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Arduino IDE 2.0.0 Teensy Support

Today Arduino released IDE version 2.0.0, with autocomplete, faster compile, and many other improvements.

Teensy is supported using Arduino’s Boards Manager. A separate installer is no longer needed.

To install Teensy on Arduino IDE 2.0.0, click File > Preferences. In “Additional boards manager URLs”, copy this link:

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/package_teensy_index.json

You can copy this link directly, or click the […]

Teensyduino 1.57 Released

Teensyduino 1.57 has been released.

Here is detailed look at the new & improved features in version 1.57.

USBHost_t36 USB Disk Support

USBHost_t36 now supports use of USB disk drives connected to the USB host port on Teensy 3.6, 4.0, 4.1, thanks to a major contribution from Warren Watson, also with work from KurtE and mjs513.

LED Ping Pong Ball Display

Looking to build a large LED display project David Vogt came up with this magnificent LED Ping Pong Ball display.

Because this project was for high school students it needed to be easy to assemble without advanced electronics skills. It also needed to be budget friendly.

Early in the design it was decided to use ping pong balls to diffuse the LEDs. This set the spacing of the LEDs to […]

Scrolling LED Sign

Armin Rehberger made an awesome, colorful, scrolling LED sign.

This bright animated sign uses 4 8×32 LED-pixel matrixes and scrolls not only horizontally but vertically as well. It’s controlled using a Teensy 4.0 and uses the OCTOWS2811 library.