Content for CircuitPython

Bluefruit Playground Hide and Seek

“Stage a creative gift hunt all around your home with Bluetooth LE tracking ornaments! Circuit Playground Bluefruit boards can hone in on the proximity of other boards broadcasting their own signal including color coding! The stronger the signal, the more …

Bluetooth Turtle Bot with CircuitPython and Crickit

“You can make your own adorable turtle bot and control it from your mobile device using Bluetooth LE! This cute little bot uses the Circuit Playground Bluefruit as the brains and BLE communicator, and the Crickit platform as the brawn …

5.8 Watt UV Box “The UV HotBox”

“A brighter UV-light for bar and event staff to scan customers’ UV ink and ID cards. Our newest team member, Nick, is also a Bouncer for clubs and events here in Reno. He saw our powerful UV LEDs in …

CircuitPython Turtle Graphics

“You may have heard of, or even played around with, turtle graphics. Simply put, this is a metaphor for drawing vector images where you control a turtle that can drag a pen along with it. Commands to the turtle include …

Graphics on a SSD1306 I2C OLED 128x64 Display With CircuitPython Using an Itsybitsy M4 Express

“The SSD1306 OLED display is a small (0.96”), inexpensive, widely available, I2C, monochrome graphical display with 128x64 pixels, which is easily interfaced (only 4 wires) to microprocessor development boards such as a Raspberry Pi, Arduino or Adafruit Itsybitsy M4 …

CircuitPython 4.0.1 released!

“4.0.1 is our first bugfix release of 4.x and features fixes for two bugs. Download it now from circuitpython.org. See here for the full release notes. 4.0.0 features a port to the Nordic nRF52840 …

CircuitPython: Creating Custom Boards

“Want to run Adafruit’s cool new electronics Python distribution on your board? Now you can! Over the past six months I have spent a lot of time porting different libraries to the Robo HAT MM1 board developed by Robotics …

CircuitPython on Linux and Raspberry Pi

“Here at Adafruit we’re always looking for ways to make making easier - whether that’s making breakout boards for hard-to-solder sensors or writing libraries to simplify motor control. Our new favorite way to program is CircuitPython. Why CircuitPython? CircuitPython …

nRF52840 Development with Arduino and CircuitPython

“Introduction Whether you’re a novice programmer learning how to program or a seasoned expert looking for a quick rapid-prototyping development environment, Arduino and CircuitPython can be a great choice for programming environments/languages. Pairing those simple programming languages with …

CircuitPython Essentials

“You’ve gone through the Welcome to CircuitPython guide. You’ve already gotten everything setup, and you’ve gotten CircuitPython running. Great! Now what? CircuitPython Essentials! There are a number of core modules built into CircuitPython and commonly used libraries …

Circuit Python IR Remote for Apple TV

“IR remote to use with Apple TV (gen. 3) to clone functionality of original remote. Coded with Circuit Python. The Apple TV remote (Gen. 3) is a prime example of Apple’s design point of view. Sleek, minimal and not …

Trinket M0 Express Hack

“m a huge fan of the SAMD21 boards that Adafruit is producing. What a huge step up from the ATMEGA328 or 2560. 48MHz, 32 bit ARM Cortex-M0+, and loads of flash and ram. I have several of these boards and …