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Easily use Machine Learning on a Raspberry Pi 4 using the BrainCraft HAT
By lady ada

Adafruit BrainCraft HAT - Easy Machine Learning for...

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Intermediate
Throw a party every time someone sends you a tweet
By Liz Clark

IoT Twitter Listener Party Parrot

5
Intermediate
Use CircuitPython BLE code on desktops, laptops, and Raspberry Pi.
By Dan Halbert

CircuitPython BLE Libraries on Any Computer

2
Beginner
Going the I2C distance!
By Kattni Rembor

Adafruit LTC4311 I2C Extender / Active Terminator

2
Beginner
Build a beautiful pixel art display with Matrix Portal.
By John Park

LED Matrix Display for Bitmap Pixel Art and Animation

4
Beginner
3D print a base plate for the Adafruit QT Py board
By Ruiz Brothers

QT Py Lego

3
Beginner
Light things up with your QT Py!
By Kattni Rembor

Adafruit QT Py and NeoPixel LEDs

2
Beginner
Make a glowing backdrop with pizzazz - no coding required
By Erin St Blaine

LED Neon Selfie Spot

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Plot all the things!
By Kattni Rembor

Sensor Plotting with Mu and CircuitPython

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Beginner
Train your cat to press a button and receive a reward
By Dano Wall

Automatic Cat Treat Dispenser

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Beginner
A Special Gift to Make Her Fall in Love with Making
By Erin St Blaine

Circuit Playground Powerpuff Girls Valentine

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Beginner
Navigate your marble through this robotically controlled maze!
By Dano Wall

Tilt Controlled Marble Maze

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Yo dawg, I heard you like monsters, so we put a MONSTER M4SK in a monster mask…
By Phillip Burgess

Spruce Up a Costume with MONSTER M4SK Eyes and Voice

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Intermediate
Make your own reflow oven with this easy to build project
By Dan Cogliano

EZ Make Oven

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Beginner
Learn to solder NeoPixel and DotStar strips and rings like a pro
By Erin St Blaine

Make It Glow: How to Solder NeoPixels, A Beginner's...

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Beginner
Breathe easy by building an IoT Air Quality Monitor
By Brent Rubell

IoT Air Quality Sensor with Adafruit IO

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Adafruit’s new kid’s show is here!
By lady ada

Circuit Playground - A is for Ampere

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Beginner
Learn all about batteries!
By Collin Cunningham

Circuit Playground: B is for Battery

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Beginner
Capacitor basics for everyone
By Collin Cunningham

Circuit Playground: C is for Capacitor

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Beginner
Learn about the electronic one-way valve!
By Collin Cunningham

Circuit Playground: D is for Diode

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Beginner
Learn about frequency from a talking oscilloscope!
By Collin Cunningham

Circuit Playground: F is for Frequency

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Learn about electrical ground with Adabot!
By Collin Cunningham

Circuit Playground: G is for Ground

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Beginner
Learn about the Joule - a unit for measuring work
By Collin Cunningham

Circuit Playground: J is for Joule

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Beginner
Build some kits with Ladyada & the Circuit Playground gang!
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Circuit Playground: K is for Kits

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Learn Arduino, Lesson 8. Analog Inputs
By Simon Monk

Arduino Lesson 8. Analog Inputs

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DIY non-lethal weaponry
By lady ada

Bedazzler

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Intermediate
Light up the night with a glowing chair!
By Ruiz Brothers

Glowing LED Chair

12
Beginner
Beautiful enough to hack it's limbs off!
By Ruiz Brothers

Guardian Robot with LEDs

11
Beginner
Add electronics to cheap Halloween props!
By Ruiz Brothers

Glowing Smokey Skull

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Beginner
Tools for working with digital circuits.
By Dave Astels

Digital Circuits 2: Some Tools

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Intermediate
10...9...8...
By Isaac Wellish

NYE Circuit Playground Drop

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Stand Out From the Glittertati
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Easy LED Jeweled Necklace

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Add an analog output to your microcontroller
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Adafruit’s new kid’s show is here!
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Ladyada's Learn Arduino - Lesson #0

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Get running faster than ever with the first Adafruit Express board
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Putting logic gates together
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Digital Circuits 3: Combinational Circuits

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The first Bluefruit Feather with USB and CircuitPython support
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Introducing the Adafruit nRF52840 Feather

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CircuitPython Powered Internet RGB Matrix Display
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Adafruit MatrixPortal M4

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Explore and use the contents of your AdaBox 016
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AdaBox 016

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Print receipt paper from a little printer
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Learn Arduino, Lesson 4. Eight LEDs and a Shift Register
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Arduino Lesson 4. Eight LEDs and a Shift Register

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Learn Arduino, Lesson 13. DC Motors
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Arduino Lesson 13. DC Motors

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How to install and use Arduino Libraries
By Bill Earl

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A basic overview of key concepts for BLE
By Kevin Townsend

Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy

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How to read analog signals from Python with an analog to digital converter and Raspberry Pi.
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Raspberry Pi Analog to Digital Converters

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Radio transceiver modules for long distance data communication
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Adafruit RFM69HCW and RFM9X LoRa Packet Radio Breakouts

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CircuitPython or Arduino IDE on this tiny little microcontroller board
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Adafruit Trinket M0

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