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Adafruit Sparkle Motion

By Adafruit Industries

The Adafruit Sparkle Motion is the flagship in our series of "Sparkle Motion" boards, that are our attempt to make the best small WLED-friendly smart LED driving board in the whole world. Our resident mermaid, firepixie makes a lot of projects with WLED and she loves it!

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1,175

Lighting LED Nets with WLED and xLights

By Adafruit Industries

Add hundreds of lights to your home or yard with these fantastic Pebble Pixel Nets. Adafruit ‎carries them in a variety of sizes, from 1x1m to 1x6m large, and they are chainable and ‎expandable, so no vision is too big.

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26

Illuminated Butterfly Wall Art

By Adafruit Industries

Make animated wall art, powered by pebble-style LEDs, and controlled by a Mini Sparkle Motion.

BLOG
5,156

Looking to Cut the Cord? Power Your Arduino Project with a Lithium Battery

By Maker.io Staff

Learn what it takes to make your Arduino project mobile, or just add a battery backup, using a lithium battery as a portable, energy-dense power source.

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13

Automating Indoor Air Quality with Adafruit FunHouse CO2 Monitoring

By Nate_Larson

Learn how to monitor CO2 levels, and use this data to automate home ventilation equipment using a Sensirion sensor, ESP32 development boards, and a Raspberry Pi

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814

Introduction to RTOS - Solution to Part 12 (Multicore Systems)

By ShawnHymel

How to run tasks in FreeRTOS on the ESP32 with multicore support

PROJECT
737

Introduction to RTOS - Solution to Part 10 (Deadlock and Starvation)

By ShawnHymel

How to avoid deadlock and starvation in FreeRTOS

PROJECT
2,375

Introduction to RTOS - Solution to Part 9 (Hardware Interrupts)

By ShawnHymel

How to use FreeRTOS with Hardware Interrupts

PROJECT
908

Introduction to RTOS - Solution to Part 8 (Software Timers)

By ShawnHymel

How to use FreeRTOS Software Timers

PROJECT
3,822

Introduction to RTOS - Solution to Part 7 (FreeRTOS Semaphore Example)

By ShawnHymel

Example of using semaphores in FreeRTOS

PROJECT
3,051

Introduction to RTOS - Solution to Part 4 (Memory Management)

By ShawnHymel

In this tutorial, we look at how memory is managed in an RTOS (specifically, FreeRTOS).