Lex Kravitz's Feather Flipper Lets Feathers and Wings Face Opposite Directions — Great for Cameras
Built so that a thermal camera and display Wing could be combined into a working camera, the Feather Flipper does exactly what it says.
Neuroscientist Lex Kravitz has released a board design created with only one task in mind: Flipping Feather-format development boards around, allowing a Feather and its Wing accessory to be facing opposite directions — ideal for camera projects.
"I wanted to use an Adafruit AMG8833 thermal camera Feather Wing with the mini color TFT Feather Wing," Kravitz explains. "Stacking them together with a Feather doubler board works fine (and the AMG8833 data looks very nice on the tiny screen!) but the problem is that the thermal camera is looking in the same direction as the screen. When you look at the screen all you see is.... you!"
"I wanted to flip the AMG8833 around to face opposite of the screen so I could walk around and look at the thermal image of things that weren't me. So I made a super simple PCB that just flips the feather around. The Feather Flipper!"
Brought to our attention by Drew Fustini over on the OSH Park blog, the Feather Flipper is a simple board with no active components — simply header points for two feather boards, additional 3V3 and ground connections, and mounting holes.
Kravitz has released Eagle board and schematics files for the Feather Flipper on the Hackaday.io project page, under an unspecified license.
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