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Air Quality / Temperature Sensor (IOT) #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Air quality is more important than ever these days. This tidy sensor-set up was shared by scotthraban on Thingiverse:

A project box to hold the bits for a air quality / temperature sensor.

Full project details are available here

Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: QT Py RP2040, Vivien’s Seismometer, Lemon Mechanical Keypad and More!

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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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Testing out QT Py RP2040 with Xiao Extension Board

This Expansion board is designed for the Seeed Xiao, and since the QT Py is pin compatible we thought we’d try it out with the RP2040 QT Py we just released to see how it works with CircuitPython. The RP2040 has toooons more flash and RAM than the SAMD21 so it’s a great little add-on! There’s a 128×64 OLED, button, piezo beeper, battery charger and booster, SD card and RTC.

Check out the full post 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:

Possible to send PPE to India Makerspaces / Hackerspaces? Maybe we can help…
Here are some free things to do after getting vaccinated
Adafruit in Space: UNISAT-7 Breakout
Adafruit is a PyCon 2021 participating sponsor
Testing out CircuitPython library support for U2IF on Pico
Catch up with Collin’s Lab Notes
Language Map of NYC
A Brief History of Pulp Fiction
A high school student’s consumer seismometer delivers low-cost earthquake early warning
The Animated Medical Illustrations of Ni-ka Ford
McTesla – A Strange Mini Tesla Coil

LEARN

Lemon Mechanical Keypad

Make a custom USB-HID keypad in the shape of a citrus fruit. This keypad features six mechanical switches for controlling media players like Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, etc. Powered by the Adafruit QT Py RP2040 and CircuitPython.

Inside the case is a NeoPixel Jewel that slowly fades in and out making the keypad illuminate. The QT Py and NeoPixel are housed in a 3D printed case with parts that snap fit together.

See the full guide here!

More LEARN:

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

New Guide! IOT Air Quality Monitor – Silo House

Build a 3D printed enclosure for your IOT Air Quality Sensor. This project uses sensors to measure PM2.5 (particles that are 2.5 microns or smaller in diameter) dust concentrations, temperature and humidity.

This weatherproof enclosure is modeled after a silo-home. We’ve included different types of mounting holes and brackets for different mounting configurations.

Learn Guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/air-quality-sensor-silo-house/

PMS5003 Air Quality Sensor
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3686

PMSA003I Air Quality Sensor
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4632

BME280 Sensor
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2652

BME680 Sensor
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3660

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up October 18 – 24: #ElectronicHalloween, Metro ESP32-S2, E-Ink + WiFi Display & More!

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP

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How Could Your Ballot be Rejected?

This interactive article includes tips to pay attention to when you vote so your ballot doesn’t get tossed out

Check out the full post 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:

Learn

Matrix Portal Scoreboard

Are your backyard games of cornhole or horseshoes getting pretty serious? It may be time to build a professional-looking scoreboard!

Use the Matrix Portal and LED matrix display along with Adafruit IO to score a friendly competition between two players or teams! You can use your smart phone’s web browser to adjust the scores in real-time. All coded in CircuitPython.

See the full guide here!

More LEARN:

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

Make a Smart Ping Pong LED Lamp

Great followup build from bitluni on YouTube:

This LED lamp is a quick project that can be done within a day. Only a few cheap components are needed to create a nice looking ambient lamp. No programming is needed, only the WLED firmware is uploaded to a micro controller via a simple tool.

SoftGlove #WearableWednesday #3DPrinting #SoftRobotic

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Air pumps help move the fingers of this glove using the Adafruit app. Shared by france.bonde on Instructables:

As the actuators inflate, the rectangles they have on their top push against each other, bending the associated fingers.

The motor that controls the inflation is a device called “FlowIO”. This device is able to inflate, to deflate and to create a vacuum. At this moment the device is using an Adafruit platform controlled by an app on my phone, but my aim is to associate it with another glove with flex-sensors on its fingers, so that the softglove’s movements would mirror the other’s ones.

Learn more!

Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: All the Internet of Things – Episode 6, 3,000 Thanks, NeoPixel Infinity Mirror Coaster, & more!

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP

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All the Internet of Things – Episode 6 – DK IoT Studio

Adafruit and Digi-Key have teamed up to present All the Internet of Things – a six-episode series covering everything you could ever want to know about the Internet of Things.

http://www.digikey.com/alltheiot

We’ve gone over a lot of different aspects of IoT. In our first episode, we looked at Transports, the physical and wireless mechanisms used to transfer data between things. In Protocols, we saw the communication standards which enable devices at each end of a transport to “speak the same language” and understand what is being communicated.

More BLOG:

LEARN

NeoPixel Infinity Mirror Coaster – Build a Portable Infinity Mirror with Bluetooth Control

More LEARN

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

Kinetic Courier – IOT Notifier #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Thanks to Bob for sending in this tip! Bob writes:

Something happened? Ring a bell, wave a flag, light somelights! A physical notification platform for IOT events.

Make your own Jurassic Park goggles using a Raspberry Pi #MakeSomething #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi #3DPrinting #IoT

Charming video showing every step of the build. She does a great job showing all the fails and less glamorous maker moments.

From Raspberry Pi:

When we invited Estefannie Explains It All to present at Coolest Projects International, she decided to make something cool with a Raspberry Pi to bring along. But being Estefannie, she didn’t just make something a little bit cool. She went ahead and made Raspberry Pi Zero-powered Jurassic Park goggles, or, as she calls them, the world’s first globally triggered, mass broadcasting, photon-emitting and -collecting head unit.

Space Foundry backs plasma-based 3D printing as the future of electronics production

Space Foundry is a Silicon Valley-based startup looking to introduce plasma 3D printing in the space and electronics industries. The brainchild of PhD researcher Ram Prasad Gandhiraman and Stanford University scientist Dennis Nordlund, Space Foundry has developed a direct write printing technology allowing for multi-material printing and tailored material characteristics. Using plasma users are able […]