RFID Wiz Kit by Smooth Technology: RFID made easy! RFID Wiz is the easiest way to include RFID in all your projects. Their ONE-TOUCH training system will have you reading RFIDs in no time! Designed for art installations, museums, escape rooms, etc but can be used any time you want to add quick “touch to activate” behavior.
ADXL343 – Triple-Axis Accelerometer (+-2g/4g/8g/16g) w/ I2C/SPI – STEMMA QT / Qwiic: Analog Devices has followed up on their popular classic, the ADXL345, with this near-drop-in-replacement, the ADXL343. Like the original, this is a triple-axis accelerometer with digital I2C and SPI interface breakout. It has a wide sensitivity range and high resolution, operating with an 10 or 13-bit internal ADC. Built-in motion detection features make tap, double-tap, activity, inactivity, and free-fall detection trivial. There’s two interrupt pins, and you can map any of the interrupts independently to either of them.
Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S2 WiFi Dev Board with STEMMA QT: What has your favorite Espressif WiFi microcontroller, comes with our favorite connector – the STEMMA QT, a chainable I2C port, and has lots of Flash and RAM memory for your next IoT project? What will make your next IoT project flyyyyy? What a cutie pie! Or is it… a QT Py? This diminutive dev board comes with one of our new favorite lil chips, the ESP32-S2!
Adafruit 1.9″ 320×170 Color IPS TFT Display – ST7789: This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful, and very bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available! The 1.9″ display has 320×170 16-bit full-color pixels and is an IPS display, so the color looks great up to 80 degrees off-axis in any direction. The TFT driver (ST7789) is very similar to the popular ST7735, and our Arduino library supports it well.
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