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Learn Raspberry Pi
Master the Raspberry Pi with these easy to follow lessons
We’re pleased to announce our new Raspberry Pi Lessons by
Dr. Simon Monk
& Ladyada! Simon is one of the best educational writers in the world and we also stock
his fantastic books here in the Adafruit store
!
Over the course of a few weeks we will teach you everything you need to know to get started with the Raspberry Pi. Check back often for new lessons!
Click here to get started
BeagleBone Black: Installing Operating Systems
For when your system is no longer operating.
This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to re-flash an operating system onto the on-board flash memory on your BeagleBone Black.
Adafruit Color Sensors
Measure Light and Color with Adafruit TCS34725 Color Sensors
Your electronics can now see in dazzling color with this lovely color light sensor. We found the best color sensor on the market, the TCS34725, which has RGB and Clear light sensing elements. An IR blocking filter, integrated on-chip and localized to the color sensing photodiodes, minimizes the IR spectral component of the incoming light and allows color measurements to be made accurately.
Glowing Star Chuck Taylor Sneakers
Pumped up kicks
Mod your Converse sneakers with EL panel!
Character LCD System Monitor
Mini display, maxi information.
How to use our LCD + USB/Serial backpack (with stand) as a realtime system status monitor. Great for “headless” systems!
Light-Up Angler Fish Embroidery
Deep sea stitching with FLORA
Make this simple circuit with a single glowing lure on a menacing embroidered angler fish and dress up your shorts for summer!
Electronic Demon Costume
RAAAAAWR!
Spark the demon is a costume featuring an Arduino-based voice changer, an animated LED matrix face and glowing EL wire wings. This short guide answers some common questions and collects links to the relevant tutorials and videos that may be helpful in your own Halloween creations.
Affordable HAL 9000 Replica
Why yes, Dave. As a matter of fact I CAN do that.
WIth the right Adafruit parts and a little crafting ingenuity, you can make a pretty decent replica of HAL 9000 to decorate your workshop or hackerspace.
How To Take Great Photos of Your Projects
The Adafruit Photo Tutorial by Johngineer
This tutorial by John De Cristofaro (johngineer) aims to teach you how to take photos of your hacks and projects for sharing on the web, and perhaps even in print. It focuses on smaller items, less than 6”x6”x6” in size. Bigger projects present their own unique problems that are beyond the scope of this article. However, you can always “scale up” the methods presented here to take pictures of larger subjects, at least to a point.
rePaper eInk Development Board
Daylight Readable Graphical eInk Displays
Learn how to assemble and program the RePaper eInk Development Board. These daylight readable displays are excellent for data-logging applications, outdoor displays, or any other ultra-low power project.
Sparkle Skirt
Stitch a circuit that lights up when you move
Add LED pixels to a layered skirt, and use a FLORA motion sensor to trigger it to twinkle when you dance.
KTOWN's Ultimate Creating Parts in Eagle Tutorial
Listen up! KTOWN is going to school you right in EagleCAD!
Creating parts in Eagle isn't difficult, but you do need to understand a few things about how Eagle organizes things internally. This tutorial will walk you through everything you need to know to start making reliable, manufacturable parts today!
Adafruit WebIDE
The easiest way to develop code on your Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone
The Adafruit WebIDE is by far the easiest way to run code on your Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone. Just connect your Pi or BeagleBone to your local network, and log on to the WebIDE in your web browser.
TV-B-Gone Kit
Make every day a "TV-free" day!
Tired of all those LCD TVs everywhere? Want a break from advertisements while you're trying to eat? Want to zap screens from across the street? The new Universal TV-B-Gone kit is what you need! This ultra-high-power version of the popular TV-B-Gone is fun to make and even more fun to use.
Drawdio
Drawdio: A pencil that lets you draw with music!
When I first saw the Drawdio at Maker Faire I knew it would be a great project for beginners: A lot of fun with instant gratification! Essentially, it's a very simple musical synthesizer that uses the conductive properties of pencil graphite to create different sounds. The result is a fun toy that lets you draw musical instruments on any piece of paper.
Minty MP3
Fresh Breath, Fresh Tunes, Fresh Design
Tired of not being able to find cases for your projects? Stuck with those hideous ABS plastic RadioShack boxes? Try those ubiquitous tin boxes, not only do they block EMI, they come with free mints! Fresh breath and fresh design in one.
Portable Solar Charging Tracker
Solar battery charging assistant
This is actually not any sort of product or public project (!) - its something I designed to help me evaluate solar panels and how they act when charging batteries. Normally this requires a lot of multimeters and its a bit of a pain to do if you have to constantly change out panels. So I decided I would build a specialized tool that would assist me.
Dimmable Li-Ion Halogen Bike Light
Biking in the winter, or at night, is dangerous without a front light.
A good front-light is essential, not only for being seen, but to see the road. LED lamps will not illuminate the road, and they can be too dim for cars to see you (1W or better LEDs are quite nice as headlamps.) I offer here a simple (but high-quality) design to build your own 5 or 10W halogen lamp, which runs off of a rechargeable 7.2V or 7.4V Lithium Ion battery pack.
Matrix 2 Mod
Upgrading the Matrix2 Headlamp for Fun & Profit
We hand-upgraded a headlamp that requires 2 alkaline AA batteries to also work with 2 rechargeable NiMH batteries by replacing the lamp with a custom boost converter.
DIY Welded Bike Stand
For Fun & Profit
This projects is kinda fun, pretty easy so it's good practice if you're just learning how to weld, and is really useful after you're finished! For less than $50, you'll have a nice bike stand for repairing your bicycles.
Low Level Magstripe Reader
Swipe swipe...data!
To make a custom credit card swiper, we purchased a raw magstripe decoder head with track 1 reading. By writing some parity checking code, we were able to read the raw data off of the magstripe, and parse it into output that would be 'typed out' as an emulated keyboard using a USB-enabled Teensy.
Brain Machine
Explore altered states of consciousness
The Brain Machine provides you with a fun, easy way to meditate, all the while being very photogenic! They work with lights and sounds that pulse at a 14-minute-long meditation sequence of brainwave frequencies. Your brain synchronizes to this meditation sequence, and you meditate. It's that easy! And the beautiful colors and patterns you vividly imagine along the way make it fun and enjoyable.
Game of Life
Blinky fun cellular automata
In 1970, John Conway came up with a 1-player game called Game of Life. The Game of Life is a mathematical game that simulates 'colonies' that grow or die based on how crowded or lonely they are and is known for the way it creates a beautiful organic display out of randomness. Here is a design for a simple electronic project that plays Conway's Game of Life. Make one kit and keep it on your desk, or attach multiple kit modules together to create a large display.
Raspberry Pi WiFi Radio
Internet-streamed music around the house
Raspberry Pi, the little wonder-puter that’s taken the world by storm, is so affordable that we can create single-purpose “appliances” around them without shame. Here’s our take on one of the more popular such applications: internet streaming media, the Pandora music service specifically.
Internet of Things Printer for Raspberry Pi
Build an "Internet of Things" connected mini printer that will do your bidding!
Build an "Internet of Things" connected mini printer that will do your bidding! This is a fun weekend project that comes with a beautiful laser cut case. Once assembled, the little printer connects wirelessly to get Internet data for printing onto 2 1/4" wide receipt paper.
Adafruit Data Logger Shield
Adafruit's Data Logger Shield, now pre-assembled!
Build the Adafruit Data Logger Shield and start collecting data. The Light and Temperature Fridge Logger example shows you how to construct a self-contained data acquisition system and plot the collected results.
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Flora GPS Jacket
Location-aware outerwear
Modify your coat to sense your location with Flora! Whether acting like a beacon to your favorite coffee shop or a warning to help enforce your restraining order, this jacket lights up when it gets within range of GPS coordinates set by you.
Cross Stitch
Stitches are like pixels
So you want to learn cross stitch! Cross stitch is the process of turning a grid of pixels into a stitched masterpiece with tiny Xs in colored floss.
Adafruit Pi Cobbler Kit
Assemble your Adafruit Pi Cobbler Kit
Once soldered together, the cable plugs between the Pi computer and the Cobbler breakout. The Cobbler can plug into any solderless breadboard (or even a prototyping board like the PermaProto). The Cobbler PCB has all the pins labeled nicely so you can go forth and build circuits without keeping a pin-out printout at your desk. We think this will make it more fun to expand the Pi and build custom circuitry with it.
All About LEDs
A detailed introduction on how to use LEDs
This tutorial will cover those wonderful blinky things, LEDs. We're also going to cover how to calculate the current going through an LED and in the mean time introduce two important laws of electronics, Kirchhoff's Voltage Law and Ohm's Law.
FLORA TV-B-Gone
A tiny television neutralizer
The most wearable TV-B-Gone yet! Use freehand wiring with solder to whip up this pin capable of shutting off most television sets. Craft your own fabric ornament to match any outfit.
KTOWN's Ultimate Creating Parts in Eagle Tutorial
Listen up! KTOWN is going to school you right in EagleCAD!
Creating parts in Eagle isn't difficult, but you do need to understand a few things about how Eagle organizes things internally. This tutorial will walk you through everything you need to know to start making reliable, manufacturable parts today!
Adafruit Raspberry Pi Educational Linux Distro
Our tweaked distribution for teaching electronics using the Raspberry PI
Our tweaked distribution for teaching electronics using the Raspberry PI
IR Sensor
Make remote controls and listeners
IR detectors are little microchips with a photocell that are tuned to listen to infrared light. They are almost always used for remote control detection - every TV and DVD player has one of these in the front to listen for the IR signal from the clicker. In this guide we will explain how IR sensors work, how to pull IR codes out of a remote control, and show you how to wire them up to a microcontroller.
Raspberry Pi as a Media Center
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a media center
he low cost and full HD video playing capabilities of the Raspberry Pi make it ideal for building your own media center. This will allow you to play music and videos through your Raspberry Pi onto a TV.
Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 3. Network Setup
Learn how to connect to the Internet wirelessly or with Ethernet
In this lesson, you will learn how to connect to the Internet wirelessly and with an Ethernet cable and also find the IP address of your Raspberry Pi
DHTxx Sensors
Basic temperature & humidity sensors
This guide covers the low cost DHT temperature & humidity sensors. These sensors are very basic and slow, but are great for hobbyists who want to do some basic data logging.
TV-B-Gone Kit
Make every day a "TV-free" day!
Tired of all those LCD TVs everywhere? Want a break from advertisements while you're trying to eat? Want to zap screens from across the street? The new Universal TV-B-Gone kit is what you need! This ultra-high-power version of the popular TV-B-Gone is fun to make and even more fun to use.
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