Sparky the Blue Smoke Monster Automaton
This project for CRICKIT and Circuit Playground Express teaches basic CircuitPython programming skills and can be adapted into an automaton that performs multiple functions.
Introducing Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4
What's smaller than a Feather but larger than a Trinket? It's an Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4 Express featuring the Microchip ATSAMD51! Small, powerful, with a ultra fast ATSAMD51 Cortex M4 processor running at 120 MHz - this microcontroller board is perfect when you want something very compact, with a ton of horsepower and a bunch of pins. This Itsy is like a bullet train, with it's 120MHz Cortex M4 with floating point support and 512KB Flash and 192KB RAM. Your code will zig and zag and zoom, and with a bunch of extra peripherals for support, this will for sure be your favorite new chipset.
Crickit Collapsible House with MakeCode
An animated house that can be blown over, only to pop right back up. Different setting allow the user to adjust how hard you have to blow to knock the house down. Great prop for re-telling the tale of the three little pigs, and a good introduction to programming in MakeCode.
Microcontroller Compatible Audio File Conversion
Sound in every project! We search our libraries and the Internet for the perfect project sound. But is that particular sound file ready to be used by your microcontroller? How do we even know? This tutorial will help you check your files and ensure they are ready for action.
Stumble-Bot
This robot can be made out of any wide, flat cardboard box. It uses household materials, two servo motors, 3 AA batteries, and CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express to control its stumbling gait.
Adafruit NeoPXL8 FeatherWing and Library
NeoPXL8 is a hardware-and-software combo that works around usual NeoPixel limitations to bring buttery smooth animation to large-scale projects.
Introducing ItsyBitsy M0 Express
ItsyBitsy M0 Express is only 1.4" long by 0.7" wide, but has 6 power pins, 23 digital GPIO pins (12 of which can be analog in, 1x analog out, and 13x PWM out). It's the same chip as the Arduino Zero and packs much of the same capability as an Adafruit Metro M0 Express or Feather M0 Express but really really small. So it's great once you've finished up a prototype on a Metro M0 or Feather M0, and want to make the project much smaller. It even comes with 2MB of SPI Flash built in, for data logging, file storage, or CircuitPython code.
Trash Panda
An animal panda you can build out of a scrap Amazon box. Demonstrates how to use CRICKIT paired with Circuit Playground Express to control multiple motors at once.
Adafruit pIRkey
The pIRkey adds an IR remote receiver to any computer, laptop, tablet...any computer or device with a USB port that can use a keyboard. This little board slides into any USB A port, and shows up as an every-day USB keyboard. The onboard ATSAMD21 microcontroller listens for IR remote signals and converts them to keypresses, mouse movements, or even USB serial output.
Living Starry Night Painting
Add movement and light to famous works of art using Circuit Playground Express, CRICKIT, and CircuitPython. This beginner level project uses simple household materials and teaches basic programming skills.
Introducing Adafruit Crickit #MakeRobotFriend
Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies. If they did, they'd know that making robots into slaves always ends up in a robot rebellion. Why even go down that path? Here at Adafruit we believe in making robots our friends!
Snake Charmer Box
Learn how to use Circuit Playground Express and MakeCode to charm Blinka out of her box! This guide will show you how to control a servo motor and play music with your Circuit Playground Express, as well as use different inputs in MakeCode.
Arduino Ethernet + SD Card
Use an Adafruit Metro 328 or Arduino Uno with the Arduino Ethernet Shield to serve up files from the Ethernet Shield SD card. An update from the tutorial posted on ladyada.net on December, 2011 with the latest Arduino IDE and libraries.
Adafruit Metro M4 Express featuring ATSAMD51
Are you ready? Really ready? Cause here comes the fastest, most powerful Metro ever. The Adafruit Metro M4 featuring the Microchip ATSAMD51. This Metro is like a bullet train, with it's 120MHz Cortex M4 with floating point support. Your code will zig and zag and zoom, and with a bunch of extra peripherals for support, this will for sure be your favorite new chipset.
AdaBox 007
This AdaBox is super sneaky with a Secret + Spy + Security theme. Everything in this box will teach you stuff they don't want you to know! You'll use your brains and hands to solve puzzles, send secret messages, bypass locks, and listen in on radio waves around you.