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The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 301 (December 18, 2024). This is our weekly Python video highlights! Ladyada and PT review the Python on hardware news 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/pohepisodes *******...

This week's EYE ON NPI is an EYE ON A PI - it's the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/r/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-compute-module-5), the latest update to the easily embeddable mini modules that make industrial developers happy by giving them all the power of a Pi 5 in a ready-to-go pluggable solution. The Raspberry Pi computer launched with the goal of bri...

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in Industry City, Brooklyn, New York. Broadcast December 18, 2024 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 prod...

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We got this nifty panel-mount cable with a combo action: both USB C and DVI/HDMI connectors on both ends. This could be handy for single-board computers like Raspberry Pi's or our RP2040/RP2350 boards with DVI outputs (https://www.adafruit.com/product/5710). Since we're testing our Metro RP2350 with HSTX/DVI output anyway, this is a good time to test the cable out - some things we test with USB C...

#newproducts JP’s Product Pick of the Week 12/17/24 VCNL4200 Long Distance IR Prox/Light Sensor STEMMA QT RECAP https://www.adafruit.com/product/6064 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System:...

3D print a custom enclosure for the Raspberry Pi Display V2 with an articulating hinge to hang on your wall! Guide: learn.adafruit.com/pi-wall-mount It features a modular mounting system that allows you to easily fix it to any wall. This works great in our kitchen set up with a mini wireless keyboard for displaying videos, recipes and even controlling home assistant devices. Visit the Adafruit sho...

This week we got our Metro RP2350 boards (https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/11/11/metro-rp2350-now-with-bigger-better-rp2350b/) back and after fixing the pin direction and rerouting (https://www.instagram.com/adafruit/p/DC2U7mdyf9W) the whole thing, it came up and pretty much works perfectly! Just one component needed a swap - we were able to test all GPIO, analog inputs, MicroSD slot, PSRAM, LEDs &...

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Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Grumpy Cat Angel By Sevro makerworld.com/en/models/858383 Bambu X1C Red Black White PLA 3hr 25mins X:52 Y:66 Z:79mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 14g ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord...

We've been testing the Trinamic/Maxim/Analog/WeylandYutani TMC2209 (https://www.digikey.com/short/8r5m38h8) breakout we designed, and it's working great - the step/dir interface plus the micro-step select allows a microcontroller to control a stepper with just GPIO and true-to-its-name it is a very silent stepper driver, much quieter than the A4988 (https://www.digikey.com/short/tfjt88dd)! There a...

We're wrapping up our WLED board design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Ybd8CdQYM) and the last part we need to spec out is the 3.3V regulator. Since we are utilizing USB PD or DC in, we could be running from 5V ~ 24VDC. For the 5V output, we only need a few mA, so we're going to pick the same LDO family we sourced earlier (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_0Kua2UZCs) but for the 3.3V we need a...

Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2024/2024-12-16.md Join here for the chat all week: http://adafru.it/discord The CircuitPython Weekly normally is held at 2pm US ET/11am us 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 availa...

#circuitpythonparsec Create a pop-up color picker for the touchscreen drawing tool. code example: https://github.com/jedgarpark/parsec/blob/main/2024-12-12/code.py https://www.adafruit.com/product/4116 Learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Su...

Adafruit AHT20 - Temperature & Humidity Sensor Breakout Board - STEMMA QT / Qwiic (0:06) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4566 USB C Small Round Panel Mount Extension Cable (0:35) https://www.adafruit.com/product/6069 USB Micro B Small Round Panel Mount Extension USB Cable (1:05) https://www.adafruit.com/product/6068 Raspberry Pi 500 Desktop - Computer Only (1:32) https://www.adafruit.com/product/...

This coming year, we wanted to update our storage and organization: with about 700 original designs, a couple dozen in progress, and thousands of items in the shop, it's hard to keep track of all the components and devboards we need to test various combinations. Historically, we've used double-sided totes (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1149), which are good, but the double-sidedness is a bit an...

Ladyada tasked Jepler with exploring the new libPIO for Raspberry Pi 5 computers: this gives us access to the RP1 chip so that we can run custom PIO state machines on the GPIO pins. A common use case is NeoPixels, because of the tight timing requirements of the WS281x LEDs. Here is our first light test that shows it is possible... Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------...

The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 300 (December 11, 2024). This is our weekly Python video highlights! Ladyada and PT review the Python on hardware news 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/pohepisodes *******...

We've always wanted a portable scope cart (https://vintagetek.org/scope-carts/) for our workspace to have our test equipment either by the desk for firmware work or at the soldering worktable for rework debugging. At our new office, we finally have space for one! We picked up this 'dental cart' (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM8P2PDT) - It is not super fancy, but it is metal, and it came together fa...

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in Industry City, Brooklyn, New York. Broadcast December 11, 2024 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 prod...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 12/10/24 RECAP Feather ESP32 V2 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5400 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ ----------------------...

We've sold stacking headers (https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=stacking) for a looooong time - longer than the pins' tails, which allow them to stack shields or daughterboards of various kinds. The kind we have are about 0.4mm by 0.6mm, but we got a request to carry 'square' pin versions that will seat better in solderless breadboards and loose sockets. The samples we got are gold flash and 0.62'i...

Hot off the PIO-presses, our resident Jepler created a Python binding for the Raspberry Pi 5 that lets us use the RP1 chip (https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp1-the-silicon-controlling-raspberry-pi-5-i-o-designed-here-at-raspberry-pi/) on the 5/500 series boards to drive Neopixels using PIO. This is great because we can now use Neopixels (https://www.adafruit.com/category/168) and friends on the l...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Flexi Snowman By Zentangle99 thingiverse.com/thing:6856071 Bambu X1C Red Black White Gold PLA 15hr 35mins X:69 Y:100 Z:48mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 34g 230mm/s ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://a...

Wooo, this one is for all of our fans of fans. We got some 5V USB-cable fan samples, and we're testing them out. These are handy when you need air cooling or to add motion to lightweight robotics. They come in various sizes, from petite 4cm to bountiful 9cm, and have two mesh screens to keep wires and fingers from getting caught in the blades. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.c...