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In this tutorial we'll take a look at making parametric tubes with threads using the coils feature in Fusion 360. Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/tusken-chief-staff/3d-printing CAD files on Prusa Printers https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/120649-tusken-chief-staff Fusion 360 Share Link https://a360.co/3ru2w4w Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------...

The news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast January 19, 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...

SHOW and TELL 1/19/2022

About a week ago we re-spun our ESP32-S2 QT Py into an ESP32-S3 version (the chips are very very similar but NOT drop in compatible!). we just got the PCBs in last night and threw one of these together. compared to the S2, the S3 adds a second core back, and adds BLE as well. while there is no arduino support yet, we do have preliminary CircuitPython support! good enough to test each pin, the anal...

ASK AN ENGINEER 1/19/2022 LIVE 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 3D printing a prop from Star Wars Book of Boba. Prototyping a snap fit case for the TFT Feather with new Quantum Filament. Shop talk demo featuring new hydro dipping sheets with 3D printed parts. Timelapse this week goes to a floating ghost inspired by Boo from Mario Bros. It’s Lovely! Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/tusken-chief-staff/ YouTube Video https://youtu....

For our tiny handheld gamer board, we want to have a headphone driver that does not require a lot of board space. Even if the chip is small, most simple amplifiers require output blocking caps to avoid DC bias on the speakers. But, now-a-days, you can get 'cap-less' drivers that generate a faux-ground. This makes for a very tiny board. Let's find a chip that is small, but not BGA/CSP, that will fi...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 1/18/22 KB2040 Kee Boar @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit https://www.adafruit.com/product/5302 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...

#newproducts JP's Product Pick of the Week: KB2040 Keeboar https://www.adafruit.com/product/5302 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 Sy...

Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2022/2022-01-18.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 channel on Discord for notices of change in time and links to past meetings. Meeting times are also available in [i...

Make a fully 3d printed prop inspired by Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett. Learn guide https://learn.adafruit.com/tusken-chief-staff/ CAD files on Prusa Printers https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/120649-tusken-chief-staff This prop is inspired by Tusken Raiders chief staff. Each part is printed in a different colored filament, so they're ready to go right off the printer. Each piece features th...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! Mario Boo Ghost Jeremiah Lee https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5168166 CR10S Pro White / Pink PLA 5hr 35mins X:89 Y:78 Z:63mm .2mm layer / .4mm nozzle 6% Infill / 6mm retract 210C / 60C 53g 60mm/s ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/disc...

This weekend we dove headfirst into getting fluxengine and our 5.25" disk drive working with the floppy featherwing. good news is that we were able to add support to Adafruit_Floppy and with a little refactoring, add 360K disk MFM decoding. we thought we didn't have any DOS floppies but we did find one in a pile (mouse driver). we then used fluxengine to read the data off to verify before implemen...

OK after much fluxengine hacking (wherein we wrote a bunch of code, then ended up deleting all but like 4 lines) we have it successfully interfacing with the adafruit_floppy 'greaseweazle compatible mode'. we can now use both tools to read and parse flux data which is great as fluxengine has a bunch of formats it supports. we did find one MFM 360K DOS disk in our collection - so we are able to ver...

5.25 inch 360K DOS Floppy drive as a USB key with fluxengine support out of the way, we're on to refactoring our adafruit_floppy library code to support this old-fangled 360K double-density disk http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/PC-DOS_360K_format this format was pretty common back in ze day. it's not too different from our more common 3.5" 1.44MB in that it has MFM encoding, two sides and F...

having converted MFM pulses to sectors, you may be surprised to know its only a couple lines of code to have a microcontroller access the disk and underlying file structure. we use SdFat library, an SD card interface library that is really good, and subclass it to provide new functions for reading (and later, writing) sectors. then you can just treat the drive like a very small SD card. why does t...

we're poking at our 5.25" disk drive and we'd like to get it working with our Adafruit_Floppy code so we can read older diskettes. we can't find our DOS formatted floppies at the moment, we could probably just pop those in and run the USB-floppy interface code to have it show up as a drive. buuuut, we happen to only find our apple ][ and c64 diskettes so far. whoops! well, this is good incentive t...

#circuitpythonparsec Learn to use capacitive touch pins in CircuitPython for simple touch sensing! 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://ada...

we got some samples of the esp32 pico v3 02 modules in from Espressif and they're smaller than we expected! we thought they were the same size as the esp32-s2 mini modules we've been using but they're actually a bit smaller in each direction. that actually works out to our advantage because it means it can fit on an itsybitsy sized board (the mini modules cannot, too wide!) so this could be a good...

Join Scott as he discusses #CircuitPython2022, answers questions and chats with ladyada. Support Scott and Adafruit by purchasing hardware from https://adafruit.com Chat with me and a lot of others 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....

woohoo, we got on-the-fly mfm decoding working so we have fluxes converted to bytes, and all the sectors are verifying right. wouldn't it be neat if we could use tinyusb's mass-storage class to make a usb floppy drive? tinyusb is an adafruit-sponsored open source usb stack that lets a microcontroller act like just about any usb device: like a keyboard or mouse or midi or disk drive. the latter is...

The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 164 (January 12, 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...

video art :) https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/13/thursday-circuitpython2022-updates/ This is is our annual reflection on the state of CircuitPython. We’d love to hear from you too! See the kick-off post for all of the details! https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/01/circuitpython-in-2022-circuitpython2022-circuitpython/ #CircuitPython2022 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----...

Rotary Potentiometers (0:07) https://www.adafruit.com/category/670?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts USB Type C Plug to Plug Adapter (1:55) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5328?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts SOIC 8-Pin Test Clip to DIP Adapter (3:45) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5315?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodesc...

Stencil solder paste knead (0:03) PnP machine scanning a PCB (0:53) Stencil in production mode (1:05) Soldering Ethernet FeatherWings (1:22) https://www.adafruit.com/product/3201 Stack of Ethernet Featherwings (1:34) https://www.adafruit.com/product/3201 The new ESP32-S2 chip (1:36) Reverse side of a ESP32-S2 TFT Feather, fresh out of the Pick 'n Place (1:41) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5300...