“In 2020, we will be launching 4 new chips, covering different segments of the market, price points and performance. Our latest chips feature our new radio architecture that has lower power consumption while maintaining the same -40°C~125°C performance. The peripherals have been upgraded with highly sensitive capacitive touch IO’s. Capacitive touch controls are now a staple of user interfaces because they are cost efficient; certain functions such as slider controls are better supported with capacitive touch than with analog implementations.”
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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