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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: Spider Lamp by: toolmoon https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6159137 CR10S Pro V2 Glow PLA 60mm/s 30hr 40mins X:355 Y:279 Z:152mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 162g ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adaf...

If you're a fan of our INA219 DC current/voltage monitor breakout https://www.adafruit.com/product/904 , this new prototype will make your heart grow thrice daily. The INA3221 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments/INA3221AIRGVR/3588826 is a triple-channel voltage and current monitor for high side monitoring. We designed this breakout but were puttering around trying to find...

Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2023/2023-09-05.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...

One of the big tasks that Ladyada still has to spend a lot of time on is writing Arduino libraries for all our devices and sensors, particularly all the I2C & SPI chips out there! These ICs use register maps and sub-byte addressing to set dozens of configurable knobs and switches, and a good driver lets folks set and get all of the noodly bits. However, there is yet to be a standard format to get...

We wrote a driver this week for the HUSB238 USB PD sink chip https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/04/plug-n-play-usb-type-c-dummy-pd/ - this IC is neat in that you can either use jumpers (really, resistor selection) to set the desired PD voltage and current ooooor you can use I2C for dynamic querying and setting. we have a wall adapter that can provide almost-all-PD voltages: 5/9/12/15/20 only 18 is...

Now that we have somewhat-kinda-sorta working support for RGB TFT displays on the ESP32-S3 - shout out to Jepler, who is doing the hard work over in this PR https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/pull/8351 - its time to test it with wifi too! That's right, the S3 can do wifi and these big displays at once, and CircuitPython is a beautiful framework for it since its so fast to iterate. This code...

CircuitPythonista Jepler has been hard at work getting full framebuffer support for RGB TFT displays into CircuitPython https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/pull/8351 - which means we can see the REPL on a display as large as this 720x720 4" square TFT! as we type into USB the text mirrors immediately, and we can also use any displayio https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-display-support-...

Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors (0:30) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5744?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit STEMMA Piezo Driver Amp - PAM8904 (2:17) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5791?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit Metro M7 with microSD - Featuring NXP iMX RT1011 (4:22) https://www.adafruit.com/prod...

Retro Tech celebrates Adafruit's love for retro technology. This week is the Bloomberg Keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal#:~:text=The%20terminal's%20keyboard%20layout%20was%20designed%20for,which%20help%20users%20navigate%20through%20the%20system. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adaf...

The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 245 (August 30, 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 will "Speak Friend and Enter" your wireless connectivity toolbox, it's TE's LEMBAS LTE/GNSS USB Modem (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/t/te-connectivity-amp/lembas-lte-gnss-usb-modem) an easy-to-use full powered cellular and GPS modem designed specifically to be used with single-board Linux computers (SBCs) to add networking and location tracking with a simple p...

We’re flying through reels making your favorite educational electronics in NYC! Welcome back to school - https://www.adafruit.com/explore #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...

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast August 30, 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 be...

IPS TFT displays, and 3.5" floppy drives are like surf-n-turf: at no point did a lobster or cow ever meet each other before being plated at a restaurant, yet they are a tasty combination. We are testing a 4" 720x720 square display with a capacitive touch overlay using our Espressif ESP32-S3 TFT experimenter board. At this resolution, we're definitely pushing the capabilities of our lil Tensilica c...

Build a D20 gaming dye that tells you what number you rolled! Made with 3D printed parts, CircuitPython and an Adafruit RP2040 PropMaker Feather. Tutorial Learn Guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/talking-d20-rp2040 Adafruit RP2040 PropMaker Feather https://www.adafruit.com/product/5768 Mini oval speaker https://www.adafruit.com/product/3923 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com -...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 8/29/23 Audio BFF for QT Py w SD Card reader and I2S amp recap https://www.adafruit.com/product/5769 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.adafr...

Much like our 4.6" display we just tested, this 3.7" display is a looooong and thin boi. It has 960x240 pixels and a 40-pin RGB TTL interface. We're testing it out by drawing a cute sushi animation on it - and we see that while we still get the 'not double buffering' flicker, we don't see the image shift around like the 4.6" - which means maybe we've got more-stable values for the hsync/vsync. Vis...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Croc Toes HBRDL https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/fashion/croc-toes CR10S Pro V2 Beige PLA 60mm/s 1hr 47mins X:257 Y:180 Z:36mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 8g ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.i...

We got the round displays working on our ESP32-S3 RGB display driver, so now we're moving on to the bar displays! These are longer than most rectangular displays and are kind of fun if you want to, say, animate a sushi conveyor belt. We're having a bit of flakiness from this one; the hsync and vsync or pclk settings given to us by the factory aren't quite right because you can see the display shif...

"It's in that place where I put that thing that time."

Searching for replacement capacitors for old boards, especially tantalum, polymer or electrolytic. Identifying capacitance & voltage can be tricky. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com

With our ESP32-S3 TFT experimenter board, we're now able to use the Arduino_GFX https://github.com/moononournation/Arduino_GFX library by moononournation which has native RGB TFT support and excellent example code. This example is playing MJPEG files, a simple animation format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_JPEG with just JPEGs glued together. We wired up a MicroSD card over SPI for quick fi...

https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2023/2023-08-28.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 iCal format using the following l...

Adafruit Metro ESP32-S3 with 16 MB Flash 8 MB PSRAM (0:12) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5500?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts --------------------------------------- New nEw NEWs New Products, News, and more: https://www.adafruit.com/newsletter #newnewnew Shop for all of the newest Adafruit products: http://adafru.it/new Visit the Adafruit shop online - http:...

The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 244 (August 23, 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 *********...