Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: October 14th – October 20th
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP
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.
BLOG
Adafruit’s HalloWing, an MCU Optimized for Halloween Projects @make
Adafruit’s HalloWing, an MCU Optimized for Halloween Projects.
…Adafruit Industries have done something really special this year. They’ve created the HalloWing, what they describe as basically a tricked-out Feather microcontroller that has been optimized for running Halloween projects.
The skull-shaped circuit board has a full-color TFT display, light and motion sensors, 8 megs of storage for plenty of sound effects and video, a speaker driver for sound output, JST ports for LED strips, and a lot more. It supports both Arduino and CircuitPython programming environments.
These are all of the sorts of handy features you would want on a controller driving effects for a costume or Halloween haunts project. It even comes with a creepy eyeball video already loaded (which I plan on making use of in my costume).
More BLOG:
- MakeCode Minute: Bootloading for MakeCode
- Cheap shipping from China may be going away?
- Adafruit HalloWing M0 Express Board | Maker Minute
- Time Travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science, technology and engineering world
LEARN
Jack-o’-LED·trix: Use a string of diffused pixels and a push button to create a new take on a jack-o-lantern sure to entertain trick-or-treaters and guests at your next Halloween party.
This is a great beginner project if you’re new to soldering or microcontrollers. You can use a real pumpkin (aka “cucurbita pepo”) or a fake foam pumpkin (aka a “funkin”) to create a reusable and unique piece of decor.
I used an Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit LE board to drive the 3-pin pixels on my Jack-o’-LED·trix this year. The example code will compile on a number of different boards, including the following.. See the full guide here!
More LEARN
- Feather Waveform Generator in CircuitPython
- Tiny Museum Tour Device
- Easy Sparkle Pocket T-Shirt
- HalloWing Case
Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!
