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The hush-hush news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast September 20, 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...

Roundup of a couple of 3D Printed halloween inspired projects. Servo and LED ideas to give you plenty of time to get working on this season spooky decor! Creepy Servo Hand Remix by Pedro Ruiz https://youtu.be/o6sEWtzD4fQ https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2545073 Jack Pumpking King By Noe Ruiz https://youtu.be/7rFmGXYFSRg https://www.youmagine.com/designs/jack-the-pumpkin-king-dual-extrude Pumpkin...

Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/scannable-links-with-nfc/overview Are you a connector? Are you always handing out business cards, sending people to your Etsy store, your blog, or your product? Do you meet people at festivals or conventions and need an easy way to connect, and stay connected? This tutorial is for you. With an NFC tag and a few clicks in a smartphone app, you can create a...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Skull Dice Tower WEKSTER https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/dice-tower-ankou CR10S Pro V2 Burnt Blue PLA 60mm/s 29hr 04mins X:236 Y:210 Z:118mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 161g ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS...

A few weeks ago, we covered the 2x5 0.05" pitch SWD sockets https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/08/14/the-great-search-2x5-0-05-jtag-swd-connector-and-cable-thegreatsearch-digikey-adafruit-digikey-adafruit/ that we have on many of our dev boards. Those connectors are standard issues for programming Arm Cortex chips with SWD or other devices with JTAG. However, sometimes you don't need or want the bulk...

Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2023/2023-09-18.md The CircuitPython Weekly normally is held at 2pm US 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 iCal format using the following link: https://raw.gith...

#circuitpythonparsec Play simple music with the Tones command on Circuit Playground Express/Bluefruit boards with Circuit Playground in CircuitPython. Learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org Code examples here: https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-made-easy-on-circuit-playground-express/play-tone https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-made-easy-on-circuit-playground-express/star...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 9/12/23 ESP32-S3 QT Py 4MB Flash + 2MB PSRAM RECAP #adafruit https://www.adafruit.com/product/5700 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.adafrui...

Build an interactive tombstone for Halloween with Adafruit's RP2040 PropMaker Feather. Guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/tombstone-prop-maker-rp2040 This ghoulish prop features lights and sounds but also an RGB LED matrix and a servo controlled Raven. The servo, sound effects, and NeoPixels are triggered whenever a time of flight sensor detects something nearby. The RGB LED matrix displays scrolli...

Many microcontrollers have ADCs these days for reading analog/resistive sensors like potentiometers, thermistors, LDR light sensors, etc., but sometimes you need MOAR! or maybe you're using a single board computer like a Raspberry Pi that has no ADCs at all...the ADS7830 is an affordable 8-channel ADC with I2C interface, so it's easy to include with any platform. There are 2 address pins, so you c...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Pool Noodle Sword Handle RWB_DESIGNS https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/cool-pool-noodle-sword-handle CR10S Pro V2 Rainbow PLA 60mm/s 5hr 46mins X:266 Y:180 Z:194mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 31g -------------------------------...

This week on The Great Search, this xeet posting caught our eye https://twitter.com/collingall/status/1699140384608133233. It's a massive box of lovely RCA connectors! RCA connectors are ancient but still very popular for analog audio plus NTSC/PAL composite video use. You can get them individually or pre-molded in a row. Common configurations are single-mono audio, stereo audio, or stereo audio +...

Our last few experiments with playing video+audio on the ESP32-S3 involved converting an MP4 to MJpeg + MP3, where MJpeg is just a bunch of jpegs glued together in a file, and MP3 is what you expect. This works, but we maxed out at 10 or 12 fps on a 480x480 display. You must manage two files, and the FPS must be hardcoded. With this demo https://github.com/moononournation/aviPlayer we are using av...

Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2023/2023-09-11.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...

Wrapping up some tests, this was a request - The Animated series! Looks great with the cartoon frame rate sample video on the upcoming ESP32-S3 TFT Experimenter board. 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 Adafrui...

This Mini TV demo https://github.com/moononournation/MiniTV by moononournation is perfectly themed for Star Trek day, playing the TOS and STNG intros at 480x480 12fps MJpeg and 22KHz I2S MP3 audio. We'll try Cinepak next, but this was an easy first start, and it looks and sounds great. There's a little tearing effect due to the low frame rate and the display being single, not double-buffered, but...

#circuitpythonparsec How to use the capacitive touch pads on the Circuit Playground Express/Bluefruit boards with Circuit Playground in CircuitPython. Learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org Code examples here: https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-made-easy-on-circuit-playground-express/capacitive-touch Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ---------------------...

Square RGB TTL TFT Display - 4" 720x720 - with Capacitive Touch - TL040HDS20CT-B1502A (0:09) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5794?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts 2.8" TFT Touch Shield for Arduino with Resistive Touch Screen v2 - STEMMA QT / Qwiic (0:55) https://www.adafruit.com/product/1651?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts ---...

The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 246 (September 6, 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 a treasure, and will measure pressure with pleasure...it's the Amphenol All Sensors' ELVH Series Digital and Analog Pressure Sensors (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/a/all-sensors/elvh-series-digital-and-analog-pressure-sensors). A family of temperature and pressure sensors with a ton of different configurations so you can definitely fit it into your design n...

We’re busy baking some I2S 3W Stereo Speaker Bonnets this week https://www.adafruit.com/product/3346 #adafruit #manufacturing #nyc ----------------------------------------- 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 Ad...

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast September 6, 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...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 9/5/23 ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT Feather RECAP https://www.adafruit.com/product/5691 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/ ------------...

This light and proximity sensor using the VCNL4020 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/vishay-semiconductor-opto-division/VCNL4020-GS08/2813348 was designed a few months ago, but we were dragging our feet on writing the library code as its kind of a tedious process. Now, with our new BFF ChatGPT4, we can crank through a library with minimal typing. Of course, we check each function and #def...

The driver that we used ChatGPT 4 to write is for the VCNL4020 https://www.digikey.com/short/dpz897jj, an 'all in one' IR proximity sensor. These sensors work by bouncing bright IR light off a surface and measuring how much returns. The IR light is modulated and relatively resistant to ambient light interaction. One of the first sensors we ever used was the Sharp GP2Y https://www.adafruit.com/prod...