PARENTS: please carefully inspect your kids’ Halloween candy! We found Doom running inside this Milky Way bar.
Candy of Doom - Do not eat if it's turing complete
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15 years, 9 months, 1 day ago - April 18, 2006 - this was all of
@adafruit
every kit
@ladyada
had at the time, every part, this was the entire company on a table, about to go to
@makerfaire
(we still have the green cups and the table, and the mug)
Solderless header for quick prototyping 🔌🔧👩🔧
We got a request from some folks for "solder-less pin header" - these snap-apart headers look just like your regular pin headers but they have a little slot in the shorter end that can make a cold-contact with pads on a PCB. only…
So many cool displays to explore! ✨ 🖥️ 🤩
Round, square, bar, cap touch...we're ready to dive into some fun display shapes with a Raspberry Pi / CM4 or ESP32-S3 as the driver. these displays used to be really expensive or hard to get but thanks to the dropping TFT and chip…
From
@donttrythis
Cosplayers, you'll understand this. At
@SiliconSJ
last year, I wore my Iron Man Mark 1 armor. What I wasn't thinking about is all the walking I'd need to do in costume, getting from the green room to the floor, the floor itself, then BACK to the green room. 1/1
A mini USB hub to embed into projects 🔌🖥️💡🛠️🚀🔄🔧📏🎛️💻🔬🔋🤖🎮💼🧩🌐📲
If you have a project where you need to connect multiple devices to one usb port, naturally you'd use a USB hub. but if its inside a case and space is limited, or if you want to avoid having bulky…
ESP32-C6 Feather is here, time to bring it up 🚀🛠️💡
The ESP32-C6 () is Espressif’s first Wi-Fi 6 SoC integrating 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 (LE) and the 802.15.4 protocol. It brings the goodness you know from the low-cost C3 series…
Designing the latest new product
@adafruit
from the desk of
@ladyada
- the latest design is an updated version of the Bus Pirate we're calling "Circuit Pyrate" for now 🏴☠️
Add USB-C Power to your devices with the
#Adafruit
HUSB238 Power Delivery Breakout! Get up to 100W of power over USB-C for those projects that need more than 5 volts at 2 amps. Set the output voltage using the on-board jumpers or control it over I2C using a microcontroller.…
Ticketmaster and Adafruit Announce Groundbreaking Merger, TicketFruit, to Revolutionize the Purchase of Raspberry Pi 4s
New York, NY - April 1, 2023 - Today, global ticketing and event technology platform Ticketmaster and electronics manufacturer Adafruit announced their plans…
click ... click ... click ... that is the sound of a
@Raspberry_Pi
Pico RP2040 controlling read/write/imaging a floppy! postin' longer vid, post, and more in a bit! 🐇 💾 🌈
Facebook is claiming our video show and tell where people share art, electronics, modified wheelchairs, and other projects, is hate speech now. There was no option to have it reviewed only to "agree" so no one sees it.
dos laptop drops in for an old school vibe
this viral retro mini laptop just appeared on our desk, we ordered it about a month ago and its just as cute as you expect! with a modern TFT display and keyboard and USB disk interface, but still rockin the classic 8088 chipset…
From
@donttrythis
- "In 2019 at
@siliconsj
, I walked the floor "Incognito" as Star-Lord from Guardians of the Galaxy, a costume build chronicled on
@testedcom
. See if YOU can find me THIS YEAR!" [1/2]
NeXT Sound Box (1991) 🎵🚀🎸🖱️⌨️⚙️🖤🎚️🔊
NeXT Sound Box, an audio interface and a hub for connecting peripherals like keyboards and mice to NeXT Computers / NeXTstations. High-quality audio capabilities, could sample sounds at a CD-quality rate of 44.1 KHz, using a 56001 DSP for…
swirly grid for mounting prototype boards
with most of our dev boards, sensors and feathers now sporting plug-and-play stemma QT ports () it can be very fast to put together projects with half a dozen boards snapped together. But now you don't have a…
Lego base plates for STEMMA boards!
#3DPrinted
holders feature built-in standoffs for press fitting the PCBs. STEMMA boards plug-and-play with various devices and accessories, without any soldering!
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#3dprinting
The Ikea Vindriktning is a small and affordable air quality monitor that measures PM2.5 particulates for an AQI reading. This project adds a QT Py ESP32-S3 running CircuitPython to read the data from the PM1006 sensor inside the Vindriktning and log the data to Adafruit IO…
Build a smart
#IOT
planter with Adafruit PyPortal and CircuitPython. Guide Monitor your plants vitals with Adafruit STEMMA Soil Sensor and plot moisture and temperature data. Use Adafruit IO to create a visual dashboard with gauges of your plants water…
Adafruit BusIO library makes debugging I2C failures fast 🛠️💡🔌
It's not often... but every few months, one of our sensor drivers stops working due to hardware changes. It happened this week with the AHT20 tester - for some reason, it doesn't init anymore! What would typically…
PCB of the Day! ESP32-S3 RGB TTL Experimentation board...take 2! 🔧💡🔄
Well, this is a first for us...our initial prototype design for an ESP32-S3 "RGB TTL" display driver board didn't work perfectly the first time!!@!?? j/k that's like Tuesday for us...so back to the drawing…
resident pixel-expert
@PaintYourDragon
has done an amazing job porting two of our favorite after dark screensavers - see if you're not familiar - to our Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI output () check out the learning guide for…
It's 10pm, do you know where your RTK prototypes are? 🔧🛰️🎯
We juuuuust plugged in this uBlox RTK F9P shield into USB and given the intense cost of these modules we definitely had a nervous twitch but then we heard the "ba-dunk" of enumeration and…
Coming soon - CH552 QT Py is a tiny 8051 board
We designed this CH552-based QT Py board before the chip shortage, but now parts are plentiful so we made some prototypes and are trying out the CH55xduino () board support package. and, it works! but watch…
PCB of the Day! Adafruit AMG8833 IR Thermal Camera Breakout - STEMMA QT 🔥📸🔌
Add heat-vision to your project with an Adafruit AMG8833 Grid-EYE Breakout! This sensor from Panasonic is an 8x8 array of IR thermal sensors. When connected to your microcontroller (or raspberry Pi)…
Programming the I2C to ANO navigation switch and encoder breakout
🔌💡📲🔍👍🤖🎛️🔧🚀👌🤩💻📚💼🛠️🎉
The ANO encoder and navigation switch is an adorable 'iPod-classicy' UI element but it has soooo many pins for the encoder and 5 switches. so we slapped a…
gnuboy gameboy emulator test passes!
after nofrendo/NES emulation, the next one we tried is 'gnuboy' which is a gameboy (color) emulator. we remember getting a gameboy when they came out, it was absolutely amazing to play tetris anytime we wanted...
Many interestingly shaped TFT screen samples! 🖥️🔄🎨
For our ICN6211 breakout dev board, we will support classic 40-pin 800x480 displays but what about some funky shapes? A second standard 40-pin connector pinout is used on square, bar, and round displays. Some of these have…
Coming soon - This ESP32-C6 feather is a Matter of fact
ESP32-C6 () is Espressif’s first Wi-Fi 6 SoC integrating 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 (LE) and the 802.15.4 protocol. It brings the goodness you know from the low-cost C3 series…
Mini USB hub proto is a universal USB port expander 🔌💡🖥️📲🔄💻🎛️🧩
Sometimes you've got something with USB host, like a embedded linux board, and you want to connect more than one thing. or maybe you want to turn something like a keyboard into a multi-device USB peripheral.…
Prototype build time lapse! Adafruit ENS160 MOX Gas Sensor - Sciosense CCS811 Upgrade - STEMMA QT / Qwiic 🛠️🌬️📈
The ENS160 Gas Sensor is an excellent air quality sensor from ScioSense, replacing the discontinued CCS811, with new driver code. This sensor incorporates a…
PCB of the day! MCP9808 High Accuracy I2C Temperature Sensor Breakout Board 🌡️🔌💻
The MCP9808 I2C digital temperature sensor provides high accuracy and precision, with a typical accuracy of ±0.25°C over its -40°C to +125°C range, and works with any microcontroller using i2c,…
Build a smart
#IOT
planter with Adafruit PyPortal and CircuitPython. Guide Monitor your plants vitals with Adafruit IO to create a visual dashboard with gauges of your plants water levels!
In this project we're building a portable Raspberry Pi, PiTFT 3.5” display, Powerboost 500C and a 2500mAh lithium polymer battery. Full Tutorial
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#Electronics
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