Issue 17 — HackSpace magazine is here! @HackSpaceMag
Issue 17 — HackSpace magazine is here! This issue features Arduino and has some great Adafruit products & projects too!
Arduino is more than a company; it’s an ecosystem, a movement, and a state of mind. It’s hundreds of microcontroller boards that all run the same code, it’s libraries for almost any hardware a hobbyist is likely to come across, and it’s a range of development environments for different ranges of experience. For many people, the word Arduino is almost interchangeable with microcontrollers. This issue, we take a look at exactly what this all means in our cover feature.
Perhaps the most interesting recent development in Arduino is the Arduino IoT Cloud, which aims to make it easy to develop secure, robust Internet of Things appliances. We take a look at how all this works, by exploring the features and creating our own IoT lamp. If you’d rather use a different environment, we’re also looking at CircuitPython, with Sophy Wong’s Flappy Birds outfit, which is quite possibly the best games controller ever made.
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
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.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat and our Discord!
Python for Microcontrollers – Adafruit Daily — Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: CircuitPython Comes to the ESP32-P4, Emulating Arm on RISC-V, and Much More! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @ThePSF @Raspberry_Pi
EYE on NPI – Adafruit Daily — EYE on NPI Maxim’s Himalaya uSLIC Step-Down Power Module #EyeOnNPI @maximintegrated @digikey
