K
Handheld One

A Linux handheld gaming device built in 4 weeks using the phyFLEX-AM62Px SOM, KiCad hardware, and open-source software.

Handheld One

Serah Peterson
&
Madelyn T
882
Arduino Pinball Machine Using a DVD Display (TM1628)

A mini Arduino pinball machine built using a recycled DVD display (TM1628), servo flippers, LEDs and sound effects with real-time scoring.

Arduino Pinball Machine Using a DVD Display (TM1628)

Ztronics
345
Blinking Robotic Eyes on 128Γ—64 OLED | ESP8266

Design robotic eye animations in a web editor and deploy them to a 128Γ—64 OLED using an ESP8266 and a Python-based Arduino generator.

Blinking Robotic Eyes on 128Γ—64 OLED | ESP8266

BlinkNBuild
303

Build a 6-key DIY macropad with animated OLED eyes using XIAO ESP32-S3. Native USB HID β€” no Python script needed. Plug in and it just works.

DIY Macropad with REACTIVE Animated Eyes! πŸ‘€

roboattic Lab
294
Tic Tac Toe

Classic Tic Tac Toe powered by an ESP32, with fast rounds and fancy colours.

Tic Tac Toe

SLBros
265
Random Joke Generator – ESP32 M5Stack Core2 Visual Coding

In this Visual Programming Visuino tutorial, we’ll use the M5Stack Core2 to fetch jokes from a free online API and display them.

Random Joke Generator – ESP32 M5Stack Core2 Visual Coding

ronfrtek
191
I Built a Robot Arm That Types Poetry Automatically!

A 4-axis myPalletizer bridges digital language and physical action, turning AI-generated poetry into real-world typing.

I Built a Robot Arm That Types Poetry Automatically!

Elephant Robotics
179

Control a myPalletizer 260 with just your hand. MediaPipe tracks gestures to drive the robotβ€”no controller, no keyboard, just motion.

Control a Robot Arm with the Force β€” the Grogu Style

Elephant Robotics
156
Mini TETRIS (GAMBOY)

HI my name is Piyush Garg and I am 11 years old. This is my creation above. it took me about 3 weeks to complete it and I am very proud of it

Mini TETRIS (GAMBOY)

Piyush Garg
144
GRIMWALKER β€” ESP32 WiFi Digital Pet with Occult Teeth

Grimwalker turns a $5 esp32 into a living digital pet that survives on wifi packets. feed it probe requests, watch it grow.

GRIMWALKER β€” ESP32 WiFi Digital Pet with Occult Teeth

-::- splicer scorn -::-
87
Robot Eyes: Smooth Animated Eyes on Raspberry Pi

A lightweight robot face engine with smooth, expressive eye animations running on a Raspberry Pi and 1.8" ST7735 TFT display.

Robot Eyes: Smooth Animated Eyes on Raspberry Pi

calvin sewornu
74
NFC Business Card [V3]

A revamp of V2 with extra features such as a connector for a 1s LiPo Battery and an LED screen matrix operated by shift registers.

NFC Business Card [V3]

Paul Vincent Bezzina
60
Pixel Quest

One ESP32-S3, two identities: a handheld console with three games, or a USB MIDI surface for Lightroom. The boot button picks which.

Pixel Quest

martina.
42
M5stick Minigame Launcher Firmware

An M5stick firmware that has built in game like: dino, g-dash, flappy, pong and snake. Updates will be coming and it will be available for m

M5stick Minigame Launcher Firmware

dxvex
33
Sonar Pill Launcher

Ever been bored having to place all your solutes into solvents? With this, you can happily catapult them into their respective beakers.

Sonar Pill Launcher

lorenzo brick
28
Display Live Inspirational Quotes on M5Stack Core

In this Visual Programming Visuino tutorial, we'll use the M5Stack Core2 to retrieve inspirational quotes.

Display Live Inspirational Quotes on M5Stack Core

ronfrtek
17
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