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The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 235 (June 21, 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 ***********...

Here’s what we’re up to at Adafruit HQ. #adafruit #manufacturing #nyc ----------------------------------------- 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 Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafr...

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast June 21, 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 no...

A QT Py RP2040 adapts PlayStation and PlayStation 2 controller messages to use as a USB controller. Here, the Takara Game of Life controller spams the O button, which is being used to send mouse clicks to rock any clicker game! John Park's Learn Guide is coming soon. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru....

JP's Product Pick of the Week 6/20/23 ANO Rotary Nav Encoder Breakout STEMMA QT RECAP https://www.adafruit.com/product/5766 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 Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials...

This week's EYE ON NPI is going to fuel up your portable battery-powered designs with the Texas Instruments BQ27427 System-Side Impedance Track™ Single-Cell Battery Fuel Gauge (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/t/texas-instruments/bq27427-single-cell-battery-fuel-gauge) a powerful and inexpensive way to add high quality battery monitoring for charge-rate and aging tracking at the system...

This week on the Great Search, we're taking apart a McDonalds McNugget Tetris game (https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_(McDonald%27s)) given away in China for the 40th anniversary of the chicken mcnugget. Unsurprisingly, it's an epoxy blob'd chip that does just about everything! For the background music, a disc piezo is used to make the beeps. We've covered magnetic buzzers before (https://blog.adafruit.c...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Nintendo Switch Plant Stand By XALT3DDESIGNS https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/nintendo-switch-plant-stand-charging CR10S Pro V2 Green, Red, White PLA 60mm/s 55hr 44mins X:239 Y:180 Z:178mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 447g -------...

Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/jellyfish-umbrella-with-easy-wled-wifi-control/ Make a jellyfish umbrella with animated lights, with no coding required. This is an intermediate project that gives you advanced results. The software is simple to load and use. Hundreds of animations and color combinations are available right through your fingertips, using any web browser or the free WLED ap...

Notes document is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/main/2023/2023-06-20.md 0:00 Welcome and housekeeping 2:56 Community News 6:09 State of CircuitPython, Libraries and Blinka 10:57 Hug Reports 18:38 Status Updates 31:13 In The Weeds: Deprecating secrets.py 50:44 In The Weeds: convert USB HID to serial 1:04:28 Wrap-Up Join here for the chat all...

with most of our dev boards, sensors and feathers now sporting plug-and-play stemma QT ports (https://learn.adafruit.com/search?q=stemma%2520qt) it can be very fast to put together projects with half a dozen boards snapped together. But now you don't have a breadboard as a mechanical substrate... which is why jepler and scott collaborated on this nifty swirly grid design. originally 3D printed, we...

#circuitpythonparsec Rectify a sine wave with the absolute function in CircuitPython. Learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org 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 Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe...

this viral retro mini laptop just appeared on our desk, we ordered it about a month ago and its just as cute as you expect! with a modern TFT display and keyboard and USB disk interface, but still rockin the classic 8088 chipset (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088) - its a perfect experimentation platform for very old software. i love the reuse of these 90's datecoded chip. we got one of our...

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Adafruit ESP32-S2 Feather - 4 MB Flash + 2 MB PSRAM - STEMMA QT / Qwiic (0:09) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5000?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit 7-Segment Backpack - 1.2" Tall Digits (1:08) https://www.adafruit.com/product/1271?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit STEMMA Audio Amp - Mono 2.5W Class D - PAM8302...

The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 234 (June 14, 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 ***********...

A view into the factory featuring our stencil printer, pick and place, Circuit Playground Express and Bluefruit, Power Relay FeatherWing and more! https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4333 https://www.adafruit.com/product/3191 #adafruit #manufacturing #nyc ----------------------------------------- Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------...

The hush-hush news from Adafruit in New York. Broadcast June 14, 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 no...

Link’s Ultra Hand from The Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom. We were inspired by Link’s new ability to make a 3d printed prop that uses LED noodles. Guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/ultrahand LED Noodles https://www.adafruit.com/product/5507 9V Battery Holder with switch https://www.adafruit.com/product/67 9V Battery https://www.adafruit.com/product/1321 CR2032 Coin cell battery holder https...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 6/13/23 NeoDriver I2C to NeoPixel Driver Board STEMMA QT Recap https://www.adafruit.com/product/5766 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 Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tut...

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: NOZZLE BOX By TOMA3D https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/tool/nozzle-box-toma3d CR10S Pro V2 Copper PLA 60mm/s 06hr 46mins X:252 Y:180 Z:110mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 6% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 59g ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! h...

Our kiddo really likes @msrachel and we're hacking a Teddy Ruxpin to get custom songs and more on the bear ... Icky Sticky Bubble Gum Song! ----------------------------------------- #msrachel #adafruit #teddybear

Take a peak at the manufacturing journey that starts at our house and ends with you! What are you making this week? #adafruit #manufacturing #nyc ----------------------------------------- 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 Subscribe t...

This Great Search is by special request! Viewer 2231puppy has asked us to find them a part on DigiKey and we're happy to oblige! They tweeted: "@adafruit If you haven't already picked out a category for The Great Search tonight, I'd love to see one on analog hall effect sensors for detecting magnet proximity. Thanks!" ( https://twitter.com/2231puppy/status/1668000481686290433) No problem, there's...

The Great Search - Single Channel 3V to 5V level shifter https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/diodes-incorporated/74AHCT1G126SE-7/2711993 On our new Prop-Maker Feather we like to do a 'favor' to our users by level shifting the NeoPixel signal from 3.3V to 5V. We don't always need this but some NeoPixel chipsets are a little finicky about the levels, especially if you have a 5.5V or 6V power...