NEW PRODUCT – Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 – 7″ 720×1280 with Capacitive Touch

NEW PRODUCT – Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 – 7″ 720×1280 with Capacitive Touch

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Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is the sequel to the popular Raspberry Pi Official Display. Like the original, it’s a 7′′ touchscreen display for Raspberry Pi. Unlike the original, it has a much higher quality IPS TFT screen, the same kind used on tablets. That means it looks great at any angle, and it has much higher resolution too, 1280×720 rather than 800×480! It is ideal for interactive projects such as tablets, entertainment systems, and information dashboards.

Raspberry Pi OS provides touchscreen drivers with support for five-finger touch and an on-screen keyboard, giving you full functionality without the need to connect a keyboard or mouse. No coding or special drivers required, everything works out of the box if you’re running the latest Pi OS.

Only two connections are required to connect the 720×1280 display to your Raspberry Pi: power from the GPIO port, and a ribbon cable that connects to the DSI port on all Raspberry Pi computers except for the Raspberry Pi Zero line. The Pi can be mounted on the back for a cute all-in-one setup.

The display can be configured for portrait or landscape mode. Check out the installation guide for how to get started fast. No tools are required, it’s plug-and-play easy!

Tutorial: DIY Star Crown Hedy Lamarr Cosplay – Fun Beginner Project

Check out the latest Learn Guide from Erin St Blaine: Make a star crown inspired by the headdress worn by Hedy Lamarr in Zeitgeist Girl (1941). This is a fantastic beginner project that requires a little soldering and some crafting skills, but no coding at all. Learn to install WLED on a microcontroller and hook up Adafruit’s new star-shaped NeoPixels. The crown is made from an inexpensive headband with zip ties for the spokes.

Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixel-star-crown-with-wled/overview

From the guide:

Sparkle like a 1940s starlet with this DIY star crown, inspired by the iconic Hedy Lamarr in Ziegfeld Girl (1941).

Hedy Lamarr wasn’t just another Hollywood beauty—she was also a fearless inventor, and wicked smart. While making headlines with her glamorous and sometimes scandalous roles (like in Ecstasy, where she became famous for one of Hollywood’s earliest nude scenes), Hedy was secretly working on a groundbreaking invention to help win World War II. She co-created a “frequency hopping” system to keep Allied torpedoes safe from jamming. That tech became the foundation for what we now use in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

In this tutorial, we’ll channel that mix of glam and genius to make a modern, glowing star crown with NeoPixel stars and WLED, perfect for cosplaying the timeless Hedy or adding some sparkle to your next event. Let’s dive into some Old Hollywood glam meets high-tech magic.

 

Adafruit QT Py Pico: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5395
NeoPixel Star LEDs: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5982

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Illustrations of Pottery from an Imagined Past #ArtTuesday

Here’s a story that isn’t true: a group of esotericists create an imaginary country built out of alternate mathematics, aesthetics, and philosophies. To make the world feel, they write an encyclopedia enumerating in bland, painstaking details of their imagined country. In the same way that the original encyclopedia brought the our own world into the imaginations of people all over Europe, this encyclopedia of the imagined country is so real, so specific, so alien, so plain, so clear, that it begins to manifest on the real world. Like an invasion of the imagination, the imaginary country soon overtakes our own, and we find ourselves in a world that never was. That’s an imaginary story that may well be the plot of a short story by a certain Argentinian writer of some renown.

Here’s a story that is true: in 2022 Vorja Sánchez self-published his own volume of an imaginary world, Invisible Home. Sánchez’s work could easily have invaded from an imaginary country. His poetry in particular feels like something one might find if they fell into a Pottery Barn from another world. Here’s more from  imaginary from COLOSSAL:

Beastly jugs and vessels with legs comprise the latest in illustrator Vorja Sánchez’s eclectic and uncanny menagerie. A new print titled “Ancient Pottery” draws inspiration from a wide variety of stoneware urns, bowls, and statuettes from prehistoric cultures around the world, imbuing each of them with the lively features of animals or mythological beings. Produced from an original piece made with pencil, ink, and watercolor on cotton paper, the artist emphasizes the appearance of age, as if a patina has formed over time across the entire composition.

“I am fascinated by the simple and imperfect but pure and free forms of ancient ceramics,” Sánchez tells Colossal.

See more!

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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!

Laurie Anderson’s Recycled Sound #ArtTuesday #Music

Musician Laurie Anderson has a spin on reusing magnetic tape to create new sounds. She created a violin bow strung with audio tape instead of horse hair.

By drawing the bow across the violin strings, she can play the sound captured on the section of tape backwards and forwards.

Laurie Anderson repurposed a section of tape to say a phrase in Dutch when drawn forwards across the strings. By pulling the bow back, the phrase is played backwards, sounding out a phrase in English. What an inventive way to repurpose not only an old audio tape, but also sound itself!

Check out the video below. To see more of Laurie Anderson’s musical inventions, take a look at her website: http://www.laurieanderson.com/. Via Replayground and Reddit.

And someone tried to recreate the instrument 3 years ago – Reddit.

Header photo via the Internet Archive

Desk of Ladyada – Standing Desk Complete! #DeskOfLadyada #Adafruit

This week, we finally got the last parts required to convert our Desk to standing – yay!

We also got some cool swag from LINAK, including a desk-mount USB PD power hub, which we discovered could do 20V output, which means it can power our ember mug using a 20V USB to DC adapter cable. That plus some under-desk cable management and we’ve cleaned up the Desk quite a bit.

We covered the Lepton infrared cameras on EYE ON NPI, which made us think about designing an EYESPI-compatible breakout with which the sensors can be used.

We also chatted with some Adafruit’ers about designing an RP2350B-based CircuitPython/Re-mapping Gameboy Cartridge.

Finally, JP asked us to design a DMX FeatherWing much like the MIDI FeatherWing.

And on The Great Search: XLR / DMX Connectors

Video below:

 

Tiny PC (Nostalgia Edition) #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi #3DPrinting

salimbenbouz shared this neat project on instructables, thingiverse, and Github! If you’re into 3D printing and Pi projects, they’ve combined the right amount of nostalgia in this miniature PC.

Inspired by the retro machines I grew up with during the 90s and early 00s, I decided to design and build a working tiny miniature PC to bring a little of that nostalgia to my desk. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the entire process of building one, sharing detailed steps and tips to help you recreate this project.

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