{"id":1103,"date":"2017-01-21T16:18:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2017-02-16T21:02:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:02:40","slug":"circuit-playground-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/scratch\/circuit-playground-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Circuit Playground Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to give an update on what we&#8217;re working on for the Circuit Playground kit. There&#8217;s a lot to look forward to.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Done!\u00a0<del>Bug fixes. Some users have been having trouble getting sensor readings in certain circumstances. I&#8217;m working on a significant update that should improve the robustness of staying synced with the Circuit Playground&#8217;s sensors. A lot of the problem revolves around the time it takes to service Neopixel calls on the Circuit Playground, which causes delays in sensor polling response.\u00a0<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Neopixel Matrix Tiling. I&#8217;m working on a write up that explains how to hook up multiple Neopixel Matrices to give you a bigger matrix. It&#8217;ll also explain how to turn your Neopixel Matrix into an Arduino Shield for use on most Arduinos and the PiSoC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/scrolling-neopixel-text\/\">Neopixel scrolling text<\/a><\/strong>. You can now\u00a0&#8220;Print String&#8221; to the Neopixel Matrix, and have text scroll across one or multiple matrices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We are now selling the Circuit Playground Inventor&#8217;s Kit on Amazon. This will soon allow\u00a0customers in other countries to purchase the kit, and hopefully\u00a0persuade some would be purchasers who don&#8217;t want to buy directly from the Embedit site. The individual Neopixel Matrix will also be on sale soon. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B01MXEKISE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/associates\/remote-buy-box\/buy1.gif\" width=\"176\" height=\"28\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Curriculum\/Experiment guide. This one is a little further out, but we plan to have a set of projects that will walk you through some beginner lessons to more complicated ones involving a lot of real world interactivity. It&#8217;ll also aim to explain some real world uses and science behind some of the sensors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, there will be some add-ons available for the Circuit Playground. First up will be a Servo Kit. You&#8217;ll be able to rotate Servo motors and of course plug them in using alligator clips. We&#8217;ll also have a few projects that show how to use them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are still considering how to tackle offline support, but I hope to have news on that soon. Anything else you want to see?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, Just wanted to give an update on what we&#8217;re working on for the Circuit Playground kit. There&#8217;s a lot to look forward to. Done!\u00a0Bug fixes. Some users have been having trouble getting sensor readings in certain circumstances. I&#8217;m working on a significant update that should improve the robustness of staying synced with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}