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Let's archive all those old mac floppies, starting with this 1984 biz sim game! OK we're making slow but steady progress - now that we've refactored Adafruit Floppy to better handle looooong pulses, identified the best drive for reading mac GCR diskettes, and tested fluxengine's new .dsk format support, we can start reading and archiving mac 400k/800k disk images. first up is this very old, nicely...

#newproducts JP's Product Pick of the Week: LED Arcade Button 1x4 Breakout I2C STEMMA QT https://www.adafruit.com/product/5296 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutoria...

ASK AN ENGINEER 2/9/2022 LIVE #askanengineer #adafruit #diy Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ ----...

This week @adafruit we’re making a three button footswitch with CircuitPython and QT Py RP2040. Prototyping a zoetrope with Adafruit Crickit featuring Party Parrot. The timelapse this week is Mando's N-1 Naboo Starfighter. It’s gonna be Wizard! Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/three-button-foot-switch/ YouTube Project Video https://youtu.be/fMkaawdoVkk Code on GitHub https://github.com/adafr...

Build a USB foot switch using 3D printed parts and CircuitPython! Use the QT Py RP2040 or KB2040 to make a customize USB HID controller. Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/three-button-foot-switch/ Code on GitHub https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Learning_System_Guides/blob/main/Three_Button_USB_FootSwitch/code.py QT Py RP2040 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4900 Zippy MicroSwitch https://...

In order for our floppy accessing project to connect to laptop-style drives, we will need to source FPC (flex printed circuit board PCB) cables that fit the existing drives and can snake on over to our PCB. Unlike most display FPC's, these need to be 1mm pitch, and we need to watch out for whether they are A-A or A-B style. Thankfully Digi-Key stocks every length, style and pitch of FPCs you could...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 2/8/22 LED Arcade Button 1x4 DEEP discount during the livestream here! LED Arcade Button 1x4 I2C Breakout https://www.adafruit.com/product/5296 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on...

For the Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/rotary-phone-dial-keypad/ Rotary pulses from the Model 500 Western Electric telephone are read by the Kee Boar KB2040 running CircuitPython and converting to USB HID keypresses! Non-destructive, fully reversible phone mod. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafr...

the industrious adafruit.io team did a massive refactor of the way we support i2c sensors in wippersnapper to allow automatic generation of new sensor devices without having to hardcode how they look and are treated in the backend (and dontcha know, we even made the repo where we are keeping all that metadata public over at https://github.com/adafruit/Wippersnapper_Components/tree/main/components/...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! Mando's N-1 Naboo Starfighter Aris K. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5219863 CR10S Pro Silver PLA 5hr 21mins X:201 Y:159 Z:150mm .2mm layer / .4mm nozzle 6% Infill / 6mm retract 210C / 60C 30g 60mm/s ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.i...

#circuitpythonparsec Use dictionaries in CircuitPython to organize and access your data! To learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/sub...

ok getting back to our floppy project (after we did a bunch of hardware designs last week, stay tuned for some exciting new products!) here's a USB floppy drive that we will use our 'flooper board to turn from a 26-pin FPC into a 34-pin IDC. and...it works! it's a straight conversion, just needs the mechanical adaptation here, and you can use these common USB floppy drives as an everyday standard...

In this tutorial we'll take a look at our snap fit case for the Adafruit QT PY ESP32-S2. Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/qt-py-snap-fit-case Fusion 360 Share Link https://a360.co/3FfD73e QT Py RP 2040 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5325 3D Printing Projects Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOWD2dJNRIN46uhMCWvNOlbG 3D Hangout Show Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/...

Notes document is available here: (https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2022/2022-02-07.md) Join here for the chat all week: http://adafru.it/discord The CircuitPython Weekly happens normally at 2pm ET/11am PT on Mondays. Check the #circuitpython-dev channel on Discord for notices of change in time and links to past meetings. Meeting times are also available...

ok cats and kittens, we know you missed the floppy hackin' so you should be glad to know we're BACK on the floppy kick, with some timer driven code for capturing and generating flux pulses. we're not 100% sure we need timers to do it but we were having a few issues with writing floppies consistently so figured this could help. today we wrote an ibm mfm floppy and then read it on another floppy dri...

A rotary dial telephone pulse switch closeup. John Park is using CircuitPython on KB2040 to read the 100ms pulses per digit to then send USB HID key messages. Learn Guide coming soon. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Ad...

Join Scott as he continues bluetooth low energy (BLE) GATT client code on the ESP32-S3. Chat on the Adafruit Discord at https://adafru.it/discord. Deep Dive happens every week. Normally Fridays at 2pm Pacific. Next week is on Friday. All notes are available on GitHub with links into the videos. Thanks to @askpatrickw and @dcd for making and maintaining the notes. https://github.com/adafruit/deep-d...

the silicon shortage has pushed a lot of revisions onto our plates, chips and displays both have gotten a lot of updates. here we are testing a revision of product https://www.adafruit.com/product/911 which is a 2.0" TFT with NTSC input. what better source of stable NTSC signal than a raspberry pi zero? simply solder wires to the TV pins and keep HDMI disconnected for a quick way to verify the scr...

The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 167 (February 2, 2022). This is our weekly Python video-newsletter-podcast! Ladyada and PT review the Python on hardware news & highlights of the week. The news comes from the Python community, Discord, Adafruit communities and more. It’s part of the comprehensive newsletter we do each week. The video playlist of episodes is here: http://adafru.it...

5V 10W Solar Panel - ETFE - Voltaic P110 (0:08) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5369?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts 5V 1.2W Solar Panel - ETFE - Voltaic P124 (0:08) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5368?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts 5V 5W Solar Panel - ETFE - Voltaic P105 (0:08) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5367?utm_so...

All about solder paste (0:04) Stacks of bare PCB panels (0:38) Testing some Charlieplexed LED Matrices (0:41) https://www.adafruit.com/product/2947 Using the Auto-bagger to prep some products (1:05) Soldering some surface mount threaded standoffs Connecting i2c devices to Feather ESP32-S2 TFT (2:26) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5300 Conway's Game of Life played out on a panel of 15x7 LED Matri...

Luxuriously Long Stemma QT cable samples! I2C was never meant to go 200, 300 or 400mm but we laugh in the face of death thanks to these samples we got of some looooooooong stemma qt cables. each cable has two JST SH connectors on either end and a PVC sheathed center. we were inspired by this tweet https://twitter.com/lovyan03/status/1480867328783163396 about I2C wire interleaving with power in ord...

JOHN PARK'S WORKSHOP LIVE 2/3/22 Dial-A-Song Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -------------------...

This week's EYE ON NPI will be your loyal friend like a pet dog - it's Authentrend FIDO2 Biometric Security Keys (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/a/authentrend/fido-biometric-security-keys). These FIDO2 compatible USB dongles have an absolutely adorable built-in fingerprint sensor on the end, which means they have an additional layer of security in addition to ownership: you also need...

The news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast February 2, 2022 https://www.adafruit.com/new These are items or concept products that may/might/could be introduced into the Adafruit store in the future (or not)! It's not out yet, so please don't ask questions or ask when it'll be available.... Check out the Adafruit store for all the great products that are available and for coming soon products yo...