What time is it? Sale time! #WeekofMaking #Sale #AdafruitSale

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That’s right folks, Adafruit is celebrating National Week of Making with a special sale! Check out Adafruit.com/sale to see what’s really going on. The sale starts at 12 PM EST on Friday, June 16th, 2017 and ends at 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, June 22nd. We won’t be offering these...

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This Algorithm Calculated the Chance of Death for 10 Key ‘Game of Thrones’ Characters

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Spoiler warning upfront depending on how much you trust the algorithm. Data scientist Taylor Larkin created an in depth analysis on the likelihood of each characters death in the final seasons of GoT. Via Highsnobiety: To do so, Larkin created...

Biomimicry: when technology is inspired by nature

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Acciona shared this video on Youtube! Biomimicry, the term that describes technology inspired by Nature, was coined in the mid-twentieth century. Today, that approach makes it possible to create energy-saving solutions.

The Density Cusp: Black Holes discovered en masse

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via slashgear A team of researchers have discovered evidence of thousands of black holes near the center of our galaxy. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Chuck Hailey of Columbia University in New York and crew pointed to a large number...

Mars Helicopter to Launch in July 2020 Rover Mission #NASA

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From NASA: Started in August 2013 as a technology development project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Mars Helicopter had to prove that big things could come in small packages. The result of the team’s four years of design,...

Black Panther’s Costume Designer Breaks Down T’Challa’s Entrance Scene #SciFiSunday

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Great episode of “Notes on a Scene” from Vanity Fair. On this episode of “Notes on a Scene,” Black Panther’s costume designer Ruth Carter breaks down T’Challa’s entrance and the Warrior Falls scene. Black Panther is out on Digital May...

“Something bold, something pure” – the 50-year long legacy of 2001: A Space Odyssey #SciFiSunday

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A group of artists celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey in this wonderful post from It’s Nice That. When 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered on 10 May 1968 – 50 years ago today – it somehow captured...

Adafruit New Products this Week: Featuring Adafruit CRICKIT! @adafruit #adafruit

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They’re new, they’re cool, they’re here! NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEK Adafruit CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express: COMING SOON! Sign up to be notified as soon as we have these in stock! Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies....

X-Ray Emitter Made From Barbecue Lighter – Fires 10 keV X-Rays! | #bbq #xray #xrays

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Quite possibly the first time I’ve ever considered the words “bbq” and “x-ray” in the same sentence! This is a small device I made that fires a pulse of ~10 keV XRays when the trigger is pulled. It uses no...

Yanny or Laurel robot #yannyorlaurel @adafruit #adafruit #CRICKIT

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Yanny or Laurel robot (video), we had about 1 more hour before this meme expires, so we made a voting bot, it says the word, logs to csv, moves head, has clickable, light up buttons, it’s a voting machine.. Made...

Virtual Reality and Horror Gaming

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This for sure reminds me of that Black Mirror episode and I’m already terrified. I’ll just stick to Mario Kart or something. Via Wareable When it comes to effectively scaring people, as Gray suggests, it seems like plausibility illusion plays...