VeloKey is a Bicycle Keyboard to Navigate the World of #Zwift @GoZwift
Justin Shaw was on a Show-and-Tell last month and showed off his VeloKey project. Now there’s a bit more to share:
Let’s face it, indoor training kinda sucks. But our friends at Zwift.com have made it suck a lot less. Actually they made it kinda fun. Zwift allows you to ride with real friends and cyber friends from in a virtual world. You interact with the environment with (besides your bike) a keyboard, a mouse and a phone app. It is great as is, but we’ve come up with a more intuitive interface we call VeloKey.
1.8″ Color TFT LCD display with MicroSD Card Breakout – ST7735R: Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a SOIC or MSOP/(T)SSOP pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 8-TSSOP/8-MSOP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1″ spaced holes, the other has 8-SOIC. Solder your chip to either side and you’re ready to rock on any solderless breadboard. Read more.
Bluefruit EZ-Key – 12 Input Bluetooth HID Keyboard Controller – v1.2: Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a SOIC or MSOP/(T)SSOP pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 8-TSSOP/8-MSOP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1″ spaced holes, the other has 8-SOIC. Solder your chip to either side and you’re ready to rock on any solderless breadboard. Read more.
Make a robot friend with Adafruit’s CRICKIT – A Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It’s an add-on to our popular Circuit Playground Express, FEATHER and other platforms to make and program robots with CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. Start controlling motors, servos, solenoids. You also get signal pins, capacitive touch sensors, a NeoPixel driver and amplified speaker output. It complements & extends your boards so you can still use all the goodies on the microcontroller, now you have a robotics playground as well.
