This weekend, we were working through a huge pile of prototypes! First up is a SEN-5x adapter board: the Sensirion SEN-54 and SEN-55 are nice all-in-one air quality sensors with particulate matter detection, temperature, humidity and VOC. but, they need 5V power for the onboard fan . We tested our QT-board which comes with an AP6302-based charge pump converter and JST GH cable port for no-solder plug-and play.
Next up, the Adafruit Protomatter library was recently updated to BSP 3.x support – which means it works with the ESP32-C6 Feather.
And finally, we tried out our thumbstick Trinkey, which adds a mini analog joystick to any USB port. We updated the design to have a THM USB type A port, plus two right-angle buttons instead of capacitive touch.
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