The Adafruit MLX90632 FIR Temperature Sensor features a compact and low cost 'remote' infrared sensor. These are great when you want to measure the temperature of something very hot or very cold or maybe something that's delicate and tough to attach a probe to.

This 10K linear pot is just like the popular Alps RK09 series but with a clear shaft that extends down to about 1mm above the underlying PCB. So, unsurprisingly, we paired this crystal trimmer with a skinny NeoPixel to make the Adafruit NeoPot, an easy-to-use glowing potentiometer.

Use MCUME to emulate Commodore 64, and GameBoy on the Fruit Jam. Display is output over DVI/HSTX, and USB host is supported for keyboard and gamepad user input.

DIY MIDI controller with OLED potentiometers and rotary encoder

Introducing Fruit Jam! It's like a mini computer, reminiscent of retro computing of the 70's and 80's: plug in a monitor and keyboard + mouse to make interesting programs and applications in CircuitPython, Arduino or even Pico SDK!

Sense the magnetic fields that surround us with this handy triple-axis magnetometer (compass) module. Magnetometers can sense where the strongest magnetic force is coming from, generally used to detect magnetic north, but can also be used for measuring magnetic fields. This sensor tends to be paired with a 6-DoF (degree of freedom) accelerometer/gyroscope to create a 9-DoF inertial measurement unit that can detect its orientation in real-space thanks to Earth's stable magnetic field.

What's the first thing you want to do with your Fruit Jam? Run a Mac emulator of course! Intrepid CircuitPython core developer jepler forked the pico-mac emulator and made it run smoothly like fresh jam spread on toast for the Fruit Jam. This means video output via HSTX, PIO USB, PSRAM support and even audio output from the onboard I2S DAC.

This is a 2.13" quad-color (red, black, yellow and white) display. It has 250x122 black, red and yellow ink pixels and a white-ish background. It uses the JD79661 chipset, so make sure whatever firmware code you are planning to use has support for it. Using our CircuitPython or Arduino libraries, you can create a 'frame buffer' with what pixels you want to have activated and then write that out to the display.

The Adafruit Pi Stemma is a small, easily removable breakout that easily adds a 4-pin JST SH pin (Stemma QT or Qwiic) connector to your Raspberry Pi. The 2x3 socket design allows you to plug securely into the Pi's I2C bus with no soldering required, Works great if you want to add a QT connector for quick I2C sensor and devices integration without any header-fiddling.

If your project is moving a lot of power around, and efficiency is key, an Adafruit LM73100 Ideal Diode breakout is a great way to keep your power budget tidy! As long as your power supply is 3 to 23V DC and up to 5A, use this in place of a diode to keep current flowing one direction. However, unlike a diode, you won't suffer a 1V+ forward drop which just gets lost as heat.

Perfect for educational uses, the Adafruit Simple Soil Moisture Sensor is low cost, and easy to use. This is a simple resistive style moisture sensor, where there's two prongs and the sensor measures the conductivity between the two.

Build a thermal imagining camera using Raspberry Pi and an MLX90640 IR thermal camera.

Add rotational sensing - without a mechanical connection - with the Adafruit AS5600 Magnetic Angle Sensor. Featuring the classic ams AS5600, this board can sense a rotating N/S magnetic field up to 3mm away from the chip body. These sensors are often used to create 'frictionless' rotary encoders or potentiometers, without the risk of mechanical failure or noise. Magnetic angle sensors get the best of 'both worlds': like rotary encoders they can rotate freely 360 degrees around, and like potentiometers, they have absolute location detection.

The Adafruit Constant Current Boost Converter for LEDs makes driving LEDs easy, whether they're in series or parallel - with a chip that can generate up to 40V and 400mA from 3 to 5V input. Unlike most of our booster chips that generate a fixed voltage (like 5V, or 12V) the TPS61169 increases the voltage until a set current is being drawn. That makes it excellent for LEDs that are specified in current not voltage. Perfect for use with our LED nOOds and filaments, where sometimes you need up to 12V or 24V, at 200mA or so.

Use a Feather RP2040 USB host and MCP23017 solenoid driver with CircuitPython to build a fake typewriter