Adafruit PiTFT running on Raspberry Pi
http://adafru.it/b88555

Leo White shared a video of his adafruit PiTFT running on Raspberry Pi:

I connected up my AdaFruit PiTFT board (http://www.adafruit.com/products/1601) this weekend and spent a few minutes putting it through its paces and decided to do a short video for those who were thinking about getting one...

Read More
http://adafru.it/b88555

@Raspberry_Pi#piday #raspberrypi

Adafruit Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Gifts for Mom and Dad!
http://adafru.it/b88499

It’s a personal theory of mine that parents often get the short end of the stick during the holiday season. They go out of their way (sometimes to a fault) to get you that magical, personal gift you’ve been dreaming of all year…and you return the favor by buying them the scarf from the bottom of the sale bin at the Department store on December 24th at 9pm. This year, make your parents feel appreciated and modern, and choose from one of our tech-themed gift suggestions below.

Read More
http://adafru.it/b88499

NEW PRODUCTS – Small, Medium and Large White LED Backlight Modules
http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=adasearch&q=White+LED+Backlight+Module

These pretty strips of light are plastic diffused backlights, often seen in LCD displays. Normally they’re tucked behind the LCD and shine white light from below. Here, we’ve got the LEDs available individually and they’re really cool! Each LED is encased in a 3.5mm thick strip of a acrylic. The acrylic strip is a special type that is very good at diffusing light, so even though there is only one single white LED, it provides near-uniform lighting. The other flat side of the strip has a reflector on it so you only get light from the top (otherwise the backlight would lose 1/2 the brightness unnecessarily).

You can treat this backlight just like an LED, light with ~3V at 20mA current and you get a pretty shape that you can mask with vinyl or draw over with marker. Gels can be used to change the color. We think these would make great wearables without the need for EL or inverters, they’re much brighter than EL and use less battery. The trade-off is these are not flexible at all.

The small backlight has a 0.5″ by 1.5″ (12mm x 40mm) lit area, the medium has a 0.8″ by 3″ (23mm x 75mm) lit area and the large has a 1.7″ by 3.4″ (45mm x 86mm) lit area

In stock and shipping now!
http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=adasearch&q=White+LED+Backlight+Module

#leds   #bareleds   #led   #adafruit   #electronics