Adafruit Holiday Gift Guide: Young Engineers #adafruitgiftguides

From blog.adafruit.com 8 months ago in Platforms Stores

Adafruit Holiday Gift Guide: Young EngineersThere’s no better way to get your kid started with electronics than the Adafruit Young Engineers category. These kits, packs, and toys all offer introductions into the world of electronics for aspiring engineers. Check out our complete line of Circuit Playground Plushies based on our...

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15 Anime Suggestions if You Miss the Olympics

From blog.adafruit.com 14 hours ago in Platforms Stores

In an alternate timeline, we are currently enjoying the Olympics and keeping track of how many medals each country has. Since we aren’t in that timeline, let’s enjoy anime instead.via SyFyWhy anime, you ask? If you’ve never watched a sports...

An Oregon EV shop gave Johnny Cash’s old Rolls-Royce a Tesla transplant #Tesla

From blog.adafruit.com 15 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Loving the idea of giving awesome old cars a second life with new tech!Via Cnet:The Tesla conversion is cool because it axes the massive (and hugely underwhelming from an efficiency and performance standpoint) 6.75-liter V8 from the equation. It also...

Carl Juste’s “I Am A Man”, Art on the Plaza #celebratephotography

From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in Platforms Stores

From Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami:In 2008, while working on a newspaper story with the writer Leonard Pitts, Juste created this photograph of Memphis sanitation worker Elmore Nickelberry and his son Terence, who is holding a placard that reads...

DSLR Motion Capture with Raspberry Pi and OpenCV #celebratephotography

From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Fun project from Pi and Chips from via raspberry pi pod:I wanted to see if I could use motion detection using OpenCV on the Raspberry Pi to trigger my ‘real’ camera to actually take the pictures. Now, before aaaaaanyone asks...

Dinosaurs Suffered From Cancer, Too

From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in Platforms Stores

The discovery by paleontologists is the first of its kind found in the fossil record.via SmithsonianDiscovering osteosarcoma in a dinosaur has implications for the evolutionary origins and history of cancer. “If humans and dinosaurs get the same kinds of bone...

Happy International Cat Day #CatDay #catsofengineering #InternationalCatDay #InternationalCatDay2020

From blog.adafruit.com 19 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Today is International Cat Day. Cats are excellent maker aides and quarantine companions so hug your furballs extra tight today. Its no secret that we love cats here at Adafruit; scroll through our ever expanding gallery of #CatsOfEngineering.If you caught...

Sub-Glacial Melting May Explain Martian Channels #SpaceSunday

From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in Platforms Stores

All the way up to the 20th Century, many believed that were canals on Mars. Here’s some of the history, from NASA:In the 1800s, observatories with larger and larger telescopes were built around the world. In 1877, Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli...

New Fusion 360 Layer By Layer! Emboss is BOSS! via @ecken

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in Platforms Stores

Taking a look at the new emboss feature recently added to Fusion 360. It’s pretty boss! I made some examples of applying circular and rectangular patterns to embosses. Can we apply an emboss to a surface that has been embossed?...

Hear the Quintessential Mirrorshades Anthology as an Audio Book #cyberpunk

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in Platforms Stores

One of the most canonical books in the cyberpunk cannon is Bruce Sterling’s 1986 Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Bruce was known, tongue-in-cheek, at the time as “Chairman Bruce,” thanks in part to his editorship of the pseudo-house organ the Cheap...

Subscribe to the Adafruit Youtube channel! #Youtube #AdafruitLearnSystem

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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...