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Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express: The Multipurpose Learning and Development Board with Built-In LEDs, Sensors, and Accelerometer 1st Edition

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In this book, you'll discover the most powerful, low-cost, creative development platform available! From Adafruit Industries, a leader in products to Makers, designers, students young and old, comes the Circuit Playground Express. CPX is full of sensors and interactive lights in a 2 inch circular development and experimenting board. Connect it to your PC/Mac/Chromebook/Linux device, and you can be programming interactive projects in minutes. You have a choice of programming environments to choose from: Python, the Microsoft MakeCode graphical building block environment, C/C++ via the Arduino development environment and JavaScript.
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I am grateful to Adafruit for trusting me with introducing people to the marvelous Circuit Playground Express board. Teachers, hobbyists, folks young and old, all post that the board is the easiest way to get programming within one sitting, one class, to the point of creating one's own code.
The bonus that may not be apparent in Getting Started with Circuit Playground Express is the extensive community of support that is available. From Adafruit forums and the Adafruit Discord chat, you find personalized support. In the Adafruit Learning System, you'll see a cornucopia of projects and tutorials featuring Circuit Playground Express in introductory and more advanced guides.
The book will provide that all important Getting Started launch. The support from Adafruit and their community will get you the rest of the way. This is the perfect starting point and I hope you find yourself experiencing a fruitful journey with Circuit Playground Express.

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Discover the most powerful, low-cost creative development platform available!

From Adafruit Industries, it's Circuit Playground Express. Connect it to your PC/Mac/Linux device and you can be programming interactive projects in minutes.
Whether you are learning interactive programming, have an Internet of Things project in mind, or are looking to design on-the-go wearable electronics, Circuit Playground Express is the device to start with.
In Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express you'll learn:
  • How to program Circuit Playground Express in different programming languages including Python, C/C++, Microsoft MakeCode, and Javascript
  • How to connect your Circuit Playground Express to your computer for programming
  • How the powerful processor and plethora of included sensors and displays allow you to make hundreds of interactive projects
  • How to make colorful, interactive displays
  • How to design your own Internet of things device
The world is your playground. Go out and play!

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Make Community, LLC; 1st edition (October 9, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1680454889
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1680454888
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
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Engineer and Maker Anne Barela is currently a consultant for Adafruit Industries, LLC. She retired in 2018 as a senior Foreign Service Officer and Security Engineering Officer for the U.S. Department of State. Anne is a graduate of Whitman College (mathematics/physics) and the California Institute of Technology (electrical engineering). She has previously worked at Hewlett-Packard, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Boeing. An avid electronics enthusiast, she started with a workbench and Radio Shack parts in high school. Anne is the author of the books Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket as well as tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System at https://learn.adafruit.com/u/AnneBarela. She likes to work on microcontroller projects and retrocomputers and she's a space enthusiast who participated in the NASA Social program for Artemis 1. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/anne_engineer and on Mastodon at https://octodon.social/@Anneb.

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Gary Whitney
5.0 out of 5 stars A useful starting place.
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2024
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If you have never programmed, this book will guide you through getting started. If you have previous experience, the links in the book can save hours of searching.
The reason I bought this book was I started with YouTube videos, which are time-consuming and only cover one topic. This book gives you a 360 overview in a short amount of time.
You still have to learn Python and / or C++ to understand why your own code fails.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Educators/Newbiees Wanting to Start w/Microcontrollers/Making? Start Here!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2018
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Tech Educators - this is for you! As a college professor teaching non-technical students in a freshman core class, I've been looking for a platform to empower students (from our techies to our technophobes) as creators without getting bogged down by heavy overhead such as wiring, soldering, resistors, Arduino programming, or Raspberry Pi. The Circuit Playground Express (CPX) is a low cost ($25) computing platform loaded with lights, sensors (sound, light, motion, temperature), and more. This book is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in learning the CPX platform. The book covers the easy-to-advanced three major CPX programming platforms: the Make Code - Scratch-like drag-and-drop block programming that's available in a browser (hence cross-platform & also with side-by-side JavaScript creation), CircuitPython (the CPX integrates w/the free, cross-platform Mu coding environment that can graph directly from CPX sensors in real-time, and offers REPL code execution), and also the Arduino (C++-like) platform, which is more complex, but has a HUGE amount of coding examples. While the book isn't meant to be a comprehensive reference, it walks the reader through all three of these major programming platforms, with lots of fun projects. You'll learn enough to branch out on your own and leverage the vast amount of resources on the Internet. The author, Mike B, regularly creates content on the Adafruit website, as well. This book + the Circuit Playground Express is highly recommended for those seeking a first-step into making/hardware hacking/open-source hardware, and the platform is a wonderful learn-to-program tool. But know that the CPX is robust enough that you won't long for other tools anytime soon. The CPX can be integrated into other hardware w/out soldering, such as a Robotics platform, strings of programmable color "Neopixel" LED lights (which I gave students in easy-to-connect alligator-clip versions), wearables, and more. The book, when coupled with CPX hardware, is your on-ramp to STEM superpowers. Its timing was perfect for me, allowing me to prep transformative class exercises and learning examples as I tried out the CPX for the first time w/my students. It's been a huge hit. Plus, Adafruit's founder is a role-model for all, and a much-needed inspiration inspiring female STEM students.
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Ron
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Teacher Resource
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2019
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So far I have read the first 4 chapters and I have the book an excellent tool for teachers new to the CPX, as it is a great guide for developing curriculum. My only complaint is the graphics are too small to actually view for quick reference. After following the book's step-by-step activities and assigning students similar projects it's no big deal to extend their learning and developing their analytical problem solving skills.
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fos
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent text
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2018
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This is a very good book that brings all of the information needed to work with Adafruit's Circuit Playground Express. I was most interested in Circuit Python programming and the book gives a good start. It is amazing the capability that Adafruit packs into a small single board development environment. This text helps sort it out well.
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PaulC
5.0 out of 5 stars Great start with microcontroller and sensor programming.
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2020
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A nice and interesting descent into physical computing that spans a range of beginner programming interface options. By the end I saw the light and knew where I wanted to head next. Fun too!
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D. Kramer
3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty basic
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2019
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Being JUST about the CPX I thought it would go more into depth in some areas, but the majority of this book is just content from Adafruit's website and their PDF on the CPX. In particular I was hoping for more C/C++ programming content that's CPX-specific, but there's not much of that, and it contains disclaimers about the libraries still being worked on.

If you really are a beginner and Adafruit's website is too dense for you, this may be of some help
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Tim Gardner
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to go with the CPX!
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2018
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Great learning book to go with the Circuit Playground Express! Easy to follow with lots of great projects and examples to really get you going.
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Kenneth Marr
5.0 out of 5 stars Great way to get started with Adafruit products
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2019
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If you use AdaFruit products, this is a wonderful way to get started using Python
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Diogo Oliveira
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente livro
Reviewed in Brazil on March 8, 2024
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Excelente livro
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Joseph Prema
5.0 out of 5 stars Adafruit Playground
Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2022
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Good introduction to Adafruit Playground.
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Antonia Ramirez Lopez
4.0 out of 5 stars Logro encontrar lo que necesito
Reviewed in Mexico on June 10, 2019
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Fácil de usar y bien explicado, se entiende y cubre lo que necesito
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jacques
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful
Reviewed in France on May 19, 2020
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interesting, need the same for feather m0 express. i try to read again to understand all the content or this book
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MP
5.0 out of 5 stars A good start for learning the basics of CircuitPython on the Playground Express.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2019
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It’s a great book for learning the basics of CircuitPython on the Playground Express, however much of the information covered is readily available for free in the Learn section of Adafruit’s superb website.
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