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With every iteration of the Fallout franchise there is renewed enthusiasm for the Pip-Boy. Now, with the new Fallout series, IGN is offering a pre-order for one. While it does sound snazzy it isn...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/23/pipboy-3000-mkvi-with-raspberry-pi/

Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: add lights to your festival coat and control the lights with your phone. This guide will show two different ways to add animated NeoPixel lights to...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/02/led-festival-coat-with-mapping-and-wled-led-pixels-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit/

Katherine Becvar, the creative mind behind Blue Moon Designs, is bringing light up jewelry and fashion to the cosplay world using Adafruit technology. Her work is a gorgeous blend of historic des...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/26/meet-the-maker-blue-moon-designs/

Adafruit Forums user IanLukeFinley creates a light up Zagreus from Hades cosplay.There are actually four different animations: the fire on the crown and feet, the pulse in the skulls’ eyes, and...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/11/a-zagreus-from-hades-cosplay-adafruitforums-neopixels/

小芊枫 XiaoQianFeng shared this project on Youtube. The attention to detail and incredible!In this video I have Made a Valkyrie Mech Suit for myself. The whole set is 2m high with Motor-driven...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/28/how-to-build-your-own-wearable-valkyrie-robot-wearablewednesday/

By way of Make: comes word of this cool project to create lighted, motorized Mantis Blades, the viscous weapon found in Cyberpunk 2077. This project showcases not only the technical prowess invol...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/15/creating-real-life-cyberpunk-2077-mantis-blades/

Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: make a light-up Rapunzel wig that reacts to sounds and lights up when the wearer makes a noise. This is based on Rapunzel’s glowing hair from the...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/24/sound-reactive-rapunzel-hair-sensors-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit/

Check out the latest tutorial from Erin St Blaine: Make custom moving eye graphics for your EyeLights LED glasses that wink, blink, and wiggle. This is an easy tutorial that’s fun to do with ki...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/17/led-glasses-custom-animated-graphics-with-sprites-adafruit-products-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit/

Shared by Azaryia on Thingiverse:Darth Bane’s orbalisk armor mask from Star Wars Legends! This has been a long-term cosplay goal of mine to make, and I finally finished it! Darth Bane is hands ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/12/07/star-wars-darth-bane-orbalisk-mask-3dthursday-3dprinting/

Create your own Dawnguard armour from Skyrim. Art of Armor. ArmorySmith shared this video on Youtube!It’s great to make functional armor from the games I’ve played a while ago. This was an in...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/11/15/dawnguard-how-to-make-the-armor-from-skyrim/

We had a wonderful time exploring and exhibiting at Maker Faire Bay Area 2023.Maker Faire has been on hiatus the last few years, since the COVID pandemic shut down events all over the world.  Th...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/10/31/maker-faire-bay-area-2023-maker-highlights-makerfaire/

Adafruit Playground user hotsharptoxic posts a wonderful project, placing NeoPixel RGB LEDs on an Elvis cape.Parts used: Circuit Playground Express Two packs of Flora RGB Smart NeoPixel v2 Circu...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/10/25/a-neopixel-lit-elvis-cape-halloween-wearables-cosplay/

Chainsaw Man is one of the gorier anime anti-heros in recent years. Itching for season two, Orionpaz60 created this epic costume just in time for halloween!My interpretation Chainsaw Man and Poch...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/10/25/chainsaw-man-and-pochita-fully-operational-helmet-arm-blades-sound-and-motion-electronichalloween-wearablewednesday/

Go nOOd this Halloween. These bendy light filaments are any easy way to add some lighting to your costumes.This Learn Guide from Erin St. Blaine will take you through the steps!Adafruit nOOds are...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/10/18/light-up-your-costume-with-noods-wearablewednesday-electronichalloween/

Boy does this put my middle school projects to shame! This recent video from Adam Savage has definitely sparked my interest in bookbinding. What a satisfying craft.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/10/15/adam-savage-makes-an-old-book-from-scratch/

Check out the latest tutorial from Erin St Blaine on the Adafruit Learning System. She built a dress using NeoPixel LEDs and Arduino code by Phil Burgess: the amazing Oozemaster 3000 code. This c...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/07/26/tutorial-led-dress-with-water-drip-illusion/

Neat build from Dawn DuPriest. Check out the full write-up up on Hackster.io!This Stray Companion cosplay with a functioning, animated screen is a HUGE HIT at comic-cons.Each Friday is PiDay here...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/06/30/stray-companion-head-morusque-version-piday-raspberrypi/

The Feather P2040 Prop-Maker: an all-in-one combination of the Feather RP2040 with a Prop-Maker FeatherWing with a few tweaks based on feedback from expert prop-builders. This board has an I2S am...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/06/22/new-guide-adafruit-rp2040-prop-maker-feather-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit-adafruit-blitzcitydiy/

We’ve got a new tutorial from Erin St Blaine: Make an LED jellyfish umbrella with NeoPixels and a QT Py Pico W. It’s easy to add lots of complex animations and color changes using WLED, a fre...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/06/21/tutorial-jellyfish-umbrella-with-wifi-and-wled/

This electroplating process would make really awesome props or cosplay. There are some metal fill options available for 3D printing but they don’t get this metallic. From HEN3DRIK on YouTubeHow...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/05/22/electroplating-3d-prints-3dprinting-cosplay-electroplating/

In this video, Adam Savage is sent two amazing map replicas, one is a map of the Shandor Mining Company as seen in the movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The other is a reproduction done of a compreh...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/05/12/adam-savage-revisits-his-highly-detailed-middle-earth-map/

It’s always entertaining to see Adam Savage geeking out over high-end cosplay. In this Tested installment, he has cosplayer Beverly Downen in the Cave to talk about and examine her amazing Luci...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/05/04/amazing-lucifer-morningstar-costume-from-the-sandman-netflix-series/

Extremely well done and thoroughly creepy clicker getup shared by HabitatDudule on reddit and Instagram. They have been adding updates to the project over a few years, the 2019 iteration was stil...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/04/10/incredible-clicker-cosplay-tlou/

@varpunencosplay shared some details about the electronics in her gorgeous primordial jade winged spear build on Instagram:The button is hidden under the foam ornaments. With a short press it swi...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/04/05/varpunen-cosplay-made-a-primordial-jade-winged-spear-with-an-itsybitsy-wearablewednesday/

At Adafruit, we’re dedicated to helping you level up your knowledge and skills and give you resources to make your projects amazing. We did some research and came up with a comprehensive compen...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/03/30/neopixel_and_led_diffusion/

On JLaservideo, Jay sets out to create the closest thing to a real-world Spiderman wrist-borne web shooter that he can. The whole thing is kind of silly and over-the-top, but the engineering proc...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/03/28/trying-to-make-a-real-spiderman-web-shooter/

In late January @bighurtcosplay started posting updates of their Mechagodzilla build over on Instagram. We’re looking forward to more updates! Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adaf...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/03/15/bighurtcosplay-is-making-a-kiryu-mechagodzilla-wearablewednesday/

Full tutorial:https://learn.adafruit.com/chinese-dragon-puppet-with-motion-reactive-flame-effect/overviewCheck out the latest tutorial from Erin St Blaine: Build a motion-reactive Chinese Dragon ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/03/14/tutorial-build-a-chinese-dragon-puppet-with-motion-reactive-led-flame-effect-lights/

People are flocking to HBO’s The Last of Us. Minus a blip for the Super Bowl, the show gains more viewers every episode. The world of TLOU is full of gnarly zombi-like (but don’t call them zo...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/02/19/making-of-the-last-of-us-episode-2-the-clickers/

A Batman fan from Ohio has created the most over-the-top Batmobile from the 60s classic TV series. All of the controls to deploy smoke screen, machine guns, blades, sleeping gas, fire suppression...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/02/10/this-batmobile-replica-car-build-is-beyond-amazing/

Check out the latest tutorial from Erin St. Blaine: NeoPixel Novelty Cufflinks with scrolling text.Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixel-novelty-cufflinks-with-scrolling-text/overvie...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/02/07/tutorial-neopixel-novelty-cufflinks-with-scrolling-text-images/

Bring the magic of the movie Moana to life with this DIY Heart of Te Fiti necklace tutorial by Erin St Blaine.This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a glowing Heart of Te Fi...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/02/07/new-guide-moana-heart-of-tefiti-3d-printed-necklace-with-glowing-noods/

In this “Ask Adam” segment on Tested, Adam Savage is asked a number of great questions. He’s asked what he includes in a Cosplay Repair Kit when he brings costumes to conventions. Here’s ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/02/06/what-to-include-in-a-basic-cosplay-repair-kit/

If you are looking to make the most game accurate cosplay of Kratos, PlayStation has you covered. They released a detailed guide for a bunch of characters with notes, close ups, and more. No more...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/02/04/god-of-war-ragnarok-cosplay-guide/

In this video, cosplayer and costume maker, Alyson Tabbitha, shows how she made a full suit of Might Thor armor in just 4 days.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/02/01/making-a-mighty-thor-suit-of-armor-in-4-days/

Here’s the latest tutorial from Erin St Blaine: add noodles of glowing light to your costume using Adafruit nOOds. From the guide:Adafruit nOOds are little noodles of light. They’re as simple...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/01/11/new-guide-add-light-to-your-costume-with-adafruit-noods/

In this HEN3DRIK – Electroplating 3D Prints video, Hendrik runs through the process he used in 3D printing and electroplating a Mandalorian helmet. Some good tips in here, like creating a turni...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/01/02/electroplating-a-3d-printed-mandalorian-helmet/

Adam Savage visits Weta Workshop’s fabrication department in New Zealand and learns how to speed-fabricate prop weapons used in set dressing.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/12/31/speed-building-a-prop-dagger-at-weta-workshop/

Earlier this month Phoebe Bridgers and Danny Elfman were part of a Nightmare before Christmas concert in London. The video above was shared by The Forty-Five on Youtube, you can learn more and se...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/12/22/phoebe-bridgers-as-sally-in-the-nightmare-before-christmas/

I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions, but I’m already telling myself that one of the things I want to break down and learn in 2023 is vacuum forming.In this 2-part video on Prop Monkey St...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/12/08/vacuum-forming-eva-foam/

Take a look at this brand-new tutorial from Erin St Blaine: NeoPixel Remote: IR Control with WLEDThis tutorial shows an easy way to get custom animations running on a NeoPixel strip and control t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/12/04/new-guide-light-up-costumes-in-harsh-environments-adafruitlearningsystem-wled-adafruit-erinstblaine-mermaid-copy/

Troy of the tabletop gaming channel FacilityD20 is looking to get deeper into 3D design and printing and doing things like human-scale prints of game elements. In this video, he wades into the de...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/12/01/3d-printing-a-life-size-imperial-guard-helmet-from-warhammer-40000-3dthursday/

Years ago, Adam Savage acquired the Weta Workshop Gandalf staff and pipe. But the pipe wasn’t real, it was a solid resin cast. So, he made his own, not to smoke from it, just to create as accur...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/30/making-gandalfs-pipe-from-lord-of-the-rings/

You may have seen the talented maker and robot builder, Jorvon Moss, on the cover of Make: magazine several years ago. Jorvon makes characterful robotic companions. In this Tested video, Jorvon j...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/27/meet-the-robot-sidekicks-of-jorvon-moss/

Designer and maker Sophy Wong visits Adam Savage in his cave to show us some of the incredible 3D-printed fabrics and garments she’s made. Inspiring stuff.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/26/the-innovative-3d-printed-fashion-of-sophy-wong/

Faraway Forge crafts these hefty Blades of Chaos. If you are grinding away for that Ragnarök Platinum this satisfying build video wouldn’t be bad to have on in the background. See more!

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/26/forging-kratos-blades-of-chaos-from-fork-lift-fork-workshop-asmr/

It’s always good to be reminded of what you can do with cheap toys from Goodwill, the Dollar Store, and the like. In this CreateScifi video, Anthony stops by a Dollar Store, spends under $5, an...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/17/making-a-5-sci-fi-blaster-with-dollar-store-toys/

Nigerian maker Praise Kelechi proves how far ingenuity can take you. He crafts ridiculously intricate props and costumes using little more than cardboard. Make talked to Kelechi about the process...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/09/the-fantastical-cardboard-cosplay-of-praise-kelechi-wearablewednesday/

Take a look at this brand-new tutorial from Erin St Blaine: How to make light-up costumes for harsh environments.  Erin has been making LED costumes for over 10 years, and wearing them to profes...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/02/new-guide-light-up-costumes-in-harsh-environments-adafruitlearningsystem-wled-adafruit-erinstblaine-mermaid/

How much fun is this idea? It’s an 18th century Marie Antoinette-style costume wig with a secret compartment inside! Champagne not included.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/10/30/making-a-costume-wig-with-a-spirit-stash-in-it-halloween/