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This week's EYE ON NPI will make your sensors soft and luxurious thanks to the Renesas ZSSC3241 Sensor Signal Conditioning IC (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/r/renesas/zssc3241-sensor-signal-conditioning-ic) - which, like a fancy bottle of hair conditioner, will de-tangle any frustrations you have with using resistive sensors that require amplification and filtering. Many "sensors" t...

We smear solder paste like cream cheese on a fresh bagel 🥯 These resistive touch screen to USB mouse controllers AR1100 are currently available in the shop, https://www.adafruit.com/product/1580 #adafruit #manufacturing #nyc ----------------------------------------- Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru....

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast August 23, 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...

Full Tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/teddy-ruxpin-rebuild/overview Come Dream with Me Tonight... Teddy Ruxpin is a very cool animatronic talking teddy bear toy, originally from the 1980s and re-released in 2017. Kids absolutely love this guy -- he tells stories, sings songs, and captivates kids' attention for hours. These days, Teddy Ruxpin toys are available on eBay for a fraction of their o...

Upgrade your toy lightsaber into a more feature-packed build with Adafruit’s RP2040 PropMaker Feather Guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/lightsaber-retrofit 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 Shop for parts to build your own DIY projec...

Blimey! We found a bin of these 3.5" 480x320 capacitive touch displays while clearing out some space in the adafruit factory; we totally forgot about them... at the time, we were having some difficulty with getting them working consistently, but we were also not sure if we remember what was up. We will assume they are OK and design a version of our 3.5" TFT breakout https://www.adafruit.com/produc...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Goth Crown Absurd_Designs https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/fashion/gothic-crown CR10S Pro V2 Rainbow PLA 60mm/s 19hr 40mins X:255 Y:215 Z:189mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 117g ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HE...

A "DIP chip clip" sounds like those plastic thingies you put on a bag of Frito Lays' to keep them crispy, but really we're talking about clips that let you snap onto a DIP or SOIC package component to probe or program. They're particularly handy for in-situ analysis or communication, often used for dumping memory chips or logic analyzer uses. We had someone ask us about this particular clip: https...

Whew, it has been a JOURNEY to revise this 2.8" TFT shield https://www.adafruit.com/product/1651, but we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. By setting up the TSC2007 through a secondary LDO connected to the power-reset chip, we've eliminated the annoying I2C latch-up. So now we have to design a tester. In this case, we will use a Metro RP2040 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5786, qui...

John Park's CircuitPython Parsec: Circuit Playground Temperature #circuitpythonparsec Use the built-in temperature sensor on Circuit Playground boards! Learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org Code examples here: https://github.com/jedgarpark/parsec/blob/main/2023-08-19/code.py Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT...

We showed off some fabulous shaped displays last week - and now we're getting them running! This is a 2.1" 480x480 round display with SPI configuration and an 18-bit RGB interface. Thankfully there is already an Arduino library https://github.com/Lzw655/ESP32_Display_Panel that supports the SPI configuration over port expander stuff on this eval board, plus the touchscreen drivers, too - it saved...

This week's EYE on NPI is going to stick around for a long time: it's 3M's RP+ VHB™ Tapes (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/3/3m/rp-vhb-tapes) the latest version of the 3M VHB family that has been solving 'how to stick this to that' for over 40 years. Digi-Key stocks all sorts of shapes from strips, rolls and sheets - and all the different thicknesses, temperature gradients and adhesiv...

This week's EYE ON NPI is going to give you life, we're looking at Nexperia's Battery Life Booster ICs (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/n/nexperia/battery-life-booster-ics), an interesting solution for dealing with common coin cell batteries as an inexpensive power supply for your small electronic products. The marketing copy for this chip series is pretty eye-catching, with copy that...

Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2023/2023-08-21.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...

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast August 18, 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...

XR Headset Mount for Leap Motion Controller 2 (0:11) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5759?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Round High Force Sensitive Resistor (FSR) - 1 ~ 100 Newton Force - Alpha MF01A-N-221-A05 (0:43) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5475?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts RA8875 Driver Board for 40-pin TFT Touc...

Coming soon - this is a quick sketch we did of an RGB TTL driver PCB to help us try out all our funky-shaped displays. We reused most of the Matrix Portal S3 PCB, but instead of the RGB matrix connector, we popped on a 40-pin FPC. 16 GPIO go to the RGB pins, then there are 4 control pins for HSYNC, VSYNC, DE, and PIXCLK. Three more pins for touch screen I2C and IRQ. Then a NeoPixel, two buttons, a...

For our ICN6211 breakout dev board, we will support classic 40-pin 800x480 displays but what about some funky shapes? A second standard 40-pin connector pinout is used on square, bar, and round displays. Some of these have capacitive touch overlays, and all are RGB666 with different resolutions. The 2.1" and 4" round ones look fantastic, as do the bar displays. We even got a 'half round' display t...

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You can build an overhead camera rig using 2020 extrusion, some hardware and 3D printed parts! This modular system lets you mount a camera for getting overhead shots. Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/overhead-camera-rig/ Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTu...

Ambient Sound Machine demo. Based on The Ambient Machine by Yuri Suzuki, this DIY remake uses a Metro M7 running CircuitPython. Build your own with the Learn Guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/ambient-machine Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.i...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Rocket Tea Light Drkronos https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/home/swoosh-the-electric-tea-light-flyer CR10S Pro V2 Rainbow PLA 60mm/s 4hr 55mins X:248 Y:180 Z:91mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 49g ----------------------------------------...

On our latest ESP32-S3 board, we added a JTAG connector, as we do on many Adafruit Metro microcontroller boards. This is a 'standard' port for SWD or JTAG that is smaller than the common 2x10 connector. This size is common to many debuggers like the Atmel ICE (https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/07/01/the-great-search-programmer-debugger-for-atsamd21-chips-adafruit-digikey-microchipmakes/) or J-Link (h...

Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2023/2023-08-14.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...

It's not often... but every few months, one of our sensor drivers stops working due to hardware changes. It happened this week with the AHT20 tester - for some reason, it doesn't init anymore! What would typically turn into a multi-hour debugging session is a lot easier since we started using an intermediary library called BusIO for I2C/SPI device interactions https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_...