Prototyping the NeoTrellis M4 #ManufacturingMonday (video)
This timelapse shows the prototyping an early version of the NeoTrellis M4 board.
The NeoTrellis M4 is an all-in-one Audio board powered by the SAMD51, a Cortex M4 core running at 120 MHz. This comes with CircuitPython and Arduino support, and has a roomy 512KB of flash and 192KB of SRAM, plus a full 8MB flash chip providing tons of space for files and audio clips. On the front side is a 4×8 grid of elastomer button pads with a NeoPixel nestled in the center of each one. You can read any/all button presses simultaneously thanks to the fully diode’d matrix, and also set each button color to any of 24-bit colors. This board is a beast!
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