Linus Pauling American Scientist #LinusPauling #LinusPaulingDay

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Linus Pauling is an American scientist who was born in Portland Oregon. He has the honored reputation of being one of the greatest scientists and humanitarians of all time. He is the only person ever to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes (one for chemistry and one for peace). Via The...

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Robots that Cook: precision cooking with multiwavelength lasers

From blog.adafruit.com 3 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Robot chefs are coming! Columbia Engineering is experimenting with simultaneous 3D printing and laser cooking chicken. Doesn’t sound super appetizing but could leed to maximum convenience.Creative Machines Lab at Columbia Engineering have developed a system of software-controlled lasers to cook...

Teardown of a Hantek 2D72 3-in-1 handheld oscilloscope #ReverseEngineering

From blog.adafruit.com 3 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Kerry D. Wong documents a teardown of the Hantek 2D72 3-in-1 Handheld Oscilloscope/Digital Multimeter/Arbitrary Waveform Generator.On the reverse side of the display board, you can see a USB connector that is recessed from the edge of the board. I am...

Kerry Skarbakka’s The Struggle to Right Oneself #celebratephotography

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If you’ve ever felt off balance in any way this work from Kerry Skarbakka will absolutely resonate:Philosopher Martin Heidegger described human existence as a process of perpetual falling, placing the responsibility of each individual to catch us from our own...

Royal Museums Greenwhich Announces Astronomy Photographer of the Year #celebratephotography

From blog.adafruit.com 7 hours ago in Platforms Stores

The winning images from Astronomy Photographer of the Year were announced earlier this month, check ’em out at Royal Musems Greenwhich or visit the exhibitonFrom amazing aurorae to glittering galaxies, each year Astronomy Photographer of the Year celebrates the world’s...

Mathematician Answers Chess Problem About Attacking Queens

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A mathematician breaks down the n-queens problem, finding how many different ways queens can be placed on a chessboard so that none attack each other.via Quanta MagazineIf you have a few chess sets at home, try the following exercise: Arrange...

Near Earth Objects #SpaceSaturday

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

The image above is of asteroid 2016 AJ193, the 1,001st near earth asteroid that has been clocked by planetary radar since 1968. But there are about 27,000 near earth objects. What are they? Here’s more from Centauri Project:The significance of...

NEW VIDEO: Opamp Interchangeability – Collin’s Lab Notes #adafruit #collinslabnotes

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In a sea of hardware variations, most opamps somehow share common pinouts.

STEMMA QTification of ADXL3xx accelerometers

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Analog Devices has quite a few accelerometers in this LGA format, so having a Stemma QT breakout for them will be handy. For example we have an ADXL345 and ADXL343 breakout, and we are looking at the ADXL375 as an...

A Tour of Grant Imahara’s Shop

From blog.adafruit.com 22 hours ago in Platforms Stores

A Tour of Grant Imahara’s Shop (video) – Learn more about — or donate to — the Grant Imahara STEAM Foundation here: https://grantimaharafoundation.org/ Remembering Grant Imahara.

STEM Chat: Our Favorite STEM Books #STEM #STEMEducation #STEMkids

From blog.adafruit.com 22 hours ago in Platforms Stores

STEM Chat episodes on Adafruit will be coming back this Fall with our upcoming Halloween episode! To recap our summer, we have curated a list of our favorite STEM books from photography of micrometeorites, to an optical illusion sticker book,...