On this episode of The 8-Bit Guy, Dave reviews the latest MiniPET 4080D. This is an upgrade to the original MiniPET kit. As the name implies, the new version allows you to switch from 25-line 40-column display mode to a higher-resolution 80-column mode.
The new board comes fully assembled and is designed so that it can be used to replace dead motherboards in old Commodore PET computers.
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Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout with GLONASS + GPS – PA1616D – 99 channel w/10 Hz updates: This version of the Ultimate GPS is even MORE Ultimate, with support for more GPS-like networks such as GLONASS, for even more coverage worldwide. It uses a slightly taller module than our classic Ultimate GPS, and uses a little more power. Otherwise its almost identical in functionality
DIY Magnetic Connector – Straight Angle Five Contact Pins: If you love power adapters or toys & gadgets that have magnetic connections, you can now experiment with these futuristic connectors easily. It’s sorta like a DIY “MagSafe-styled” connector, with five 0.1″ spaced contact pogo pins and a straight solderable connection to your PCB. If you’ve ever owned a MacBook or a littleBits set, you’ll find the functionality familiar.
Through Hole Dual Inline Pogo Pin Header – 2×3 with 0.1″ Spacing: Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they’re handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you can’t solder headers to.
Through Hole Inline Pogo Pin Header – 9 Pins with 0.1″ Spacing: Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they’re handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you can’t solder headers to.
Zero Spy Camera for Raspberry Pi Zero – 120 Degree Focal Angle: Is your house haunted? Or, rather, are you convinced that your house is haunted but have never been able to prove it since you’ve never had a camera that integrated with your Raspberry Pi Zero but was still small enough that the ghosts wouldn’t notice it?
Luckily, the Spy Camera for Raspberry Pi Zero is smaller than a thumbnail with a high enough resolution to see people, ghosts, or whatever it is you’re looking for. It’s about the size of a cell phone camera – the module being just 8.6mm x 8.6mm – with only a 2″ cable, so you can create an extra compact and sneaky little spy cam. This version has a 120-degree focal angle for a fisheye effect that’s great for security systems or watching a big swath of the living room or roadway.
Zero Spy Camera for Raspberry Pi Zero – 160 Degree Focal Angle: Like the Raspberry Pi Camera Board, it attaches to your Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 or Zero W by way of the small socket on the board’s edge closest to the “PWR in” port. This interface uses the dedicated CSI interface, which was designed especially for interfacing to cameras. The CSI bus is capable of extremely high data rates, and it exclusively carries pixel data.
Adafruit QT Py ESP32 Pico – WiFi Dev Board with STEMMA QT – 8MB Flash 2MB PSRAM: This dev board is like when you’re watching a super-hero movie and the protagonist shows up in a totally amazing costume in the third act and you’re like ‘OMG! That’s the hero and they’re here to kick some serious butt!” but in this case its a microcontroller.
This QT Py board is a thumbnail-sized PCB that features the ESP32 Pico V3 02, an all-in-one chip that has an ESP32 chip with dual-core 240MHz Tensilica processor, WiFi and Bluetooth classic + BLE, adds a bunch of required passives and oscillator, 8 MB of Flash memory and 2 MB of PSRAM. We add a USB to serial converter chip, some more passives, an antenna, USB C, buttons, NeoPixel and QT connector to outfit this super-hero chip for any task you want to throw it at.
New Prods 4/27/22 Feat. Adafruit QT Py ESP32 Pico – WiFi Dev Board w/STEMMA QT -8MB Flash 2MB PSRAM!
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Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout with GLONASS + GPS – PA1616D – 99 channel w/10 Hz updates: This version of the Ultimate GPS is even MORE Ultimate, with support for more GPS-like networks such as GLONASS, for even more coverage worldwide. It uses a slightly taller module than our classic Ultimate GPS, and uses a little more power. Otherwise its almost identical in functionality
DIY Magnetic Connector – Straight Angle Five Contact Pins: If you love power adapters or toys & gadgets that have magnetic connections, you can now experiment with these futuristic connectors easily. It’s sorta like a DIY “MagSafe-styled” connector, with five 0.1″ spaced contact pogo pins and a straight solderable connection to your PCB. If you’ve ever owned a MacBook or a littleBits set, you’ll find the functionality familiar.
Through Hole Dual Inline Pogo Pin Header – 2×3 with 0.1″ Spacing: Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they’re handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you can’t solder headers to.
Through Hole Inline Pogo Pin Header – 9 Pins with 0.1″ Spacing: Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they’re handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you can’t solder headers to.
Zero Spy Camera for Raspberry Pi Zero – 120 Degree Focal Angle: Is your house haunted? Or, rather, are you convinced that your house is haunted but have never been able to prove it since you’ve never had a camera that integrated with your Raspberry Pi Zero but was still small enough that the ghosts wouldn’t notice it?
Luckily, the Spy Camera for Raspberry Pi Zero is smaller than a thumbnail with a high enough resolution to see people, ghosts, or whatever it is you’re looking for. It’s about the size of a cell phone camera – the module being just 8.6mm x 8.6mm – with only a 2″ cable, so you can create an extra compact and sneaky little spy cam. This version has a 120-degree focal angle for a fisheye effect that’s great for security systems or watching a big swath of the living room or roadway.
Zero Spy Camera for Raspberry Pi Zero – 160 Degree Focal Angle: Like the Raspberry Pi Camera Board, it attaches to your Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 or Zero W by way of the small socket on the board’s edge closest to the “PWR in” port. This interface uses the dedicated CSI interface, which was designed especially for interfacing to cameras. The CSI bus is capable of extremely high data rates, and it exclusively carries pixel data.
Adafruit QT Py ESP32 Pico – WiFi Dev Board with STEMMA QT – 8MB Flash 2MB PSRAM: This dev board is like when you’re watching a super-hero movie and the protagonist shows up in a totally amazing costume in the third act and you’re like ‘OMG! That’s the hero and they’re here to kick some serious butt!” but in this case its a microcontroller.
This QT Py board is a thumbnail-sized PCB that features the ESP32 Pico V3 02, an all-in-one chip that has an ESP32 chip with dual-core 240MHz Tensilica processor, WiFi and Bluetooth classic + BLE, adds a bunch of required passives and oscillator, 8 MB of Flash memory and 2 MB of PSRAM. We add a USB to serial converter chip, some more passives, an antenna, USB C, buttons, NeoPixel and QT connector to outfit this super-hero chip for any task you want to throw it at.
New Prods 4/27/22 Feat. Adafruit QT Py ESP32 Pico – WiFi Dev Board w/STEMMA QT -8MB Flash 2MB PSRAM!
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How do you think Yoda would prepare his coffee? With this cute holder you have some options. From yagizsaglam on Thingiverse:
This holder designed for easy print. Have fun!
Download the files and learn more
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!
NEW PRODUCT – DIY Magnetic Connector – Straight Angle Five Contact Pins
If you love power adapters or toys & gadgets that have magnetic connections, you can now experiment with these futuristic connectors easily. It’s sorta like a DIY “MagSafe-styled” connector, with five 0.1″ spaced contact pogo pins and a straight solderable connection to your PCB. If you’ve ever owned a MacBook or a littleBits set, you’ll find the functionality familiar.
Bring the two halves together and the embedded magnets attract, making a firm connection and assuring that all the pogos make contact. If you try to connect the contacts backward, they will repel!
Use it for power, data, and maybe a magnetic STEMMA QT or USB connector? – whatever you wish! Comes with two halves that, of course, match up nicely.
NEW PRODUCT – DIY Magnetic Connector – Straight Angle Five Contact Pins
If you love power adapters or toys & gadgets that have magnetic connections, you can now experiment with these futuristic connectors easily. It’s sorta like a DIY “MagSafe-styled” connector, with five 0.1″ spaced contact pogo pins and a straight solderable connection to your PCB. If you’ve ever owned a MacBook or a littleBits set, you’ll find the functionality familiar.
Bring the two halves together and the embedded magnets attract, making a firm connection and assuring that all the pogos make contact. If you try to connect the contacts backward, they will repel!
Use it for power, data, and maybe a magnetic STEMMA QT or USB connector? – whatever you wish! Comes with two halves that, of course, match up nicely.
Haku3D shared this project on Thingiverse!
I saw someone requested this on Facebook, sorry I can’t remember who it was, hope they find this.
It’s simple TPU bung that covers the micro-USB socket on your flight controller (or whatever device you have with a micro-USB on its board), uses the same principal as the bung I created to cover the upgrade socket on a HDZero VTX – https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4777653
Download files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5268537
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!
Howdy folks! Pedro and I will be hosting tonights show and tell, Wednesday April 27 2022 at 7:30pm ET. Hope to see ya’ll there!
To show and share a project at 7:30pm Eastern today, view the chat or in discord https://ift.tt/TR16NxV and look for the JOIN link to join. For best results, be on a wired network connection and use a headset and microphone.
All are welcome, show your 3D printing project, Arduino project, CircuitPython project, Raspberry Pi project, work bench, your work from home desk set up, your cat, your dog, the things your kids made over the last week while home from school. There is no better time to come together, we’ll see you there! and stop by Discord to get the link to join LIVE!
Howdy folks! Pedro and I will be hosting tonights show and tell, Wednesday April 27 2022 at 7:30pm ET. Hope to see ya’ll there!
To show and share a project at 7:30pm Eastern today, view the chat or in discord https://ift.tt/TR16NxV and look for the JOIN link to join. For best results, be on a wired network connection and use a headset and microphone.
All are welcome, show your 3D printing project, Arduino project, CircuitPython project, Raspberry Pi project, work bench, your work from home desk set up, your cat, your dog, the things your kids made over the last week while home from school. There is no better time to come together, we’ll see you there! and stop by Discord to get the link to join LIVE!
This video runs through many of the features that used to be built into the houses of the past, from ice and milk doors and coal shoots, to porcelain insulators with single-wire copper conductor wiring, to Murphy beds and phone nooks, to RJ-45 phone jacks (remember those? 
).
A few things I had never heard of before, such as a Pittsburgh Potty, a toilet in the basement of a home (along with a sink) so that coal miners and other dirty-jobbers could clean up in the basement before entering the home.
We were looking at WCH @Patrick_RISCV for a USB to serial chip to replace the CP210x, when we remembered a lot of chatter a few years ago about the CH552 series of ultra-low-cost 8051 microcontrollers with native USB. you can kinda sorta code these with Arduino https://hackaday.io/project/172143-ch55xduino and we thought it could be an interesting QT Py since it has so few pins but does cover the basic use cases: 4 ADC, UART, SPI and maybe even I2C with a bitbang connection? Still, for very very basic USB projects maybe it would be useful, particularly since it has a ROM USB bootloader. Here’s a simple design we whipped together. Since there isn’t a lot of muxing or IO available, MISO and A2 share the same pin. Some interesting unusual things to watch for: reset is backwards from how we’d expect, and bootloader mode is entered by pulling D+ to 3V? Any CH55x experts out there who want to take a look and see if we got it all wired right? Anything we missed?
We were looking at WCH @Patrick_RISCV for a USB to serial chip to replace the CP210x, when we remembered a lot of chatter a few years ago about the CH552 series of ultra-low-cost 8051 microcontrollers with native USB. you can kinda sorta code these with Arduino https://hackaday.io/project/172143-ch55xduino and we thought it could be an interesting QT Py since it has so few pins but does cover the basic use cases: 4 ADC, UART, SPI and maybe even I2C with a bitbang connection? Still, for very very basic USB projects maybe it would be useful, particularly since it has a ROM USB bootloader. Here’s a simple design we whipped together. Since there isn’t a lot of muxing or IO available, MISO and A2 share the same pin. Some interesting unusual things to watch for: reset is backwards from how we’d expect, and bootloader mode is entered by pulling D+ to 3V? Any CH55x experts out there who want to take a look and see if we got it all wired right? Anything we missed?
Last month, I covered the wacky niche nerd sport of the Die Cast Racing League, recorded races of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars done on a super-detailed tabletop racetrack.
Here is a niche within a niche: The Gaslands Die Cast Racing League. It’s the same basic concept except it’s racing die cast cars that have been converted to the Gaslands tabletop car combat game. Instead of racing by measured turns across a post-apocalyptic landscape, Gaslands players send in their cars to be raced on a traditional plastic Hot Wheels track.
Like the DCRL, the racetrack is outfitted with stands, fans and fan vehicles (who sometimes fire on the cars), buildings, model camera crews, color commentary, and all the other trappings of real-world auto-racing.
Last month, I covered the wacky niche nerd sport of the Die Cast Racing League, recorded races of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars done on a super-detailed tabletop racetrack.
Here is a niche within a niche: The Gaslands Die Cast Racing League. It’s the same basic concept except it’s racing die cast cars that have been converted to the Gaslands tabletop car combat game. Instead of racing by measured turns across a post-apocalyptic landscape, Gaslands players send in their cars to be raced on a traditional plastic Hot Wheels track.
Like the DCRL, the racetrack is outfitted with stands, fans and fan vehicles (who sometimes fire on the cars), buildings, model camera crews, color commentary, and all the other trappings of real-world auto-racing.
Todd at Project Farm is at it again. This time, he turns his expert testing eye toward 9 pairs of wire strippers.
He tests the wire strippers for knife sharpness, force required to cut through aluminum wire, screw cutter precision and sharpness, and wire insulator removal performance. He also compared self-adjusting wire strippers for performance.
Not surprisingly, the well-regarded Knipex strippers performed the best, but they cost $50. At $14, the Irwin brand was an impressive second.
One of the many admirable things about Todd’s videos is that he always buys the tools he tests to remove any bias (or appearance of bias).
Todd at Project Farm is at it again. This time, he turns his expert testing eye toward 9 pairs of wire strippers.
He tests the wire strippers for knife sharpness, force required to cut through aluminum wire, screw cutter precision and sharpness, and wire insulator removal performance. He also compared self-adjusting wire strippers for performance.
Not surprisingly, the well-regarded Knipex strippers performed the best, but they cost $50. At $14, the Irwin brand was an impressive second.
One of the many admirable things about Todd’s videos is that he always buys the tools he tests to remove any bias (or appearance of bias).
We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here:
Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S3 WiFi Dev Board with STEMMA QT – 8 MB Flash / No PSRAM
The ESP32-S3 has arrived in QT Py format – and what a great way to get started with this powerful new chip from Espressif! With dual 240 MHz cores, WiFi and BLE support, and native USB, this QT Py is great for powering your IoT projects.
Ultra Bright 4 Watt RGBW NeoPixel LED – Natural White – ~4000K
Better grab some sunglasses, sunscreen, and a bucket hat because these NeoPixels feature a 4W RGBW Natural White LED and are so bright it’s like taking a vacation ON THE SUN.
Alright, maybe we’re exaggerating, but these chainable NeoPixel LEDs are not only super-smart, they are also ridonkulously bright with 4W total, 1W per channel, compared to 0.2W of a ‘standard’ NeoPixel.
TinyS3 – ESP32-S3 Development Board by Unexpected Maker
TinyS3 is the latest in Unexpected Maker’s super popular range of “Tiny” development boards. It’s packed with amazing features and peripherals, wireless connectivity, and stacks of Flash and PSRAM, all in the same tiny package size as the original TinyPICO!
FeatherS3 – ESP32-S3 Development Board by Unexpected Maker
Introducing the FeatherS3 – The pro ESP32-S3 Development Board in the Feather Format. The FeatherS3 ships with the latest version of CircuitPython with ESP32-S3 support.
ProS3 – ESP32-S3 Development Board by Unexpected Maker
The ProS3 ships with the latest version of CircuitPython with ESP32-S3 support. It also ships with the UF2 bootloader, so you can easily update your ProS3 with the latest CircuitPython firmware, whenever you desire. Just plug your ProS3 into your computer and it will appear in your filesystem as a USB flash drive! Just copy your code over, or edit your code directly on the drive. Coding a microcontroller has never been easier!
64×64 RGB LED Matrix Panel with 45 Degree Curb-Cut – 2.5mm Pitch
Wintertime can be rough in the city. The sky is gray. The weather is unpredictable. So slough off those seasonal blues with some Times Square razzle dazzle from this sweet, ultra-high-density 64×64 RGB LED Matrix with Curb-Cut sides. These panels are typically used to make video walls. Here in New York, we see them on the sides of buses and on top of taxi cabs displaying animations or video advertisements. We thought they looked really cool, so we picked up a few boxes of them from a factory. They have 4,096 bright RGB LEDs arranged in a 64×64 grid at a 2.5mm pitch.
Adafruit ESP32 Feather V2 w.FL Antenna – 8MB Flash + 2 MB PSRAM – STEMMA QT
One of our star Feathers is the Adafruit HUZZAH32 ESP32 Feather – with the fabulous ESP32 WROOM module on there, it makes quick work of WiFi and Bluetooth projects that take advantage of Espressifs most popular chipset. Recently we had to redesign this feather to move from the obsolete CP2104 to the CP2102N and one thing led to another and before you know it we made a completely refreshed design which we have further tweaked to create the Adafruit ESP32 Feather V2 with w.FL Antenna.
Pimoroni Servo 2040 – RP2040 18 Channel Servo Controller – PIM613
Build the hexapod/robot arm/other articulated contraption of your dreams with this all-in-one RP2040 powered servo controller with current measurement, sensor headers, and RGB LEDs.
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