2. Featured product: #Adafruit VL6180X Time of Flight Distance Ranging Sensor.
Happy #manufacturingmonday! This sensor is small and easy to use in any #robotics or interactive project. Its very tiny laser source detects “time of flight” — or how long the laser takes to bounce back to the sensor from whatever’s in front of it.
5. New project! Learn how to add NeoPixel LEDs to your props. #electronics #adafruit #neopixel #cosplay #cosplayprop #rwbycosplay learn.adafruit.com #rwby #3DPrinting
10. Scraping the dross out of our selective solder machine. Notice the use of heat resistant gloves, this molten solder is hot! #adafruit #manufacturing #electronics #behindthescenes #eutectic #soldertherapy #selectivesoldering #maintenance
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Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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