FunHouse Motion Detecting Lights with LIFX Bulbs
Light bulbs by LIFX can be controlled over WiFi by the FunHouse. Set up proximity detection using a PIR sensor and create a color-changing lighting scheme.
Funhouse Door Alert with Email Notification
Using a magnetic contact switch is a great way to sense when a door is open. This system uses the Funhouse to send WiFi data to Adafruit IO, which can then send you an email or other alert when the door's open!
Analog Knobs on Raspberry Pi 400 with CYBERDECK Hat
The Raspberry Pi lacks analog input pins, so we'll have an ADC (analog digital converter) board come to the rescue. The CYBERDECK and STEMMA QT make it easy to add, and CircuitPython + OSC + Sonic-Pi make it rad.
Touch Deck: DIY Customizable TFT Control Pad
Full-color, customizable USB controls at your fingertips with this LCD touch screen controller. Feather RP2040 + 3.5" TFT display running CircuitPython for the ultimate, multi-layer DIY Stream Deck.
Retroreflective Greenscreen Light Ring QT Py Controller
Create chromakey mattes to place your subject in front of any background image or video you like using a retroreflective greenscreen/bluescreen -- you decide the color you need with the click of a button.
DIY Pico Mechanical Keyboard with Fritzing and CircuitPython
Use the Raspberry Pi RP2040 Pico as the brains of a mechanical keyboard -- no scan matrix required! Up to 26 keys can be used with direct GPIO pins. You'll learn how to make your own PCB design in Fritzing to send off for fabrication. A 3D printed or laser cut case round finishes it off in style.
MagTag Sports Schedule Viewer
The ESPN API is used to pull in NCAA data for basketball, NHL hockey, Italia Serie A, MLB baseball, NFL football and more. Each day you can check when each game is, and where it'll be broadcast.
DC, Servo, Stepper Motors and Solenoids with the Pico
You can drive dc motors, solenoids, servos, and stepper motors using CircuitPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 microcontroller. Here's how to set up these fundamental circuits and code your own robot motor party.
No-Solder Visualizer Capacitive Touch Controller
Animus is a beautiful music visualizer made with Processing. There are a number of keyboard shortcuts to adjust the visualizations, but instead of a computer keyboard, you can use a custom touch controller you design and build yourself. Coded with CircuitPython. Uses the MPR121 12-key cap touch sensor STEMMA QT breakout and a QT Py.
Guitar Hero MIDI Controller
Make a sweet USB MIDI controller for your synthesizer! Wii accessories use I2C to send all of their data, so we'll couple the Guitar Hero controller with a STEMMA QT Nunchuck Breakout and a QT Py to read all fret buttons, whammy bar, strum bar, and joystick data.
MagTag AR Tarot Card Reading
Use MagTag to present the mystery of the Tarot. Load up the Adafruit AR app and point your iOS phone at the MagTag Tarot images to receive words of fortune & wisdom from Minerva.
MagTag Weekly Showtimes Event Notifier
This MagTag display project informs you of the currently playing Adafruit Livestream show, or lets you know when the next show starts! You can modify the project for your own recurring calendar events, too!
AdaBox 017
Who knows what the future may hold. The best way to predict the future, is to help invent it. This time last year, would you believe any predictions if you knew what was ahead? Our fates may be up to chance, or maybe they are pre-destined - but we know what you'll be doing for the next few weeks at least... Learning and exploring electronic paper with the MagTag, a battery-powered E-lnk display with built-in WiFi.
MagTag Showerthoughts and Quotes
With the power of the MagTag's ESP32-S2 WiFi enabled processor, we can stream in a continuously updating list of quotes from Adafruit's quotes server. Or, got a bit more to the contemplatives side with the popular Reddit r/Showerthoughts display!
MagTag Slideshow
Use CircuitPython to make a slideshow viewer, and use the MagTag's buttons, NeoPixels, and sound playback as an interface to pause/play, advance/back, and mute/unmute. You can use magnetic feet to attach your MagTag anywhere you like, or mount it with M3 screws to a small stand.