Adafruit shares their top ten new products released in 2024, featuring innovative electronics and DIY gadgets.
1. **Raspberry Pi Pico 2W** - An update from Raspberry Pi Foundation that brings significant performance and feature improvements while retaining compatibility with the earlier Raspberry Pi Pico series.
2. **Adafruit CH334F Mini 4-Port USB Hub Breakout** - A USB 2.1 hub chip that converts one high-speed port into four, useful for connecting more than one USB device.
3. **Adafruit I2S MEMS Microphone Breakout – ICS-43434** - A tiny and purely digital MEMS microphone that offers good sound detection and conversion capabilities.
4. **Adafruit I2C Stemma QT Rotary Encoder Breakout with Encoder** - A user-friendly rotary encoder breakout that tracks pulses and pins for instant rotary feedback.
5. **Adafruit bq25185 USB / DC / Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer charger** - A flexible charger board that works with various types of batteries and power sources.
6. **Adafruit Feather RP2350 with HSTX Port** - A battery-powered development board that allows use of any FeatherWings and is packed with goodies.
7. **Adafruit USB Type C Plug Breakout** - A plug that provides the basics of USB C, with a stable semi-through hole mounting configuration.
8. **USB C Small Round Panel Mount Extension Cable** - A compact and easy-to-install panel-mount USB C cable that can fit into various holes.
9. **Adafruit HDC3022 Precision Temperature & Humidity Sensor** - A high-accuracy sensor for temperature and humidity measurement, upgraded with a PTFE filter cover.
10. **Adafruit Pixel Shifter – For Addressable LEDs** - A solution to address voltage level expectations for NeoPixel-compatible pixels, ensuring stable behavior without flickering or weird behavior.
Explore the powerful wireless capabilities of the Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 series, equipped with Nordic nRF52840 MCU, Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, and options for embedded ML and advanced sensor integration.
A fully assembled pan-tilt kit with two micro servos, offering 180° side-to-side rotation and 150° up-down tilt. It includes 38mm x 36mm mounting space suitable for cameras or sensors and can be used with any microcontroller or driver.
This unassembled pan-tilt kit allows your project to have customized full-range motion, capable of rotating 180° side-to-side and tilting downwards 150°. The kit does not include servo motors and is compatible with any microcontroller or driver, suitable for beginners aiming to add movement to their projects.
This GitHub repository contains the development of an APRS hub that transmits various sensor data like spO2, location, and altitude. The project uses Raspberry Pi, Tiny Circuit Python boards, and MQTT for data transmission.
A new smartphone app called VibMilk uses a phone's vibration motor to detect if milk is spoiled without opening the carton.
A technique called lock-in thermography can enhance the thermal resolution of even low-cost IR cameras, allowing for more detailed thermal imaging by periodically modulating the heat produced by a device and applying math to the captured images.
The IoT-LLM framework improves Large Language Models' (LLMs) task reasoning capabilities in real-world IoT systems through a three-step process that preprocesses IoT sensor data, activates commonsense knowledge, and enhances retrieval-augmented generation, achieving significant performance improvements in real-world tasks such as heartbeat anomaly detection.
Seeed Studio has introduced two new mmWave sensor kits, designed for edge AI detection of falls and heartbeats respectively. These kits are powered by the company's XIAO ESP32C6 development board and pre-installed edge-AI algorithms.
rtl_433 is an open-source program designed to decode radio transmissions from various devices operating on ISM bands. It supports RTL-SDR and SoapySDR and can decode a wide range of sensors, including temperature, humidity, and rain gauges. The software is written in C and is known for its low resource consumption.