Electronic Frontier Foundation, Power Up Your Donation Week @eff #GivingTuesday @adafruit

From blog.adafruit.com 10 months ago in Platforms Stores

Help the EFF protect digital freedom for you and the websites you love with a (matched!) donation to EFF – Give to the Electronic Frontier Foundation this week and double the impact of your support! A passionate group of privacy and free expression supporters joined forces to provide EFF’s Power...

Articles from Adafruit Industries

Lawmakers Demand Scrutiny of Racial Bias in Health Algorithms

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

As new tools and algorithims for AI get built it is vital that we make sure we are looking at the biases that are being written in. Good article from Wired:Nwamaka Eneanya, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania,...

How Mail Is Delivered During Natural Disasters

From blog.adafruit.com 11 hours ago in Platforms Stores

There has been a lot of talk about the difficulties the USPS has had recently, and rightly so. But there are some ways in which the USPS continues to operate really well, and one of the most impressive is the...

Abigail Disney on Respect and Dignity

From blog.adafruit.com 12 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Imagine a society where it wasn’t considered bold to talk about worker’s rights. Powerful talk by Abigail Disney from TED on YouTube:What’s the purpose of a company? In this bold talk, activist and filmmaker Abigail Disney imagines a world where...

Finding the Center of a Piece of Round Stock Clamped in a Vise

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

On Arnold’s Design, he shares an old machinist’s trick for finding the center line of a piece of round stocking by leveling a ruler on the vised stock using a drill press and a pointy bit in the chuck. When...

New Products 9/23/2020 featuring Adafruit QT Py – SAMD21 Dev Board with STEMMA QT!

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

We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here:NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEKGD25Q16 – 2MB SPI Flash in 8-Pin SOIC packageThese little chips are like miniature SSD drives for your electronics. When you don’t need something with as much storage...

Guess what’s on the proto panel! Try your best!

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

We tile up a bunch of testers and prototypes to send at once, it is a little easier that way and they ship at once – we even get a stencil to match for faster proto assembly. Best part is...

SHT31 STEMMA #stemma #grove #qwiic

From blog.adafruit.com 23 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Never stop STEMMA’ing – that’s what our momma taught us! We stemmified our popular SHT31 breakout. It’ll join our collection of 50+ STEMMA QT sensors and devices, all plug-n-play and super easy to use! https://adafruit.com/stemma

The Legacy of Captain Planet 30 Years Later

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

SyFy looks at Captain Planet and how our engagement with media can change our perception of the world and inspire change.The animated superhero series was first broadcast by TBS on Sept. 15, 1990, and followed the story of five teenagers...

Today[night] is International Observe the Moon Night

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

Today is International Observe the Moon Night. So later on take a moment (or a few) to observe the moon! You can find a bunch of great resourses at NASA:Believe it or not, observing the Moon is something you can...

City-Wide Photoville Festival Runs 9/17 – 11/29 #celebratephotography

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

Explore outside or indoors – the choice is yours for the 2020 Photoville Festival! From Photoville:So yes, Photoville will look slightly different this year! With social distancing in mind, we’ve had to temporarily let go of our beloved shipping containers,...