Before I go building my own board to do this, anyone have a spare #Sparkfun "EL Sequencer" board*, or similar, that they'd be willing to sell/ship? My kid wants to do a project with #electroluminescent wire.
It looks somewhat simple to duplicate what I need on protoboard, but I'd rather not have to build my own.
(*product number COM-12781, or the #Arduino shield COM-10878, would take a substitute) #electronics #maker #diy
40 years later, still enjoy tinkering. #electronics #maker #raspberrypi #waveshare #sparkfun
Yesterday was bad freaking ass. I've started mentoring my kids' high school robotics team. (while wearing an N95) Last year, they invited my then-8th grader to be a full-fledged team member, so since she's a freshman and now I have two kids on the team, I thought I should offer up my time. Plus, my oldest is the team captain. Yesterday was the first meeting with the veterans and the kids who want to join this season. I love quirky high school nerds! They are sweet and kind. They're curious and excited. And that was just watching the slide deck full of typos and mistakes. And kids who made the slides with mistakes laughed at themselves, making the whole room laugh. I defy you to hold a straight face with 50 neurospicy laughing teenagers. It was a delightful afternoon. I know less than nothing about robots, so it will be an interesting school year. But sometimes, it's good for kids to see adults learning and making mistakes alongside them. So that'll be my job, I think. That, and ensuring everyone is fed, gets on the plane, and is in their assigned hotel room at lights out. ;) Today, we are building XRP bots to eventually play full-contact soccer (football) as practice for building our big FRC bot in January. Wish me luck!
Pleased to see that after a heroic bit of sleuthing on @tannewt’s part, #CircuitPython audio seems to work great now on #RP2350. Maybe I will have something for #CircuitPythonDay2024 using it! The #SparkFun Pro Micro format is so nice
Look at these beautiful little RP2350 jewels.
Can’t wait to start hacking on them!
Looks like they run the Pico2 build of #CircuitPython just fine!
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/24870
#raspberrypipico #rp2350 #sparkfun #pico2
This seems like kind of a big deal. Silicon Labs, Arduino, and SparkFun are collaborating to make Matter available in the Arduino development environment. SparkFun's $25 Thing Plus Matter is one of the first available boards.
If it ends up being as easy to get started as other Arduino libraries, it could open up Matter to a lot of hobby projects.
@Firefishy #French #OpenStreetMap do have a project with community set of freely accessible #RTK base stations for #GPS corrections (see https://centipede.fr/), so something like that #SparkFun RTK receiver would indeed be very nice to use there to get centimeter-level accuracy! Still, probably not for everyday use. (Comparable to convenience of taking pics with your mobile phone vs. carrying full-size DSLR camera with tripod around. Or carrying a drone 
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