Saturday, November 30, 2019

New Products 11/27/2019 Featuring LPS33HW Water Resistant Pressure Sensor @adafruit #adafruit #newproducts

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NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEK

Paper Diffraction Grating Glasses: We’re with the squad back at New York’s hottest cyberpunk club, Near Field Commune(ication), and it’s still got everything, Adabot & the Circuit Playground, Collin’s wondrous, mind-blowing, heart-stirring Pulse Room, and more! And you are dressed to the cyber-nine’s, with wearable LEDs, EL tape, a full set of glittering RFID/NFC Nail Stickers, and finishing off your ensemble with a pair of Diffraction Glasses.

Anti-Static ESD Rework Mat with Grounding Clip – A4 Size – 20cm x 30cm: This anti-static work mat is great for electronic work and repair, especially delicate or ESD sensitive work. It’s 2mm thick and has a very high-resistance covering, like 10’s of Megaohms. There’s a clip attached that you need to connect to an earth ground in order to ground the mat. Usually, folks connect it to a known-grounded metal chassis.

Sony Spresense Main Board – CXD5602: Here’s a compact development board based on Sony’s power-efficient multicore microcontroller CXD5602. It allows developers to create applications in a very short time and is supported by the Arduino IDE as well as the more advanced NuttX based SDK.

Sony Spresense Pack – Main Board + Extension Board + Camera: SPRESENSE is a low-power board computer for the IoT that is equipped with a GPS receiver and supports High-Resolution Audio codecs. The board allows for IoT versatility and can be developed for a vast range of uses, such as a drone utilizing the GPS and high-performance processor, a smart speaker utilizing High-Resolution Audio recording and playback as well as the built-in full-digital amplifier, or a low-power time-lapse camera utilizing the camera interface. SPRESENSE will make the IoT smarter and more efficient.

Instead of hemming and hawing which IoT boards to pick for your project, we’re offering an easy all-in-one pack!

Sony Spresense Extension Board: Spresense is a compact development board based on Sony’s power-efficient multicore microcontroller CXD5602. It allows developers to create IoT applications in a very short time and is supported by the Arduino IDE as well as the more advanced NuttX based SDK. The Spresense Extension Board has connectors in addition to Arduino Uno compatible pin sockets

Sony Spresense 5MP Camera Board: The latest addition to Spresense’s hardware ecosystem is the Spresense Camera Board that connects directly to the main board’s camera interface.

The Spresense camera board has the Sony ISX012 image sensor mounted with a lens. The Sony ISX012 has an effective pixel count of 5.11M pixels and an onboard encoder that can acquire pictures in JPEG, RAW, Y/C or RGB format.

Assembled Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi – ATSAMD21 + ATWINC1500: Feather is the new development board from Adafruit, and like its namesake, it is thin, light, and lets you fly! We designed Feather to be a new standard for portable microcontroller cores. This is the Assembled Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi w/ATWINC1500 – our take on an ‘all-in-one’ Arduino-compatible + high speed, reliable WiFi with built in USB and battery charging. Its an Adafruit Feather M0 with a WiFi module, ready to rock! We have other boards in the Feather family, check’em out here.

Circuit Playground Bluefruit – Bluetooth Low Energy: Circuit Playground Bluefruit is our third board in the Circuit Playground series, another step towards a perfect introduction to electronics and programming. We’ve taken the popular Circuit Playground Express and made it even better! Now the main chip is an nRF52840 microcontroller which is not only more powerful, but also comes with Bluetooth Low Energy support for wireless connectivity.

Adafruit LPS33HW Water Resistant Pressure Sensor – STEMMA QT: Sometimes you need to sense pressure in a damp or caustic environment. And sometimes you need to know the relative changes in pressure as well as the absolute pressure. For the times you need to do both (or either), the LPS33HW is the pressure sensor for you. Combining protection from water intrusion with support for high precision relative and absolute measurements, this sensor will do what you need. With drivers for CircuitPython, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi, and support for I2C or SPI (Arduino only SPI support, for now) you’ll be measuring pressure in any situation in no time.

New Products 11/27/2019 Featuring LPS33HW Water Resistant Pressure Sensor

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Mandalorian Episode 3 Concept Art: More Mandos Than Ever #SciFiSunday

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A compelling reason for fans to stick around through the credit sequence! Via io9.

When an episode of The Mandalorian ends, it’s sad. You have to wait a whole week to find out what’s next in the continuing adventures of Bounty Hunter and Baby Yoda. However, the credits are filled with stunning concept art for the episode you just watched, and it shows how beautiful the collaboration between concept art and reality can be.

FAME 3D Acquires all assets of Aleph Objects maker of LulzBot @lulzbot3d #makerbusiness

Lulzbot

Following up on this story … FAME 3D Acquires All Assets of Aleph Objects maker of LulzBot.

We are pleased to announce that the assets of Aleph Objects located in Loveland CO, including the well-known LulzBot 3D printing brand, have been acquired by Fargo Additive Manufacturing Equipment 3D (FAME 3D), a Fargo, ND company.

Grant Flaharty, CEO of Aleph Objects, and now FAME 3D says this, “LulzBot is one of the core leaders in the Desktop 3D Printing Industry. It’s an organization filled with intelligent, innovative people and solutions that are changing the opportunities for Manufacturing and Medical Markets. We couldn’t stand by and watch that type of innovation to go unrealized.”

FAME 3D is continuing the open source legacy for its customer products. Now with solid financial backing, we can continue with cutting edge innovation, high quality long-lasting printers, and product advancements aimed at providing industry-leading solutions.

LulzBot will be placing a renewed effort on customer support and responsiveness to customer feedback to help improve its current and future product offerings.

The LulzBot TAZ Workhorse, TAZ Pro, and Mini 2 3D printers are recipients of numerous industry awards and are available for order now.

Related

Aleph Objects (Lulzbot) is still alive! FAME3D VC steps in – Solarbotics.
Struggling Loveland 3D printer maker Aleph Objects sold – Loveland Reporter-Herald.
ALEPH OBJECTS ACQUIRED BY FARGO ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT 3D – 3D Printing Industry.
LulzBot Revived! Moves to Fargo? – Fabbaloo.

FAME 3D Acquires all assets of Aleph Objects maker of LulzBot @lulzbot3d #makerbusiness

Lulzbot

Following up on this story … FAME 3D Acquires All Assets of Aleph Objects maker of LulzBot.

We are pleased to announce that the assets of Aleph Objects located in Loveland CO, including the well-known LulzBot 3D printing brand, have been acquired by Fargo Additive Manufacturing Equipment 3D (FAME 3D), a Fargo, ND company.

Grant Flaharty, CEO of Aleph Objects, and now FAME 3D says this, “LulzBot is one of the core leaders in the Desktop 3D Printing Industry. It’s an organization filled with intelligent, innovative people and solutions that are changing the opportunities for Manufacturing and Medical Markets. We couldn’t stand by and watch that type of innovation to go unrealized.”

FAME 3D is continuing the open source legacy for its customer products. Now with solid financial backing, we can continue with cutting edge innovation, high quality long-lasting printers, and product advancements aimed at providing industry-leading solutions.

LulzBot will be placing a renewed effort on customer support and responsiveness to customer feedback to help improve its current and future product offerings.

The LulzBot TAZ Workhorse, TAZ Pro, and Mini 2 3D printers are recipients of numerous industry awards and are available for order now.

Related

Aleph Objects (Lulzbot) is still alive! FAME3D VC steps in – Solarbotics.
Struggling Loveland 3D printer maker Aleph Objects sold – Loveland Reporter-Herald.
ALEPH OBJECTS ACQUIRED BY FARGO ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT 3D – 3D Printing Industry.
LulzBot Revived! Moves to Fargo? – Fabbaloo.

How to Make an Arduino Weather Station

Does your hair get frizzy as soon as you get settled into work? Do you notice your bones rattling whenever you’re in a PTA meeting? Maybe you might want to make one of these weather stations.

via instructables

In this project, we will be making a weather station that measures temperature and air humidity using Arduino which displays the value of current temperature and humidity on an LCD Display

Friday, November 29, 2019

Native MP3 decoding/playback in CircuitPython @adafruit @circuitpython

Native MP3 decoding/playback in CircuitPython (video). We’re testing out a new PR in CircuitPython by JEpler. This one adds native MP3 decoding – no playback chip required! Thanks to the patent expiration, we can now distribute MP3 decoding and its a great way to support compressed audio playback. We can even play 2 mp3’s at once. More than that isn’t possible yet due to RAM constraints. I’m testing an nRF52840 BLE feather with I2S. We’ll also try SAMD51 next. SAMD21 won’t be able to do it, due to the RAM requirements.

Python on hardware! Weekly Video 58 #PythonHardware #CircuitPython #Adafruit #Python @CircuitPython @Adafruit @micropython @ThePSF

The wonderful world of Python on hardware!

Episode 58 (November 27, 2019)

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New Products 11/27/19 Featuring Adafruit LPS33HW Water Resistant Pressure Sensor – STEMMA QT! (Video)

Build a Raspberry Pi cluster computer #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Via The MagPi:

Think Raspberry Pi computers are no match for their bigger cousins? Think again, because there’s strength in numbers. PJ Evans shows you how to create a cluster computer from several Raspberry Pi computers.

Raspberry Pi computers are famously cheap and cheerful. Great for playing around with and the odd little project, right? Well, sometimes.

However, our little friend is a surprisingly powerful computer and when you get lots of them working together, amazing things can happen.

The concept of computer ‘clusters’ (many computers working together as one) is nothing new, but when you have a device as affordable as Raspberry Pi, you can start to rival much more expensive systems by using several in parallel. Here, we’ll learn how to make a cluster computer from a lot of little computers.

Learn more!

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!

NEW PRODUCT – Paper Diffraction Grating Glasses

We’re with the squad back at New York’s hottest cyberpunk club, Near Field Commune(ication), and it’s still got everything, Adabot & the Circuit Playground, Collin’s wondrous, mind-blowing, heart-stirring Pulse Room, and more! And you are dressed to the cyber-nine’s, with wearable LEDs, EL tape, a full set of glittering RFID/NFC Nail Stickers, and finishing off your ensemble with a pair of Diffraction Glasses.

Works best with point light sources like NeoPixels or individual non-diffused LEDs. It doesn’t look as good with diffused LED sources!

These wayfarer glasses, made from durable cardstock, will transform every sparkle, splash, and twinkle of light into a cascade of prismatic delight. When light strikes the diffraction lens it spreads out into a spectrum, producing a rainbow for every single particle of light. Upgrade your experience of fireworks, NeoPixel light show, music festival, EDM party, what have you!

In stock and shipping now!

Child Assistant Robot #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via hackster.io

Children are becoming more addicted to smartphones day by day and usually watch cartoons, youtube, and play games. In Bangladesh, kids spend over three to four hours a day on screens. A study found that screen time impacts the physical structure of children’s brains, as well as their emotional development and mental health. Unless we get control of the screens which now absorb so much of our kids’ time, it will indirectly destroy our future generation.

Listen to World War II radio recordings with a Raspberry Pi Zero #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Via RaspberryPi.org:

As good as the recordings on the Internet Archive were, it felt as if something was missing by listening to them on a modern laptop, so I wanted something to play them back on that was more evocative of that time, and would perhaps capture the feeling of listening to them on a radio set.

I also wanted to make the collection portable and to make the interface for selecting and playing the tracks as easy as possible – this wasn’t going to be screen-based!

Another important consideration was to house the project in something that would not look out of place in the living room, and not to give away the fact that it was being powered by modern tech.

Learn more!

Voice Enabled Home for the Handicapped #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via hackster.io

I am a quadriplegic maker who subsides on Social Security and disability while residing with my retired parents on our rural family farm. Still trying to harness the power of broadband and a humble soldering iron to keep on keeping on and be all the quadriplegic I can! I have previous experience in creating an Alexa skill and the Arduino code linking to an ANAVI Infrared pHAT which voice-enables my Hoyer Lift, along with years of computer and electronics tinkering, making, and repairing.

Run Netflix on your Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

From PiMyLifeUp:

With this guide, we will be making use of a plugin for the popular media center Kodi. We found this plugin combined with Kodi is one of the best ways of getting Netflix to run on your Raspberry Pi.

GloMusic: Music Instrument Interface @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

from Team VisteliLabs via hackster.io

Innovation on Music Instruments as an educational and creative tool has being a subject of research in the last couple of years. Having two members of our team being students from a high school with a strong musical curriculum we come up with this new instrument.

We present a new take on music interaction where a single interface (glove) can control different instruments at a time.

The Matrix Voice ESP32 give us the chance to break the process in two different tasks:

The collection of data using external sensors (pressure) and

the voice command recognition with SNIPS, instrument management and play.

The ESP32 running a Tensilica Xtensa dual-core microcontroller handle the analog input coming from the pressure sensors and communicate to the Raspberry Pi 3 controller program thru a UART channel.

See more!

GloMusic: Music Instrument Interface @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

from Team VisteliLabs via hackster.io

Innovation on Music Instruments as an educational and creative tool has being a subject of research in the last couple of years. Having two members of our team being students from a high school with a strong musical curriculum we come up with this new instrument.

We present a new take on music interaction where a single interface (glove) can control different instruments at a time.

The Matrix Voice ESP32 give us the chance to break the process in two different tasks:

The collection of data using external sensors (pressure) and

the voice command recognition with SNIPS, instrument management and play.

The ESP32 running a Tensilica Xtensa dual-core microcontroller handle the analog input coming from the pressure sensors and communicate to the Raspberry Pi 3 controller program thru a UART channel.

See more!

Chameo: Conversational AI #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via hackster.io

To build a conversation-analyzing AI, we needed to fit a form to several functions. Something that could cling. Something that could both utilize and contain 2 cameras, a Matrix Voice, and speakers. Something cute and unobtrusive you wouldn’t mind sitting on your shoulder all day. What better than a chameleon? (They’ve already got a judgy expression, why not put that to use?) Thus Chameo was born. After many design iterations, we decided on a streamlined chameleon-based look that retained 100% of that classic chameleon charisma.

Raspberry Pi 4 Commodore SX-64 Inspired Portable Computer @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay @e14presents

Check out Episode 421 of element14 Presents with Dave Darko.

Who doesn’t love portable computers from the 80’s? Too bulky to call them a laptop yet, but much more luggable than other computers from that era. Of course, the easiest way to get a box started is with aluminum extrusions, some laser cut mounts for a Raspberry Pi 4, and a mechanical keyboard to get you almost done with the basics! Dave has never built a “daily driver” Raspberry Pi build where the SD card doesn’t get reformatted with the next use of the Raspberry Pi.

Emoji Scanner Displays Emojis on Passers-By #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

From Vitar Drinkovic on vimeo:

The wooden structure set in the shopping window with two raspberry pi cameras “scans” street space every two seconds .

Get the Live Color Scheme of NYC’s Empire State Building @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

from Joris via hackster.io

From the actual color scheme from the Empire State Building in NYC, to my LEGO Empire State Building on the other side of the ocean. Every night my LEGO Empire State Builing has the same colors as it’s brother in NYC. Just because it can.

On a Raspberry Pi, Node-RED retrieves the current color scheme from the website of the Empire State Buildings’ color scheme. Parses this data to JSON and sends it with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) to Adafruit Feather. The Feather takes care that a NeoPixel emits the colors to my LEGO setup.

See project!

Voice Controlled 3D Printer @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

from Samira Peiris via hackster.io

I hate using the control panel of my 3D printer to tweak its settings. Sometimes when I need to preheat the hotend or the bed, I have to navigate through a bunch of menus using an encoder that is too outdated in this age of voice control and AI.

This project will let you control your 3D printer using a RaspberryPi and the power of your voice!

It also has some handy features such as active power monitoring, and even shuts the printer down when it exceeds a preset current limit. (specially if there’s a nasty electrical short that can lead to fire)

See project!

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Open source radio system delivers emergency alerts and music to the Yukon and beyond | @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

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Excellent story from Opensource.com.

“Radio Rob” Hopkins lives in Tagish, Yukon, 120km south of the capital city, Whitehorse. It is here that he created Open Broadcaster, an open source system that enables small rural market radio stations to manage their operations and volunteers.

Having lived in the Yukon for 35 years, back when there was no phone or internet, Rob got into communications to set up a low-power FM (LPFM) station for the community. He wanted to make it easier to manage stations, so he made a pitch to the Yukon government for seed money to develop an application to use the internet to run a radio station and deliver the last mile through FM radio.

Dice Tumbler Cage #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Shared by davisfay on Thingiverse:

Add some flair to your board game nights and tabletop campaigns! Based on a wacky antique store find, this dice tumbler will roll up to three standard d20’s or up to four other polyhedral dice.

Prints with minimal support and assembles within minutes using only super glue (no tools required). The bottom plate is reversible, so it can be adapted to comfortably use regardless of whether you’re left- or right-handed.

I’m hoping to keep iterating on this in the near future, so feedback is appreciated! Please consider tossing me a tip if you like the design, it helps me keep making and sharing things.

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!

AdventurePi: A DIY Raspberry Pi Portable Arcade Cabinet! #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Shared by howchoo on YouTube:

In this episode, I’ll teach you how to build your own AdventurePi, the ultimate DIY Raspberry Pi portable arcade cabinet! The AdventurePi is a DIY portable retro gaming rig that uses RetroPie to emulate a variety of classic video game consoles. It’s comprised of a rugged, waterproof hard case that houses a portable display, Raspberry Pi computer, battery pack, controllers, and optional arcade controls.

Learn more!

Flexi Godzilla 1998 #3DPrinting #3DThursday

AndresMF shared this project on Thingiverse!

Download files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3942274

25 Cent Ornament bottle Opener #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Shared by Crafted3D on Thingiverse:

Here is an Ornament that doubles as a bottle opener made from thick (.25″ ) acrylic material that I purchased from Glowforge. Add some festive text to make it unique. $0.25 cent quarter not included!

Download the files and learn more

Advanced Snow Scraper #3DThursday #3DPrinting #Winter

Shared by ThunderART on Thingiverse:

Advanced Snow Scraper – Just try it!

Download the files and learn more

Carousel with Micro Motor #3DPrinting #3DThursday

gzumwalt shared this project on Thingiverse!

“Carousel II” is an Autodesk Fusion 360 update of my original Carousel model published over six years ago. The “secret” to how this model operates is the hidden 3D printed “sin wave” contour in the interior of the base. As the motor rotates the carousel, the lower rods of the horses ride up and down the sin wave contour thus generating the up and down motion of the horses and flags. There are four complete sin wave cycles in the base, so the horses and flags rise and fall four times each journey around the carousel.

Download files and learn more: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3954994

Pet Robot Ball #3DThursday #3DPrinting #Pets

Shared by cabuu on Thingiverse:

My pet dog loves playing with toys especially ones he can chase! I built a robotic ball that switches on and rolls away whenever he interacts with it, notifies me via my mobile phone where I can then take over control and finally powers down when the fun is over to save battery.

The ball uses a d1 mini micro-controller, programmed using Arduino and is put together using some 3D-printed parts and some cheap, readily available components.

Download the files and learn more

Thanks, and our promise 2019 @adafruit

Adafruit Thanksgiving Googleplus

For about 10+ years, we’ve had a post around Thanksgiving reaffirming our thanks, and our promises, to be a good company, and a good cause. Here’s one from about 10 years ago where we promised we would not litter the site with social media buttons, and a post from 5 years ago with our promise not to have those annoying pop over newsletter windows, our promise to never spam. We promise to guard the privacy of our customers, employees, and community – we support DNT (do not track). Our promise to remain open-source, our commitment to 100% focus on new products, tutorials, writing and sharing code & hardware, making videos, and creating great content. We promise to be an inclusive community of people who like to make and share things.

There are a lot of ways people (and companies!) can say thank you, one of the ways we do that by keeping our promises.

In this competitive market, there are many choices besides Adafruit to purchase things, and we know many of you stick with us because we stick to our promises.

Thank you, everyone, for supporting Adafruit.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Noblinkie

P.S. We still kept our promise to not sell blinking Christmas trees too.