New Products 7/15/21 feat. NeoKey 5×6 Ortho Snap-Apart Mechanical Key Switches w/ NeoPixel!

We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here:

NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEK

Tropical Alligator Test Clip Leads – 10 Pieces – 13″ long

Designed by Making & Hacking extraordinaire Lee Cyborg, these colorful clips are a nice switch-up from the standard colors. Connect this to that without soldering using these Hot GitHub Summer alligator clip test leads that look perfect for a beachfront environmental-sensing project. 13″ long cables with alligator clips on each end, color-coded. You get 10 pieces in 5 colors. Strong and grippy, these always come in handy! We often use these in conjunction with a multimeter so we don’t have to hold the probes in place.

Relegendable Plastic Keycaps for MX Compatible Switches 10 pack

Get ready to customize your keeb with a 10 pack of two-part plastic keycaps for your next mechanical keyboard or NeoKey project.

Slim Rubber Rotary Encoder Knob – 11.5mm x 14.5mm D-Shaft

Here’s a new addition to our rotary-potentiometer-knob family. This knob has a nice soft-touch feel with an arrow on it, and its much ‘slimmer’ than the skirted knob we have been using, so good for compact layouts.

Kitty Paw Silicone Keycap Molds – MX Compatible Switches

If you love our Kitty Paw Keycaps and love to customize, why not level up your DIY keeb-makin’ skills and craft your own set of bespoke ‘caps with these Kitty Paw Keycap Molds. If your kitty’s paws are going to walk all over your keyboard, you at least want to be able to walk all over kitty paws.

2.0mm Pitch 3-pin Cable Matching Pair – JST PH Compatible

These solid 2.0mm pitch connector cable pairs are great when you need something that can carry a couple of amps of current and are easy to connect and disconnect.

2.0mm Pitch 5-pin Cable Matching Pair – JST PH Compatible

These cables are nice and long, 20 cm each, in fact. They’ve got both small form factor and are a matching set, with an inline socket and plug connector. The two friction lock to make easy-breezy connections whenever you need light and small connectivity.

2.0mm Pitch 4-pin Cable Matching Pair – JST PH Compatible

These solid 2.0mm pitch connector cable pairs are great when you need something that can carry a couple of amps of current and are easy to connect and disconnect.

2.0mm Pitch 6-pin Cable Matching Pair – JST PH Compatible

Purple Anodized Aluminum 60% / GH60 Keyboard Shell

Back in my day, if you wanted a mechanical keyboard, you had to purchase a massive IBM Model M Keyboard but now you can DIY your very own compact keyboards with your very favorite layouts to make the keeb of your dreams.

Clear Plastic 60% / GH60 Keyboard Shell

For all the DIY keebfans in the house here is a Clear Plastic Keyboard 60% (GH60) Shell, the perfect base to begin your custom keyboard project, especially if you dig a translucent base that can show off your glowy LEDs. It’s also a lot less expensive than a milled & anodized alumnimum shell. However, it won’t be as heavy, durable and flat. That said, it’s a great starter shell. You provide the PCB in the common ‘GH60’ sizing and bolt it into this base.

Lavender Plastic 60% / GH60 Keyboard Shell

Translucent Smoke Plastic 60% / GH60 Keyboard Shell

For all the DIY keebfans in the house here is a Translucent Smoke Keyboard 60% (GH60) Shell, the perfect base to begin your custom keyboard project, especially if you dig a smokey translucent base that can show off your glowy LEDs. It’s also a lot less expensive than a milled & anodized aluminum shell. However, it won’t be as heavy, durable, and flat. That said, it’s a great starter shell. You provide the PCB in the common ‘GH60’ sizing and bolt it into this base.

Maker Pi RP2040 – Motor and Robot Controller

Cytron’s Maker Pi RP2040 features the new Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip embedded on a robot controller board. The board comes with a dual-channel DC motor driver, 4 servo motor ports, and 7 Grove I/O connectors. Now you can build your new robot friend while simultaneously trying out the new RP2040 chip!

Maker Pi Pico Base – Raspberry Pi Pico Not Included

Cytron’s Maker Pi Pico Base incorporates the most wanted Reset button for your Raspberry Pi Pico and gives you access to all GPIO pins on two 20-pin headers, with clear labels. Each GPIO is paired with an LED indicator for convenient code testing and troubleshooting. The bottom of the board even comes with a comprehensive pinout diagram showing the function of each pin.

Adafruit TCA4307 Hot-Swap I2C Buffer with Stuck Bus Recovery – STEMMA QT / Qwiic

As we’ve been adding STEMMA QT connectors to our breakouts and dev boards, folks have been really enjoying the simplicity and speed of plugging in I2C sensors and devices for quick iteration and design. That’s all good, but I2C wasn’t really designed for hot-plugging. You’re kinda supposed to have everything connected once on boot and never mess with it – I2C was specified for on-board connections. And, folks who have experimented with hot-plugging I2C devices eventually have discovered that if you plug in or unplug at the wrong moment you can cause the bus to hang due to an extra SCL pulse or an unexpected capacitive load.

NeoKey 5×6 Ortho Snap-Apart Mechanical Key Switches w/ NeoPixel – For MX Compatible Switches

For folks who want ready-to-go keeb action, we’ve got the lovely Adafruit Macropad with a 3×4 grid of MX+NeoPixel key switches – but for those who like to forge their own path, we now present the easiest way of creating custom ortholinear (that’s a fancy word for gridded) key matrices. Instead of hand soldering together a custom matrix of NeoKey socket breakouts, the Adafruit NeoKey 5×6 Ortho Snap-Apart Mechanical Key Switches with NeoPixel has 30 key switches that can be snapped apart to make any size grid.