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Adding an Accelerometer to your FeatherWing Crickit

Provide accelerometer information for your Feather-based robotics project.

When you use the Circuit Playground Express and it's matching Cricket you have access to the accelerometer on the CPX. Not so with the Feather version. This guide will help you add an accelerometer to the FeatherWing Crickit.

Dotstar Featherwing in CircuitPython

Feather M0, DotStars, and CircuitPython. What happens when you put them all together?

Use CircuitPython to display points, images, text, and scrolling images on the 6x12 dotstar Featherwing.

Adafruit 3.5" 480x320 TFT FeatherWing

A lovely color display for any Feather, show off your Feather plumage!

Spice up your Feather project with a beautiful 3.5" touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card socket. This TFT display is 3.5" diagonal with a bright 6 white-LED backlight. You get a massive 480x320 pixels with individual 16-bit color pixel control. It has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display, and twice as much as our 2.4" TFT FeatherWing. As a bonus, this display comes with a resistive touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.

Joy Featherwing

Turn your Feather into a game controller!

A tiny joystick and buttons to put on your Feather board.

MP3 Feather - Gordon Cole

Build a feather based mp3 player!

by Ruiz Brothers

Make a tiny wearable mp3 player in the theme of Gordon Cole from Twin Peaks!

Adafruit DotStar FeatherWing

Make a colorful name-tag, or small animations, or dazzle with light effects!

Put on your sunglasses before staring into these 72 configurable RGB LEDs, they are super bright! Arranged in a 6x12 matrix, each 2mm by 2mm sized RGB pixel is individually addressable. Only two pins are required to control all the LEDs. On the bottom we have jumpers for the Data and Clock lines so you can change them from the defaults. Works with any/all of our Feathers!

Introducing Adafruit Feather

Boards of a Feather flock together!

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Feathers! This guide will tell you all about the dozens of options you have to build your next Feather project.

Remote Effects Trigger Box

Build this powerful RF Feather-based controller to wirelessly trigger props, lights, effects, and more!

Using 900Mhz (or 425Mhz) RF for long-range communications between the transmitter and the receivers, this general purpose controller will make your wireless triggering wishes come true! Plus, you get to use a rotary encoder knob to scroll menu sets, and punch in your commands on the lighted 4x4 Trellis keypad.

Adafruit Music Maker FeatherWing

Bumpin' tooonz for your Feather board

Bend all audio files to your will with the Adafruit Music Maker FeatherWing! It's a fun-size version of our Music Maker shield for Arduino! This powerful 'Wing features the VS1053, a chip that can decode a wide variety of audio formats such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, MIDI, FLAC, WAV (PCM and ADPCM). You can do all sorts of stuff with the audio as well such as adjusting bass, treble, and volume digitally.

Easy Alexa (Echo) Control of your ESP8266 Huzzah

"Alexa, do something cool with my Feather!"

If you've already got an Amazon Alexa or Echo dot in your home or office, you can easily add your very own devices. In this quick project we'll show how to use an Adafruit ESP8266 Feather HUZZAH to control NeoPixels or a relay. You can easily adapt the code to add any number of devices to a single Feather for all sorts of interactive home automation projects with ease!

CircuitPython Hardware: ILI9341 TFT & FeatherWing

How to draw on a ILI9341 TFT display with CircuitPython!

Learn how to connect and use a ILI9341 TFT display breakout and FeatherWing with a CircuitPython and MicroPython board. Focuses on CircuitPython and MicroPython for the ESP8266 and M0/SAMD21 boards.

Adafruit 2.4" TFT FeatherWing

A lovely color display for any Feather, show off your Feather plumage!

Spice up your Feather project with a beautiful 2.4" touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card socket. This TFT display is 2.4" diagonal with a bright 4 white-LED backlight. You get 240x320 pixels with individual 16-bit color pixel control. It has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As a bonus, this display comes with a resistive touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on

Adafruit Adalogger FeatherWing

Real time clock + SD card for data reading & writing

This FeatherWing will make it real easy to add datalogging to any of our existing Feathers. You get both an I2C real time clock (PCF8523) with 32KHz crystal and battery backup, and a microSD socket that connects to the SPI port pins (+ extra pin for CS). Tested and works great with any of our Feathers, based on ATmega32u4, ATSAMD21, Teensy, or ESP8266.

Radio FeatherWing

Packet FSK or LoRa radio add-on for your favvy Feather

Add short-hop wireless to your Feather with these Radio Featherwings. These add-ons for any Feather board will let you integrate packetized radio (with the RFM69 radio) or LoRa radio (with the RFM9x's). These radios are good options for kilometer-range radio, and paired with one of our WiFi, cellular or Bluetooth Feathers, will let you bridge from 433/900 MHz to the Internet or your mobile device.

Adafruit Power Relay FeatherWing

1200 Watts - turn it on and off

This is the Power Relay FeatherWing. It gives you power to control, and control over power. Put simply, you can now turn on and off lamps, fans, solenoids, and other small appliances that run on up to 250VAC or DC power using any Feather board. Compared to our smaller Relay FeatherWings, this one can handle a beefy 1200 Watts!

Adafruit Stepper + DC Motor FeatherWing

Make your feather motorized

A Feather board without ambition is a Feather board without FeatherWings! This is the DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing which will let you use 2 x bi-polar stepper motors or 4 x brushed DC motors (or 1 stepper and 2 DC motors). Since the FeatherWing only uses the I2C (SDA & SCL pins), it works with any and all Feathers- ATmega32u4, ATSAM M0 or ESP8266-based. You can stack it with any other FeatherWing or with itself (just make sure you have each wing with a unique I2C address)

Adafruit Ethernet FeatherWing

Wired Wings Work Wonders

Wireless is wonderful, but sometimes you want the strong reliability of a wire. If your Feather board is going to be part of a permanent installation, this Ethernet FeatherWing will let you add quick and easy wired Internet. Just plug in a standard Ethernet cable, and run the Ethernet2 library for cross-platform networking.

Adafruit 8-Channel PWM or Servo FeatherWing

A 8 x servo party for your Feather!

You want to make a cool robot, maybe a hexapod walker, or maybe just a piece of art with a lot of moving parts. Or maybe you want to drive a lot of LEDs with precise PWM output. What now? You could give up OR you could just get our handy PWM and Servo FeatherWing. It's a lot like our popular PWM/Servo Shield but with half the channels & squished into a nice small portable size and works with any of our Feather boards.

Adafruit 15x7 CharliePlex FeatherWing

A sea of light-up jewels for your Feather

You wont be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this Adafruit 15x7 CharliePlex LED Matrix Display FeatherWing. This 15x7 LED display can be paired with with any of our Feather boards for a beautiful, bright grid of 105 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C.

Adafruit 8x16 LED Matrix FeatherWing

A 128-pixel graphical display for your Feather

You will chirp with delight when you see how easy it is to make your very own 8x16 LED matrix display for any Feather. This kit combines two of our adorable miniature LED matrices with a FeatherWing driver board. At 0.8" square, these little 8x8 matrices have got everything a big LED matrix has, but bite sized! Double them up for 128 total bright LEDs.

Adafruit Ultimate GPS featherwing

Where are your Feathers at? Now you know!

Give your Feather a sense of place, with an Ultimate GPS FeatherWing. This FeatherWing plugs right into your Feather board and gives it a precise, sensitive, and low power GPS module for location identifcation anywhere in the world. As a bonus, the GPS can also keep track of time once it is synced with the satellites.

14-Segment Alpha-numeric LED FeatherWing

so many segments

This is the Adafruit 0.56" 4-Digit 14-Segment Display w/ FeatherWing Combo Pack! Display, elegantly, 012345678 or 9! Gaze, hypnotized, at ABCDEFGHIJKLM - well it can display the whole alphabet. You get the point. It is a nice, bright alphanumeric display that shows letters and numbers in a beautiful hue.

7 Segment Display Internet Clock

NTP-enabled clock in your favorite color

by Philip Moyer

Get the ultimate in time precision with an Internet-synced clock. A Feather M0 WiFi + seven segment display FeatherWing, configured to use NTP to set and display the current time.

Adafruit 7-Segment LED FeatherWings

Give your Feather some big numbers

7-Segment Matrices like these are 'multiplexed' - so to control all the seven-segment LEDs you need 14 pins. That's a lot of pins! Here at Adafruit we feel your pain. After all, wouldn't it be awesome if you could control a matrix without tons of wiring? That's where these 7-Segment LED FeatherWings come in!

Adafruit OLED FeatherWing

Crisp and clear display for any of your Feathers

This is the FeatherWing OLED: it adds a 128x32 monochrome OLED plus 3 user buttons to any Feather main board. These displays are small, only about 1" diagonal, but very readable due to the high contrast of an OLED display.

Mini Relay FeatherWings

These are the Mini Relay FeatherWing. They will give you power to control, and control over power. Put simply, you can now turn on and off lamps, fans, solenoids, and other small appliances that run on up to 250VAC or DC power using any Feather board.

DS3231 Precision RTC FeatherWing

A clockwork FeatherWing

This is the DS3231 Precision RTC FeatherWing: it adds an extremely accurate I2C-integrated Real Time Clock (RTC) with a Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator (TCXO) to any Feather main board. This RTC is the most precise you can get in a small, low power package.

Adafruit Terminal Block Breakout FeatherWing

The Golden Eagle of prototyping FeatherWings

The Terminal Block Breakout FeatherWing kit is like the Golden Eagle of prototyping FeatherWings (eg. majestic, powerful, good-looking). To start, you get a nice prototyping area underneath your Feather, with extra pads for ground, 3.3V and SDA/SCL. Not one to stop there, we expanded the PCB out to 2" x 2.5" with 3.5mm pitch terminal blocks down each side. There's also four mounting holes so you can attach the breakout to your enclosure or project.

Adafruit NeoPixel FeatherWing

32 NeoPixels atop your Feather

This is the NeoPixel FeatherWing, a 4x8 RGB LED Add-on For All Feather Boards! Using our Feather Stacking Headers or Feather Female Headers you can connect a FeatherWing on top or bottom of your Feather board and make your Feather board strut like a peacock at a rave