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Internet of Things Printer for Raspberry Pi
Build an "Internet of Things" connected mini printer that will do your bidding! This is a fun weekend project that comes with a beautiful laser cut case. Once assembled, the little printer connects wirelessly to get Internet data for printing onto 2 1/4" wide receipt paper.
Laser-Cut Enclosure Design
A kit enclosure should be more than just a box. This can be a challenge with laser cutting. Here are some tricks and tips for imparting some elegance while also keeping costs manageable.
RGB LED Matrix Basics
Bring a little bit of Times Square into your home with our RGB LED matrix panels. These panels are normally used to make video walls — here in New York we see them on the sides of buses and on bus stops — to display animations or short video clips. We thought they looked really cool so we picked up a few boxes from the factory.
Learn how to get these LED matrices up and running with an Arduino.
Low Power Coin Cell Voltage Logger
The Data Logging Shield for Arduino was instrumental in developing a new Adafruit kit. Here we demonstrate one way to monitor battery voltage over time and notes on how to safely reduce power usage in your project!
Tiny Arduino Music Visualizer
This easy project combines an Arduino with our microphone amplifier and bicolor LED matrix to create a music visualizer that responds to ambient sound.
Animating Multiple LED Backpacks
Adafruit LED backpacks make it incredibly simple to add small bitmapped displays to a project. Each requires just four wires: power, ground and two communication lines to a microcontroller. Here’s how to use more than one 8x8 matrix backpack in an Arduino sketch.
Wave Shield Voice Changer
Like a fine wine, open source projects improve with age. We've taught this classic shield a new trick: a realtime voice changer!
Mini Thermal Receipt Printers
Add printing to any microcontroller project with these adorable thermal printers. Also known as receipt printers, they’re what you get when you go to the ATM or grocery store. Print text, barcodes, bitmap graphics, even a QR code!
Light Painting with Raspberry Pi
Light painting — a technique mixing photography with electronics — becomes astoundingly simple when Raspberry Pi is involved.
12mm LED Pixels
RGB Pixels are digitally-controllable lights you can set to any color, or animate. Each pixel contains an RGB LED and a controller chip molded into a 'dot' of silicone, with flanges so they can be pushed into holes in thin sheet material. The dots are waterproof and rugged — they're typically used to make outdoor signs.
20mm LED Pixels
RGB Pixels are digitally-controllable lights you can set to any color, or animate. Each pixel contains an RGB LED and a controller chip molded into a 'dot' of silicone, with flanges so they can be pushed into holes in thin sheet material. The dots are waterproof and rugged — they're typically used to make outdoor signs.
36mm LED Pixels
Our 36mm square pixels are our biggest and brightest! They feature four LEDs total and come in a flat metal square 'plate' that is flooded with epoxy. They require 12VDC power and can draw up to 120mA per pixel.
LPD8806 Digital RGB LED Strip
Digital LED strips are flexible circuit boards with full color LEDs soldered on. They take a lot of LED-wiring-drudgery out of decorating a room, car, bicycle, costume, etc. The ones we carry come with a removable waterproof casing.
HL1606 LED Strip
This tutorial is for our older (no longer stocked) HL1606-based flexible LED strips. For new projects we recommend LPD8806 strips in their place.
Bone Box
Pack up your Beagle Bone in this lovely clear plastic case. We designed this case to be the ideal enclosure, with plenty of elegant details to make it useful to you!
