The U.S., China and the Chip Industry From www.eetimes.com 2 hours ago in News Beijing cried foul over Trump's decision to block the acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor. It should be prepared for more of the same.
Toni Hamel’s The land of Id Allows Viewers Opportunities to Examine the Relationships between Humans and the Natural Environment #ArtTuesday From blog.adafruit.com 7 hours ago in PlatformsStores From ToniHamel.net via Hi•Fructose: In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the Id refers to the component of our psyche responsible for our most primitive impulses and drives. It is an egocentric, all-consuming urge to satisfy our immediate needs and desires without any...
REVISED PRODUCT – Adafruit IoT Pi Printer Project Pack – v2 From blog.adafruit.com 8 hours ago in PlatformsStores REVISED PRODUCT – Adafruit IoT Pi Printer Project Pack – V2 Build an “Internet of Things” connected mini printer that will do your bidding! This is a fun weekend project that comes with a beautiful laser cut case. Once assembled,...
Using Crumpled Pieces of Paper – Specifically Their Shadows – to Draw Unique Faces | #ArtTuesday From blog.adafruit.com 8 hours ago in PlatformsStores Add this technique to your tool set – especially if you’re otherwise stuck with how to get started with a drawing:
Making Corporate Logos Into Weapons #ArtTuesday From blog.adafruit.com 8 hours ago in PlatformsStores By Tom Galle Via Design Collector Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start...
Too Many Cars, Too Few Resistors From www.eetimes.com 9 hours ago in News The increasing amount of electronics in vehicles is creating a shortage of resistors, reports EBN.
BitSizedEDU Presents Newton’s Third Law of Motion #MakerEducation From blog.adafruit.com 9 hours ago in PlatformsStores Check out BiteSized Laws of Science Episode 3: Newton’s Third Law of Motion, another great video from Presley over at BiteSizedEDU. About a month ago, Presley posted a super cool light painting video with Adafruit’s Circuit Playground – you can...
Deku Link Comes to Life in This Costume From blog.adafruit.com 9 hours ago in PlatformsStores Just when you think you’ve seen all the Link costumes there are, someone surprises you. In this case, it’s Redditor ehsteve12 who is responsible for a new-to-me Legend of Zelda cosplay. They’ve replicated Deku Link from The Legend of Zelda:...
Stunning Abstract Wooden Sculptures Featuring Intricately Carved Cityscapes From Around the World #ArtTuesday From blog.adafruit.com 10 hours ago in PlatformsStores McNabb & Co. Studio produces one of a kind cityscape-inspired wood sculptures, Via LaughingSquid Artist and sculptor James McNabb creates absolutely stunning cityscapes that are carved into the wood of circular and abstract sculptures. Every piece he creates is made...
Adafruit Tech Used to Capture Moon’s #SolarEclipse Shadow from 97,000 Feet! | @adafruit #citizenscience From blog.adafruit.com 10 hours ago in PlatformsStores Thanks to Troy C. for sharing his story building a helium-filled balloon to take pictures of the recent #SolarEclipse – the moon’s shadow! – which passed near his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He built a custom trackuino shield for...
Acre and a Half of Barley Planted and Harvested Using Autonomous Farmbots | #robots From blog.adafruit.com 11 hours ago in PlatformsStores Autonomous robots – even farming robots – are nothing new but what’s special to this story is not a single human set foot on the field throughout the duration from planting to harvest – instead aerial drones were used to...
VR Installation Probes Virtual Reality’s Ethical Limitations From blog.adafruit.com 11 hours ago in PlatformsStores via HYPERALLERGIC Director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s virtual-reality gesamtkunstwerk, Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible), is an ultra-immersive triptych that aims to give visitors the opportunity to briefly experience the treacherous journey of crossing the Mexico–United States border. Undoubtedly a...
An Off-Kilter Homage to Boston’s Quaker Architecture From blog.adafruit.com 11 hours ago in PlatformsStores via HYPERALLERGIC Nestled in the grassy Rose Kennedy Greenway downtown, The Meeting House is a site-specific structure of a precarious, partly sunken building that juts 14 feet into the air. Commissioned by the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, the piece is...
Time Travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science, technology and engineering world From blog.adafruit.com 12 hours ago in PlatformsStores 1889 – Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and author is born. Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany was an African-American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany, of the New York Times...
“Hidden Figures”: Margot Lee Shetterly will publish a children’s picture book adaptation #MakerEducation From blog.adafruit.com 13 hours ago in PlatformsStores Great news! Via Quartz. Last year’s most popular hidden heroes are getting a new look. Publishers Weekly announced last week the completion of a book deal for a picture-book adaptation of the 2016 nonfiction title Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee...
Music Box Plays “Still Alive” Thanks to Automated Hole Puncher From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs Most projects have one or two significant aspects in which custom work or clever execution is showcased, but this Music Box Hole Punching Machine by [Josh Sheldon] and his roommate [Matt] is a delight on many levels. Not only was custom hardware...
Mindblowing Cyberpunk 3D Renderings #ArtTuesday From blog.adafruit.com 15 hours ago in PlatformsStores via MOTHERBOARD Intellectually, I understand that Cornelius Dämmrich‘s works are two dimensional. But the first time I saw the German digital artist’s work on Reddit, I was convinced that we had achieved headset-free VR. It’s not just Dämmrich’s absolute mastery...
How many ways are there to prove the Pythagorean theorem? #MakerEducation From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in PlatformsStores Find out how many ways there are to prove the Pythagorean theorem with this video from TED-Ed. What do Euclid, 12-year-old Einstein, and American President James Garfield have in common? They all came up with elegant proofs for the famous...
How to Help Hurricane Victims by Mapping Toxic Spills #CitizenScience #hurricane #science #texas #florida #oil From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in PlatformsStores Work continues as the weather brings another round of hurricanes, and efforts are now taking shape to identify pollution. Storms cause damage to coastline areas, home to many oil refineries, waste water treatment facilities, nuclear plants and other potential hazards....
20 Things You Didn’t Know About … Animal Domestication From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in PlatformsStores Via Discover Magazine 1. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? That’s easy: eggs. Microfossil embryos in primitive eggs from southern China are about 600 million years old. 2. The chicken, however, now the world’s most common domestic animal,...
Single Board Relay Computer From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs We all know you can build a computer out of relays, and if you’re a regular reader of Hackaday, you’ve probably seen a few. Actually designing and fabricating a computer built around relays is another thing entirely, and an accomplishment...
Mictrack MT600 4G GPS Tracker Supports Traccar, OpenGTS, and Other GPS Tracking Platforms From www.cnx-software.com 17 hours ago in News Cellular GPS trackers have been around for a few years, but so far mostly 2G or 3G GPS trackers with products like Ping, Particle Asset tracker, and many other models selling on Aliexpress. 4G GPS...
National Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrating Ana Castillo #HispanicHeritageMonth From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in PlatformsStores As part of our ongoing coverage of National Hispanic Heritage Month, today we are celebrating Ana Castilo, Mexican-American novelist and poet. From The Huffington Post “We write what we know, and this is what we do know,” says Ana Castillo —...
The Quantified Self Approach to Lowering Blood Glucose From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in PlatformsStores Justin Lawler has been using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) to lower his blood sugar and improve his health. His latest post describes eight different lifestyle changes he has made around meals, exercise and sleep to avoid becoming diabetic. Via...
Left Unsaid in Waymo-Intel Deal From www.eetimes.com 18 hours ago in News Left unsaid in the announcement is what this new partnership entails, and on whose chip Waymo is running the heavy-duty deep-learning algorithms.
Synopsys Buys Materials Modeling Tool Firm QuantumWise From www.eetimes.com 18 hours ago in News Deal enables Synopsys to offer customers seamless flow from materials to transistor by creating models for TCAD process and device simulation.
Harvest: Mining cryptocurrency with wind to fund climate research #ArtTuesday From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in PlatformsStores Via CreativeApplications.net Created by Julian Oliver and commissioned by the Konstmuseet i Skövde, HARVEST is a work of critical engineering and computational climate art. It uses wind-energy to mine cryptocurrency, the earnings of which are used as a source of...
Sawed Off Keyboard From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs Have you ever had to cut a piece of furniture in two to get it into a new place? Yours truly has, having had to cut the longer part of a sectional sofa in two to get it into a...
Synopsys Teams With SMIC, Brite Semi on IoT Platform From www.eetimes.com 23 hours ago in News Platform based on Synopsys ARC Data Fusion IP subsystem said to simplify design, reduce costs.
Hackaday’s London Meetup Was A Corker From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs Upstairs at the Marquis Cornwallis pub in central London, around 75 Hackadayers convened, ate well, drank well, and were generally merry. Nearly everyone in attendance brought a hack with them, which meant that there was a lot to see in...