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Adafruit Grove and Stemma QT FeatherWing for all Feathers: The Adafruit Grove and Stemma QT FeatherWing for all Feathers permits people to make use of many Grove gadgets with Feather boards! It matches properly on high and has 3x Analog/Digital connectors, 1x UART connector and 2x I2C connectors. Not a ton, however sufficient to get many small tasks going! We even managed to suit a vertical Stemma QT port on the tip for an additional I2C connection.
Medium Floor Transducer with Wires – 4 Ohm 3 Watt: Flip any floor/wall/desk and so forth right into a speaker with a floor transducer. This sort of speaker doesn’t have a shifting cone like most audio system you’ve seen. As an alternative, a small steel rod is wrapped with the voice coil. When present is pulsed by way of the coil, the magnetic discipline causes a bit of steel to broaden and contract – and if it’s pressed in opposition to a floor it turns the transducer right into a speaker!
Giant Premium Solderless Breadboard: For actually huge tasks, give your self some room to work in, with an enormous 2250-point breadboard – equal in measurement to a few full-sized breadboards aspect by aspect.
The breadboards are mounted onto a steel plate and comes with 4 coloured posts you should utilize with a bench-top provide. 4 bumpers are included, to maintain the board from slipping round your desk.
As of Dec 19, 2023 – This breadboard has been up to date to Premium, making plugging and unplugging boards and headers a buttery-smooth operation because of upgraded spring clips.
Compact Switching Energy Provide – Selectable Output 3-12VDC: Wow, is that this not probably the most helpful factor you didn’t know existed or what? It’s a switching wall adapter the place you possibly can simply change the voltage! It’s like a benchtop provide you possibly can take with you anyplace.
This mannequin is 10 Watts and has 6 selectable outputs starting from 3V to 12VDC and as much as 1.5A output. It has a 2-prong plug however takes 110VAC to 240VAC so you should utilize it anyplace with a easy plug adapter.
TT Motor Bi-Steel Gearbox Double Sided Axle and 1:90 Gear Ratio: These sturdy (however inexpensive!) gearbox motors (also called ‘TT’ motors) are a simple, low-cost solution to get your tasks shifting. This can be a TT DC Bi-Steel Gearbox Motor with a gear ratio of 1:90, about double the ‘commonplace’ 1:48 ratio. That provides them larger torque however slower rotational velocity. Since they’re slower, they’re good for robots the place power is extra essential than velocity.
They give the impression of being rather a lot like our yellow all-plastic-gearbox motors, however these have the output-half of the motor gears machined from metal, in order that they received’t strip as simply, they usually’re twice as sluggish (and twice as highly effective) given their decrease gearbox ratio. The steel gears additionally imply they’re louder when working.
2V 0.3W Mini Photo voltaic Panel – ETFE – Voltaic P121: These panels come to us from Voltaic Programs, makers of superb solar-powered baggage and packs. These are waterproof, scratch-resistant, and UV-resistant, they usually use 4 high-efficiency monocrystalline SunPower cells with 22+% effectivity (reward the solar!). The panel is manufactured from 4 cells with a nominal voltage of 0.5V every, so we name this a “2V” panel
They output a nominal 2V at 150 mA peak through two solder-able pads on the again. The panel is constructed with ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene), making it extraordinarily sturdy and proof against environmental components, a superior improve to PET or laminate photo voltaic panel development. They will simply stand as much as typical outside use, together with being dropped and leaned on.
5V 0.3W Mini Photo voltaic Panel – ETFE – Voltaic P122: Every cell has a nominal voltage of 0.5V so we name this a “5V” panel. Word the datasheet has it down as a 6V panel, as a result of at max-power-point it gives you 5.9V
They output roughly 6V at 50 mA peak through two solder-able pads on the again.
5V 0.6W Mini Photo voltaic Panel – ETFE – Voltaic – P123: Every cell has a nominal voltage of 0.5V, so we name this a “5V” panel. Word the datasheet has it down as a 6V panel, as a result of at max-power-point it gives you 6.1V
They output roughly 6V at 120 mA peak through two solder-able pads on the again.
Adafruit Feather nRF52840 Sense: The Adafruit Feather Bluefruit Sense takes our in style Feather nRF52840 Specific and provides a smorgasbord of sensors to make a fantastic wi-fi sensor platform. This Feather microcontroller comes with Bluetooth Low Vitality and native USB assist that includes the nRF52840! This Feather is an ‘all-in-one’ Arduino-compatible + Bluetooth Low Vitality with in-built USB plus battery charging. With native USB it really works nice with CircuitPython, too.
Just like the Feather nRF52840, this chip comes with Arduino IDE assist – you possibly can program the nRF52840 chip on to take full benefit of the Cortex-M4 processor, after which calling into the Nordic SoftDevice radio stack when it’s good to talk over BLE. Because the underlying API and peripherals are the identical for the ‘832 and ‘840, you possibly can supercharge your older nRF52832 tasks with the identical actual code, with a single recompile!
This Feather can be a BLE-friendly CircuitPython board!
New Merchandise 1/17/24 Feat. Adafruit Feather nRF52840 Sense!
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