NEW PRODUCT – Plant Care Kit for micro:bit or CLUE

From blog.adafruit.com 6 days ago in Platforms Stores

NEW PRODUCT – Plant Care Kit for micro:bit or CLUEThe thirst is real! Keep your plants happy and hydrated with the Plant Care Kit for micro:bit or CLUE. This kit will teach you all about how to keep your plants in good condition, by measuring the soil moisture content using nails...

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An I2C bus detective made using an Adafruit CLUE board #CLUE @technoblogy

From blog.adafruit.com 2 hours ago in Platforms Stores

The I2C Detective identifies the I2C devices connected to your microcontroller from a database of the most popular I2C sensors and other devices. It lists each device on the I2C bus, and can distinguish between multiple candidates at a particular...

The Mechanical Battery Explained – A Flywheel Comeback?

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

Udecided with Matt Ferrell shares this video explaining different batteries and an older technology: the flywheel. Very interesting lesson!The Mechanical Battery Explained – A Flywheel Comeback? … When it comes to energy storage, our first thought usually is lithium ion...

Upgrading the “Invisible Computer” at DIY Perks

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Last summer, Matt at DIY Perks created an “invisible computer” by housing a PC inside of a hollow work table. The build went well, but as you can imagine, cooling it (quietly) was a challenge.In this video, he revisits the...

How New Order Brought Together Donna Summer, Kraftwerk, and Ennio Morricone to Make Blue Monday #MusicMonday

From blog.adafruit.com 4 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Art historians like to look at paintings and talk about their influences. No great painting ever painted could have been painted without all the paintings that influenced the painter. Art is also the history of art. The same is true...

The Python Software Foundation 2020 Year in Review #Python @ThePSF

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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has posted their 2020 Year in Review blog post:The beginning of 2020 was paving a new way for the PSF to support its community. The PSF Board Directors strategically planned to devote funding to Python’s...

Explore the Beauty Audio Tape Cassette Design with Tapedeck.org

From blog.adafruit.com 5 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Go to Tapedeck.org and prepare to be swept away by nostalgia:Tapedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette. Read more

The Great Search: Quad Microphone I2S ADC from Echo Dot Teardown #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey #Adafruit @DigiKey @Adafruit

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The Great Search is a new series of videos focused on searching the Digi-Key catalog to narrow down to the parts you want to buy. This week (video):While checking out an Echo Dot teardown, we spotted a quad microphone ADC...

Building a Moving Platform Robot From Scratch

From blog.adafruit.com 6 hours ago in Platforms Stores

via nielspost on instructablesMy name is Niels Post. I am a Computer Science student from the Netherlands. This robot is part of my internship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The robot is meant for use as a simple moving platform...

Python now runs natively on Apple M1 #Python #Apple #M1 @ThePSF @ZDNet @LiamT

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Developers working on Core Python, the project behind programming language Python, have released the first version of the language that supports macOS Big Sur natively on Apple silicon.Python maintainers have released 3.9.1 Python, which is the first version to support...

Unseen Stars, what if satellites were art objects? #ArtTuesday #Art #Space #WeMakeMoneyNotArt

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Trevor Paglen delves deeper into this idea of space as “a place of possibility” in Unseen Stars, an exhibition postponed, briefly opened at OGR in Turin, now closed and I’m hoping that it will be extended until cultural spaces are...