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Adafruit Mini TFT - 0.96" 160x80
Mini TFT is small, but don't let it's size fool you!
by lady ada
It's the size of your thumbnail, with glorious 160x80 pixel color... it's the Adafruit Mini TFT Breakout! This very very small display is only 0.96" diagonal, packed with RGB pixels, for making very small high-density displays.
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 4. GPIO Setup
Learn how to setup your Pi for Hacking Electronics
by Simon Monk
In this tutorial, you are not actually build anything, but you will learn how to configure your Raspberry Pi and install useful libraries ready to start attaching some external electronics to it.
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WiFi Music Alert Box
You can connect this easy-to-build ESP8266 Feather HUZZAH MP3 player to all your Internet alerts!
by John Park
Based upon the Adabox 004 ESP8266 Feather HUZZAH with MP3 Music Maker FeatherWing, this internet-connected WiFi Music Alert Box can easily be programmed to play different songs associated with your Internet alerts. Uses Adafruit IO and IFTTT to
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AdaBox 004
Explore and use the contents of your AdaBox 004
by Tyler Cooper
Sit down, strap in, and pump your Feather ecosystem up to 11. The last of our Feather-focused AdaBoxes has all the ingredients for a remote controlled music player, a Zen-inducing meditation machine, or your very own Radio Free Adafruit that streams tunes through the internet.
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Boomy The Boombox
It's a cute little boombox
by Ruiz Brothers
3D Print A Box for your AdaBox
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Unicorn Hat with Moving Ears
Really simple robotics and lights bring this mythical creature to life
by Erin St Blaine
Connect Circuit Playground to two mini servos and make unicorn ears that move! Control them with a mini joystick hidden in your pocket. Use Circuit Playground's onboard neopixels to add a glowing rainbow horn, and you're ready to ride out with the fairies.
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MiniPOV4 - DIY Full-Color Persistence of Vision & Light-Painting Kit
A mini, full-color persistence-of-vision kit
by lady ada
Build your own little light painter. The latest and greatest MiniPOV kit to hit the streets - MiniPOV4! We have added full color RGB LEDs to the kit as well USB programmability to make this the easiest, most fun Persistence-of-Vision & Light Painting kit ever.
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Mystery Box: Haunted Radio
Breathe spooky life into an old radio by adding a Feather microcontroller to read the dial and play mysterious sounds and music!
by John Park
Vintage radios can be beautiful, but many are beyond repair. Here's a guide to repurposing it as an eerie playback device that uses the original tuner dial, power knob, and speaker and grafts on a Feather ESP8266 Huzzah with Music Maker MP3 FeatherWing that can play creepy sound effects, and trigger a specific song when intrepid guests tune the dial to a specific frequency. Muhuwahahahahahaha!
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Guardian Robot with LEDs
Beautiful enough to hack it's limbs off!
by Ruiz Brothers
Add LEDs to an articulating guardian robot from Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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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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Adafruit LED Sequins
Stitch some sparkle into your next wearable
by Becky Stern
Single color LEDs on tiny sewable circuit boards! These sequins are available in many colors and easy to use with a battery or microcontroller!
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Adafruit 128x64 OLED Bonnet for Raspberry Pi
A little monochrome OLED bonnet for yer Pi
by lady ada
If you'd like a compact display, with buttons and a joystick - we've got what you're looking for. The Adafruit 128x64 OLED Bonnet for Raspberry Pi is the big sister to our mini PiOLED add-on. This version has 128x64 pixels (instead of 128x32) and a much larger screen besides. With the OLED display in the center, we had some space on either side so we added a 5-way joystick and two pushbuttons. Great for when you want to have a control interface for your project.
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Digital Fidget Spinner
Build a fidget spinner that has no moving parts with Circuit Playground!
by Tony DiCola
Learn how to build a digital fidget spinner with Circuit Playground or Circuit Playground Express that spins the LEDs around when you tap the side of the board. See how to build the spinner with both Arduino and Circuit Python code!
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Sensors in MakeCode
A guide to using sensor data and events in MakeCode
by Peli de Halleux
Guide for all the sensor available in the Circuit Playground Express in the MakeCode editor.
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a WiFi access point
Make the most adorable little WiFi router
by lady ada
Set up your Pi a WiFi access point that will route traffic to the Ethernet port
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Hydro Dipping 3D Prints
Add full color graphics to 3D Printed parts!
by Ruiz Brothers
Wrap 3d prints with full color graphics without any post processing!
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Circuit Playground Express (& other ATSAMD21 Boards) DAC Hacks
Revisiting the Olde Days of television and radio
by Phillip Burgess
The Circuit Playground Express runs on the ATSAMD21 which has a built-in DAC (digital-to-analog converter). It can be persuaded to generate black-and-white TV signals or transmit weak AM radio — without soldering any extra components!
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Circuit Playground Bike Glove
Turning left? Turning right? Let Circuit Playground help with blinking lights!
by Carter Nelson
Create a turn direction indicator for bike riding by sewing a Circuit Playground to a bike glove. The accelerometer is used to determine hand orientation and provide an appropriate turning signal indication using the NeoPixels.
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Circuit Playground: L is for LED
LEDs are glowing crystals!
by C. Cunningham
Billie's got the blues and Adabot has lots of questions. Learn about how an LED works with Adabot and the Circuit Playground components!
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Secret Knock Activated Drawer Lock
Unlock a drawer by knocking a secret pattern.
by Steve Hoefer
Keep your secrets hidden with another secret. This Trinket project lets you secure a drawer or door so it can only be opened if you know the correct pattern of knocks.
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My Mini Race Car
Bluetooth controlled, temperature sensing Formula E racer!
by John Park
Zooooom! Now you can build and drive your own Mini Race Car using the Feather 32u4 Bluefruit LE microcontroller. Keep an eye on racetrack telemetry with the included HTU21D-F temperature & humidity sensor breakout board.