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245

How to Build a North Sensing Device to Improve Your Sense of Direction

By ShawnHymel

We show you how to build a harness device that buzzes whenever you face north. We also test the hypothesis that you can passively improve your sense of direction by wearing the device for a couple of weeks.

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6,229

How to Calibrate a Magnetometer

By ShawnHymel

This tutorial demonstrates how to perform hard iron and soft iron calibration for a 3-axis accelerometer, which is then used as a compass to find a geographic heading.

PROJECT
121

CircuitPython Hardware Charlieplex LED Matrix

By Adafruit Industries

How to use Charlieplex LED matrices with CircuitPython!

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185

Porting an Arduino Library to CircuitPython - VL6180X Distance Sensor

By Adafruit Industries

This tutorial will explore how to port an Arduino driver for the VL6180X distance sensor to CircuitPython.

PROJECT
231

CircuitPython Hardware ILI9341 TFT & FeatherWing

By Adafruit Industries

This module allows you to do basic drawing like putting pixels and filling rectangles on TFT displays like the TFT FeatherWing.

PROJECT
220

CircuitPython Hardware SD Cards

By Adafruit Industries

Learn how to use a microSD card to store code & data with CircuitPython and MicroPython!

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112

Circuit Playground Express (& other ATSAMD21 Boards) DAC Hacks

By Adafruit Industries

With each new generation of microcontrollers, we tend to dwell on quantifiables like memory and speed - bigger, faster programs!

PROJECT
142

Pulse Room

By Adafruit Industries

Controlling room lighting & sound with the beating of your own heart.