New PiTFT package beta release – now with Pi 2 support! Please try it out :)

From blog.adafruit.com 7 years ago in Platforms Stores

Hey everyone, as you know, the Pi Foundation recently released a new Raspberry Pi 2 and with it also did a fairly major upgrade to the Pi processor and kernel setup. In order to properly support the Pi going forward, we need to have the latest firmware and kernel. Also,...

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Nikola, Alex Glow’s Smart Camera Companion Bot

From blog.adafruit.com 7 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Alex Glow published a new project on Hackster.io that utilizes a Gemma M0! A privacy-focused event companion for Embedded Vision Summit 2022! This little bot will take your photo, but only when the QR code for this project is in...

The Wonders of Xandar Pavilion – Stories from Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind

From blog.adafruit.com 11 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Walt Disney Imagineering shared this video on Youtube!Our Disney Imagineers share a behind-the-scenes look at the inspiration and creation of the Wonders of Xandar pavilion as part of Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT in Walt Disney World....

How Can a Star Survive a Super Nova? #SpaceSaturday

From blog.adafruit.com 13 hours ago in Platforms Stores

A lot of people have a list of unintentionally scary things from childhood: the animated adaptation of Watership Down, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Time Bandits. For some Bay Area kids, the scariest thing in the world was the sudden,...

Making a Shack for Tabletop Gaming Out of Scrap

From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in Platforms Stores

In this Bill Making Stuff video, Bill creates a simple yet very characterful shack for tabletop gaming using little more than scrap cardboard, coffee sticks, a disc of foam, and a bunch of misc. junk and thrift store finds.

John Park’s CircuitPython Parsec: TileGrid Sprite Sheet @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #circuitpython

From blog.adafruit.com 21 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Create dynamic user interface elements using TileGrid Sprite Sheets.Learn more about CircuitPython

Subscribe to the Adafruit Youtube channel! #Youtube #AdafruitLearnSystem

From blog.adafruit.com 23 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Are you subscribed to the Adafruit Youtube channel? If you’re not already subscribed, click here! http://adafru.it/subscribe . It’s a free and easy way to keep up with our newest episodes. Here’s some of what we’re up to. Electronics Show and...

UPDATED GUIDES, LIBRARY: Adafruit_Protomatter RGB Matrix Library improves ESP32-S3 Support

From blog.adafruit.com 24 hours ago in Platforms Stores

UPDATED GUIDES: Adafruit RGB Matrix FeatherWings and Adafruit Protomatter RGB Matrix Library.A recent update to this Arduino library improves performance on ESP32-S3 (adding DMA support) and S2 (no DMA, but improved refresh rate nonetheless). Guides and examples have been updated...

The supply chain crisis: a paradigm shift #makerbusiness

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in Platforms Stores

Brian Crabtree of Monome recently posted about some of the supply chain issues he’s seeing.To lead with an actual case: we have not been able to get the STM32 microcontroller used in the Crow (and Grid) for well over two...

DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in Platforms Stores

Matthias Rosezky over at IEEE Spectrum created this DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy.My interest in gamma-ray spectroscopy came from my physics studies. I find it fascinating that you can get so much information out of a single device. A gamma-ray spectrometer can...

REVIEW: PIP — A Raspberry Pi Powered Interactive Gaming System #PIP @Raspberry_Pi

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in Platforms Stores

Pip is a handheld, portable gaming system powered by Raspberry Pi. You can code your own games, play Pacman with some bananas, or even light up some external LEDs. The Raspberry Pi Compute 3 module is at the heart of...