Adafruit CRICKIT HAT for Raspberry Pi

Adafruit CRICKIT HAT for Raspberry Pi

Author: Adafruit Industries December 4, 2018 Duration: 7:51
The Adafruit CRICKIT HAT for Raspberry Pi. This is a clip from our weekly show when it debuted! https://www.adafruit.com/product/3957 Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies. If they did, they'd know that making robots into slaves always ends up in a robot rebellion. Why even go down that path? Here at Adafruit, we believe in making robots our friends! So if you find yourself wanting a companion, consider the robot. They're fun to program, and you can get creative with decorations. With that in mind, we designed the Adafruit Crickit HAT - That's our Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It's an add-on to the Raspberry Pi that lets you #MakeRobotFriend using Python! Plug the Crickit HAT onto your Pi using the standard 2x20 GPIO connector and start controlling motors, servos, solenoids. You also get 8 signal pins with analog inputs or PWM outputs, capacitive touch sensors, a level-shifted NeoPixel driver and 3W amplified speaker output from the I2S port. It complements & extends your Pi, doing all the things a Pi can't do, so you can still use all the goodies on the Pi like video, camera, Internet, bluetooth... but now you have a robotics playground as well. Control of the motors, sensors, NeoPixels, capacitive touch, etc is all done in Python 3. It's the easiest and best way to program your Pi, and after a couple pip installs you'll be ready to go. Audio is handled by the Pi's built in audio system, so anything that plays audio will come out the speaker - that includes Python commands or any application with sound. The Crickit HAT is powered by seesaw, our I2C-to-whatever bridge firmware. So you only need to use two data pins to control the huge number of inputs and outputs on the Crickit. All those timers, PWMs, NeoPixels, sensors are offloaded to the co-processor. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe Join our weekly Show & Tell on G+ Hangouts On Air: http://adafru.it/showtell New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------

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Pi Lure Module [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:52
In this project we're milling a cover out of acrylic for a new 3D printed project. This looks like a Lure Module from the game Pokémon Go, but we're using it to find Pokémon. Using a Raspberry Pi Zero, and some python co…
Raspberry Pi 3 quick look at native USB boot with Tony D! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:44
Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit doing a quick look at the new Raspberry Pi 3 native USB boot mode. This allows your Pi 3 to boot from a USB drive entirely without any SD card connected. You could boot from a big…
Raspberry Pi Cat Laser 2.0 pt. 5 with Tony D! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:45:40
Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit showing the final video in the Raspberry Pi Cat Laser 2.0 series. This video explores running the laser server code in AWS and building a game around players sharing control of th…
Raspberry Pi Quick Look at Tor Hidden Services with Tony D! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:31
Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit giving a quick look at Tor hidden services on the Raspberry Pi. This technology allows you to securely expose services on a Raspberry Pi (like camera streams, home automation, or…
Raspberry Pi Cat Laser 2.0 pt. 4 with Tony D! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:44
Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit showing part 4 in the Raspberry Pi Cat Laser 2.0 series. This part looks at how to build a cloud server with Python, flask, and flask-socketio which allows multiple people to cont…
Raspberry Pi Cat Laser Toy 2.0 pt. 3 with Tony D! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:41
Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit showing part 3 of the Raspberry Pi Cat Laser 2.0 project. This part looks at how to setup a separate server (as a virtual machine) that proxies the MJPEG video stream and can cont…
Raspberry Pi Quick Look at Jupyter/IPython notebooks with Tony D! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:20
Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit looking at Jupyter/IPython as a tool for programming Python on the Raspberry Pi. Looks at how to install and run Jupyter on the Pi, and how to use it to do simple tasks like graph…
Raspberry Pi Cat Laser Toy 2.0 pt. 2 with Tony D! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:52
Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit showing part 2 in the Raspberry Pi Cat Laser Toy 2.0 project. This video revisits the code for the original cat laser toy project and gets it running again with the hardware for t…
Raspberry Pi Quick Look at Scratch visual programming with Tony D! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:53
Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit with a quick look at Scratch visual programming on the Raspberry Pi. Looks at how to run Scratch and get started with it, and how to use it to control GPIO inputs/outputs on the R…
Wearable Camera using Raspberry Pi Zero [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:57
Worn on a lanyard or clipped to a pocket or pack, this adorable camera snaps a photo every few seconds. Slide the SD card into your computer to review the day’s activities or merge all the images into a timelapse animati…