No-Code Indoor/Outdoor AQI Project and Indoor Grow Monitor Coming Soon! What’s new with Adafruit IO and the Adafruit Learning System.

Adafruit IO No-Code Indoor/Outdoor AQI Project Incoming

Coming this week is a whole new Adafruit IO Power-Up to allow you to track the air quality around the world. This is a new Power-Up for our IO Plus customers who want a leg up created automations based on the air quality in a given location. It works similarly to the Weather integration:

• user visits Power-Ups -> Air Quality to create Locations they’re interested in
• MQTT topics are created for those locations
• an Air Quality block appears in Actions (see below)

At the same time I will be publishing a guide to show you how to track indoor air quality with a small SEN66 device, and view the data on a separate LCD display device. I will also tap into the new power-up so you can see your indoor and outdoor air quality. The entirety of this project can be built without writing a single line of code!

MQTT bug fix, WipperSnapper 1.0.0-beta.113, and more!

From Tyeth: Fixed a bug in the Adafruit MQTT library, where handleSubscriptionPacket was miscalculating topic length and silently ignoring some packets.

Released WipperSnapper version 1.0.0-beta.113 which includes the MQTT topic fix, resolves a boot loop situation on the ESP32-C6, and adds support for the BMP581, BMP580, and BMP585.

I’ve been catching up on documentation for our boards, adding WipperSnapper pages for the ESP32-C6 Feather, and the Reverse TFT ESP32-S3 Feather.

Lastly working on adding Vector based value support to offline-mode (which runs on the V2 WipperSnapper codebase), enabling things like accelerometers

Coming soon: No-Code Indoor Grow Monitor Guide

Fall is almost here. With temperatures falling, the basil and heirloom tomatoes that you have been growing in your garden to top your dinner with are moving back inside the house for winter. But will they still grow? 

Noe Ruiz and Brent are teaming up to build a no-code indoor grow monitor for ensuring crop yield, even in winter months! This is the first guide to use advanced cultivation methods such calculating values like the plant’s PPFD and VPD to optimize your crop yield even when growing inside. The best part? There is no code involved at all, you will click, drag and drop, your way to building this project.

Favorite Learn Guide of the Week

Glowing Lotus Flower – Electronic Origami for Beginners

Wireless keyboards. What a concept! I’ve got a few of them and they are usually designed to work over either Bluetooth Classic or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Not every computer or microcontroller can connect with them, but a Pico W or Pico 2 W can, and just costs a few dollars…

And that very same Pico can bridge the wireless keyboard messages via USB HID to a host computer or microcontroller. This way, any computer or device with USB keyboard support can now connect to a Bluetooth Wireless keyboard, without needing BT support. Instant wireless bridge!

This guide will show you how to build a versatile, cheap, small keyboard bridge for all the Blueteeth!

Learn more and build your own here

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