FeatherWing of the Day: Adafruit RGB Matrix FeatherWing Kit – For nRF52840 Feathers #WingOfTheDay

The Adafruit Feather ecosystem is so rich with hardware diversity, we wanted to share them, one each day. Today is the Adafruit RGB Matrix FeatherWing Kit – For nRF52840 Feathers!

Ahoy! It’s time to create a dazzling light up project with our new RGB Matrix FeatherWing for nRF52840. Now you can quickly and easily create projects featuring your favorite 16 or 32-pixel tall matrix boards. Using our RGB Matrix library is easy and works wonderfully with our nRF52840 based Feathers.

Please note: This ‘Wing is only tested/designed to work with the nRF52840 Feathers (Express and Sense). It’s not for use with any other Feathers (unless they happen to coincidentally have matching pinouts!) If you have a SAMD21/SAMD51 (M0 or M4) Feather, we have a Wing with proper wiring for those Feathers here!

This wing can be assembled in one of two ways. You can either solder in a 2×8 IDC shrouded header on the top, then plug in the IDC cable that came with your matrix. This makes it easy to stack on top of your Feather. Or, you can solder in the 2×10 socket header on the bottom of the Wing, and then stack your Feather on top. That way you can plug it directly into the back of the matrix *mind blown*

This FeatherWing will work great with any of our 16×3232×32 or 64×32 RGB matrices, and is definitely the easiest way to glow and go.

USE

The Adafruit RGB Matrix FeatherWings Guide provides details and use examples.

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