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Tilt Controlled Marble Maze

“This project uses the accelerometer on the Circuit Playground Express board to control the X and Y axes of a maze. The user can guide a marble through the maze by simply tilting the Circuit Playground Express. This project is …

Color Spinner Camera Ring Light

“Photography lighting is a tricky business. This project aims to create an easy add-on that can work with any camera, film or digital, to illuminate subjects and scenes with custom colors. To add an extra fun element to this ring …

LED NeoPixel Corset with Circuit Playground Express and MakeCode

“Create your own bespoke glowing NeoPixel corset and smile to yourself as all the heads in the room turn to follow you. Line your perfect silhouette with 500 programmable lights that show you off like a fairy disco queen. What …

Crickit Dancing Marionette Kit

“This project demonstrates how to build a robotic marionette that is controlled with four arcade-style buttons. The cardboard rig can be configured to control and animate any marionette, and draws inspiration from this Pinocchio marionette. This project is based around …

Glowing Neopixel Resin River Table

“Epoxy resin river tables can be stunning works of art. Adding NeoPixels and a Circuit Playground give this table an extra special dimension — its soft pulsing glow fills a room with beauty and makes every meal into a masterpiece. I …

Counting Punches with Circuit Playground Express

“Count punches or weight repetitions with Circuit Playground Express. Story Background The Circuit Playground Express (CPE) has a built in accelerometer. I used it to count how many punches or curls with a weight. MakeCode triggers an event when the …

Cardboard Circuit Playground Express Inchworm Robot

“Looking for a way to get kids designing and building their own simple robots? With just a Circuit Playground Express (CPX), a servo motor, and a few household materials, anyone can create a Cardboard Inchworm that meets the “sense-think-act” definition …

ChocoRobo - Autonomous Chocolate Delivery Robot

“A simple, easy to build face following robot made with off the shelf parts. Introduction Simple and easy to build face following robot with off-the-shelf parts for anyone to create. No need for expensive or specialized tools such as 3D …

Make It Bubble

“Who doesn’t love getting a bottle of bubbles to have fun with friends and pets? What’s that? You get tired of all that blowing? Circuit Playground Express comes to the rescue. Along with the Crickit robotics controller, you …

Sensor Plotting with Mu and CircuitPython

“We’re going to use CircuitPython, Mu, and the light sensor on Circuit Playground Express to plot light levels. We have a simple nine-line piece of code below. We’ll run this code on our Circuit Playground Express and use …

Animatronic Hand

“Build a cardboard animatronic hand with independent finger control using CRICKIT robotics controller board! Build your own animatronic hand using cardboard, straws, some cord, and rubber bands. Pull the cords to actuator fingers — or even better, let some servo motors …