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TV screen glowing green with a Fruit Jam microcontroller in front of it acting as a mini game console. Wires run to and from the console. The screen text reads "PCENGINE PC Engined CD-ROM2"
Pico Bootloader Retro Console
By John Park
Turn your RP2350 board into a retro console — an on-screen boot menu that flashes and launches emulators and Doom straight from the SD card. Works for any RP2350 app you make bootable.
A small CRT television with a demoscene graphics menu casting a greenish-blue glow onto an Adafruit Fruit Jam
Demofruit: Demoscene for Fruit Jam
By John Park
Run iconic demoscene code on the RP2350-based Fruit Jam. HDMI output to your TV, monitor, or projector, all while listening to rad tracker music MOD files.
Adafruit CLUE board held in a hand showing a color TFT display listing BLE devices like "BLE APPLE" and "AppleTV/HomePod"; two tactile buttons and JST power leads visible.
Cluetooth Scanner
By John Park
Scan the air for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices with this CircuitPython project running on the Adafruit CLUE.
Yellow arcade-style button panel with eleven red push buttons arranged in a grid. A small microcontroller board is mounted at the top center, wired to two green terminal breakout boards and connected by a purple USB cable.
Leverless Controller
By John Park
So called "leverless" controllers are popular among fighting game enthusiasts for their speed and accuracy compared to traditional lever-style joysticks. Build your own with the QT Py RP2040 and GP2040-CE firmware.
Computer keyboard with hands typing, Xbox controller top-left and small HDMI monitor showing a text-based menu with ">RUN" command. Adafruit Fruit Jam HAT board at right with multiple USB and HDMI cables connected.
PICO-8 Fruit Jam Reality Console
By John Park
Run wili8jam on Fruit Jam for a lovely tiny computing and gaming experience. This port, by freewili, puts PICO-8 cartridge running, code editing, and a REPL right on your Fruit Jam, just add monitor, keyboard, and gamepad.
Laptop on a desk displaying an Adafruit product page showing a LiPo battery, charging board, and tiny OLED module connected by red/black wires. A small blue 3D-printed single key wireless keyswitch with a glowing white top sits in front of the laptop.
One Key: Single Button Bluetooth Keyboard
By John Park
Pair this battery-powered ESP-32-based Bluetooth keyboard with your PC or mobile device and then use it for anything you like -- shutter release, mute button, emoji key-combo, wireless undo button, even a macro to type in a very long string of compliments for strangers you meet online!
Small blue rectangular wireless sensor enclosure with a USB-C power cable on the left and an SMA antenna connector to a vertical black antenna on the right. Tiny OLED shows "MOTION" in red with telemetry lines for variance, threshold, and packet stats.
ESPectre Human Detector for Feather
By John Park
This is an Arduino port of the ESPectre project designed to run self-contained on a Feather ESP32-S3 reverse TFT with external antenna. Unlike typical line-of-sight motion detectors, this project uses sophisticated algorithms to characterize noise in the WiFi streams. Wild!
Compact arcade controller with a red ball-top joystick and a 2x4 grid of RGB illuminated arcade buttons in a pink and light blue 3D printed enclosure. A retro CRT monitor at the rear showing a bit of a fighting game, Street Fighter II Turbo.
Arcade Fightstick
By John Park
Use a Pico RP2040 or KB2040 Keeboar to build your own low latency arcade joystick controller. GP2040-CE firmware plus an OLED and NeoPixels take it to the next level.
Small rectangular e-paper Adafruit MagTag display in a black case mounted on a textured metal surface, showing a high-contrast pixel art face. Four rounded rectangular buttons are visible along the case bottom and a small hole (sensor or camera) centered above the screen. Some refrigerator magnets and art are visible at the edge of frame.
ePaper Camera
By John Park
MEMENTO and MagTag are back, and together for the very first time! Use MEMENTO to snap pics that are automatically uploaded to Adafruit IO, then automatically downloaded by the MagTag for display.
Small tabletop artificial Christmas tree with red, green and white star-shaped LED string lights and silver baubles. Tree sits on a white fabric tree skirt on a wooden workbench with a USB power cable and controller visible.
Sparkle Motion Christmas Tree Lights
By John Park
Use WLED on Sparkle Motion for easy, plug-and-play, no-solder Christmas tree lighting that you can control from your mobile device or IR remote control.
Blue geometric "ADA" over a horizontal double line with "BOX" below on a black background, stylized octagonal letter shapes.
AdaBox 022
By John Park
It's AdaBox 022!
Blue geometric "ADA" over a horizontal double line with "BOX" below on a black background, stylized octagonal letter shapes.
AdaBox 022
By John Park
It's AdaBox 022!
Black digital photo frame with a grayscale frame from Metropolis on a wooden bookshelf between stacked paperback books. A black power cord runs left along the shelf and a ceramic vase with purple flowers is to the right.
eInk Slow Movie Player
By John Park
Raspberry Pi meets eInk in the beautiful art piece that displays one frame at a time so slowly that you can really appreciate it. Based on Tom Whitwell's SlowMovie project
A strangely intense looking man juggles four glowing balls, each emitting different colors: blue, green, red, and another blue. The scene is dimly lit, highlighting the illuminated balls.
Wireless LED Juggling Balls with ESP-NOW
By John Park
These 3D printed custom juggling balls can light up and send MIDI triggers to your computer or synth using ESP-NOW and built-in accelerometers.
A Fruit Jam in a Sega Genesis-themed case is connected to a controller and HDMI cable. USB ports and a power cable are visible.
Fruit Jam Sega Genesis
By John Park
Emulate this 16-bit game console from 1988 on your Fruit Jam This project pairs the Fruit Jam with an HDMI display, and USB game controller, to let you re-live the glory days of these sprite-tastic consoles.
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