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Player input comes from a keyboard connected to the broken out USB host pins on the Metro RP2350. Press space bar to jump and do your best to avoid the scratching posts as they fly past. </div> </div> </div> <div class="guide-detailed-preview"> <div class="image-container"> <a href="/qt-py-s2-round-display-compass"> <img data-src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/004/201/medium640/compass_hero_photo.png?1740522506" aria-hidden="true" alt="GC9A01A round display in a 3D printed box showing a compass rose and north, east, south, west heading lables. 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The characters arms act as the clock hands." class="image-preview lazy" src="data:," /> </a> </div> <div class="details"> <a class="title" href="/cartoon-character-clock"> Cartoon Character Clock </a> <div class="author"> By <a aria-label="Guide author" data-turbo="false" href="/u/Foamyguy"> <span class="name">Tim C</span> </a> </div> <div class="description"> Make a custom-built electronic timepiece featuring a round monochrome display with an animated character design inspired by early 20th-century public domain artwork and music. </div> </div> </div> <div class="guide-detailed-preview"> <div class="image-container"> <a href="/adafruit-metro-rp2350"> <img data-src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/004/158/medium640/metro_rp2350_top_angle.jpg?1739930966" aria-hidden="true" alt="Adafruit Metro RP2350 device shown from the top angle" class="image-preview lazy" src="data:," /> </a> </div> <div class="details"> <a class="title" href="/adafruit-metro-rp2350"> Adafruit Metro RP2350 </a> <div class="author"> By <a aria-label="Guide author" data-turbo="false" href="/u/Foamyguy"> <span class="name">Tim C</span> </a> </div> <div class="description"> Choo! Choo! This is the RP2350 Metro Line, making all station stops at "Dual Cortex M33 mountain", "528K RAM round-about" and "16 Megabytes of Flash town". This train is piled high with hardware that complements the Raspberry Pi RP2350 chip to make it an excellent development board for projects that want Arduino-shape-compatibility or just need the extra space and debugging ports. </div> </div> </div> <div class="guide-detailed-preview"> <div class="image-container"> <a href="/rgb-matrix-panels-with-raspberry-pi-5"> <img data-src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/004/180/medium640/blinka_image.png?1738707281" aria-hidden="true" alt="Blinka the snake holding a book rendered on a RGB Matrix panels" class="image-preview lazy" src="data:," /> </a> </div> <div class="details"> <a class="title" href="/rgb-matrix-panels-with-raspberry-pi-5"> RGB Matrix Panels With Raspberry Pi 5 </a> <div class="author"> By <a aria-label="Guide author" data-turbo="false" href="/u/Foamyguy"> <span class="name">Tim C</span> </a> </div> <div class="description"> Using the Raspberry Pi 5 to drive HUB75 RGB Matrix panels. Play videos, animate gifs, mirror your terminal and more with the provided examples. </div> </div> </div> <div class="guide-detailed-preview"> <div class="image-container"> <a href="/adafruit-sparkle-motion"> <img data-src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/004/169/medium640/settings_guide_img_top_angle.jpg?1738193442" aria-hidden="true" alt="Sparkle Motion Board" class="image-preview lazy" src="data:," /> </a> </div> <div class="details"> <a class="title" href="/adafruit-sparkle-motion"> Adafruit Sparkle Motion </a> <div class="author"> By <a aria-label="Guide author" data-turbo="false" href="/u/firepixie"> <span class="name">Erin St Blaine</span> </a> </div> <div class="description"> Adafruit's Sparkle Motion board puts easy LED control right at your fingertips. Onboard Infrared control, a microphone for sound reaction, and multiple LED ports make this board perfect for larger scale LED projects. </div> </div> </div> <div class="guide-detailed-preview"> <div class="image-container"> <a href="/adafruit-sparkle-motion-mini"> <img data-src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/004/170/medium640/6160-00.jpg?1737042176" aria-hidden="true" alt="Sparkle Motion Mini " class="image-preview lazy" src="data:," /> </a> </div> <div class="details"> <a class="title" href="/adafruit-sparkle-motion-mini"> Adafruit Sparkle Motion Mini </a> <div class="author"> By <a aria-label="Guide author" data-turbo="false" href="/u/firepixie"> <span class="name">Erin St Blaine</span> </a> </div> <div class="description"> Adafruit's Sparkle Motion Mini board is a wonderful choice for wearables or light projects on a smaller scale. With WLED preinstalled it's never been easier to get up and running with NeoPixels. </div> </div> </div> <div class="guide-detailed-preview"> <div class="image-container"> <a href="/adafruit-tmc2209-stepper-motor-driver-breakout-board"> <img data-src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/004/159/medium640/6121-00.jpg?1736891563" aria-hidden="true" alt="top angle view of the TMC2209 breakout" class="image-preview lazy" src="data:," /> </a> </div> <div class="details"> <a class="title" href="/adafruit-tmc2209-stepper-motor-driver-breakout-board"> Adafruit TMC2209 Stepper Motor Driver Breakout Board </a> <div class="author"> By <a aria-label="Guide author" data-turbo="false" href="/u/Foamyguy"> <span class="name">Tim C</span> </a> </div> <div class="description"> The TMC2209 makes driving steppers easy-breezy and super-silent. All you need is two output pins, no timers, PWM or real-time microcontroller. Set the DIRection pin high or low to set the spin orientation. Then toggle the STEP pin to take one microstep at a time. You can set whether you want to go faster with 1/8 microsteps, or increase the precision to 1/16, 1/32 or 1/64 microsteps per STEP toggle. </div> </div> </div> <div class="guide-detailed-preview"> <div class="image-container"> <a href="/control-wiz-lights-with-circuitpython"> <img data-src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/004/162/medium640/guide_img_s.png?1734650113" aria-hidden="true" alt="Basic Wiz light remote control made from buttons on a breadboard. 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That works great if you're project isn't doing other things that the sleep will interrupt, for instance blinking even more strands or subsections of LEDs in a different pattern or animations. The Adafruit LED Animation library solves this problem by giving us a non-blocking way to integrate LED Animations into our projects. </div> </div> </div> <div class="guide-detailed-preview"> <div class="image-container"> <a href="/tft-spirit-board"> <img data-src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/004/106/medium640/still.png?1729103488" aria-hidden="true" alt="Spirit Board with all of the letters of the alphabet laied out along an arc in the center of the board. The top edge has messages saying yes, no, <3, question mark, and ampersand. The bottom edge has messages saying hello and goodbye." class="image-preview lazy" src="data:," /> </a> </div> <div class="details"> <a class="title" href="/tft-spirit-board"> TFT Spirit Board </a> <div class="author"> By <a aria-label="Guide author" data-turbo="false" href="/u/Foamyguy"> <span class="name">Tim C</span> </a> </div> <div class="description"> Messages can be preloaded into a txt file, or fetched dynamically from AdafruitIO. 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The sequence gains one extra blink each round making harder the longer you manage to keep going. </div> </div> </div> <div class="guide-detailed-preview"> <div class="image-container"> <a href="/circuitpython-text-editor-on-the-go"> <video class="video-preview lazy" preload="auto" muted="muted" loop="loop" playsinline poster="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/003/947/medium640thumb/keyboard_typing_copy2.gif?1707509871" data-error="/assets/missing%2Fmissing.png" 'aria-hidden'=true> <data-src src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/003/947/medium640mp4/keyboard_typing_copy2.mp4?1707509871"></data-src> <data-src src="https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/cropped_images/000/003/947/medium640webm/keyboard_typing_copy2.webm?1707509871" type="video/webm; codecs=vp8,vorbis"></data-src> Your browser does not support the video tag. 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