I don’t know where to start, there are so many great and wonderful things
I’d like to address. The one that I just worked out – Using my Pixel 2XL Cell phone to create,download and use a Circuit Playground Express. I have been fascinated with you, your company and and your products. One thing I always wanted to do was use my cell phone with Makecode and the CPX. I recently purchase two of your USB-C to Micro -B1 (I think I got that description right) P3879D cables. And voila a CPX shows up on my phone and I
can download to it!
I had been using the provided USB-C dongle that comes with the phone and an
assortment of cables. In many cases, I could see the CPX as a USB but could
not interface with it to download. I suspect that in all the junctions,
things just were not getting through. Then I saw the Ask an Engineer last
week and decided to try the short cable.
Oh man I can’t tell you how excited I was when my phone showed the
CPlayground in the notifications bar.
Now I have a “Show and Tell” to take to people that I can fit in my shirt
pocket…
Thomas
62 YO that feels young again.
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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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