Arduino Plug and Make Giveaway, Hacking Walmart LED panels, Flexible Arduinos and more!

The Electromaker Show · 30 Aug 2024 · 32m · Episode 153

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Host Ian Buckley covers the Arduino Plug and Make Kit giveaway, highlighting its solderless daisy-chainable 'modulinos' and compatibility with the 5V-tolerant Arduino Uno R4. He details Turf PTAX's hack of a Walmart LED panel using an ESP32 C3 Xiao to replace dubious proprietary hardware, and 314 reactor's 'Checkout Challenge' game on an Adafruit PyBadge. The episode also features news on the Seeed Studio Xiao RA4M1, a flexible PCB Arduino clone by Edison Science Corner, and an update on the RP2350's HSTX peripheral from Adafruit's Scott.

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Companies: Arduino, Adafruit
Products: Arduino Plug and Make Kit, Walmart LED Panel, Open Muscle Project, Adafruit PyBadge, Blues LoRaWAN Starter Kit
Chips: ESP32 C3 Xiao, Seeed Studio Xiao RA4M1, RP2350
Also: Turf PTAX, 314 reactor, Edison Science Corner, Nova Spirit Tech

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Arduino Plug and Make Giveaway, Hacking Walmart LED panels, Flexible Arduinos and more!

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