New Products 12/7/22 Feat. Adafruit MOSFET Driver – Motors, Solenoids, LEDs, etc – STEMMA JSTPH 2mm « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!

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Rubber Slide Potentiometer Nubbin – Pack of 3

We dig the lil’ rubber nubbin on the popular 75mm long 10KΩ slide potentiometer so much, we thought folks might like a pack of three for their own DIY slide pot project. They have a grippy plastic knob with a white stripe marking and are very satisfying to slide back and forth.

2.8″ TFT LCD with Cap Touch Breakout Board w/MicroSD Socket – EYESPI Connector

Add some jazz & pizazz to your project with a color capactive touchscreen LCD. This TFT display is big (2.8″ diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful! 240×320 pixels with individual RGB pixel control, this has way more resolution than a black and white 128×64 display. As a bonus, this display has a capacitive single-touch touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen. (We also have a resistive touchscreen version of this display breakout)

Nightjar – Analog Electronic Birdsong Synthesizer – Kelly Heaton

Nikola Tesla famously said, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” Kelly Heaton followed Tesla’s advice to invent a practice that she calls Electronic Naturalism: the study of electrical patterns in living and life-like entities.

Snap Action 3-to-3 Wiring Block Connector – Clear PCT-2-3M

Snap action blocks are perfect when you have to quickly wire up a bunch of free-hanging components, and you don’t want to solder. They’re much easier to use than wire nuts, and of course, they are reuseable and do not require any crimping!

Snap Action 2-to-6 Wiring Block Connector – Clear DF-62

This is a 2 to 6 wire block: there are two separate inputs and two sets of three outputs. They’re color-coded so easy to follow; the blue and red inputs match the colored outputs. Great for basic power or signal fan-outs.

Snap Action 3-to-9 Wiring Block Connector – Clear DF-93

This is a 3 to 9 wire block: there are three separate inputs, and three sets of three outputs. They’re color coded so easy to follow, the green yellow and red inputs match the colored outputs. Great for basic power or data fan-outs.

Adafruit MOSFET Driver – For Motors, Solenoids, LEDs, etc – STEMMA JST PH 2mm

Sparky the Blue Smoke Monster shows up whenever the magic smoke is let of of an electronic component. And his very favorite is whenever folks first start with electronics and robotics: wiring up a motor or solenoid or high power LED is a perfect recipe for getting that blue smoke out of an Arduino or Raspberry Pi. Why? Because these high-current devices can’t be connected directly to a GPIO pin on a microcontroller! They need to have a transistor / MOSFET driver, plus a kickback-protection diode that will absorb the inductive ‘kick’ caused by turning on-and-off motors and solenoids. Without that driver and diode – your tronix will go poof!