Russian Cosmonaut Takes You on the Longest Route Possible on the ISS #SpaceSaturday From blog.adafruit.com 11 hours ago in PlatformsStores The shortest route possible between two points is a straight line. What’s the shape of the line that is the longest possible route from one end of the International Space Station to the other? We’d like someone to turn this...
Step ‘n Snack Fanny Pack Motivates with M&Ms From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs [Sam March] has made a lot of different kinds of things, many of which have appeared on these very pages. Nowadays he wants to get the viewers more involved in …read more
Arduino-powered pinewood derby car scale measures center of gravity From blog.arduino.cc 17 hours ago in PlatformsStores Constructing and racing a pinewood derby car is a great way to introduce young children to the world of engineering and mathematics. Many competitions will limit how heavy a car can be to avoid unfair advantages when it comes to...
NEW VIDEO: Oscilloscope Basic Math & FFT – Collin’s Lab Notes #adafruit #collinslabnotes From blog.adafruit.com 19 hours ago in PlatformsStores Kick back, relax & let your oscilloscope do the math … and fast Fourier transforms.
Mr Innovative made an automated machine to cut four different colors of wires From blog.arduino.cc 19 hours ago in PlatformsStores We all know as makers that trying to cut those little wires to the perfect length can be one of the most tedious and frustrating aspects of soldering together a project. Whether it is because the wire cutters slipped or...
Charger Caddy Shows What 3D Printers Were Meant For From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs As computers became more popular in the late 80s and into the 90s, they vastly changed their environments. Of course the technological changes were obvious, but plenty of other things …read more
UPDATED GUIDE: Adafruit MacroPad RP2040 #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @Adafruit From blog.adafruit.com 21 hours ago in PlatformsStores The Adafruit MacroPad RP2040 guide has been updated to include a section on using the Adafruit CircuitPython MacroPad library! It includes setup, installation, and examples of using each of the features, including reading key presses, the rotary encoder position and...
Subscribe to the Adafruit Youtube channel! #Youtube #AdafruitLearnSystem From blog.adafruit.com 21 hours ago in PlatformsStores Are you subscribed to the Adafruit Youtube channel? If you’re not already subscribed, click here! http://adafru.it/subscribe . It’s a free and easy way to keep up with our newest episodes. Here’s some of what we’re up to. Electronics Show and...
Build A Barebones 68000 From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs The 68000 chip was ubiquitous in the computing world well past its heyday in the 1980s. It was used as the basis for many PCs and video game consoles, and …read more
Large price increases for silicon chips from official distributors From blog.adafruit.com 22 hours ago in PlatformsStores Over the last 6 months we’ve all gotten hit by the massive silicon shortage that is affecting the electronics industry. Like many manufacturers, we’ve put in scheduled multi-year purchase orders to try and ‘get in the queue’ for when chips...
Fresh Paint or Patina of Ages, That’s The Antique Question From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs The world of antique furniture and the world of hackers rarely coincide, and perhaps the allure of the latest tech is greater for most of us than that of a …read more
Breaking 5G Barriers: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon x65 Speeds Through 10 Gbps From www.allaboutcircuits.com 23 hours ago in BlogsNews Breaking the 10 Gbps ‘barrier’ might be the point where mobile broadband starts to match the functionality of fiber services. Qualcomm’s modem-RF system recently achieved standalone 10 Gbps.
Hackaday Podcast 129: Super Clever 3D Printing, Jigs and Registration Things, 90s Car Audio, and Smooth LED Fades From hackaday.com 24 hours ago in Blogs Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams have found a critical mass of projects this week that wouldn’t be possible without 3D printers. There’s an absolutely astounding model roller coaster …read more
Learn IoT on Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 24 hours ago in PlatformsStores via Raspberry Pi BlogIoT — the Internet of Things — is one of the biggest growth areas in technology, and one that, to me, is very exciting. You start with a device like a Raspberry Pi, sprinkle some sensors, dust...
Mobile Sauna for On-The-Go Relaxation From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs While it might be nice to imagine owning a cabin in the woods to escape from society, complete with an outdoor sauna to take in the scenic views of nature, …read more
How I Hacked My Standing Desk With a Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Set a schedule to force yourself to work standing throughout the day. David Kong posted this productivity hack on Medium:All I needed was to send the desk up every hour or so. I’ve found that switching between sitting and standing...
A bicycle rear warning sign with distance sensor #Feather #FeatherFriday @Hackaday.io @Adafruit From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Tegwyn☠Twmffat posts on Hackaday.io a bike rear sign project.Since taking on a part-time job as a bicycle courier delivering parcels for Hermes Parcelnet, UK, I realized that rear facing lighting was really important to ensure safety on the road. I...
This Week in Security: Fail2RCE, TPM Sniffing, Fishy Leaks, and Decompiling From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Fail2ban is a great tool for dynamically blocking IP addresses that show bad behavior, like making repeated login attempts. It was just announced that a vulnerability could allow an attacker …read more
NFC tag reading comes to the web with WebNFC #NFC #sapcxlabs From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Near Field Communications (NFC) is a short range wireless technology operating at 13.56 MHz. SAP Customer Experience Labs discusses NFC and how web browsers can use NFC with the WebNFC protocol.Google launched the first NFC-enabled phones (Google Nexus S) together...
Tinkerstellar: an iPad app to learn coding and data science #Education @tinkerstellar From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Tinkerstellar is an iPad app that helps you learn coding and data science with interactive tutorials (or labs), where you can edit and run code examples straight away — no need to configure environments, download datasets or rely on networking...
Growlab: Grow your own food challenge with Raspberry Pi #PiDay #Growlab #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Growlab is a global contest to grow seeds and share your progress with a Raspberry Pi. How it works Read the launch blog post: Join the Grow Lab Challenge. Decide you’re taking part by sending a PR and adding yourself to...
Hacking a standing desk with a Raspberry Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi @davidkongfilm From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores David Kong writes in Medium “How I Hacked My Standing Desk With a Raspberry Pi” Like many office workers today, I have a motorized sit-stand desk at work. (I built my own mechanical sit-stand desk at home, but that’s another...
A 3D printed boat robot using Raspberry Pi, Arduino and PVC pipe #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Wes writes with information on his boat project.Since my day job involves writing mobile applications, I knew I wanted to have a control system that used an iPad. I’m also the author of an iOS library that facilitates communication between...
E-mail Spam Filtering on Raspberry Pi using Machine Learning #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores via Raspberry Pi ProjectsThis project targets the domain of e-mail spam filtering using machine learning. A classifier is trained using supervised Machine Learning algorithm called Support Vector Machine (SVM) to filter e-mail as spam or not spam. Each e-mail is...
TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is weighing plans to pump tens of billions of dollars more into cutting-edge chip factories in the U.S. state of Arizona than it had previously disclosed, but is cool on prospects for an advanced European plant,...
OmniArm #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Hayden Jones wants reduce the cost and make advanced prosthetic arms more accessible. Part of Hackster.io‘s 2021 China-US Young Maker Competition:OmniArm takes prosthetic arms to the next level with integrated AI for better control, somatosensory feedback, and reduced rehabilitation.Learn more!Each...
RoadTest Review: Microchip PoE to USB-C Power & Data Adapter (PD-USB-DP60) From goughlui.com 1 day ago in Blogs If you’ve been following along the blog, you might have wondered why I recently took a look at some Power-over-Ethernet injectors, specifically one that supported 802.3bt Mode 4 “90W” power. At last, it is time to unveil my latest RoadTest...
Install Arduino IDE on Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores via RaspberryPi-spyThe Arduino IDE is a vital tool for flashing Arduino devices. You can install Arduino IDE on Raspberry Pi OS using these easy steps. You could use apt: sudo apt install arduino but this results in the installation of...
A Steampunk Internet Radio: “The Cube” @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Nice looking project from Horatius.Steam up on Instructables.I really like old radios. I was fascinated from AM radios, where you can listen to radio station worldwide like Voice of America, BBC, Radio Peking, etc. Nearly all analog radio station has...
Amazon Alexa certified ESP AFE leverages ESP32-S3 AI & DSP instructions From www.cnx-software.com 1 day ago in News While most Amazon Alexa certified products are hardware designs, Amazon website also includes a Software Audio Front End (AFE) Dev Kits section that lists software algorithms that optimize audio detection in noisy environments, and the latest addition is Espressif’s Audio...