The Raspberry Pi Foundation are partnering with edX to make their free online courses available to even more people. Here’s more from the Raspberry Pi Foundation:
Supporting teachers and educators is crucial for our mission to enable young people to realize their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. Through our online courses educators can learn the skills, knowledge, and confidence to teach computing in an engaging way. As a result, they empower young people to in turn develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to use digital technologies effectively, and to be able to critically evaluate these technologies and confidently engage with technological change.
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The courses are written with educators in mind, and are also useful to anyone with an interest in computing. The scope of topics is broad and includes programming in Python and Scratch, web development and design, cybersecurity, and machine learning and AI. Our aim is to support educators of all levels of experience to learn about computing, including teachers, club volunteers, youth workers, parents, and more. The courses also draw on content from our Computing Curriculum and provide support for teachers who want to engage their students with Experience AI, our pioneering education initiative about the field of AI.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Look to the skies because today is International Asteroid Day. Officially recognized by the UN to bring awareness to Asteroids.
In movies and media (and history) asteroids are often depicted as apocalyptic. While the plausible threat may be overstated, a true asteroid impact could wreak havoc. It’s important we study and monitor these minor planets. On the far less bleak side, Asteroids are a fascinating feature of our solar system.
“Asteroid Day brings the global space community together, to educate and learn about space, the history of our solar system, the future of space exploration, and planetary defense,” Markus Payer, Chair of the Asteroid Foundation said. “We want to attract the public and young people to this sector which plays an increasingly important role in the development of our economy and society. We thank our sponsors and partners and look forward to making Asteroid Day 2023 another success.”
More about Asteroid Day from
Learn about Asteroids from NASA
you can watch the Asteroid Day Space Lecure:
Gwilbert shared this project on Thingiverse!
This is a felt tip pen holder. You push the pens, lid end first, in then when kids take their pen out it leaves the lid behind. This has worked great with my kids. They have now had the same set of pens for 4 months without loosing any pens or lids.
I designed it for crayola pens with a 10.5mm tip, but I’ve included a customizer.Print in TPU with whatever setting you would normally use.
Download files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6077050
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!
The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! Right now! 6/28/2023 at 7:30pm Eastern.
Hosted this week by Melissa LeBlanc-Williams.
Now Both Google and Meta have AI Music Generators. Google released MusicLM last month and Meta’s MusicGen just released.
MusicGen can take prompts and samples to create a new(ish) tune.
How will this affect music moving forward? Will these tools help push artists to new heights or will we be awash in heartless melodies?
Via Engadget:
Meta’s Audiocraft research team has just released MusicGen, an open source deep learning language model that can generate new music based on text prompts and even be aligned to an existing song, The Decoder reported. It’s much like ChatGPT for audio, letting you describe the style of music you want, drop in an existing tune (optionally) and then clicking “Generate.” After a good chunk of time (around 160 seconds in my case), it spits out a short piece of all-new music based on your text prompts and melody.
From the Adafruit Learn System archives, here’s a project from Jeff Epler that uses Adafruit GEMMA M0.
Circuit sculpture uses soldered brass rods as components in electronic circuits.
This project shows you the tools and techniques you need to get started through a simple touch-reactive heart that uses an Adafruit GEMMA M0 and CircuitPython.
While this project is deliberately simple, the things you can create with Circuit Sculpture are limited only by your imagination & patience. For more inspiration, consider taking a look at some of Mohit Bhoite’s works.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!Bungee cords are something nearly every maker will use at one point or another. And they are technology that you need to rely on in holding things fast and secure. So, knowing which cords are effective at that job and which aren’t is important.
Todd at Project Farm tested 14 different bungee cords by leaving them stretched in direct sunlight for 9 months, exposing them to UV degradation. The results are kind of shocking. Almost all of the cords badly degraded.
The bungee cord and rubber tarp straps tested were SmartStraps, HyperTough, Harbor Freight Haul-Master, Stalwart, Cartman, Horusdy, RhinoUSA, HDX, Sgt Knots, Nite Ize, xstrap, Husky, Amazing Straps, Keeper. Tests on the cords included tensile strength, at 6, 12, 18, and 24 inches of stretch, before and after UV exposure.
In the end, the rubber Amazing Straps ($3 at time of testing) held up the best. Todd was also impressed with the performance of the Sgt Knots bungees ($4 at time of testing) and the Home Depot HDX-branded cords.
From Narcissus, to Queen Grimhilde, to Lacan, humans have long had an obsession with mirrors. Mirrors are prevalent in both myths and metaphors as well as in our material, physical history. This video from The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered details the story of the mirror throughout human history. I didn’t realize that it wasn’t until glassblowing techniques were developed that manufacturing mirrors from glass became possible, as earlier glass was more thick and opaque.
Chris Simpson of Retro Recipes has dreamed of owning a Knight Rider KITT car replica since he was ten years old. Finally, when he sees a deal for one in the UK, he jumps on it. But, in the shipping from the UK to his home in CA, the car is badly damaged. Watch as he begins to bring the car back to life and make plans for future upgrades and repairs.
In this video on DiResta, Jimmy, along with visiting Australian makers Neil Pask and Corin Urquhart build a retro go-kart based on a 1920 Briggs & Stratton Flyer.
Process X shows viewers how Iwako makes some of the cutest erasers in the world. In this video you’ll follow the complete manufacturing process including prototyping, mold making, hand finishing and more! 🥹 And oh my goodness I need to stop clicking around the wIako website
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM69 Packet Radio – HackSpace Magazine Issue 67
More BLOG:
LoRa Signal Bridge with the Feather RP2040 RFM
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Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!
Any maker who has had to move out of a beloved workspace can appreciate this video from YouTube maker/chef, Alex. He’s been in the same kitchen/makerspace/studio for 7 years.
In this video, as he packs to move on to even bigger and better things as a maker and content creator, he reminisces about the past 7 years and how he’s come to love the space that he built and worked so hard in.
#circuitpythonparsec
Make and call lists of functions in CircuitPython.
Code examples here.
To learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org
The channel Macho Nacho Productions loves sharing modded game consoles that have been chopped, shrunk, or otherwise re-worked.
This petite GameCube has been shrunk down over 90% and runs on genuine Nintendo hardware. The biggest trick is using the backward compatable Wii for the foundation.
Wesk and CrazyGadget, just developed the smallest Gamecube in the World that uses REAL Nintendo Hardware and doesn’t rely on emulation! It is incredible what they were able to achieve and how they were able to achieve it! A true engineering marvel! I have the honor to present the World’s Smallest REAL Gamecube!
Learn more details from BitBuilt.net
via PiMyLifeUp
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is an attempt to improve the security and privacy of your DNS requests by utilizing the HTTPS protocol.
By default, a DNS request sent by Pi-Hole, or your Raspberry Pi is sent over plain text. Unfortunately, this means anyone can intercept this request and use it to track you or even manipulate the data sending you to the wrong website.
Setting up DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Pi-Hole will make these requests secure between your Raspberry Pi and the upstream DNS provider.
In 2020, PBS shared the story of Lillian Gilbreth. Although her personal beliefs were extremely controversial, she is still a pioneer in her field.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), one of the first female engineers, worked with her husband Frank to invent ‘time and motion study,’ analyzing ways to make industrial processes, office tasks, and housework more efficient, reduce human error, and enhance the safety and satisfaction of workers. After Frank died, Gilbreth reinvented her career as a solo consultant, and became the first female engineering professor at Purdue University. Among other inventions, she transformed the design of kitchens and numerous kitchen appliances. In 1965, Gilbreth was the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Codex_of_Wisdom shares:
From the start, I’ve thought of gridfinity a lot like milk crates, so I added a gridfinity base to a milk crate (specifically https://ift.tt/XE5VFjv)!
Prints without supports. Sized to 1 grid, and 5u tall (not ideal, but 6 didn’t look right).
Fun fact: Gridfinity bins are 1/42 the size of a milk crate.
download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6081597
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!
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Wolfi01 shares:
Some time ago I saw a very nice wooden side table on Amazon called Rivet, and I tried to design it for my 3D printer. It wasn’t as easy as I thought first, but I think, I succeeded. Hopefully You will also find it interesting and enjoy it
download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6065926
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!
LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord
Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit
Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting
3D Printing Projects Playlist:
3D Hangout Show Playlist:
Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:
Timelapse Tuesday Playlist:
Connect with Noe and Pedro on Social Media:
Noe’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/ecken
Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil
Researchers at the University of Maryland SMART LAB have created a small wearable robot called Calico. Small but mighty, the robot attaches to a special track sewn on top of your clothing. The tiny robot can sense your vitals and even guide you through exercise. IEEE Spectrum shares.
When describing their research, the SMART LAB members came up with many applications for their wearable. A microphone and a stethoscope add-on enable the robot to sense vital signs, for example. The robot could travel to a predefined location to listen to your organs, or a doctor could teleoperate it in real time. And because the system already has an accelerometer, it could be used to detect falls.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
This week’s EYE ON NPI (video) is going to fuel up your portable battery-powered designs with the Texas Instruments BQ27427 System-Side Impedance Track™ Single-Cell Battery Fuel Gauge, a powerful and inexpensive way to add high quality battery monitoring for charge-rate and aging tracking at the system side.
Lithium Ion / Polymer batteries – you love them for their low cost, high power density, and 3.7V nominal voltage, but keeping them recharged and letting people know exactly how much battery life is left is non-trivial.
Like most batteries, common LiPoly/LiIon’s start with a high peak voltage right after charging of about 4.2V, drop quickly to about 3.7V and then slowly drift down till they get to 3.0V at which point the cut-off circuitry disconnects until they are recharged. It’s really easy to tell when the battery is 90% or greater charge, just look for a voltage of 3.9V or higher. It’s also pretty easy to tell when they’re 10% or less, the voltage will be 3.3V or lower.
But that in-between section is tough because the slope during discharge is very shallow and the voltage changes quite a bit with aging, temperature, and discharge rate. So while there are battery monitors that can use just the voltage across the battery terminals, they’re not going to be as precise as a coulomb-counter design that takes into account both voltage and current.
From TI’s White Paper on the topic:
“An impedance-based battery fuel gauge, as the name implies, uses the measured impedance of the battery’s cells as a key input to its remaining capacity predictions. The gauge measures and stores in real-time the battery pack’s resistance as a function of state-of-charge. The real-time resistance profiles along with the stored battery open-circuit voltage tables (open-circuit voltage vs. state-of-charge) enables the gauge to predict the battery pack’s discharge curve (by adjusting for the IR drop) under any system-use condition and temperature.
The algorithm uses current integration (coulomb counting) when the system is ON, and open-circuit voltage measurement when the system is OFF or in SLEEP to adjust remaining state-of-charge (RSOC) up or down (for charge or discharge) the predicted discharge curve. By using the predicated discharge curve, the gauge can accurately calculate the battery pack’s remaining discharge capacity (RM) and the system’s run-time to empty (RTTE).
Since an impedance track gauge continuously adjusts RM and FCC for impedance and the change in impedance, rate and temperature inefficiencies and aging are inherently taken into account, enabling the gauge to maintain a high level of accuracy throughout the life of the system.”
Texas Instruments has a few chips in the Impedance Track family – the BQ27427 charger is the latest to come out. It’s very small, coming as a 9-pin 1.6×1.6 BGA with the center pad being a shared ground so you don’t need plugged vias to use. It’s also really easy to use, requiring only 2 small stabilization capacitors. Internal temperature monitoring means you don’t need a separate thermistor.
The high-side 7 mΩ current sense resistor also means one less part on the BOM. I2C pins are used to communicate with the monitor and set battery characteristics. There’s also an optional input that can be used to connect to a mechanical or electrical battery insertion switch or to an external thermistor, and an optional output that can be used as a battery low indicator.
Because so much is integrated, and the chip is so small, its very easy to pop it into your design between the battery terminal and the VBAT lines that go to your battery charger and power supply. The peak battery voltage and capacity are easy to look up since they’re written on the battery.
For other configuration settings you can use BQStudio / GaugeStudio with the TI battery devboard to characterize and customize the learning cycle. Either way, you will need to write the configuration to the sensor on every boot.
Pick up the Texas Instruments BQ27427 and other chips from the Impedance Track family stocked at DigiKey for immediate shipment. Order today and you’ll get precision lipoly monitoring that will work with any setup or battery configuration by tomorrow afternoon!
Organized by Alberto Aguilar, Madeleine Aguilar, Allison Peters Quinn, and Edra Soto, Destination/El Destino: a decade of GRAFT is currently on view at the Hyde Park Art Center. The installation gives you a taste of Puerto Rico. Hyperallergic shares the details.
Edra Soto’s sculptures are lovely places to be inside: dappled light shines through walls made of ornate blocks or windows covered in decorative screens, casting shapely shadows that mingle with the free-flowing breeze. There might be a bench to sit on, a table to play dominoes at, or an architectural essay to read. If you’re really lucky, a slice of pineapple upside-down cake or some spam-velveeta-pimiento sandwiches will be on offer.
Read more and check it out if you’re in Chicago!
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
HackSpace Magazine Issue 67 – 3D Evolution has a review of the Adafruit Feather Rp2040 RFM69 Packet Radio board.
The Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM69 board is another board Adafruit lovingly refer to as part of its ‘RadioFruits’ line of microcontrollers. The board is very similar to the RP2040 with LoRa, but this one features an RFM69 Packet Radio (868 or 915MHz). It’s great for sending packets of data between different boards
featuring the same type of radio.You can communicate up to five kilometres, but of course that’s under ideal conditions and with a proper antenna. Speaking of antennas, you will need one for this board to work, and you can make your own with a small piece of wire, or you can buy one and use the on-board connector.
They give the Feather a 9/10, saying “A good low-cost radio and micro.”.
Read more on page 91, download PDF, buy now, subscribe.
You don’t have to have read The Neverending Story to have a sense that books are sort of like portals. Each one takes you somewhere else. Isobelle Ouzman has made that metaphor real by carving worlds into books. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:
Open one of Isobelle Ouzman’s books, and you’ll be transported to a whimsical world of flora and fauna. The Bratislava-based artist…carves pages of found novels and other tomes into intricate paper labyrinths of forests and meadows. Often occupied by a lone hare or fox, the fairytale scenes are imbued with a quiet, calm sense of mystery about the machinations of the imagined environments and their inhabitants.
Ouzman shares that she gravitates toward mass-produced volumes in poor condition. “Book size, depth, and paper texture play a big role in my decision as well, and I often need to hold a book in my hands before I can visualise a new artwork,” she says. The carving and drawing process depends on both the physical object and the intended narrative, taking between three weeks and three months to complete.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
This helpful post from NPR, which was published last June, aims to detangle some of the mythology surrounding Juneteenth:
African Americans throughout the nation celebrate Juneteenth, but who knows what actually happened on June 19, 1865? As the nation observes the second federal legal holiday marking the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas, there are a number of misconceptions about the historical event that keep getting repeated.
There are tons of options for celebrating the June 19 holiday across the five boroughs, Via Hyperallergic
This Monday, June 19, Juneteenth will be observed in the United States. The holiday marks the day in 1865 when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached enslaved people in Texas, nearly two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the decree. More than 250,000 enslaved people were finally freed. In 2021, President Biden declared June 19 a federal holiday.
But it’s worth noting that Juneteenth celebrations have been ongoing for more than 150 years. This year, art organizations across New York City are honoring the day in a variety of formats — from film screenings to dance performances to portrait making. Below, we’ve compiled a list of some of the city’s most exciting and art-filled Juneteenth events, many of them open to the public and free of charge.
Who knew that compressed paper was used to manufacture train wheels back in the late 19th century? Cool video from Train of Thought on YouTube that discusses the history of Allen Paper Wheels.
In this Stumpy Nubs video, James shows how you can take the “scary sharp” chisel sharpening method (using 4 levels of course-to-fine sandpaper on a flat piece of glass) to the next level using 320 and 400 Cubitron II discs for the first two sharpening passes.
The scary sharp method works great, but it can be tedious and time-consuming, especially if you’re trying to restore a chipped or super dull tool or tuning up a brand new chisel. The ceramic-based Cubitron discs help accelerate that process. From there, you can switch to regular 600 and 1000 grit aluminum oxide discs for the final 2 passes. And then leather stropping for a final polish.
At the end of the video, James recommends a kit that Taylor Tools sells which includes a piece of 5” x 11” dead-flat 5/16” thick float glass, a selection of 5” 3M PSA sanding discs (2 each 320 and 400 Cubitron II discs and 2 each 600 and 1000 grit PSA aluminum oxide discs) and 14 each 1/2” diameter urethane PSA bumpers — all for $25. If you try to buy all this items separately on Amazon, it would cost you as much or more than this. I’ve bought tools from Taylor before and highly recommend them. Unfortunately, since the Stumpy Nubs video came out, they are back ordered.
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
A great intro to electronics: “Beginning Breadboarding” a new book by Jen Fox
A great new book for makers and engineers! And here is the accompanying hardware kit.
More BLOG:
Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:
You can build a prop replica of Link’s Ultra Hand from The Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom.
We were inspired by Link’s new ability and used LED noodles to make it into a glowing 3D printed prop.
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Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!
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Earlier this week the New York Aquarium announced the arrival of Ryder, a nearly 2 year old sea otter, who’s made his way from California to NYC. Welcome to New York, lil bud! Hope to see you later this summer 🦦
Browse through all that’s new here!
Adafruit ESP32-S2 Feather – 4 MB Flash + 2 MB PSRAM – STEMMA QT / Qwiic: What’s Feather-shaped and has an ESP32-S2 WiFi module? What has a STEMMA QT connector for I2C devices? What has your favorite Espressif WiFi microcontroller and lots of Flash and RAM memory for your next IoT project? What will make your next IoT project flyyyyy?
That’s right – it’s the new Adafruit ESP32-S2 Feather! With native USB and 4 MB flash + 2 MB of PSRAM, this board is perfect for use with CircuitPython or Arduino with low-cost WiFi. Native USB means it can act like a keyboard or a disk drive. WiFi means its awesome for IoT projects. And Feather means it works with the large community of Feather Wings for expandability.
Adafruit 7-Segment Backpack – 1.2″ Tall Digits: By popular request, you can now get our 1.2″ Tall 7-Segment LED backpacks without the LEDs! These backpacks feature an HT16K33 I2C LED driver, they’re simple and easy to use – you can use our very nice library for the backpacks to get running in under half an hour. If you’ve been eyeing matrix displays but hesitated because of the complexity, this is the solution you’ve been looking for!
Like our other LED backpacks, these are end-to-end stackable and by soldering the address jumpers on the back you can have up to 8 backpacks all sharing the same two I2C wires!
Adafruit STEMMA Audio Amp – Mono 2.5W Class D – PAM8302: The Adafruit STEMMA Audio Amp is a super small mono amplifier is surprisingly powerful – able to deliver up to 2.5 Watts into 4-8 ohm impedance speakers. Inside the miniature chip is a class D controller, able to run from 2.0V-5.5VDC. Since the amp is a class D, its very efficient (over 90% efficient when driving an 8Ω speaker at over half a Watt) – making it perfect for portable and battery-powered projects. It has built in thermal and over-current protection but we could barely tell it got hot. There’s even a volume trim pot so you can adjust the volume on the board down from the default 24dB gain. This board is a welcome upgrade to basic “LM386” amps!
Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather with I2S Audio Amplifier: The Adafruit Feather series gives you lots of options for a small, portable, rechargeable microcontroller board. By picking a feather and stacking on a FeatherWing you can create advanced projects quickly. One popular combo is our Feather M4 or Feather RP2040 with a Prop-Maker FeatherWing on top to create animatronics or props that boot up instantly and can drive LEDs, and small speakers.
We’ve used the Prop-Maker FeatherWing to make lots of lil robots, swords, and other prop projects. However, what if we made it even easier for people to make props? What if we made it so many projects can be built with minimal or no soldering at all? Yeah that would be pretty nice!
Thus, the creation of the Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather: an all-in-one combination of the Feather RP2040 with a Prop-Maker FeatherWing with a few tweaks based on feedback from expert prop-builders. Perfect for fitting into your next prop build! This Feather will unlock the ‘Imagineer’ inside all of us, with tons of stuff packed in to make sabers & swords, props, toys, mini robots, cosplay pieces, and more.
New Products 6/14/23 Feat. Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather with I2S Audio Amplifier!
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Visit the Brooklyn Museum tomorrow for learning and activities at their Juneteenth Jubilee.
Celebrate Juneteenth—the annual holiday commemorating the end of legal slavery in the United States—with a full slate of activities celebrating self-expression, community, and Black liberation and creativity.
Check out the event tomorrow!
