Adabox 010 – NeoTrellis M4 with Analog Devices ADXL343 #MAKEWITHDIGIKEY @digikey @ADI_News
Adabox 010 shipped with NeoTrellis and turned out to be one of the most popular products and Adaboxes of the year.
This ADABOX was a multi-sensory feast – Lights! Sound! Squishy buttons! This box comes with a Trellis M4. It’s a grid of 4×8 silicone buttons, with a NeoPixel behind each one for rainbow glory. The engine is a ATSAMD51 microcontroller with stereo audio channels and microphone input.
Trellis is an all-in-one synthesizer, drum-machine, MIDI sequencer, audio filter, sampler…A DIY toy that will help you make any sort of music you’d like, so you can make the bleepy-bloops all winter long.
It’s now in the store as a stand-alone box as well.
Special thanks to the generous sponsorship and support from Analog Devices and Digi-Key, we’ve even included a fancy triple-axis accelerometer! Each Trellis M4 comes with an ADXL343 built right in, so your lights and music can react to movement and tilt.
ADXL343
3-Axis ±2 g/±4 g/±8 g/±16 Digital MEMS Accelerometer
Analog Devices Inc.
The ADXL343 is a versatile 3-axis, digital-output, low g MEMS accelerometer. Selectable measurement range and bandwidth, and configurable, built-in motion detection make it suitable for sensing acceleration in a wide variety of applications. Robustness to 10,000 g of shock and a wide temperature range (−40°C to +85°C) enable use of the accelerometer even in harsh environments.
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