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LED Origami
Papertronics!
Light up your favorite origami forms with this easy tutorial! We'll show you how to make a frog and lotus glow as they float on transparent conductive ITO, and also to install an onboard battery for more portable fun. No soldering required!
Large Pi-based Thermometer and Clock
Build a large LED Thermometer / Clock using a Raspberry Pi
This project combines a whole heap of modules to enable a Raspberry Pi to power a large 1.2 inch 4 digit 7 segment display. A small switch switches the display between showing the temperature and the current time. The project uses a real-time clock (RTC) to ensure that the Pi always has the correct time, even if it is not connected to the Internet.
Plush Game Controller
Capacitive touch sensing with conductive fabric & Flora
Build a classic game controller with Flora! The microcontroller's native USB support allows it to act like a keyboard, and conductive fabric makes great capacitive touch sensors-- add them up for a oversize plush toy controller that actually works!
SMT Breadboard Prototyping Using Breakout PCBs
Fear not the tiny packages!
This light tutorial will demonstrate how to prototype with SMD/SMT components using a 'breadboard-friendly' breakout PCB
Laser-Cut Enclosure Design
Secret Adafruit ninja design tricks revealed!
A kit enclosure should be more than just a box. This can be a challenge with laser cutting. Here are some tricks and tips for imparting some elegance while also keeping costs manageable.
ADXL345 Digital Accelerometer
Triple-axis accelerometer breakout with a digital interface.
Learn how to connect and program the ADXL345 triple-axis digital accelerometer.
Adafruit Arduino Selection Guide
Which Arduino is Right for Me?
This guide explains the differences between the various types of Arduinos and Arduino compatible microcontrollers and helps you to select the one that best fits your needs.
Decompiling .NET Apps
A quick guide on decompiling .NET applications
Have a lackluster datasheet for your sensor, but a demo app from the vendor that seems to calculate the value you need? If the app is written in .Net (Visual Basic or C#) -- and if it's Windows based, it probably is -- you might be able to decompile the app and find that magic formula you're looking for!
TMP006 Infrared Sensor Breakout
Guide for Contact-less Infrared Temperature Measurement
Learn how to use the Adafruit Contact-less Infrared Thermopile Sensor to measure temperatures with your Arduino.
Eagle Tutorial - How to add a new package to a component
Save time by re-using existing packages and symbols
This little tutorial will show you how to create a new package for an existing device. It's not a beginner tutorial so you'll have to learn how to use Eagle first, but its one of those skills that can save you tons of time
Using an IR Remote with a Raspberry Pi Media Center
Control your Raspberry Pi Media Centre with an IR Remote
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use an Infrared remote with a Raspberry Pi configured as a media center. The IR receiver is attached to the GPIO connector on the Raspberry Pi.
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.
Candle Flicker Hair Bow
Super simple wearable sparkle
Add a twinkling accent to your updo with this soft circuit hair bow! This is the perfect beginner project in wearables, appropriate for kids and adults alike.
LED Sewing Kit
Stitch a glowing circuit with conductive thread
Add LED accents to textile projects with Adafruit's LED Sewing Kit! Learn more about this kit, test your components, and get project ideas in this guide!
LSM303 Accelerometer + Compass Breakout
Triple Axis Accelerometer and Magnetometer (Compass) breakout board.
Learn how to use the LSM303 breakout module with your Arduino to build a basic navigation system.
How to Find Hidden COM Ports
There, under a rock! Its a gaggle of COM ports!
This mini tutorial will show you how you can find and uninstall all those extra COM ports you may have registered from years of microcontroller-hacking
Adjustable Breadboard Power Supply Kit
A very low dropout adjustable power supply
This project details the design of a very low dropout adjustable power supply. A good power supply is essential to electronic projects. While there are many existing designs for adjustable power supplies, this one makes improvements that make it more useful for hobby designs.
Ice Tube Clock Kit
Vacuum fluorescent display clock
Learn how to build your very own Russian vacuum fluorescent display tube clock.
LED Gummy Candies
Gum drop LEDs you can actually eat!
Ever look at a pile of 10mm LEDs and think "mmm, they look just like gumdrops!" These LED gummy candies are so realistic they'll have your friends fooled at first, then delighted that they are actually edible (and delicious). This tutorial covers the basics of food-safe silicone mold making and provides a recipe for gummy candies you can make at home.
Arduino Lesson 17. Email Sending Movement Detector
Use an Arduino to send an email, whenever movement is detected with a PIR sensor.
In this lesson you will learn how to use a PIR movement detector with an Arduino and to have the Arduino communicate with a Python program running on your computer to send an email whenever movement is detected by the sensor.
Using the Adafruit Unified Sensor Driver
All the sensor data, normalized!
Technical overview of Adafruit's new Unified Sensor Driver API, allowing you to access any supported sensor data in a consistent, reliable manner.
Lesson 0. Getting Started
Learn Arduino, Lesson 0. Getting Started
In this lesson, you will learn how to setup your computer to use Arduino and how to set about the lessons that follow.
Multi-Cell LiPo Charging
How to charge your multi-cell LiPo packs
This guide describes how to safely charge a multi-cell LiPo pack using the Adafruit LiPo Chargers.
Maker Business & Manufacturing Software - Our Tips & Tricks
The software & services we use for business and manufacturing
Adafruit is a high-tech company, run by fairly young people. All of us working here have spent our lives with computers, technology and the Internet. So it's not surprising that software and software-as-services (SaaS) are an essential part of running Adafruit. We're constantly on the lookout for useful new tools that can help Adafruit run efficiently, and cleanly.
LED Ampli-Tie
Wearable VU meter necktie with Flora
Make your necktie light up like a VU meter! This Flora project uses the Electret Microphone Amplifier to trigger 16 Flora NeoPixels sewn with conductive thread along the length of the tie.
Babel Fish
RFID language learning toy with sound
Create a speaking flash card game with Adafruit's wave shield and NFC/RFID shield for Arduino inside a box made to look like a yellow fish - a nod to Douglas Adams.
Wave Shield Voice Changer
Speak like everyone's favorite baritone Sith lord or sing along with the Lollipop Guild!
Like a fine wine, open source projects improve with age. We've taught this classic shield a new trick: a realtime voice changer!
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.
Plush Game Controller
Capacitive touch sensing with conductive fabric & Flora
Build a classic game controller with Flora! The microcontroller's native USB support allows it to act like a keyboard, and conductive fabric makes great capacitive touch sensors-- add them up for a oversize plush toy controller that actually works!
Tiny Arduino Music Visualizer
Maximum blinkenlights, minimum effort!
This easy project combines an Arduino with our microphone amplifier and bicolor LED matrix to create a music visualizer that responds to ambient sound.
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.

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