Lemon Plum Jam Revisited From www.evilmadscientist.com 6 hours ago in BlogsPlatformsStores It has been a great season for plums, so I’ve updated the lemon plum jam recipe that I’ve been gradually refining over the years. The new basic recipe is below along with other tips I’ve gathered. Ingredients: 8 cups cut...
Salvaging USB Webcams from Old Laptops From blog.adafruit.com 10 hours ago in PlatformsStores On this episode of DIY Perks, Matt shows just how easy it is to repurpose a webcam from an old or dead laptop. Basically all you have to do is figure out which wires are which, hook it up to...
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Maker Spaces that Reflect Their Community’s Diversity, he Story Behind the Pontiac Ghost Car, Circuit Playground Express: Piano de Limones & more From blog.adafruit.com 11 hours ago in PlatformsStores ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UPWe’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging...
The 9/11 Memorial re-opens to the public today @Sept11Memorial #911Memorial From blog.adafruit.com 15 hours ago in PlatformsStores The 9/11 Memorial re-opens to the public today – On Sunday, the 9/11 Memorial will reopen to the general public with new operational safeguards following a months-long closure because of the health crisis. The Memorial will be open with adjusted hours—from 1 to...
Bathymetric Map Uses Edge Lighting To Stunning Effect From hackaday.com 16 hours ago in Blogs A bathymetric map is one concerning the floor or bottom of a body of water. It’s the wet equivalent of a topographical map. Combine this with humanity’s inherent taste in seaside real estate, and they can be quite attractive when...
Tech Flashback: Western Digital VelociRaptor (WD1600HLFS, 2.5″, 160GB, 2010) From goughlui.com 18 hours ago in Blogs The Western Digital VelociRaptor has ruled the roost when it comes to high performance hard drives, being the only relatively modern consumer option for 10,000 rpm drives. Descendants of the earlier Western Digital Raptor drives which I covered earlier, I...
Slothbot Lives Up to Its Name From hackaday.com 19 hours ago in Blogs For moving about in the real world, robots can crawl along the ground or take to the sky. Both options have disadvantages, with obstacles being a problem on the ground and flying being very energy intensive. What we don’t often...
Breadboard Breaks the Speed Barrier From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in PlatformsStores Fun one from Joe Smith on YouTube picked up by Hackaday:It is common wisdom that solderless breadboards are only good for low frequencies. But how fast can they really go? There’s been a contest going on to see who can...
Upcoming SAVVY-V Open Source RISC-V Cluster Board Supports 10GbE via Microsemi PolarFire 64-bit RISC-V SoC From www.cnx-software.com 22 hours ago in News RISC-V based PolarFire SoC FPGA by Microsemi may be coming up in the third quarter of this year, but Ali Uzel has been sharing a few details about SAVVY-V advanced open-source RISC-V cluster board...
DIY Baby MIT Cheetah Robot From hackaday.com 22 hours ago in Blogs 3D printers have become a staple in most makerspaces these days, enabling hackers to rapidly produce simple mechanical prototypes without the need for a dedicated machine shop. We’ve seen many creative 3D designs here on Hackaday and [jegatheesan.soundarapandian’s] Baby MIT...
Super Nintendo World Japan is a Mario Level Made Real From blog.adafruit.com 23 hours ago in PlatformsStores As it turns out, some disruptions to reality are excellent. In this case, it’s Japan’s Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Japan, which looks perfect it seem more real than real. Here’s more from Input Mag:It’s literally like being inside...
D-L Stewart Asks What Life Would Look Like If Black Trans* Lives Mattered From blog.adafruit.com 24 hours ago in PlatformsStores Intense and important talk by D-L Stewart from TEDx Talks on YouTube:Over the course of his 18-year faculty career, he has focused most intently on the history and philosophy of higher education, as well as institutional systems and structures that...
Finding a Secret Message From a Gaming Legend From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Satoru Iwata is perhaps best remembered for leading Nintendo through the development of the DS and Wii, two wildly successful systems which undeniably helped bring gaming to a wider and more mainstream audience. But decades before becoming the company’s President...
Digi-Key Hacks UV Into Conveyor Line to Protect Warehouse Staff From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs No doubt that every hacker has already heard of Digi-Key, the electronic component distributor that makes it just as possible to order one of something as it is to order a thousand of it. As an essential business, Digi-Key has...
7/4/2020 photos and videos of the day #adafruitchronicles #4thofjuly From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores 7/4/2020 photos, and videos of the day #adafruitchronicles
New Products 7/1/20 featuring Adafruit H3LIS331 Ultra High Range Triple-Axis Accelerometer – STEMMA QT / Qwiic! From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here:NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEKAdafruit H3LIS331 Ultra High Range Triple-Axis Accelerometer – STEMMA QT / QwiicIt’s not hard to find an accelerometer that can measure accelerations up to 16g, but if you...
An RGB Backlight for the Nokia 5110 LCD From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Hardware hackers love the Nokia 5110 LCD. Or at least, they love the clones of it. You can pick up one of these panels for a couple bucks wherever electronic bits and bobs are sold, and integrating it into your...
E-Verify’s “SSN Lock” is Nothing of the Sort From krebsonsecurity.com 1 day ago in BlogsSecurity One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called "Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory," which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration,...
A Word Clock You Don’t Have To Actually Build To Enjoy From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs The great thing about word clocks is that while they all follow the same principle of spelling out the time for you, they come in so many shapes, sizes, and other variations, you have plenty of options to build one...
No-Contact Pay Is on the Rise Thanks to Near-Field Communication Technology From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 day ago in BlogsNews COVID-19 has many businesses trying to eliminate card and cash contamination.
Building a Mind-Blowingly Realistic Model Bridge From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Oh to have this level of patience (and talent). Luke of Bolder Creek Railroad puts his new laser cutter to the test by building an insanely detailed and realistic bridge diorama. As with all of his builds, there are tons...
The Cheap Way to Glitch an STM8 Microcontroller From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs Reverse engineering or modifying a device often requires you to access the firmware stored on a microcontroller. Since companies are usually not fond of people who try to peek into their proprietary data, most commercial devices are readout protected. [rumpeltux]...
What It Took to Recreate a Portrait of Thomas Jefferson – Smithsonian Magazine From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores What It Took to Recreate a Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, Smithsonian Magazine – Television reporter Shannon LaNier is a direct descendant of the third President of the United States. Watch & visit, The Descendants by Drew Gardner.
Resistance Is Patriotism on the Fourth of July – @TheAtlantic by Ibram X. Kendi @DrIbram #FourthofJuly From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores “…We should be celebrating our disobedience, turbulence, insolence, and discontent about inequities and injustices in all forms. We should be celebrating our form of patriotism that they call unpatriotic, our historic struggle to extend power and freedom to every single...
A Reason to Code From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs My son is just getting to the age that puts him in the crosshairs of all of the learn-to-code toys. And admittedly, we’ve been looking at some of those Logo-like toys where you can instruct a turtle-bot to make a...
Brian Jones reads Frederick Douglass #FourthOfJuly From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores Actor Brian Jones reads Frederick Douglass’s “Fourth of July Speech, 1852” on May 2, 2007 in New York, New York. Part of a reading from Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.) –...
Travel Globe Spins You Around Memory Lane From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs We all have our own preferences when it comes to travel souvenirs — that little something that brings back the memories and feelings of a past holiday every time we look at it, whether it’s the cliché fridge magnet, some...
Scientists Have Observed the Exposed Core of a Giant Planet From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores via MOTHERBOARDFor the first time ever, scientists have glimpsed the exposed core of a giant planet, providing a rare opportunity to peer at the heart of an alien world. The planet, called TOI-849b, is slightly smaller in size than Neptune,...
A Brooklyn House With Abolitionist Ties Will Be Considered For Landmark Status #History #IndependenceDay From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores Great news for the preservation of Black history after a 10 year zoning battle.Via the Gothamist:For more than a decade, 227 Duffield Street has been a building in peril, the contentious battleground over Black history, preservationist and development interests. Back...
This Iron Man Suit is a Hacker’s Dream Come True From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs [Techmaster], like probably a lot of us, was hugely inspired by the engineering wonder that is the Iron Man suit. So, like any good maker, he decided to build his own. [Techmaster’s] social media pages are filled with promotional videos...