Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi combines a SAM D21 and ATWINC1500

Oh my, an Adafruit Feather with Wi-Fi!  Makers, meet the Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi. As its name would suggest, the all-new board is Adafruit’s latest take on an Arduino-compatible, ‘all-in-one’ platform with high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity, USB support and a built-in battery charger. Equipped with an Atmel | SMART SAM D21 and ATWINC1500 SoC at its core, Makers will find it super simple […]

Adafruit’s new breakout board will connect your Arduino to the Internet

This 802.11bgn-capable module is the best new thing for networking your devices, with SSL support and rock solid performance. Makers wishing to connect their Arduino Zero (or Uno) to the Internet can now do so with Adafruit’s new ATWINC1500 Wi-Fi Breakout Board. The ATWINC1500 found at its core is the ideal add-on to existing MCU solutions bringing wireless and […]

Adafruit Feather M0 Adalogger is an all-in-one Cortex-M0+ datalogger

Adafruit’s latest board is a Feather M0 with a microSD holder. A few weeks ago, our friends at Adafruit revealed an all-in-one datalogger based on an ATmega32U4 clocked at 8MHz and at 3.3V logic, with 32K of Flash and 2K of RAM. Well as promised, the crew has unveiled yet another data reader, this time with an Cortex-M0+ core. Similar to its AVR-powered […]

Introducing the Adafruit Feather M0 Basic Proto

The Feather M0 Basic Proto boasts a bunch of on-board prototyping space. And just like that, the Adafruit Feather family continues to grow. The latest addition? The Feather M0 Basic Proto board. Unlike some of its siblings, Adafruit has swapped out the ATmega32U4 for an Atmel | SMART SAM D21. At the Feather M0’s heart is an ATSAMD21G18 clocked at 48MHz at […]

Let your BLE ideas fly with the Adafruit Feather 32U4 Bluefruit

Trust us, Adafruit’s new board is un-BLE-vable!  Remember when we brought you a first-ever look at Adafruit’s new lineup of Feather boards back at World Maker Faire? Well, as Ladyada herself promised, the new dev boards are thin, light and ready to let your imagination fly! After having already revealed the first two members of the family — the Feather 32U4 Basic Proto and the Feather 32U4 […]

Adafruit debuts the Feather 32U4 Adalogger

The Feather 32U4 Adalogger is Adafruit’s take on an all-in-one datalogger. Remember when we brought you a first-ever look at Adafruit’s new lineup of Feather boards back at World Maker Faire? Well, as Ladyada herself promised, the new dev boards are thin, light and ready to let your imagination fly! Following the recent debut of the Feather 32U4 Basic Proto, the team has unveiled […]

Adafruit introduces the Feather 32U4 Basic Proto

Adafruit hopes that the Feather will become a new standard for portable microcontroller cores. Remember when we brought you a first-ever look at Adafruit’s new lineup of Feather boards back at World Maker Faire? Well, as Ladyada herself promised, the new dev boards are thin, light and ready to let your imagination fly! First up, the Feather 32U4 Basic Proto. At Feather 32U4’s […]

Adafruit makes a smartphone-activated talking dog collar

Have some fun at the park with this Up-like dog collar.    Inspired by Dug the dog from the Pixar movie Up, Adafruit’s Becky Stern and Phillip Burgess have created a talking collar of their own. Whereas the special contraption from the animated film allowed the pup to communicate with its owner, or more like gives voice to his thoughts, this […]

Capture timelapses with Adafruit’s motorized camera slider

Adafruit upgrades its 3D-printed camera slider with motors and Bluetooth control. Our friends over at Adafruit love photography, so much so that they recently created a slick slider for their camera. This turned out to be just fine and dandy for hobbyist photographers, but why not take it one step further? Being the Makers that they are, the Ruiz Brothers decided to motorize […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ladyada shows off Adafruit’s brand-spankin’ new Feather board

The yet-to-be-unveiled Feather board features an Atmel | SMART SAM D21, built-in USB LiPoly charging and a stackable header system. You know what’s so great about Maker Faire? Not just the showcase of pure ingenuity. Not the life-size game of Mouse Trap. Not the 30-foot-tall, fire-breathing robot. It’s the unpredictability of it all! You never truly know what’s going to happen next. Case […]