Questions tagged [adafruit]

Adafruit Industries is an open-source hardware company founded by Limor Fried in 2005. Use this tag to mention issues with Adafruit products or tutorials.

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Adafruit Si4713/IDE not working

My IDE shows "Adafruit Radio - Si4713 Test", but without "RDS on!", which is supposed to show up. The radio I use (Inscabin M60) shows static. Am I doing something wrong? Adafruit Radio - Si4713 Test Couldn't find radio? Adafruit Radio - Si4713…
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Adafruit CCS811 Air Quality Sensor

in my arduino project I use the Adafruit CCS811 Air Quality Sensor Breakout - VOC and eCO2, I need the references and sizes of these components, knowing that I have found the electrical diagram but the values and references are not clear as you see…
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Adafruit/Arduino SAMD BSP package and adding SAME51 compatibilty

I am trying to make a SAME51 variant of an arduino board, in the end I would like to have an arduino compatible board, BSP, and library for controlling canbus. I have already gone through some things, but I believe I need a slight bit of guidance…
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How to use capactive touch on Adafruit board in Arduino mode?

I have a Trinket M0 which has three pins capable of capacitive touch, A0, A3, and A4. When using CircuitPython on these boards you can use the CapTouch Library. But as far as I can tell this does not exist for use in Arduino mode. Does anyone know…
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Thermal Printer - Qrcode

I am trying to print QRcode (not bitmap) on my thermal printer with Arduino and ESP32. I am using the same QRcode library and Adafruit Thermal printer library of this post. How to scale a bitmap (uint8_t array) in Arduino? Is it possible to convert…
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Is my board broken by soldering?

I've soldered a featherwing on my feather, then unsoldered it because it had stopped working: after the soldering of the featherwing, I was unable to upload new software to the board. But now that the featherwing was removed, I still can't upload a…
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Arduino Adafruit playground: Adafruit_CPlay_LIS3DH.cpp:27:35: fatal error: Adafruit_CPlay_LIS3DH.h: No such file or directory

I've tried installing the Arduino Adafruit playground but came across the same error. sketch\src\Libraries\Adafruit_Circuit_Playground\utility\Adafruit_CPlay_LIS3DH.cpp:27:35: fatal error: Adafruit_CPlay_LIS3DH.h: No such file or directory …
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Adafruit Feather 32u4 FONA KEY Pin

I received a Adafruit Feather 32u4 FONA as a gift and have read the great, comprehensive document Adafruit put have put together surrounding pinouts, examples etc for the board. I am having issue understanding the section on the KEY pin, I…
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Adafruit Feather unable to upload code

I am using Adafruit Feather RFM69HCW Microcontroller. I am having difficulty uploading code in any Adafruit Feather boards. We have a project that is live on the field and it needs code changes. I have tried everything from holding the reset button…
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Adafruit IO example won't compile, library required is correct version

I have Arduino IDE 1.8.5 installed, and also Adafruit IO Arduino 2.6.0 and Adafruit MQTT Library 0.20.0. With the Adafruit IO lib comes a set of examples, and I wanted to use example adafruitio_07_digital_out as a starting point for a project on an…
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Unusualy high fail rate with Adafruit Circuit playgrounds

I am on my 4th failed Adafruit Circuit playground, I can usualy program them a few times, like less than 10, then they become unresponsive. no amount of reseting, rebooting, bootloader re-installations, etc seem to help. I am using Arduino 1.8.1,…
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Is it possible to use Adafruit's Circuit Playground Express's 2MB storage in Arduino IDE?

I understand that the extra 2MB of memory is for circuit python. However, I wouldn't mind having access to 2MB of storage and using the Arduino IDE/low level C to access it. Is that possible? If so, how?
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Load Adafruit GFX bitmap fonts on desktop for pixel-level design

I am designing UI for 160x128 ST7735-based TFT display which will be displayed using Adafruit's GFX library (and the driver in Adafruit_ST7735.h). I am using the default bitmap font (custom fonts don't provide the white-out functionality, causing…
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Adafruit Circuit Playground Express fails to upload

When uploading code to the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, I have found that most of the time it fails to upload saying that the port is busy. There seems to be no logical reason behind this, as it uploads perfectly to an Arduino Uno (Yes, I…
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Need Help to Select Microcontroller ?? Help

i am doing a project which has to run in side a garage to control water levels in sump pit as well as in overhead tank . also schedule running of pumps. i have to run 5 pumps (two for ground water to sump pit , three for sump pit to over head…
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