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Building a Weather Display on the PyPortal Titano

Posted at October 4, 2025 by Michael Earls in Electronics ⋅ Programming

I recently built a weather display for my Adafruit PyPortal Titano using CircuitPython. This project fetches live weather data from OpenWeatherMap and displays the current temperature, condition, and details like “feels like” temperature and wind. In this blog entry, I’ll…

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Visualize APDS-9960 Color Sensor Data with CircuitPython and SwiftUI

Posted at July 26, 2025 by Michael Earls in Programming ⋅ Tech

Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll build a real-time color monitoring system: Hardware: APDS-9960 color sensor connected to a CircuitPython-capable board. CircuitPython: Script to connect to Wi-Fi, read RGB values, and publish JSON payloads to the sensors/color MQTT topic. macOS SwiftUI…