UPDATED FOR PI 2 SUPPORT – Adafruit 2.8″ PiTFT – Capacitive Touch Tutorial #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

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

UPDATED FOR PI 2 SUPPORT – Adafruit 2.8″ PiTFT – Capacitive Touch Tutorial Our best-selling PiTFT just got a fancy upgrade, now we have a version with a capacitive touchscreen! That’s right, instead of a resistive touchscreen, which requires a fingernail or stylus, you can now use a fingerpad. The...

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Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Women in Engineering Day, Rubin Museum of Art, ESP32-S2 Feather, mini Smart Mirror with PyPortal and more!

From blog.adafruit.com 22 hours ago in Platforms Stores

ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UPWe’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging...

The Weirdest Devices That Can Play Doom, Including a LEGO Brick And An ATM

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

Doom has become a test and a challenge to makers. If you have a monitor and an interface…will it run Doom? IGN scoured reddit and twitter to find some of the most interesting iterations of the Doom challenge. There are...

Ford Opens ‘Heritage Vault’ 100 years of history now available online to download

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

June 16th was the 119th anniversary of the founding of Ford Motor Company and to celebrate they are making a century of archival material available to the public through a new online database called the Ford Heritage Vault, Via DesignTaxiIt’s...

The Myth of the Original Star-Crossed Lovers

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Hear the myth of the weaver and the cowherd in this lesson by Shannon Zhao and directed by brume from TED-Ed on YouTube

New Prods 6/22/22 Feat. ADS1115 16-Bit ADC – 4 Channel w. Programmable Gain Amplifier – STEMMA QT!

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

Browse through all that’s new here!NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEKGPIO Male Hammer Header Kit – Solderless Raspberry Pi Connector – Male Header + Installation JigIf your soldering isn’t quite up to scratch, or you just don’t own a soldering iron yet,...

Building the WORLDS FIRST PlayStation 5 slim

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

The PS5 is a behemoth of a console. Sony has a history of eventually releasing slimmed down versions of their units and with the PS5 there is a lot to slim down. DIY Perks beats Sony to the punch and...

Nikola, Alex Glow’s Smart Camera Companion Bot

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days 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 2 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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.