The Adafruit Feather ecosystem is so rich with hardware diversity, we wanted to share them, one each day. Today is the Adafruit HalloWing M4 Express – Goth Adafruit Black Edition!
This is Hallowing..this is Hallowing… Hallowing! Hallowing! Following up on 2018’s most-successful-skull-shaped development board, we UPPED our -skull-shaped development board game, and re-spinned (re-spun?) the HalloWing M0 into the HalloWing M4 with MORE of everything that makes this the spoooookiest dev board.
Are you the kind of person who doesn’t like taking down the skeletons and spiders until after January? Well, we’ve got the development board for you. This is electronics at its most spooky! The Adafruit HalloWing M4 is a skull-shaped ATSAM51 board with a ton of extras built in to make for an adorable wearable, badge, development kit, or the engine for your next cosplay or prop.
On the front is a cute 1.54″ sized 240×240 full color IPS TFT. Compared to the HalloWing M0’s 1.44″ 128×128, this has 4x as many pixels and is IPS for great color and brightness. Our default example code has our new fully-customizable spooky eye demo running but you can use it for anything you like to display in glorious color.
There’s also 4 fang-teeth below the display, these are analog/capacitive touch inputs with big alligator-clip holes.
OK so technically it’s more like a really tricked-out Feather M4 Express than a Wing but we simply could not resist the HalloWing pun.
You can use the Hallowing similarly to the Feather M4 Express, it’s got the same chip although the pins have been rearranged. We’ve got both Arduino and CircuitPython build support for it so you can pick your favorite development language! The extra 8 MB of SPI Flash is great for sound effects projects where you want to play up to 3 minutes of WAV files.
USE
The Adafruit Hallowing M4 Guide provides all the details and use examples.
Projects:
Would you like to see this Feather in action? Check out the project below:
- HalloWing M4 Animated Eye Candy Bowl
- HalloWing M4 Tombstone
- EYE SHOOTOUT: Contrasting Open Source and Big Retail Electronics
In stock! You can buy the Adafruit HalloWing M4 Express – Goth Adafruit Black Edition in the Adafruit shop.