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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP
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BLOG
Pretty Pins for SAMD51 Boards on the way!
We like to use our Pretty Pins generator to make lovely and *accurate* diagrams of dev boards. It starts with the Fritzing object (which is generated from the original Eagle files), and then cross references the Arduino and CircuitPython variant definition file to get the true pin names of each exposed pad and signal. Finally it looks up the multiplexing functionality for that gpio pin on the chip in a spreadsheet to generate the lovely label boxes.
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
Soundboard Speaker for Bikes & Scooters
Make this portable soundboard that you can attach to any bike or scooter!
It’s got arcade buttons that playback and mix audio files, so you can honk your horn while playing an engine sound effect.
More LEARN:
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