#AdafruitLearnSystem Weekly Update From blog.adafruit.com 4 hours ago in PlatformsStores Last week on the Adafruit Learning System, we published a whopping 11 guides! This week saw lots of new guides for the MatrixPortal, the guide for the newest AdaBox, a new QT Py guide, a DIY desktop calculator, and more!Favorite...
The Clock Under the Dome From hackaday.com 9 hours ago in Blogs In what can only be described as a work of art, [suedbunker] has created a clock under a glass dome. Sporting Nixie tubes, a DS3223, BCD encoders, and MPSA43 transistors driven by an MCP23008 I/O expander it is truly a...
DIY Transparent Screen From blog.adafruit.com 10 hours ago in PlatformsStores I’m not sure transparent screens will ever catch on but they are pretty intriguing. Watch EvanAndKatelyn tear down a tv monitor to make their own see through screen on YouTube!
When Only The Tiniest Of Violins Will Do From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs Playing the tiniest of violins may be a phrase to encapsulate the complete lack of sympathy as someone unpleasant receives their just deserts, but have any of you ever considered how such a feat might be achieved? Unless you’re an...
Architects Propose World’s Tallest Tower in NYC That Eats Up Carbon From blog.adafruit.com 12 hours ago in PlatformsStores French architecture firm Rescubika created a proposal for a 2,418-foot tower covered with 10,000 plants on Roosevelt Island, via My Modern MetThe latest conceptual project from architecture firm Rescubika envisions a soaring “green” residential tower on New York City’s Roosevelt...
NASA Engineer Kenneth Harris II From blog.adafruit.com 13 hours ago in PlatformsStores NASA engineer Kenneth Harris II works with the Goddard Space Flight Center, several flight projects including the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement Satellite, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). He was the Deputy Lead Integration Engineer for the...
Make a Candy Slide for Trick-or-Treaters From blog.adafruit.com 14 hours ago in PlatformsStores From Wicked Makers:A lot of towns and even some states are recommending people don’t go trick or treating or at best, stay socially distanced from other people when they do. That’s why we came up with a simple DIY Halloween...
Flash is Dead, but Its Culture Should Live On From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs Flash is all but gone already, but as we approach the official Adobe end-of-life date on December 31st, it’s picking up traction one last time as people reminisce about the days of Internet past. Back in July, [Jonas Richner] created...
Radio Remote Control via HTML5 From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs It’s a common scene: a dedicated radio amateur wakes up early in the morning, ambles over to their shack, and sits in the glow of vacuum tubes as they call CQ DX, trying to contact hams in time zones across...
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 From hackerboards.com 19 hours ago in News The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is based on the quad-core Broadcom BCM2711 SoC, and up to 8GB RAM and 32GB eMMC. I/O includes 2x display and 2x camera ports, plus USB, PCIe, various GPIO signals, and options for both...
New Products 10/21/2020 Featuring #Adafruit Voice Bonnet for Raspberry Pi – Two Speakers + Two Mics! @adafruit #newproducts From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in PlatformsStores Browse through all that’s new here!NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEKAdaBox Subscription: Adabox016 is currently shipping and subscriptions for Adabox016 are still open! Orders placed today will receive Adabox016 for HALLOWEEN!Read moreRaspberry Pi Compute Module 4 – 1GB / No MMC /...
A Transistor-less Sound Synthesizer From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs A synthesizer without transistors could almost be the basis of a trick question, surely without transistors it must be using a vacuum tube or similar. Not [Dr. Cockroach]’s synth though, instead of transistors it uses coupled pairs of LEDs and...
Engineers Tackle the Challenge of Miniaturizing Organic FETs From www.allaboutcircuits.com 23 hours ago in BlogsNews A Hong Kong engineering team claims to have made an important breakthrough in developing staggered structure monolayer organic field-effect transistors, which they say are important for future flexible electronic devices.
Let The Solar Free From hackaday.com 24 hours ago in Blogs Anyone tackling solar power for the first time will quickly find there’s a truly dizzying amount of information to understand and digest. You might think you just need to buy some solar panels, wire them together, and just sort of...
Turn Your Roomba into a Broomba #Halloween From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores A Roomba and a witchy broom, and voilà, you have an enchanted Broomba to haunt your house. View this post on Instagram Magical cleaning brooms 🧹🎃🍁 . 🎥@iamjulietdiaz Music: Edward Scissorhands – introduction song Danny Elfman . . . #Attitudeclothing...
Optical Centrepunch Is An Easy Build If You Need One From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Tired of getting his centerpunches thereabouts but not quite there, [Uri] decided something had to be done. A common tool to solve this problem is the optical centerpunch, but models on sale were just a little too pricy for something...
HackSpace Magazine Issue 36: CircuitPython & NeoPixel displays #NeoPixels @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores HackSpace magazine issue 36 takes a look at using CircuitPython with NeoPixel displays.WS2812B LEDs (or NeoPixels, as they’re commonly known) are LEDs that can light up in any colour. Really, they’re three LEDs (one red, one green, and one blue)...
Get Over Your Fears From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Some projects are just too complex, that’s for sure. But I’d be willing to bet that some things you think are too difficult actually aren’t, and it may be that all you need to get over your personal hurdle is...
Super-Simple VGA Adapter Sports Low-Res Output with Only Four TTL Chips From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Here at Hackaday we cast a wary eye at tips that come in with superlative claims. Generally, if we post something that claims to be the fastest or the smallest of all time, we immediately get slapped down in the...
SyFy’s List of 11 Great Horror Comics From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores via SyFyAhead of Halloween 2020, SYFY WIRE assembled a handful of some of the newest comic books that will keep you up at night. From the “Carpenter-esqe” feel of Plunge to the gothic horror of Mercy, these stories are not...
Company Uses Robotic Exoskeletons to Keep Workers Safe #Wearable From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores The future of manual labor will probaboly include more exo-suits.From Bloomberg QuickTake on YouTube:High-tech exoskeletons are being explored by firms including Hyundai Motor Co., Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. The technology, initially developed to help people who had...
Proprietary Lenses Are No Problem With This USB Adaptor From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs There was a time when a camera lens was simply a set of shaped pieces of glass in a tube, with a mount and an aperture. But as cameras have embraced electronics ever more, technology has found its way past...
Ramon Trotman on being a Black Photographer in America #celebratephotography From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Important watch from Ramon Trotman Photography on YouTube:In this video, I share my experiences as a black photographer in America. See moreWe #celebratephotography here at Adafruit every Saturday. From photographers of all levels to projects you have made or those...
Sean Smith Contextualizes Photos Taken in the Middle East #celebratephotography From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores From VICE on YouTube:British photojournalist Sean Smith talks to us about his work on the front line covering conflicts in the Middle East. He first arrived in Iraq in 2003See moreWe #celebratephotography here at Adafruit every Saturday. From photographers of...
Quantum Time Twist Offers a Way to Create Schrödinger’s Clock From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores Physicists describe a way to merge quantum theory with Einstein’s special theory of relativity Via Scientific AmericanAlbert Einstein’s twin paradox is one of the most famous thought experiments in physics. It postulates that if you send one of two twins...
Spider Bowl From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores Halloween is in 7 days! Are you ready for your (socially distant) trick-or-treaters?via Dsk001 on ThingiverseIt’s that spooky time of year again. For the season I have a new model for you all. The Spider Bowl. It might be more...
Relay Computer Consumes Six Years and 4.5 Suitcases From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs If you thought your home-brew project was taking a long time, [Jeroen Brinkman]’s MERCIA Relay Computer project probably has you beat. He began working on this impressive computer back in 2014, and has been at it ever since. In fact,...
Footage from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample Collection from Asteroid Bennu #SpaceSaturday From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores On October 22nd, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed briefly on an asteroid. The mission was played live and recorded, and the footage is glorious. The sense of wonder in space exploration can still be found in moments like this. Here’s more...
MakeCode Minute: Radio Groups @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit @MSMakeCode #makecode From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores In this week’s MakeCode Minute: Radio GroupsLearn to use radio groups to send Bluetooth messages to specific Circuit Playground Bluefruit boards! To learn about MakeCode: makecode.adafruit.comMakeCode@adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit @MSMakeCode #makecode To learn more about MakeCode, check out this guide.
Short Video Recaps A Long Tradition of Space Hacks From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs Human spaceflight has always been, and still remains, a risky endeavor. We mitigate risk by being as prepared as we can. Every activity is planned, reviewed, and practiced long before any rocket engines are ignited. But space has a history...