It’s Manufacturing Monday at Adafruit! Testing and using our products can be a bright and colorful experience. These are some of our most colorful and shiny products that we test. View this post on Instagram A post shared by adafruit...

via Phys.orgBreakthrough Listen—the astronomical program searching for signs of intelligent life in the Universe—has submitted two publications to leading astrophysics journals, describing the analysis of its first three years of radio observations and the availability of a petabyte of radio...

Via Leslie Walker, just outside the United Cerebral Palsy of Huntsville offices is a crazy burn from a recent lightning strike. It goes several yards / meters from the ground, under a sidewalk, to a utility box. The grass where...

At #Teardown2019, Adafruit member Melissa spots a board designed by @tinkrmind:See Amitabh Shrivastava on Twitter @tinkrmind – there are lots of very neat pneumatics there also!

Via Hackster.io, Skinflow uses liquid-filled silicon chambers for sensing. When a touch is applied, the fluid flows out of the manipulated chambers, which can then be measured remotely using a camera-based system or other means.They have built a 3-D soft...

From Bill The Drone Reviewer on YouTube:Join Bill as he discusses a number of current topics in the drone industry with Sally including the new FAA recreational pilots rules, ADS-B, how drones are used for good, DJI Robomaster S1, the...

Updating our previous post, the Capable Robot CircuitPython programmable USB hub is now available for order on Crowd Supply. In addition to being a 4-port USB 2 High-Speed hub, this Programmable USB hub is also: A CircuitPython based development board. A bridge...

The Canadian department store had customers order products from off of a screen, he’d home, and wait for their items to be delivered.via SmithsonianWhen the department store A.J. Freiman announced in May 1950 its plan to bring “push button” shopping...

Shawn Hymel shares work on how to get a Virtual COM Port (VCP) working with a Nucleo board.To begin, strip a USB cable or get a USB breakout board (like this one from SparkFun) and connect the lines to a breadboard...

Via McuOnEclipse, when people build “smart things” and “wireless things”, is security a primary consideration? This article focuses on looking at a strange monitoring device found by employees under desks and in meeting rooms, placed there by their employer. What...

The Python on Microcontrollers newsletter – your source for Python information every week.**** Special news from Teardown 2019 about CircuitPython along with the first crowdfunding for a Linux SBC in a Feather form factor!! ****Catch all the weekly news on Python...

The Blinka CircuitPython layer for PocketBeagle SBCs appears functional with the work of several folks recently.CircuitPython brings over 150 hardware drivers from the microcontroller world to compatible SBCs. As an interface between standard Python and the hardware, CircuitPython Blinka is...

Great piece from Atlas Obscura on the origins of the first black radio station in the US.White men owned the nation’s radio stations, too, and they programmed for white audiences. As a result, mainstream radio stations sounded very similar, which...

via The Verge There’s no question that robots have come a long way since their cold, clunky, cumbersome inception. Nowadays they’re smart, agile and responsive — but they’re still missing the tactile, multipurpose elements that make living creatures flexible and...

It’s really interesting to see the relationship between people and AI. via Wired“Machine Learning: Living in the Age of AI,” examines the extraordinary ways in which people are interacting with AI today. Hobbyists and teenagers are now developing tech powered...

The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (video) is the newest Raspberry Pi computer made, and the Pi Foundation knows you can always make a good thing better! And what could make the Pi 4 better than the 3? How about a faster processor,...

Not quite sure how I feel about the art itself, but its mere existence is at the very least impressive. Via dezeen.The AI robot, who was invented by gallery director Aidan Meller, can draw things from life using an inbuilt...

via MOTHERBOARDThis November, the Prague Philharmonic will perform the third and final movement of “From the Future World,” an AI-completed composition based on an unfinished piano piece by the famous composer Antonín Dvořák, 115 years after his death. Emmanuel Villaume...

via GfycatSome people are downright religious when it comes to the MCU. With this website you can look up and quote Marvel passages in the style of a bible verse. Via Shonnybymushi on Reddit:About a month ago someone posted that...

From Academic Minute:Some stories in the news can give drones a bad reputation. Travis Fox, professor of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, explores how they are also used for good.Read (and hear!) moreWelcome to drone day...

The future is yet again upon us, etc. But in all seriousness, this is a pretty cool development, especially for those who are unable to use a traditional remote. Via Quartz.Forget what you know about clunky TV remote controls. Comcast...