Pi-powered RFID Musical Box #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

From blog.adafruit.com 2 years ago in Platforms Stores

via jmcrory on instructablesThis Christmas, my wife and I entered a Hallmark store to let our 1 year old daughter look at the ornaments and trinkets. My wife and daughter were instantly drawn towards a glowing Disney princess castle. In the center of the castle was a platform, and as...

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NEW GUIDE: Adafruit CP2104 and CP2102N Friend – USB to Serial Converter #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @adafruit

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

Long gone are the days of parallel ports and serial ports. Now the USB port reigns supreme! But USB is hard, and you just want to transfer your every-day serial data from a microcontroller to computer. What now? Enter the Adafruit...

There are now over 300 CircuitPython compatible microcontroller boards #CircuitPython #Python @Adafruit

From blog.adafruit.com 15 hours ago in Platforms Stores

CircuitPython is one of the easiest way to program microcontrollers. CircuitPython is a programming language designed to simplify experimenting and learning to code on low-cost microcontroller boards.There are now over 300 microcontroller boards that support CircuitPython! AND in 20 languages each...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 4pm Eastern TODAY! 5/17/22 @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #newproductpick

From blog.adafruit.com 15 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, TODAY!Check out the livestream right here inside this product page, you won’t want to...

Frida Kahlo’s Estate is Developing a TV Series Based On Her Life #ArtTuesday

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

Frida Kahlo’s estate and BTF Media have partnered to produce a TV series based on the famed artist’s life and works.via ArtNewsAccording to Mara Romeo Kahlo, the painter’s great-niece, “the series seeks to portray Frida as she has never been...

The Great Search – 8 ohm 0.25W, 2″ diameter round speaker #TheGreatSearch @DigiKey @adafruit

From blog.adafruit.com 19 hours ago in Platforms Stores

This week (video), we have a request from someone working on a kit with an an audio output – they need to spec out an inexpensive speaker that will play the audio clips in their design and they had a...

Chip Shortage: NXP MMA8451 triple axis accelerometer #ChipShortage #adafruit @Adafruit @digikey @NXP

From blog.adafruit.com 19 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Chip Shortage (video) is a new feature video by Adafruit’s Ladyada to highlight items that are in short supply or possibly “unobtainium” (with no known return date to the market).This week is the NXP MMA8451 Triple-Axis Accelerometer, https://www.nxp.com/part/MMA8451Q#/These are used...

Da Shuhua, Molten Iron Fireworks from Nuanquan #ArtTuesday

From blog.adafruit.com 19 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Wang De discusses Da Shuhua with Great Big Story on YouTubeFor the past 30 years, Wang De has been practicing the ancient art of Da Shuhua, a 500-year-old tradition that first began with blacksmiths in the Nuanquan village of China....

Cats Know Each Other’s Names

From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in Platforms Stores

via MOTHERBOARDPublished last month in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, the study examined 48 cats who either lived in households with at least three other cats, or were from “cat cafes” where they cohabitated with lots of other felines. To...

The woman who brought female representation to games #Gaming

From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Last year, Polygon ran an article about our search for an Atari VCS game developer by the name of “Ban Tran.” As we understood it, Tran was a Vietnamese woman who worked for a short-lived, Texas-based game company called Apollo, where she...

Programming CircuitPython boards on the go with iOS devices #CircuitPython #iPhone @PaintYourDragon

From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in Platforms Stores

That Dragoon Guy on Twitter posts about programming CircuitPython boards using an iPhone and a tiny Bluetooth keyboard for a very mobile solution.I *adore* tiny fold-up travel-size things, and was pondering what minimal-but-usable CircuitPython development might look like without bringing...