Friday Product Post: Enjoy the Ambience
A Qwiic-enabled Ambient Light Sensor is here, along with an updated LilyPad LED board!
Hello SparkFans! We only have a couple products to show off today, because we're getting Artemis ready for a full production run (let's be honest, everything looks better in red), and we have a mid-week release next Wednesday! This week, we have a new Qwiic-enabled Ambient Light Sensor along with an updated LilyPad LED board.
Before we get into new products, we wanted to give you an early heads-up that we are having a sale tomorrow (Saturday, July 20th) in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon walk. From 12:00 a.m. MT through 11:59 p.m. MT, use the promo code APOLLO11 to receive $50 off our SparkFun Inventor's Kit for RedBot and the Arduino Engineering Kit. Please be aware that this sale is for in-stock items only, some exclusions do apply, and it's only while supplies last.
Do you see what I see?
Looking for an option to sense ambient light? The SparkFun VEML6030 Ambient Light Sensor is a great starter option. The VEML6030 is a high accuracy ambient light sensor with 16-bit resolution. Even more impressive is that it can detect light similarly to the way the human eye does. Utilizing our handy Qwiic system, no soldering is required to connect it to the rest of your system. However, we still have broken out 0.1"-spaced pins in case you prefer to use a breadboard.
Blink any color you need! Use the LilyPad RGB LED board as a simple indicator or, by pulsing the red, green and blue channels, you can produce a broad variety of colors. Each of the colors in the RGB LED is connected to one of the sew tabs on the board labeled R, G and B.
That's it for this week! As always, we can't wait to see what you make! Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or let us know on Instagram or Facebook. We’d love to see what projects you’ve made!
