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The Desk of Ladyada - Bells of the Ball

Adafruit Industries
Adafruit Industries
Episode • Jul 24, 2022 • 38m
Hey everyone! we are back at our desk, its toasty out so we're staying in during the day and cranking out some designs. one project we think we might be able to work on this summer is a de-zombification of the EZ-Link and EZ-Key boards from many years ago. these bluetooth classic boards rocked but suffered from using a really frustrating development and sourcing process. so we're gonna try to 'port' the designs from CSR to ESP32. this week we also started working on some cowbells! we have a proto-'bell done and we tacked it onto a proto pcb order, and we're also starting to work on a TFT 'bell.
The Great Search - Skinny Micro SD card holder for Raspberry Pi Cowbells
https://www.digikey.com/short/tbzw10jt
We have a tried-and-true microSD card holder (https://www.digikey.com/short/4tmnwh) that we have been using for all our designs, it's a SMT push-pull design that has a lot of source variants so it's great for everyday usage. We even covered it on a previous Great Search (https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/02/02/the-great-search-micro-sd-card-holder-thegreatsearch-digikey-adafruit-digikey-adafruit/) But now we have to go back and source again - because for our new Raspberry Pico Cowbell add-on plans, we need a much skinner design that will fit between the SMT headers that will keep the Pico attached and we're about 1mm too wide! No problem there's hunde, we looked around our parts bin to see what some other products we have use and liked the one on the Teensy boards which are also pretty skinny - lets source something equivalent and get it loaded it to our CAD software for usage.
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