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This week's EYE ON NPI has us pitter-pattering on our tippy-toes, it's the newest and bestest stepper motor driver we've seen, the Analog Devices' TMC5240 Stepper Motor Controller and Driver IC (https://www.digikey.com/short/rt0zpt4v) from the Trinamic division at ADI! Trinamic is famous for their stepper motor driver chips, which we see often in 3D printers (https://www.analog.com/en/design-cente...

The past couple weeks were busy, feels good to be back! Slider Trinkey - USB NeoPixel Slide Potentiometer https://www.adafruit.com/product/5021 CYBERDECK HAT for Raspberry Pi 400 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4863 #adafruit #manufacturing #nyc ----------------------------------------- Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS...

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast November 29, 2023 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 you can sign up to b...

Build a retro space themed classic analog clock that switches between viewing your local time on Earth and coordinated Mars time (MTC) on a beautiful round 720x720 display. Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/qualia-s3-space-clock/ Qualia ESP32-S3 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5800 4in Round Display https://www.adafruit.com/product/5793 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.co...

Demo of lighting LEGO models with wired SMD LEDs and the AW9523 constant current driver controlled by QT Py RP2040 running CircuitPython. @JohnParkMakes Learn Guide coming soon 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 th...

#newproducts JP’s Product Pick of the Week 11/28/23 HUSB238 USB-C Power Delivery Breakout RECAP https://www.adafruit.com/product/5807 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.ad...

square switches, swear scritches! we got these samples of "12mm" square tactiles with an embedded white LED - they come from the same factory as our '808 step switches' (https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=808+step) and look like they can go in every day 12mm tactile footprints with an additional LED in each corner. they have a nice fairly even glow and can fit into a breadboard or perfboard! now th...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Christmas Tree With Suspended Ornaments By MFACTORY https://cults3d.com/:1577399 CR10S Pro V2 Blue/Silver PLA 2hr 50mins X:248 Y:201 Z:11mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 25g 60mm/s ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS...

This week on the Great Search, we were inspired by a post to show people how they can get quality, official tips for their Hakko irons at DigiKey! Getting genuine tips and caring for them will remove a lot of frustration we see with soldering. You can get just about any size and configuration: from conical tips (https://www.digikey.com/short/hv7njnm8) for fine SMT, to wide blades (https://www.digi...

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Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2023/2023-11-27.md Join here for the chat all week: http://adafru.it/discord The CircuitPython Weekly normally is held 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 in...

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Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/scroll-an-sms-text-message-on-your-rgb-matrix/overview Adafruit's RGB Matrix Panels put flashy, custom signage within reach of everyone. Create your own custom LED sign and add text, images, or video. The plug-and-play Matrix Portal S3 board also adds web connectivity for live data feeds or internet-of-things capabilities. You can also add sensors for inte...

Flexy Grim Reaper Skull By MIMETICS3D https://cults3d.com/:1531411 CR10S Pro V2 Rainbow PLA 24hr 36mins X:244 Y:183 Z:174mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 147g 60mm/s ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adaf...

This week's Great Search comes from a social media request. Daniel's 3D printer board lost one of its connectors used to connect to the Z stepper motor, at it looks like two of the legs snapped off so it isn't easy to solder back in place. It's SMT, 4-pin, but of unknown make and pitch. Let's find out what connector it is and whether we can pick up a few replacements on DigiKey!

Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2023/2023-11-20.md Join here for the chat all week: http://adafru.it/discord The CircuitPython Weekly normally is held 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 in...

#circuitpythonparsec You can save data between power cycles in non-volatile memory with this one simple trick in CircuitPython! code example here: https://github.com/jedgarpark/parsec/blob/main/2023-11-16/code.py Learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it...

Adafruit TFT FeatherWing - 3.5" 480x320 Touchscreen for Feathers - V2 with TSC2007 (0:09) https://www.adafruit.com/product/3651?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit OV5640 Camera Breakout - 160 Degree Wide Angle (1:37) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5841?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit OV5640 Camera Breakout - 1...

The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 255 (November 15, 2023). 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 in a class of its own, it's Richtek's RT9120S Series Class-D Audio Amplifier with DRC Control,(https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/r/richtek/rt9120s-class-d-audio-amplifier) a powerful amplifier with a wide operating voltage range, high efficiency, high wattage and many supported input formats We love I2S audio amplifiers here, they're a huge step up from PWM + a...

Here’s some of what we’ve been up to this week: APDS9960 Proximity, Light, RGB, and Gesture Sensor https://www.adafruit.com/product/3595 PyRuler https://www.adafruit.com/product/4319 #adafruit #manufacturing #nyc ----------------------------------------- Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Su...

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast November 15, 2023 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 you can sign up to b...

We ship all of our nRF52840 (https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=nrf52840) bluefruit boards with a UF2 bootloader and test program: and since these boards are quite old we haven't updated the tester shipping firmware in a long time! however, we have to fix that now because the latest version of circuitpython needs newer bootloader code due to it's chonky size. so we're going back to each tester and...

You can power RGB TFT displays with the Adafruit Qualia ESP32-S3 Guide: Featuring a builtin RGB display peripheral, this ESP32-S3 dev board comes with 16 MB of flash for buffering large images, animations or even video! Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.in...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 11/4/23 AD5693 16-bit DAC Breakout https://www.adafruit.com/product/5811 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/ -------------------...