Wireless LED Juggling Balls with ESP-NOW
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.
Fruit Jam Sega Genesis
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.
Fruit Jam Chyron
A "chyron" is a text caption superimposed over broadcast video, usually in the lower third of the frame. This system uses a Fruit Jam to output text over HDMI that can be color keyed out in real time. This example is from JP's Product Pick of the Week and includes live product data from the Adafruit products API grabbed over WiFi in real time.
Fruit Jam Nintendo Entertainment System and Retro Jam
The original Nintendo Entertainment System remains a popular target for emulation. This project pairs the Fruit Jam with an HDMI display, and USB or I2C game controller. Now includes NES, Game Boy, Genesis, and Sega Master System.
Pico Bluetooth Keyboard Bridge
Does your computer lack Bluetooth receiver capabilites? No worries! The Pico W and Pico 2W running Arduino can receive wireless keyboard (and mouse) messages and act as a wired USB HID device on a host computer or microcontroller.
ESP-NOW in CircuitPython
Use ESP-NOW wireless protocol with your CircuitPython boards for simple, low-power communications among props, wearables, and other devices
Knobby Sequencer
Build a note step sequencer which uses rotary push-encoders to dial in notes and step muting for USB MIDI music making. CircuitPython makes it easy to code, and STEMMA QT seesaw quad encoder boards make it simple to string together multiple sets for longer sequences.
Sparkle Motion Dance Shoes
Create fierce LED lighting effects inside your platform shoes! These Sparkle Motion RGB WLED controlled lights are sound-reactive, WiFi-enabled, and totally snatched.
Larsio Paint Music
Remember Mario Paint for SNES with the awesome mouse and mousepad and the rad music program contained within? We can recapture some of the magic with the Metro RP2350 or Fruit Jam, a mouse, display, and CircuitPython code!
Computer Space Mini Arcade
Based on Spacewar! for PDP-1, Computer Space laid the foundation for the entire arcade video game industry. This 3D printed recreation is much smaller and less expensive than the rare originals!
Feather Guitar Hero Adapter
An Xbox 360 Guitar Hero controller has USB out, so it oughta "just work" on Fortnite Festival or Clone Hero, and yet, sadly, it does not. Until now! Use a Feather RP2040 USB Host to adapt those strums, taps, whammy bar hits, and tilt messages to something your computer understands!
LED Matrix Wall Arcade for Pico-8
Use the Piomatter for Raspberry Pi 5 to drive four 64x64 HUB75 RGB LED matrices for a perfect 1:1 Pico-8 fantasy console on your wall.
USB MIDI Host2Host
USB MIDI hosts such as laptops, sample stations, grooveboxes, and Raspberry Pi-based norns music computers love talking to devices like keyboards and controllers, but not with each other. This simple project allows hosts to talk MIDI to each other, opening up a world of sequencing possibilities.
Espresso Water Tank Meter
Ultrasonic distance sensing works great to measure liquid levels -- a simple CircuitPython program running on Feather ESP32-S2 reports that data over WiFi -- never get caught short again!
Animating Animatronics
Use the Bottango software along with the Adafruit Metro ESP32-S2 and 16-channel Servo Shield to animate anything you like.