Desk of Ladyada - RGB Drivers & CircuitPython Cameras

Adafruit Industries

This week we've got a few things we've been hacking on. We tested out jepler's ESP32S2 camera support in CircuitPython. It works really well! Now that we have OV7670 and OV2640 camera modules supported we can move on to designing some hardware. We also wrote up a ISSI IS31FL374x (https://www.digikey.com/short/8q0nmn25) driver which is a more powerful version of the IS31FL3731 chips what we've used for our charlieplex wings. This driver can handle 160 independent RGB LEDs with constant-current adjustment and 8-bit PWM per LED. We would use these for boards that have more than ~50 NeoPixels/Dotstars because 'smart' LEDs are about 10 cents each on reel. The Great Search - Non-Addressable SMT RGB LED https://www.digikey.com/short/vf2hvqtv We sure love smart addressable LEDs here at Adafruit - like NeoPixels (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/result?s=N4IgTCBcDaIHYFMD2AHAlgDwQGxAXQF8g0 and DotStars (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/result?s=N4IgTCBcDaICYHsAuBnJBDATiAugXyA) But our new project is going to use the IS31FL3741 (https://www.digikey.com/short/8q0nmn25) driver to control a large quantity of RGB LEDs. Lets find a low cost SMT RGB LED that we can use with this chip! #adafruit #askanengineer #thegreatsearch Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------