Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express
World Maker Faire New York 2018
September 22nd-23rd
A discussion of the new book Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express out at the time of Maker Faire. A discussion of Adafruit's red-hot maker board, who is it for (everyone!) and what it can do, both alone and with the new Adafruit Crickit robotics add-on.
Anne Barela
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 also worked at Hewlett-Packard, the Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Boeing. An avid electronics enthusiast, she started with a workbench and Radio Shack parts in high school. Anne is also the author of the book Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket (as Mike Barela) as well as tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System at learn.adafruit.com.
