EPISODE · Aug 29, 2021 · 30 MIN
Desk of Ladyada - Round & Round We Go!
from Adafruit Industries · host Adafruit Industries
We sat down today to do the mapping for our LED glasses which have both rings and a planar matrix. Mapping LEDs or pixels is one of those time-worn tasks that we often end up grinding through - we'll chat about how we made it go fast! Also, an unboxing of a Paper Shoot camera, these are low cost 'DIY' cameras that come with a bare PCB and a foldable case. There's 4 filters you can apply to the camera output and there's no TFT - just a cutout viewfinder. Let's take a look at what we can find on the PCB itself The Great Search - SP4T Slide Switch https://www.digikey.com/short/f2p4hwjb The Paper Shoot camera we did an unboxing of has a nifty SP4T slide switch. Slide switches are one of our favorite interface elements: they've intuitive for anyone and don't get reset by a power loss. Lets look at how we can find various slide switches, and how to identify what kind of switch we've got by symbol #adafruit #deskofladyada #thegreatsearch 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 New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
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We sat down today to do the mapping for our LED glasses which have both rings and a planar matrix. Mapping LEDs or pixels is one of those time-worn tasks that we often end up grinding through - we'll chat about how we made it go fast! Also, an unboxing of a Paper Shoot camera, these are low cost 'DIY' cameras that come with a bare PCB and a foldable case. There's 4 filters you can apply to the camera output and there's no TFT - just a cutout viewfinder. Let's take a look at what we can find on the PCB itself The Great Search - SP4T Slide Switch https://www.digikey.com/short/f2p4hwjb The Paper Shoot camera we did an unboxing of has a nifty SP4T slide switch. Slide switches are one of our favorite interface elements: they've intuitive for anyone and don't get reset by a power loss. Lets look at how we can find various slide switches, and how to identify what kind of switch we've got by symbol #adafruit #deskofladyada #thegreatsearch 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 New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
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