Adafruit Industries | Desk of Ladyada - New Factory and a Lipo Buck Board @adafruit | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
This week, we had our official 'Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony' - complete with big scissors from bigscissors.com/. We had ada-friends come from around the area to visit and speeches from Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (brooklynchamber.com/) and Industry City (industrycity.com/).
So we didn't get a ton of new hardware worked on this week - hopefully, next week will be a little more chill. Instead, this week, we've been doing some component research.
The Lipo Buck board we designed right before the move has a USB-charging lipo chip (adafruit.com/product/4410) and then a 3.3V buck based on the TLV62569 (adafruit.com/product/4711). However, we've since discovered the BQ25185 (digikey.com/short/3z3wqbcm), which is a little more expensive than the MCP73831 (digikey.com/short/3rbdvbn1) but allows us to ditch 3 components and also has 'solar' input and up to 1A charge rate.
And on The Great Search: looking at newer surface mount non-contact "Infrared" temperature sensors. digikey.com/short/r38rnvbv
This week, we had our official 'Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony' - complete with big scissors from bigscissors.com/. We had ada-friends come from around the area to visit and speeches from Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (brooklynchamber.com/) and Industry City (industrycity.com/).
So we didn't get a ton of new hardware worked on this week - hopefully, next week will be a little more chill. Instead, this week, we've been doing some component research.
The Lipo Buck board we designed right before the move has a USB-charging lipo chip (adafruit.com/product/4410) and then a 3.3V buck based on the TLV62569 (adafruit.com/product/4711). However, we've since discovered the BQ25185 (digikey.com/short/3z3wqbcm), which is a little more expensive than the MCP73831 (digikey.com/short/3rbdvbn1) but allows us to ditch 3 components and also has 'solar' input and up to 1A charge rate.
And on The Great Search: looking at newer surface mount non-contact "Infrared" temperature sensors. digikey.com/short/r38rnvbv
