Here at Adafruit, we love discovering new and exotic glowing things. Like moths to the flame, we were intrigued by this ‘chip on board’ ultra-flexible RGB LED Strip with a whoppin’ 630 SMT LEDs per meter (210 x RGB LEDs, with 3 in series per segment), soldered side-by-side and diffused with silicone epoxy! They look a lot like neon or incandescent tubing or maybe really-nice EL wire but without the need for expensive transformers, glass tubing, or inert gasses. And these fancy side light LED strips are good for making slim-and-elegant edge lighting for art, signs, or architectural elements.
You can now attack just about every kind of box or enclosure that needs undoing with this Right Angle Phillips Head and Flat Head Screwdriver Kit. These right angled screwdrivers are ideal when you want something that’s a cross between a regular driver and an allen wrench. Especially when there’s a narrow spot you need to get into and you can’t get a good angle to the screw head.
Our favorite food when hacking on code or electronics is a hot bowl of noodles – and around NYC these are often called ‘noods’! What we’ve got here are flexible LED noodles in different lengths and colors. All are not good for eatin’ but they are good for cool lighting effects
Our favorite food when hacking on code or electronics is a hot bowl of noodles – and around NYC, these are often called ‘noods’! What we’ve got here are flexible LED noodles in different lengths and colors. All are not good for eatin’, but they are good for cool lighting effects
With most of our dev boards, sensors and feathers now sporting plug-and-play stemma QT ports it can be very fast to put together projects with half a dozen boards snapped together. But that ease of use has one downside: now you don’t have a breadboard as a mechanical substrate… which is why we created this nifty swirly grid design to allow for easy mounting of various small microcontroller and sensor boards.
Our QT Py boards are a great way to make very small microcontroller projects that pack a ton of power – and now we have a way for you to add a small, colorful, and bright display to any project.
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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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