21st Century Learning and Teaching

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It's October again and I wanted to come up with a Halloween project using a Raspberry Pi. I saw a few haunted portraits scattered here and there but none of them really presented much in the way of a scare, just some simple movement.

I decided to expand on that idea and started looking for some good jump scare type videos I could use. This lead me to AtmosFx they have some really cool Unliving Portrait videos that are only $7.99 each. These were perfect for what I had in mind and allowed me to have more than one jump scare video that I could select manually or have it run each one at random.

Here is a video of the finished project.

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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Raspberry+Pi

Adafruit LED backpacks make it incredibly simple to add small bitmapped displays to a project. Each requires just four wires: power, ground and two communication lines to a microcontroller.

Two common questions we receive:

How can I use more than one 8x8 matrix backpack in an Arduino sketch?

Can I have two (or more) matrices always showing the same image?

This tutorial demonstrates both.

We’ve had spooky Halloween displays on the brain lately, but the concepts here are equally applicable to more innocent schemes!

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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=ARDUINO

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=LEDs

In this build video, I show you my DIY Animated Skull project. Using a servo, some 3D printing, and some clever circuitry, this inexpensive Halloween prop can automatically move in sync with recorded audio!

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/halloween-project-with-skull-arduino-blinking-leds-and-scrolling-eyes-maker-makered-makerspaces/

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=makerspace