Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: 30k Discord Members, Nelson Mandela Day, NYC Mesh, xxx & More!
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.
BLOG
Every year on July 18th we celebrate Mandela Day. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and his sociopolitical leadership, the holiday asks us to change our communities.
Take a look at your neighborhood and nearby areas. Are you living in or near a food desert? Do the people in your community have access to affordable fresh fruits and vegetables? Are the schools in your district properly funded with food programs and after-school activities? Is there adequate housing for members of your community and programs to end houselessness? Does everyone in your community have unlimited access to clean water?
Everyone deserves unconditional access to nutrient-dense food, safe housing, and clean water. What are you willing to do to make sure everyone has access?
More BLOG:
Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:
- The Adafruit Community on Discord has reached over 30,000 humans. Thank you!
- This week’s Adafruit.io WipperSnapper Wednesday
- Guerrilla Wi-Fi Comes to New York
- Let’s Visit The Exclusive Disney Store Where No Tourists Are Allowed
- Blinka Support added to the BeagleV StarLight Beta Prototype
- Autodesk Terminates Acquisition Discussions with Altium
- Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese typewriter
- 1984 Sinclair QL and Weird Tape Formats
- Five Painting Techniques for 3D Prints
- The State of Open Source Hardware in 2021
- Scientific Endeavor of Making Ice Cream
Learn
Strap yourself in, we’re launching in T-minus 10 seconds…Destination? A new Class M planet called MACROPAD! M here, stands for Microcontroller because this 3×4 keyboard controller features the newest technology from the Raspberry Pi sector: say hello to the RP2040. It’s speedy little microcontroller with lots of GPIO pins and a 64 times more RAM than the Apollo Guidance Computer. We added 8 MB of flash memory for plenty of storage.
Get ready to upgrade your desk’s mission control station with a CircuitPython or Arduino powered Macropad – complete with 12 buttons, OLED display, speaker and rotary encoder. Customize it for your spacecraft to help guide you through the great reaches of the unknown. (Or just have it type out your favorite emojis.)
Each of the 12 sockets can accept a Cherry MX-compatible key switch. No soldering required, just snap it in! Use any key switch you like – but we recommend ones with slots that will allow the matching twelve NeoPixels underneath to shine through.
More LEARN:
- Ableton Live MacroPad Launcher
- Adafruit TCA4307 Hot-Swap I2C Buffer
- MacroPad 2FA TOTP Authentication Friend
- Customizing USB Devices in CircuitPython
- Capturing Camera Images with CircuitPython
- MacroPad Braille Keycaps
- Generating AI “Art” with VQGAN+CLIP
Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!
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