Maker Update - Building a Lightsaber, Learn to Breadboard & More

{NAME} Check out the latest Maker videos from Digi-Key's Maker.io in partnership with All About Circuits. [View this email in your browser]( This All About Circuits maker video update is in partnership with Digi-Key Electronics. The Latest Maker Videos from Maker.io [Maker Update Episode 36: Shelf Life]( In this episode of Maker Update, a shelf clock, making a difference with COVID-19, a face tracking robot head, an illuminated book nook, and the MagPi goes half off. [Learn More]( [Kitronik ZIP Halo HD board for the BBC for micro:bit | Maker Minute]( 1927-5672-ND KITRONIK ZIP HALO HD FOR MICRO:B [Learn More]( [The Hacksmith: Lightsaber Version 4]( Building a lightsaber—arguably the most well-known weapon in Star Wars history—is nothing new to Hacksmith Industries. The team has had a working lightsaber for quite some time and has been experimented with different versions of it for years, which eventually led them to build one capable of causing real damage: the protosaber, also known as the world’s first real burning lightsaber. [Learn More]( [TensorFlow Lite Tutorial Part 3: Speech Recognition on Raspberry Pi]( In the previous tutorial, we trained a convolutional neural network (CNN) using TensorFlow and Keras to respond to the spoken word “stop.” We saved that model into a file that we will read and convert to a TensorFlow Lite model file in this tutorial. [Learn More]( [Learn to Breadboard]( Breadboarding is an integral part of creating any electronics project. The purpose is to set up an entire circuit using through-hole parts to ensure that its functionality is as expected prior to having a printed circuit board produced. This step saves time, money, and resources. [Watch Now]( [Low-Cost Data Acquisition (DAQ) with Arduino and Binho for ML]( Data Acquisition (DAQ) is the process of collecting information from one or more sensors for processing on a computer. Most DAQ devices act as a converter to read from one or more sensors and convert the reading to a raw measurement value. Many DAQ devices can be scripted to read at various intervals, at particular data rates, etc. [Watch Now]( [Maker Update Episode 34: Running Through My Mind]( In this episode of Maker Update: a brain shredder, smart dice, wiggly sensors, a MIDI guitar, an LED dress, and a magical wizard’s staff. [Learn More]( [Maker Update Episode 33: Paint by Numbers]( In this episode of Maker Update, a plotter painter, a vintage camera flash clock, a rotary cellphone, a breadboard bender, and foaming filament. [Learn More]( Copyright © 2020 EETech Media, All rights reserved. Registered member of AllAboutCircuits.com Our mailing address is: EETech Media 850 W Main StreetBoise, ID 83702 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list](