It can be tricky to work out which pin is which when the Raspberry Pi Pico is attached to a solderless breadboard. Luckily, the MonkMakes Breadboard for Pico solves this problem by labeling the Pico pins on the breadboard.
This cute 3.2″ × 2.1″ (82 × 53mm) solderless half-size breadboard has four bus lines and 30 rows of pins, our favorite size of solderless breadboards for projects. You get a whoppin’ 400 tie points!
The board also has an adhesive backing, making it super easy to mount the breadboard to a chassis for your next robot friend!
We also carry a half-size breadboard with mounting holes.
Does not include a Raspberry Pi Pico, but you can grab one here.
MadManMonty shared this project on Thingiverse!
I was struggling to find a case that was a clean fit for the Pi Zero 2, also wanted to connect it to my Ender 3 v2, so came up with this remix using Tinkercad to remix these two cases.
Download files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5215970
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
It’s JOHN PARK’S WORKSHOP! — LIVE! — Coming up at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Today! LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat!
Today’s project: Star Trek LCARS Panel
Also:
The live video will be on Youtube LIVE, Twitch, Periscope (Twitter) and Facebook.
Join maker John Park in his workshop each week as he builds, demos, hacks, and mods projects live on air! “John Park’s Workshop — LIVE” is the place to see creative projects come to life, as John uses a wide variety of tools and techniques to make everything from mystery boxes to synthesizer controllers to drink robots, using digital fabrication, hand and power tools, microcontrollers, and such. Come on into the chat to participate in the fun! Every Thursday @ 4pm ET/1pm PT!
The International Robotics Expo (IREX) in Japan is a chance for robot makers to show off their bleeding edge technologies for the year. Here is a 14-minute overview of the 2022 expo offerings.
The International Robotics Expo (IREX) in Japan is a chance for robot makers to show off their bleeding edge technologies for the year. Here is a 14-minute overview of the 2022 expo offerings.
A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System: Adafruit 1.9″ Color IPS TFT Display.
This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful, and very bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and only a few pins available! The 1.9″ display has 320×170 16-bit full-color pixels and is an IPS display, so the color looks great up to 80 degrees off-axis in any direction. The TFT driver (ST7789) is very similar to the popular ST7735, and the Adafruit Arduino library supports it well.
The breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate flex-circuit connector) as well as an ultra-low-dropout 3.3V regulator, auto-reset circuitry, and a 3/5V level shifter, so you can use it with 3.3V or 5V power and logic. We also had a little extra space, so we placed a microSD card holder, so you can easily load full color bitmaps…
A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System: Adafruit 1.47″ Round Rectangle TFT Display.
Don’t be such a square – throw a curveball into your electronics with a curved-edge miniature display. Here’s a new “round rect” TFT display – it’s 1.47″ diagonal and has high-density 250 ppi, 172×320 full-color pixels with IPS any-angle viewing. We’ve seen displays of this caliber used in smartwatches and small electronic devices, but they’ve always been MIPI interface. Finally, we found one that is SPI and has a friendly display driver, so it works with any and all microcontrollers or microcomputers!
This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful, and very bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available! The 1.47″ display has 172×320 16-bit full color pixels and is an IPS display, so the color looks great up to 80 degrees off-axis in any direction. The TFT driver (ST7789) is very similar to the popular ST7735, and our Arduino library supports it well.
A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System: Adafruit 1.9″ Color IPS TFT Display.
This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful, and very bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and only a few pins available! The 1.9″ display has 320×170 16-bit full-color pixels and is an IPS display, so the color looks great up to 80 degrees off-axis in any direction. The TFT driver (ST7789) is very similar to the popular ST7735, and the Adafruit Arduino library supports it well.
The breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate flex-circuit connector) as well as an ultra-low-dropout 3.3V regulator, auto-reset circuitry, and a 3/5V level shifter, so you can use it with 3.3V or 5V power and logic. We also had a little extra space, so we placed a microSD card holder, so you can easily load full color bitmaps…
When I was a young teen, my friends and I were obsessed with building our own go kart. We made a rickety frame out of plywood and 2x4s and outfitted it with plastic mower wheels. The seat was a sawed off lawn chair. We longed for an engine to drive it. We found several lawn mower engines in a town dump and tried to cobble the parts from them to make a working one, but to no avail. We, of course, had no real mechanics skills at 13.
Seeing this video, I wonder if we wouldn’t have tried using a battery-powered drill as is used in this project (if such a thing existed back in the Jurassic era of my childhood).
From the first time I spotted a cluster of mushrooms at the base of a tree in my childhood backyard that sprouted during an overnight rainstorm, I knew that there was something kind of magical about mushrooms and how they grow. This video from Another Perspective on YouTube distills that magic into a well-shot and well-edited timelapse video of mushrooms grown at home.
Hundreds of hours of filming, photographing and editing. After one year of filming macro time lapse of 9 different types of fungi I grew in my basement, I finally finished this project pressing 5TB of image data into a 3 minute time lapse video. During that year, my camera equipment had to deal with spores and high humidity but took no visible damage.
Nisi Shawl is an amazing author of speculative fiction.
Nisi Shawl is a founder of the diversity-in-speculative-fiction nonprofit the Carl Brandon Society and serves on the Board of Directors of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. Her story collection Filter House was a winner of the 2009 Tiptree/Otherwise Award, and her debut novel, Everfair, was a 2016 Nebula finalist. Shawl edited Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars (2013). She coedited Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (2013).
Read more and check out her writing.
Nisi Shawl is an amazing author of speculative fiction.
Nisi Shawl is a founder of the diversity-in-speculative-fiction nonprofit the Carl Brandon Society and serves on the Board of Directors of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. Her story collection Filter House was a winner of the 2009 Tiptree/Otherwise Award, and her debut novel, Everfair, was a 2016 Nebula finalist. Shawl edited Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars (2013). She coedited Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (2013).
Read more and check out her writing.
Residents of Benton Harbor complained for years about the safety of the water, but few actions were taken. In September 2021 the Benton Harbor Community Water Council and others filed a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling for it to secure a source of safe drinking water for the community. The petition also calls for the replacement of the lead service lines running into the city’s homes.
Residents of Benton Harbor complained for years about the safety of the water, but few actions were taken. In September 2021 the Benton Harbor Community Water Council and others filed a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling for it to secure a source of safe drinking water for the community. The petition also calls for the replacement of the lead service lines running into the city’s homes.
I find these How Ridiculous videos to be… well… ridiculous, but also a guilty pleasure. I roll my eyes but can’t look away.
In this one, the team play a game to see how many giant balloons they can pop (and film in slo-mo) using randomly-chosen projectiles (from spitballs to a bow and a arrow).
I find these How Ridiculous videos to be… well… ridiculous, but also a guilty pleasure. I roll my eyes but can’t look away.
In this one, the team play a game to see how many giant balloons they can pop (and film in slo-mo) using randomly-chosen projectiles (from spitballs to a bow and a arrow).
This list from Tor.com has SO many of my personal faves (Totoro, the Lorax, Tom Bombadil?!?!).
The Ents count among Tolkien’s Green Man stand-ins as well, but old Tom Bombadil is certainly more… interesting. Left out of the LOTR films to the dismay of many fans, Bombadil doesn’t serve a plot purpose in Fellowship of the Ring, but he sure is fun to run into as interludes go. With his fancy lady of the river, Goldberry, and his odd yet powerful tunes, Bombadil gives the hobbits a place to nap after saving them in the Barrow-downs by frightening off a few nasty wights. With his home in the Old Forest, Bombadil remembers events on Middle-earth that no other living being can attest to—it would seem that he has always been there, and always will be. With abilities that no one quite understands, Tom stands apart from the rest of Middle-earth’s people, with Gandalf going so far as to say that the One Ring would hold no temptation for Bombadil… but he might simply misplace the darn thing.
Definitely bookmarking a few of these, including The Mitchells vs. the Machines – trailer above, list via The New York Times.
This month’s picks include near-future psychological drama, Oscar-nominated robot antics and a bearded, mysterious Hugo Weaving.
Definitely bookmarking a few of these, including The Mitchells vs. the Machines – trailer above, list via The New York Times.
This month’s picks include near-future psychological drama, Oscar-nominated robot antics and a bearded, mysterious Hugo Weaving.
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Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S2 WiFi Dev Board with uFL Antenna Port – STEMMA QT
What has your favorite Espressif WiFi microcontroller, comes with our favorite connector – the STEMMA QT, a chainable I2C port, and has lots of Flash and RAM memory for your next IoT project? What will make your next IoT project flyyyyy? What a cutie pie! Or is it… a QT Py? This diminutive dev board comes with one of our new favorite lil chips, the ESP32-S2, and a uFL antenna port so you can connect any WiFi antenna for great range!
ADXL345 – Triple-Axis Accelerometer (+-2g/4g/8g/16g) w/ I2C/SPI – STEMMA QT / Qwiic
Filling out our accelerometer offerings, we now have the really lovely digital ADXL345 from Analog Devices, a triple-axis accelerometer with digital I2C and SPI interface breakout. We added an on-board 3.3V regulator and logic-level shifting circuitry, making it a perfect choice for interfacing with any 3V or 5V microcontroller such as the Arduino.
Bluefruit LE Sniffer – Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE 4.0) – nRF51822 – Firmware Version 2
Interested in learning how Bluetooth Low Energy works down to the packet level? Debugging your own BLE hardware, and trying to spot where something is going wrong? Or maybe you’re writing a custom application for your phone or tablet that needs to talk to existing BLE hardware, but you don’t know how it works beneath the surface? We have the perfect tool for you!
Adafruit PiUART – USB Console and Power Add-on for Raspberry Pi
Here’s another super handy add-on for your Raspberry Pi computer, perfect for ‘head-less’ setups! The PiUART adds a USB Type-C to serial connection so you can use any serial port software to connect to the Pi’s console. It plugs in and is fast and easy to add whenever you need to connect to your Pi. Two LEDs connect to RX and TX on the serial converter chip so you get blinking whenever data is sent or received.
Solar Bug Kit 2.0 from Brown Dog Gadgets – 4 Pack
Learn about solar energy by creating a simple solar circuit in minutes using only conductive tape! Cut out your bug, decorate it, then add your solar cell and vibrating motor. All parts are connected with our special Maker Tape conductive tape, perfect for younger students. Once built these bugs will move around in the sun, and best of all, they’ll never run out of power.
Solar Bug Kit 2.0 from Brown Dog Gadgets – 25-pack
Create multiple solar-powered insects that move for an entire party, camp-group, or classrom with this fun-filled STEM project from Brown Dog Gadgets!
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Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S2 WiFi Dev Board with uFL Antenna Port – STEMMA QT
What has your favorite Espressif WiFi microcontroller, comes with our favorite connector – the STEMMA QT, a chainable I2C port, and has lots of Flash and RAM memory for your next IoT project? What will make your next IoT project flyyyyy? What a cutie pie! Or is it… a QT Py? This diminutive dev board comes with one of our new favorite lil chips, the ESP32-S2, and a uFL antenna port so you can connect any WiFi antenna for great range!
ADXL345 – Triple-Axis Accelerometer (+-2g/4g/8g/16g) w/ I2C/SPI – STEMMA QT / Qwiic
Filling out our accelerometer offerings, we now have the really lovely digital ADXL345 from Analog Devices, a triple-axis accelerometer with digital I2C and SPI interface breakout. We added an on-board 3.3V regulator and logic-level shifting circuitry, making it a perfect choice for interfacing with any 3V or 5V microcontroller such as the Arduino.
Bluefruit LE Sniffer – Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE 4.0) – nRF51822 – Firmware Version 2
Interested in learning how Bluetooth Low Energy works down to the packet level? Debugging your own BLE hardware, and trying to spot where something is going wrong? Or maybe you’re writing a custom application for your phone or tablet that needs to talk to existing BLE hardware, but you don’t know how it works beneath the surface? We have the perfect tool for you!
Adafruit PiUART – USB Console and Power Add-on for Raspberry Pi
Here’s another super handy add-on for your Raspberry Pi computer, perfect for ‘head-less’ setups! The PiUART adds a USB Type-C to serial connection so you can use any serial port software to connect to the Pi’s console. It plugs in and is fast and easy to add whenever you need to connect to your Pi. Two LEDs connect to RX and TX on the serial converter chip so you get blinking whenever data is sent or received.
Solar Bug Kit 2.0 from Brown Dog Gadgets – 4 Pack
Learn about solar energy by creating a simple solar circuit in minutes using only conductive tape! Cut out your bug, decorate it, then add your solar cell and vibrating motor. All parts are connected with our special Maker Tape conductive tape, perfect for younger students. Once built these bugs will move around in the sun, and best of all, they’ll never run out of power.
Solar Bug Kit 2.0 from Brown Dog Gadgets – 25-pack
Create multiple solar-powered insects that move for an entire party, camp-group, or classrom with this fun-filled STEM project from Brown Dog Gadgets!
Visit www.adafruit.com/new for more info.
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In this Tested video, Norm Chan gives us a tour of his gorgeous 1/6-scale Cyberpunk 2077 diorama featuring officially-licensed Cyberpunk figure and motorcycle.
After showing the official models, Norm explains how he used laser-cutting, 3D printing, scratch building, and lighting and fog effects to assemble a complete desktop diorama to showcase the figure and motorcycle.
Each year, more than 67,000 woodworkers and DIYers have an accident on their tablesaws. In addressing the dangers of these tools, a company called SawStop created a tablesaw that seizes the blade if it comes in contact with your fingers.
This saw has been a game-changer in shop safety. But how reliable is its safety mechanism? Responding to common critical questions online about the saw, Jonathan Katz-Moses did some testing and recording using super slo-mo photography (19,000 FPS HD). The results are amazing, even when using a heavy, multi-blade dado stack.
RAF1K shared this project on Thingiverse!
I designed this simple mounting system to be able to quickly mount and unmount an iPad to a suction cup. My main purpose for this is to mount an iPad to the windshield of an aircraft to run Foreflight.
I assume others might find similar use cases for this. It is substantially cheaper to build this than to buy some of the options on the market. Just because operating an aircraft is expensive, it does not mean that simple aviation tools need to be expensive.
While I do provide instructions/BOM on installing this part to the specific Ipad case I bought, you can choose the case of your choice. I would recommend a sturdy one with a hard shell. You could also install the part using epoxy instead of screws to prevent the need for drilling into a case.
Download files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5192548
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
Each year, more than 67,000 woodworkers and DIYers have an accident on their tablesaws. In addressing the dangers of these tools, a company called SawStop created a tablesaw that seizes the blade if it comes in contact with your fingers.
This saw has been a game-changer in shop safety. But how reliable is its safety mechanism? Responding to common critical questions online about the saw, Jonathan Katz-Moses did some testing and recording using super slo-mo photography (19,000 FPS HD). The results are amazing, even when using a heavy, multi-blade dado stack.
The Adafruit VL53L4CD Time of Flight Sensor is another great Time of Flight distance sensor from ST in the VL5 series of chips, this one is great for shorter distances.
The Adafruit VL53L4CD guide has everything you need to get started with your new time of flight sensor. There’s an overview, pinouts, CircuitPython and Python set up and examples, Arduino set up and examples, and download resources.
Check out the full guide: Adafruit VL53L4CD!
Get up and running (tapping, free-falling, whatever!) in no time with this quality 3-axis accelerometer.
The ADXL345 breakout board, now with STEMMA QT, has a wide sensitivity range and high resolution, operating with an 10 or 13-bit internal ADC. Built-in motion detection features make tap, double-tap, activity, inactivity, and free-fall detection trivial.
The Analog Devices ADXL343 Breakout guide has been updated to include the STEMMA QT version of the board. There is now a Pinouts page, new wiring diagrams, and new downloads resources.
Check out the full guide: Analog Devices ADXL343 Breakout!
The Hill House, in Helensburgh, Scotland, is considered an architectural treasure. Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (one of Scotland’s most famous architects), and built in 1902, it used ideas that were decades ahead of their time. One of those experimental ideas turned out to be a huge mistake.
Portland cement was used on the exterior, in a mixture that contained no lime. This has caused the exterior of the building to absorb huge amounts of the rain that constantly falls in this area, the wettest in Scotland, and over the decades, Mackintosh’s domestic masterpiece has literally begun to dissolve (“like an aspirin in water”).
To give the building time to dry out so that it can be properly preserved, The National Trust of Scotland came up with an ingenious plan. After a scaffolding was erected around the entire house and a roof put on over it, the walls of the enclosure were built from 30 million chainmail links. This chaimail curtain allows the house and grounds to breathe while the roof keeps the house dry. It will take years for the building to dry out before preservation efforts to take place.
We’ve gotten a lot of requests for a MCP23017 breakout and we’ve always sorta been like “ehh why not just use the DIP chip?” but with STEMMA QT we could see the use case for a plug and play version that comes with all the passives on board. This Adafruit MCP23017 I2C GPIO Expander Breakout has 16 GPIO with matching ground pad.
The Adafruit MCP23017 I2C GPIO Expander guide has everything you need to get started with your new GPIO expander. There’s an overview, pinouts, CircuitPython and Python set up and examples, Arduino set up and examples, and download resources.
Check out the full guide: Adafruit MCP23017 I2C GPIO Expander!
New guide! John Park’s Breakbeat Breadboard Learn Guide shows you how to build a simple button board to play synced wav files using CircuitPython’s audio mixer.
Beat matched audio files play in sync, while the audio mixer mutes and un-mutes sounds like a DJ killswitch. Plugs into any audio amplifier, or powered speaker set for maximum breakbeat oomph.
New guide! John Park’s Breakbeat Breadboard Learn Guide shows you how to build a simple button board to play synced wav files using CircuitPython’s audio mixer.
Beat matched audio files play in sync, while the audio mixer mutes and un-mutes sounds like a DJ killswitch. Plugs into any audio amplifier, or powered speaker set for maximum breakbeat oomph.
When my son was in grade school, he came home one day with an awesome robotic arm that he had made in industrial arts. It was made out of wood and simple hardware. The actuation was provided by water in plastic syringes and hosing. A controller was made by slotting the syringes into a game controller-like piece of wood you held in your hands. I thought the idea was ingenious and had never seen it before, even thought I had just recently published a book on hobby robotics.
In this quick Adam Savage video, he presents the same idea. Two large syringes, some tubing, and some water, and you have a very cheap and surprisingly strong actuation solution.
When my son was in grade school, he came home one day with an awesome robotic arm that he had made in industrial arts. It was made out of wood and simple hardware. The actuation was provided by water in plastic syringes and hosing. A controller was made by slotting the syringes into a game controller-like piece of wood you held in your hands. I thought the idea was ingenious and had never seen it before, even thought I had just recently published a book on hobby robotics.
In this quick Adam Savage video, he presents the same idea. Two large syringes, some tubing, and some water, and you have a very cheap and surprisingly strong actuation solution.
How cool is this one-person steam-powered vehicle (made from car, bike, motorcycle parts and a 55-gallon drum) that runs on water and wood?
I love how he refuels the vehicle by scrounging for firewood and even refuels himself with sausage on the fire while he’s waiting for the boiler to re-pressurize.
How cool is this one-person steam-powered vehicle (made from car, bike, motorcycle parts and a 55-gallon drum) that runs on water and wood?
I love how he refuels the vehicle by scrounging for firewood and even refuels himself with sausage on the fire while he’s waiting for the boiler to re-pressurize.
we spent today working on a ESP32-S3 feather. you may be thinking “hey wait didn’t you already design one?” yep! but we had a hardware bug that increased deep-sleep power, and so we wanted to revise the ESP32-S2 feather first to fix it since the PCBs for the two designs are shared. now we have the new ESP32-S2 in the shop with the fix https://www.adafruit.com/product/5303 so we can respin the S3. even better, Espressif has started adding S3 support in a branch so we were able to test the GPIO, I2C, UART, NeoPixel, low power, and WiFi capabilities successfully. We’ve got a PR open to add this new board – it’s very exciting! https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/pull/6450 This board uses the only S3 mini module available right now, with 8 MB of Flash and no PSRAM. however, there’s more SRAM on the S3 than S2 so its still very usable. when the PSRAM-containing mini module comes out we’ll make a version with that too – video.
we spent today working on a ESP32-S3 feather. you may be thinking “hey wait didn’t you already design one?” yep! but we had a hardware bug that increased deep-sleep power, and so we wanted to revise the ESP32-S2 feather first to fix it since the PCBs for the two designs are shared. now we have the new ESP32-S2 in the shop with the fix https://www.adafruit.com/product/5303 so we can respin the S3. even better, Espressif has started adding S3 support in a branch so we were able to test the GPIO, I2C, UART, NeoPixel, low power, and WiFi capabilities successfully. We’ve got a PR open to add this new board – it’s very exciting! https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/pull/6450 This board uses the only S3 mini module available right now, with 8 MB of Flash and no PSRAM. however, there’s more SRAM on the S3 than S2 so its still very usable. when the PSRAM-containing mini module comes out we’ll make a version with that too – video.
Such beautiful, crazy twists and curves on this wooden bench. Maker André Göbel achieved this amazing look by steam-bending the wood and holding it all together using dimensionally stable epoxy resin adhesive. Imagine the recoil forces this thing is under.
As with other videos on André’s channel, there are a ton of great tips shown during the build. It even features the workpiece-transport clamp he built out of a skate wheel and an F-clamp. I featured this awesome little DIY shop tool in my latest tips book.
Such beautiful, crazy twists and curves on this wooden bench. Maker André Göbel achieved this amazing look by steam-bending the wood and holding it all together using dimensionally stable epoxy resin adhesive. Imagine the recoil forces this thing is under.
As with other videos on André’s channel, there are a ton of great tips shown during the build. It even features the workpiece-transport clamp he built out of a skate wheel and an F-clamp. I featured this awesome little DIY shop tool in my latest tips book.