Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: December 9th – December 15th
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 now has 1,000 public repos’ on GitHub
We now have 1,000 public repos’ on GitHub @ Adafruit Industries. Thank you to the community and our entire team for making open-source, sharing, and working together a core value for what we do! And for our customers, you have a lot of choices where to purchase electronics, thank you for supporting Adafruit because of the repos’, guides, videos, support, fast shipping, service and more!
More BLOG:
Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:
- Kattni’s giving a CircuitPython workshop December 17!
- Mike Barela’s on a #VintageComputing roll – send us all the tips please!
- Python on Hardware 08’s up, check it out
- oooh, a Python ICYMI
- Did you hear, Adafruit_GFX Gains DMA! PHILB breaks it all down here
- A new Adafruit Support video all about shipping methods, weeee!
- Y’all, Pedro found chuckbobuck’s 3D printed antler a la How the Grinch Stole Christmas and it’s on a guinea pig and it’s just too perf
- Arkansas DOE + Circuit Playground Express
- Scott let us know CircuitPython 4.0.0 Alpha 5 was released
Learn
In this project we’ll build an interactive cardboard fireplace with LEDs and a motorized Grinch!
A Circuit Playground Express will drive an LED strip and a servo controlled paper Grinch cutout. Hidden under a rug, a simple switch triggers the servo when stepped on. So the Grinch looks like he’s hiding when someone steps on the rug, sneaky!
More LEARN:
- Interactive Map with Circuit Playground Express
- Trellis M4 Audio Filter Visualizer
- Glowing Neopixel Resin River Table
- ABC Soundboards with NeoTrellis
- NeoTrellis M4 MIDI File Synthesizer
- NeoTrellis Tabletop RPG Soundboard
- NeoTrellis M4 Memory Game
- Ping Pong Ball Launcher
- Bluetooth Remote Control for the Lego Droid Developer Kit
Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!
