It’s the last night of our “Festival of Lights” mega design fest—to wrap up this year, we’re doing eight days of light-filled designs!
We started with the Sparkle Motion Mini which can drive thousands of shimmering RGB LEDs. Then, we did the Sparkle Motion stick, a USB-pluggable version. On the third night, a 1.28″ round TFT display, and on the fourth, a 1.8″ round TFT with captouch overlay (https://bsky.app/profile/adafruit.com/post/3leg4y35r2k2k). On the fifth night, a tiny 0.85″ TFT display came to life. We took a little break on the sixth night since we were doing a lot of Sparkle Motion testing and did a quick revision of our NeoRGB (https://bsky.app/profile/adafruit.com/post/3lekxcbal7s2v) The seventh night was a transparent OLED display with 128×64 pixels and an I2C interface.
Tonight – the candles are burned out, the donuts are all eaten, and the final prototype PCB is booked! This is a mini breakout for a tiny 0.7″ round TFT display with 160×160 pixels. What is this, a display for ants? We couldn’t fit a micro SD card socket on the back, but we did get an EYESPI socket on there, and 0.1″ spaced breakout pads with all the necessary connections, plus a regulator and level shifter. Whew, we’re going to bed – Happy New Year!!!
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