Desk of Ladyada – Infrared Testers & Tons of Trinkeys! #DeskOfLadyada #Adafruit @adafruit
This week at my desk, I’m designing testers for some of the infrared receiver boards and the BNO055+BMP280 BFF from a few weeks. Also, I’m cranking out a lot of tiny designs! including an Accessibility Trinkey that connects a TRRS jack to analog input pins on a SAMD and a Pixel Trinkey that adds a low cost USB-to-NeoPixel-or-DotStar interface.
Since some folks want USB C versions of Trinkeys…a USB C Plug breakout board! This is how I’ll test to verify if the complex footprint is good, and also, folks probably would like to have such a product in the shop.
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
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.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat and our Discord!
