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Make It Glow How to Solder NeoPixels, A Beginner's Guide

By Adafruit Industries

This guide is for beginners who are ready to take the next step in DIY electronics: putting that soldering iron to use to add NeoPixel or other addressable LEDs

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CircuitPython Made Easy on Circuit Playground Express

By Adafruit Industries

Get started with just a few lines of code!

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Celebrate New Year's Eve with the Circuit Playground Express Drop

By Maker.io Staff

With the Circuit Playground Express you can celebrate New Year's Eve in the comfort of your own home.

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Circuit Python TV Zapper with Circuit Playground Express

By Adafruit Industries

This guide will not only show you how to make a DIY universal remote, we'll also show how to grab data using a logic analyzer, parse it with Jupyter notebooks, compress it to fit into our little CircuitPython boards, & take advantage of the Python eval function to dynamically load data into memory.

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Secret Hollow Book Intrusion Detector

By Adafruit Industries

Build your own safe hidden in plain sight to store valuables - and rig an intrusion detector with Circuit Playground Express!

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New Year Countdown Clock with Circuit Playground Express

By Adafruit Industries

Ring in the New Year with a fun countdown clock that plays Auld Lang Syne!

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Remote Control Tree Ornament with Circuit Playground Express

By Adafruit Industries

Use an IR remote and CircuitPython to change the colored lights of your holiday tree ornament!

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Mason Jar Snow Globe

By Adafruit Industries

Use a Circuit Playground Express and stuff in your kitchen to build your own sound-activated snow globe.

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Fireflies with MakeCode

By Adafruit Industries

Creating virtual fireflies using multiple Circuit Playground!

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NeoPixie Dust Bag with Circuit Playground Express

By Adafruit Industries

How can your fairy costume be complete without a glowing pixie dust bag?! It sparkles and blinks, and you can squeeze the touch sensor wire to change the colors on the beautifully twinkling NeoPixel ring!

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What is MakeCode

By Adafruit Industries

Microsoft MakeCode for Adafruit is a web-based code editor for physical computing.