First Look – Circuit Playground Biscuit by @Dastels
Liz Clark (BlitzCityDIY) shared a video on her YouTube channel taking a look at a Circuit Playground PCB adapter. Designed by Dave Astels, this is an add-on, which he dubs as a “Biscuit” that breaks out all of the GPIO pins into a format suitable for breadboarding. This allows for a more compact prototyping format and reduces the need for alligator clips. Dave says he’ll be putting this up for sale on the Tindie marketplace soon. Until then, be sure to check out the Adafruit Discord server for more insights, BTS and more!
PS: Dave also put together a learning guide that shows how to DIY your own using prototyping boards and even designing a custom PCB.
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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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