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Re:The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System by neur4lnet on Thursday July 15, 2021 @04:47AM (#27842636)
Is there a reason that the main board is a feather and the daughter boards are wings?

I would have expected 1 wing to have many feathers, not the other way around.

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Re:The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System by igneo676 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:33AM (#27845210)
They've had the feather boards for a while but not the wings. After they needed to expand the brand, they were probably a bit limited in choices by the original name
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Re:The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System by stronglikedan on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:27PM (#27847264)
And "vane" and "barb" just don't sound as nice as "wing".
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Re:The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System by ubertaco on Friday July 16, 2021 @10:13AM (#27856410)
"Featherwing" is a bit more unambiguous to google than "Wingfeather"[0] at this point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wingfeather_Saga

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Re:The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System by Bluestein on Thursday July 15, 2021 @05:04AM (#27842718)
... That ... confused me too, must confess.-
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Re:The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System by cjdaly on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:02AM (#27853419)
if you want to be extra confused, look at the HalloWing:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3900 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4300

it's a feather mainboard, but with the 'wing' nomenclature.

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