Adafruit’s Top Ten Thingiverse of 2020 #AdafruitTopTen

And now may we present the top 10s of Thingiverse!


10. Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Case

In this project we’re making a case for the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera. This 3D printed an enclosure that houses the Pi 4 and the HQ Camera module. It’s compatible with any C or CS-mount lenses so we can use a wide variety of interchangeable lenses. See more in the Adafruit Learning System


9. MX MIDI Guitar

Build a guitar hero inspired MIDI controller! Features Cherry MX switches, accelerometer and whammy bar! Features a strumming mode so you can power through chords and notes giving you a playing style unlike typical MIDI controllers. The whammy bar lets you pitch bend making it feel like an electric guitar. Using an accelerometer, you can move the guitar to adjust modulation giving you an expressive playing style. See more in the Adafruit Learning System


8. Retro Cases for PyPortals

These cases are designed for the new line of PyPortals. The PyPortal original, PyPortal Titano and PyPortal Pynt. It’s like a mini desktop PC that you can have on your desk and display all sorts of data. The ports are accessible on the side and there’s even a spot to hold a speaker. The 3D printed enclosure is designed to snap fit so it’s easy to assemble and take apart. See more in the Adafruit Learning System


7. ESP32 Retro Weather Station

WiFi Weather Station with 8Bit Icons and SFX. Build a weather station with retro inspired 8bit graphics! Use CircuitPython to display data from the Open Weather Maps API. Get temperature, weather conditions, location, time and date! All rendered in chunky fonts and blocky icons. See more in the Adafruit Learning System


6. Visor Face Shield 3-Hole

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This design supports 3-hole punch system for use with sheets. Visor features covered top and tight tension across 8.5x11in sheet. Tested shield clearance with safety goggles and face mask.

Full 8.5x11in sheet is used with exception of trimming corners near chin area. 3-hole punch applied to both sides. Visor and bottom holder use same 3-hole punch (2 x 4.25in – 0.25in hole diameter).

Curls on the ends of arm holds a rubber band. Arms are thin to minimize head coverage and use less material for faster print times. See more in the Adafruit Learning System


5. Infinity Mirror

Build a NeoPixel Infinity Mirror with Bluetooth Remote Control! 3D printed parts snap fit together so it’s easy to build. Use Circuit Python to code bluetooth hardware and NeoPixel LEDs! See more in the Adafruit Learning System


4. The Mandalorian Pulse Rifle

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Leonardo Aguirre
CR10S Pro
Black PLA
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3. Infinity Cube

Building an Infinity Cube with NeoPixels and BLE control! The frame is 3D printed and the acrylic panels are coated with see-through mirror film. Trigger LED animations with the bluetooth controlled mobile app. See more in the Adafruit Learning System


2. HalloWing M4 Tombstone

Build a 3D printed light up tombstone with an animated eye! Use the HalloWing M4 and NeoPixels to make a backlit sign with a custom message or spooky face!

Use the HalloWing M4 with it’s pumpkin spiced silkscreen to make this years projects really pop! Features the crispy IPS display, gobs of on-board sensors, and a nice assort of expansion ports. Create your own eye graphics and change them by swap out bitmap images.

The parts are designed to snap fit together and for support-free 3D printing! Use black LED acrylic to make a panel with vinyl graphics. The design features Victorian style aesthetic with floral ornaments and chamfered edges. See more in the Adafruit Learning System


1. Smart IOT Pet Planter

Build a smart planter with Adafruit PyPortal and CircuitPython. Monitor your plants vitals with Adafruit STEMMA Soil Sensor and plot moisture and temperature data. Use Adafruit IO to create a visual dashboard with gauges of your plants water levels. See more in the Adafruit Learning System

Adafruit’s Top Ten Tweets of 2020 #AdafruitTopTen

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Adafruit’s Top Ten Blog Posts of 2020 #AdafruitTopTen

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: January 5th – January 11th, Thoughts for #CircuitPython2020

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We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.


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#CircuitPython2020

This week was #CircuitPython2020 packed! We shared your thoughts, we shared our thoughts…we’re just so excited to see what 2020 will bring!

Check out all the posts here!

More BLOG:

Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:


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PyPortal Retro Cases

Retro-inspired Enclosures for Adafruit PyPortal IoT Displays. This project is like a mini desktop PC that you can have on your desk and display all sorts of data. The ports are accessible on the side and there’s even a spot to hold a speaker.

The 3D printed enclosure is designed to snap fit so it’s easy to assemble and take apart.

See the full guide here!

More LEARN:

Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!

Adafruit’s Top Youtube Videos of the Decade #AdafruitTopTen #DecadeofAdafruit

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It was so fun looking back through the Adafruit Youtube videos of the last decade to compile this list! Lets start with the best – check out our top 1-10 youtube videos of the last decade below!


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All About Electroluminescent Materials – EL Wire, EL Tape, EL Panel! #Adafruit

Browse Adafruit’s extensive catalog of EL materials and supplies! http://www.adafruit.com/category/50

Get inspiration for your next EL project with the guides on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/category/el


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Guardian Robot – Zelda Breath of The Wild #3DPrinting #Adafruit

Since the last Guardian Robot project, we’ve gotten a number of requests to add a servo and LED to the head – In this project, we’ll show you how to do that!

Mounted to the eye is a 10mm blue LED. The head itself is attached to a servo horn and mounted to a micro servo. The head can freely rotate while the eye blink randomly. Surrounding the body are 5mm blue LEDs that illuminate the various surface details.

The random motion of the servo and eye blinks give the illusion of the robot “searching”. It’s appears quite organic and live like, adding much more dimension to this replica.


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Firewalker LED Sneakers

Light up your stride! Mod a pair of high-tops with NeoPixel strip and FLORA, Adafruit’s wearable electronics platform. Becky Stern and Phillip Burgess show you how to use a velostat step sensor in the heel to trigger firey animations as you walk! Build your own: https://learn.adafruit.com/firewalker-led-sneakers/


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We did a partial Furby teardown– check it out at the Adafruit Learning System! https://learn.adafruit.com/furby-2012-teardown


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Getting Started with the Fingerprint Sensor

Here’s a video guide to getting started with our fabulous fingerprint sensor! In addition to the detailed photo/software tutorial, we hope it’ll help you set up your sensor easily!

Buy one: http://www.adafruit.com/products/751
Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-optical-fingerprint-sensor


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Raspberry Pi Laptop with Atrix 4G Dock

We found this post in the Raspberry Pi forums and wanted to make a tutorial for this easy way to make a Raspberry Pi laptop using the Atrix 4G dock: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=6747

Check out Adafruit’s many Raspberry Pi tutorials and accessories: http://adafruit.com/rasperrypi

More info on the cables and adapters used to make this project here:https://blog.adafruit.com/2012/09/10/cables-adapters-for-the-atrix-raspberry-pi-laptop/


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DIY Raspberry Pi Gameboy – 3D Printed #3DPrinting

https://learn.adafruit.com/pigrrl-raspberry-pi-gameboy
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of that classic gaming device by building your own with 3D printing and DIY electronics from adafruit.

The 3D printed enclosure will house all the components and you can print it in your favorite color.

Find out how to assemble and program this project by checking out the guide on the adafruit learning system.


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iPhone Light Mod

Add a light panel to illuminate the back of your iPhone!
Adafruit iPhone tools & accessories: http://www.adafruit.com/category/111


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Collin’s Lab: Soldering
Learn the basics of soldering from Collin Cunningham!


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Introducing NeoPixels by Adafruit!
http://www.adafruit.com/neopixel

Adding colorful LEDs to your project used to require a lot of pins on your microcontroller and complex code. With the Adafruit NeoPixels, those problems are a thing of the past. You only need one pin on any microcontroller to run a long string of pixels, and with our open source NeoPixel library, you can get your NeoPixels up and running in seconds.

Not only are NeoPixels easy to use, but they come in a wide variety of designs to fit your project. You can get NeoPixels in sewable form, long waterproof strips, in a ring, on an Arduino shield, on a stick, breadboard friendly and much more! Learn everything there is to know about Adafruit NeoPixels and how easy it is to use them on the Adafruit Learning System.

Adafruit’s Top Ten Youtube Videos of 2019 #AdafruitTopTen

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2019 was a pretty epic year for the Adafruit Youtube Channel! Our channel now has over 325,000 subscribers and over 60 million views! Take a look at our top 10 youtube videos of 2019 below!

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Adafruit PyGamer #MakeCode #CircuitPython #Arduino
Say hello to the #Adafruit #PyGamer ??It’s got a cortex M4, 1.8in TFT display with 8 buttons, accelerometer, light sensor and speaker. Also USB charging and JST ports!

It’s a pretty small device packed with all sorts of hardware.
It’s built for creative development and it’s fully open source!


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Learn Hardware Programming with CircuitPython at Codecademy

Codecademy, in collaboration with Adafruit Industries, launches new course: “Learn Hardware Programming with CircuitPython

Codecademy, an online interactive learning platform used by more than 45 million people, has teamed up with the leading manufacturer in STEAM electronics, Adafruit Industries, to create a coding course, “Learn Hardware Programming with CircuitPython”. Starting today, the course is available in the Codecademy catalog.


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Obsidian – Steven Universe #cartoonnetwork #adafruit

Guide: Obsidian Sword – Steven Universe Fuse Your Maker Skills

In this project, we’re building Obsidian’s Sword from Steven Universe.

This thing was forged from foam core and has a NeoPixel LED strip making it super bright!


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Heat Set Insert Press

In this project we’re building a rig for installing heat set inserts. Use 3D printed parts and hardware to build a solder rig with smooth linear roller action! Make perfectly straight inserts with precision using a tip for installing inserts.

Learn guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/heat-set-rig/


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Tiny Machine Learning on the Edge with TensorFlow Lite Running on SAMD51

You’ve heard of machine learning (ML), but what is it? And do you have to buy specialty hardware to experiment? If you have some Adafruit hardware, you can build some Tiny ML projects today!

TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers Kit – Quick Start
https://learn.adafruit.com/tensorflow…

TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers Kit
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4317


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WebUSB is here! TinyUSB now has WebUSB support at Adafruit!

Following up on our earlier mass-storage support announcement for TinyUSB, we just added WebUSB support!

You can now send and receive data over Chrome (or other WebUSB) browsers with Javascript or whatever else is your favorite web programming language.

This can make for really interesting interactions where people don’t need any drivers or software to send/receive commands, or perhaps to expose some sort of REPL.


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LED Zelda Master Sword

Make a light up Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda! This build has motion activated sound effects and LED animations!

The Adafruit Feather and Prop-Maker FeatherWing has you need to add lights and sounds to your projects. NeoPixel LEDs are fitted inside the blade.

This uses the built-in accelerometer and audio amp. When you swing it around, it’ll make different sound effects. On heavy hits it makes flashes and fade the colors of the LEDs.

It has pulsing animation and an idle sound effect that loops in the background. You can make this fit your project by customizing the colors or adding different sound effects. You can recharge the battery or even add new sounds with the USB port. The sword mounts on a computer, just like a USB Drive!


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Great Scott Gadgets – Michael Ossmann @michaelossmann @GSGlabs

Great Scott Gadgets, Open source hardware for innovative people:
https://greatscottgadgets.com


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Circuit Playground is for everyone! Learn to code!

Circuit Playground Category on Adafruit.com


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Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is here!

The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is the newest Raspberry Pi computer made, and the Pi Foundation knows you can always make a good thing better! And what could make the Pi 4 better than the 3? How about a faster processor, USB 3.0 ports, and updated Gigabit Ethernet chip with PoE capability? Good guess – that’s exactly what they did!

The Raspberry Pi 4 is the latest product in the Raspberry Pi range, boasting an updated 64-bit quad core processor running at 1.4GHz with built-in metal heatsink, USB 3 ports, dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless LAN, faster (300 mbps) Ethernet, and PoE capability via a separate PoE HAT.


Adafruit’s Top Ten Instagram Posts of 2018 #AdafruitTopTen

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2018 brought us many things, including 46 THOUSAND more of you hanging out with us on Instagram. UHM, thanks for that, y’all are rad!

Below you’ll find the community’s most loved Adafruit Instagram posts. And hey, stick around! We’ve got some things up our sleeves for 2019 =)


1. Episode 3 of Women in Hardware! Presented by Adafruit and Hackster. We’re at Qualcomm’s headquarters in San Diego to talk supply chain management, embedded computing and more! https://www.hackster.io/womeninhardware #diy #electronics #Adafruit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84JlxHcLsKE


2. @kidrobot #munny #munnyworld @adafruit #circuitplayground #circuitpython


3. LED physics on a Pi powered Matrix! An Adafruit LED matrix displays the LEDs as little grains of sand which are driven by sampling an accelerometer with #RaspberryPi Zero! The #3DPrinted handles make it easy to hold the 64×64 #LED Matrix and the two buttons make it easy to switch modes or reset simulations! Guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/matrix-led-sand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Ce89f873Y #3dprinting #adafruit


4. Cleaning the selective solder machine @adafruit #adafruit #manufacturing #manufacturingmonday #soldering #soldertherapy #dross #selectivesoldering #wavesoldering #electronics #opensource #madeinnyc


5. Relive the glory days of 128k by making your own Mac Classic, with #3Dprinting and #DIY #electronics. A #RaspberryPi and mini touch screen display make this an easy-to-build project. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through the steps of printing, building and assembling your own Mac Pi! Check out the full tutorial https://learn.adafruit.com/mini-mac-pi/ #adafruut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_duo8Wogsw


6. Servos can make the heart grow fonder… They can also just make a heart! ❤️ What are some electronics that make your heart dance? . adafru.it/1967 . #adafruit #valentinesday #robotics #heart #servo


7. Soldering as seen through a microscope #adafruit #manufacturing #manufacturingmonday #solder #soldering #electronics #microscope


8. Heat form a milk jug into a translucent skull. More on @johnedgarpark John Park’s Workshop Thursday at 4pm EST. #hallowing #skull


9. Dead bug wiring an audio input to the Trellis M4’s STEMMA port for a no-solder interface. @johnedgarpark John Park’s Workshop Thursday 4pm EST for more audio visualizer and filter action!


10. In loving memory – Mosfet the cat 2001 – 2018 Mosfet the cat passed away last night, Ladyada & pt were present, he passed peacefully, without pain. Mosfet was a wonderful cat and helped us every single day, including helping us say goodbye to him together. There was not a day he wasn’t helping us in his own cat way. He was over 17+ years old. Mosfet was a black “hard to adopt” rescue cat that no one wanted, we think he was thrown away in a garbage bag before he was adopted due his fear of garbage bags in any form (he eventually got over it). Ladyada adopted him, Mosfet went to MIT, and made an adafruit with Ladyada and with pt. Mosfet was the part of our shows for the last 10 or so years, making an appearance live when Adafruit was an apartment company and recently on Desk of Ladyada. There wasn’t an electronic design that he didn’t stop by at Ladyada’s desk to check out what she was doing. Mosfet was up at 5am everyday with pt helping to run Adafruit in his own cat way, every day on his lap, at night hanging out with Ladyada. #mosfet #adafruit @adafruit https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/02/28/in-loving-memory-mosfet-the-cat-2001-2018/


(BONUS) 11. hellooo LED strips! It’s Day 2 of our “Best of” #NeoPixels week! . You can’t bake a cake without flour, sugar, and baking soda? Cream cheese? Muscadet? Ok – to be honest some of us don’t do much cake baking. But we do light up a TON of NeoPixel LED strips! . They’re everywhere – from our Firewalker LED Sneakers to our FloraBrella – and we can’t think of better essentials to get you started than this Adafruit NeoPixel LED Strip Starter Pack! .

Adafruit’s Top Ten YouTube Videos of 2018 #AdafruitTopTen

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Through the next couple of weeks we are going to post Adafruit’s Top 10 lists ranging from social media to new products. Be sure to check back every weekday!

2018 was a pretty epic year for Adafruit YouTube content. So sit back, relax, and enjoy our 2018 highlight reel.


10) Hocus Pocus Book – Hallowing Eye


9) Doubled-Sided PCBs // CNC MIlling


8) Say Hello to Crickit


7) New Year Eve Ball Drop


6) Circuit Playground is for everyone


5) John Park’s Workshop: CNC Machine Kit Build


4) LED Sand – DIY Physics Toy


3) New Products 8/8/2018 Featuring Adafruit 1.8″ Color #TFT #Shield!


2) DIY Arduino Thermal Camera


1) NEW! Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: December 30th – January 5th

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP


We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.


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Adafruit’s Top 10s of 2018

That’s right folks, it’s that time year where we all look back to hopefully gain some insight into what we can all expect going into a new year. Here at Adafruit we look at our editorial and creative content, our social platforms and our ~products~. We’ll be posting our top 10s through next week on the blog so stay tuned!

More BLOG:

Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:


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Introducing the Adafruit nRF52840 Feather

The Adafruit Feather nRF52840 Express is the new Feather family member with Bluetooth Low Energy and native USB support featuring the nRF52840! It’s our take on an ‘all-in-one’ Arduino-compatible + Bluetooth Low Energy with built in USB plus battery charging. With native USB it’s even ready to join the CircuitPython party. We have other boards in the Feather family, check’em out here.

See the full guide here!

More LEARN:

Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!