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Dotstar LED and Glass Pebble Floor
Add dramatic color changing lighting to your walkway
by Erin St Blaine
Put a stunning light installation in your floor or walkway. Control it with a click of Circuit Playground's onboard buttons. Glass pebbles create a classy diffused look that will accent any home beautifully.
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Adafruit TPL5111 Reset Enable Timer Breakout
Enable and disable your projects on a timer like a boss
by lady ada
The Adafruit TPL5111 Reset Enable Timer is a stand-alone breakout that will turn any electronics into low-power electronics! It will take care of enabling & disabling your electronics using a built in timer that can vary from once-every 100ms up to once every two hours. Basically, the TPL will set an enable pin high periodically, adjustable by potentiometer or resistor, and turn on your project's power. It will then wait until a signal is received from the project to tell the TPL that it can safely disable the project by setting the enable pin low
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Arduino Lesson 13. DC Motors
Learn Arduino, Lesson 13. DC Motors
by Simon Monk
This is Lesson 13 in the Learn Arduino Adafruit series. In this lesson, you will learn how to control a small DC motor using an Arduino and a transistor.
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FLORAbrella
Bring your own rainbow
by Leslie Birch
Chase away rainy days with NeoPixels and FLORA! Whip up this bright umbrella with 160 color-changing LEDs and a color sensor for matching your wardrobe, displaying raindrop or rainbow animations, or anything else you can dream up.
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Pi Hole Ad Blocker with Pi Zero W
Zap away ads using an ad-blocking custom DNS mini server
by lady ada
This project will turn your Raspberry Pi Zero W into a ad-blocking local DNS server with Pi Hole. When it is asked for the IP address of ads.adserver.com (for example) it will return nothing! So you will never even connect to the ad server and get the ad. Your connection will be faster, less data, and no intrusive ads. It works great on computers, tablets, phones, etc. Even if you cannot run an ad-blocker plugin on your phone or tablet, this will work and ad-blocker-detectors can't tell you're running it.
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5" Display Kippah Portable Raspberry Pi
Make a portable Raspberry Pi
by Ruiz Brothers
Build a portable Raspberry Pi with a 5" display.
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TIMESQUARE Watch Kit
Show up stylish AND on time to any event with this awesome looking DIY watch.
by lady ada
Show up stylish AND on time to any event with this awesome looking DIY watch. Build your own fashionable time piece, with multiple watch 'faces' and a bright 8x8 matrix display
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Motion-Activated Solder Fume Extractor With Lamp
Removes those pesky fumes whenever you reach for the iron
by Jan Goolsbey
A different take on the beginning maker's second project (a clock being the first, of course). We added a motion detector to activate the fan when you're soldering and a USB reading light to eliminate the shadows. The unit employs a USB-rechargeable lithium-polymer battery and provides a separate USB port for the lamp. This solder fume extractor fits into an off-the-shelf enclosure; 3D printing isn't required. Drilling and cutting the enclosure requires some intermediate fabrication skills, but a layout and drilling template is provided to make it easier to prepare the plastic case.
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GEMMA M0 Case
3D Print A Case For Your GEMMA M0
by Ruiz Brothers
Need an enclosure for your shiny new GEMMA M0? 3D print one!
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Adafruit Metro Mini
Slim all-in-one Metro that's breadboard friendly
by lady ada
We sure love the ATmega328 here at Adafruit, and we use them a lot for our own projects. The processor has plenty of GPIO, Analog inputs, hardware UART SPI and I2C, timers and PWM galore - just enough for most simple projects. METRO Mini is the culmination of years of playing with AVRs: we wanted to make a tiny, breadboard-friendly development board that is easy to use and is hacker friendly. Metro Mini can be programmed with the Arduino IDE (select 'UNO' in the boards dropdown)
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NES Cart RetroPie Game Console
All-in-one game emulator/controller built inside a NES cartridge using Joy Bonnet and Raspberry Pi Zero!
by John Park
The Pi Zero is a great machine, capable of running RetroPie to manage old school game emulation. The Joy Bonnet is a very simple, plug-and-play way to add just the right controls. But you need a case, so embed it in an old cartridge for style and the ergonomics of a better grip!
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Gemma M0 Sheikah Pendant
Wearable Glowing Jewelry
by Ruiz Brothers
3D print a Sheikah themed pendant from the Legend of Zelda using a NeoPixel Jewel and Gemma M0.
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Adafruit CCS811 Air Quality Sensor
A sensor to sense the presence of different gasses in the air we breathe.
by Dean Miller
Breathe easy - we finally have an I2C VOC/eCO2 sensor in the Adafruit shop! Add air quality monitoring to your project and with an Adafruit CCS811 Air Quality Sensor Breakout. This sensor from AMS is a gas sensor that can detect a wide range of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and is intended for indoor air quality monitoring.
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Guardian Shield+ Zelda Breath of the Wild
Build an LED shield!
by Ruiz Brothers
Use a Feather M0, NeoPixel Jewel and a high density mini skinny NeoPixel strips to build the Guardian Shield from Zelda Breath of the Wild!
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Adafruit PiTFT - 2.8" Touchscreen Display for Raspberry Pi
Add a compact 320x240 resolution screen to the top of your Pi
by lady ada
Is this not the cutest little display for the Raspberry Pi? It features a 2.8" display with 320x240 16-bit color pixels and a resistive touch overlay. The plate uses the high speed SPI interface on the Pi and can use the mini display as a console, X window port, displaying images or video etc.
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Creating and sharing a CircuitPython library
Share your code with the world
by Scott Shawcroft
This guide covers all the steps to releasing a CircuitPython library for the world to use. We'll cover GitHub, ReadTheDocs and Travis.
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I2C addresses!
I2C addresses from 0x00 to 0x7F (inclusive)
by lady ada
I2C is incredibly popular because it uses only 2 wires, and like we said, multiple devices can share those wires, making it a great way to connect tons of sensors, drivers, expanders, without using all the microcontroller pins. The only bad news about I2C is that each I2C device must have a unique address - and the addresses only range from 0 to 127 (aka 0 to 0x7F hex). Since we deal with so many I2C devices we thought it would be handy to have a table with all the most common sensors and modules we encounter, and their I2C address!
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Infrared Transmit and Receive on Circuit Playground Express in C++
During your Circuit Playground Express into a remote control. Or control it using an IR remote control
by Chris Young
One of the great and features of the Circuit Playground Express is the addition of an infrared transmitter and receiver. In this tutorial you will learn how to receive and decode IR signals from a remote control such as those used for TV, DVD, cable boxes and how to transmit IR signals making your Circuit Playground Express an IR remote itself.
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Introducing Gemma
Introducing Adafruit's mini wearable microcontroller
by lady ada
Gemma may be small, but do not be fooled by its size! It's a tiny sewable microcontroller board, built around the Atmel ATtiny85, a little chip with a lot of power. We wanted to design a little sister to the Flora, something that was small enough to fit into any project, and low cost enough to use without hesitation. Perfect for when you don't want to give up your Flora for a small project
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Pinball Controller for iPad
Make a pinball controller for your iOS device using Teensy
by John Park
Virtual pinball is incredibly fun, but even more so with real, physical flipper buttons and a plunger. Use a Teensy in HID keyboard mode to send iCade-compatible commands to your iOS device over the Lightning connector.
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Create a Bluetooth LE App for iOS
Learn how to make a Bluetooth Low Energy App for iOS using Swift.
by Trevor Beaton
Follow along with our example code to learn how to develop Bluetooth LE apps for iOS! We'll show you how connections are made, data is transmitted and more behind the scenes using the Swift programming language.