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Adafruit FunHouse

ralphjy

My wife's birthday and Mother's day are coming up shortly and I'd like to do an electronic gift since that's what she always sees me doing image.  Unfortunately, I don't have much time available to build something.  I saw that Adafruit had a new product - the Adafruit FunHouse that they describe as a "WiFi Home Automation Development Board". The board is in the shape of a house with a color TFT display and 5 RGB LEDs on the front.  And it has connections for external sensors and PIR and has both push buttons and capacitive sense for input.  The processor is an ESP32-S2 which is a single core ESP32 with just WiFi (no BLE).  But it runs at 240MHz and has native USB which amongst other things allows it to run CircuitPython.  The FunHouse is a "cute" design that I think could be programmed for many different occasions, so I thought I'd get one and try to do something quickly for her birthday and Mother's day - and I can also reuse it for future occasions.

 

I decided to a quick modular design.  I printed a board holder that would serve as a front facade and allow me to stack different modules behind it that I could customize for different occasions.

 

Here's the FunHouse running the OOB (out-of -box) CircuitPython program.

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A view showing the shallow facade.

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I haven't used CircuitPython much and never used an ESP32-S2 before, but hopefully it won't be too hard to get something running quickly (before May 9).

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