Ewon is an Expressive Robot with Google Assistant

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Had too much self-quarantine? [Sharathnaik] had, so he decided to build a robot companion named Ewon. Using a Raspberry Pi, Ewon isn’t a robot that moves around, but rather an expressive Google assistant. Using some servo-driven ears and a display,...

MakeCode Arcade Game of the Week: Mario Bowser Level @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit @MSMakeCode #makecode

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

MakeCode Arcade Game of the Week: Mario Bowser LevelMario Bowser LevelMario Bowser Level by Blabelibelou is an excellent reproduction of a Super Mario Bros. level!To learn more about MakeCode, check out this guide. MakeCode Arcade Excerpted from the full episode...

The extraordinary surfing life of Duke Kahanamoku #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth #APAHM #AAPIHM

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Today for Asian American and Pacific Islander Month we are looking at the surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku aka the Big Kahuna. Via Surfer Today:Kahanamoku, nicknamed “The Duke” and “The Big Kahuna,” is considered to be the father of modern surfing....

Arm Announces Cortex-A78 CPU, Mali-G78 GPU, Ethos-N78 NPU and Custom Cortex-X1 Core

From www.cnx-software.com 1 day ago in News

Arm has just announced its 2020 Arm Mobile IP portfolio with no less than five IP blocks including Arm Cortex-A78 CPU, Arm Mali-G78 and G68 GPUs, Arm Ethos-N78 neural processing unit, and the custom...

The Best Wearable Tech of 2020 from Outside mag

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

If you are into outdoor sports (hiking etc), Outside Online tested a bunch of new wearable gear you may find handy!At Outside, we take a lot of things seriously, including adventure storytelling, our dogs, perfecting the campground margarita, and reviewing...

Watch a Giant 3D Printer Being Scratch-Built

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

This is kind of mesmerizing; oddly satisfying, watching Ivan Miranda build a giant 3D printer.

One Step Closer to Solving the Storage Problems of Renewable Energy

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 day ago in BlogsNews

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have reportedly found a way to treat cheap electrode materials and improve their properties during electrolysis.

Assemble Your (Virtual) Robotic Underground Exploration Team

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

It’s amazing how many things have managed to move online in recent weeks, many with a beneficial side effect of eliminating travel making them more accessible to everyone around the world. Though some events had a virtual track before it...

Domain Specific Accelerators Will Drive Vector Processing on RISC-V

From www.eetimes.com 1 day ago in News

Demand for special purpose domain specific accelerators can benefit from using RISC-V vector extension with high-bandwidth memory system. The post Domain Specific Accelerators Will Drive Vector Processing on RISC-V appeared first on EETimes.

“Great Influenza” Sheds Light on Covid-19

From www.eetimes.com 1 day ago in News

Book Review: Just over 100 years ago, a deadly pathogen swept the globe and killed tens of millions. What have we learned from the past? The post “Great Influenza” Sheds Light on Covid-19 appeared first on EETimes.

Telco Curio Hacked Into Simple Counter

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The tikkenteller was a device used to measure the duration of telephone use. 70 Volts were sent down the telephone line at 50Hz to run an electromechanical counter, and the devices were often used in communal areas where several users...

LiDAR-Captured Road Data Now Publicly Available in Open-Source Machine Learning Dataset

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 day ago in BlogsNews

Scale AI says COVID-19 has shown the value of autonomous vehicles for no-contact delivery. They're making real-world road data available to train machine learning models to this end.

Report: ATM Skimmer Gang Had Protection from Mexican Attorney General’s Office

From krebsonsecurity.com 1 day ago in BlogsSecurity

A group of Romanians operating an ATM company in Mexico and suspected of bribing technicians to install sophisticated Bluetooth-based skimmers in cash machines throughout several top Mexican tourist destinations have enjoyed legal protection from a top anti-corruption official in the...

Air Quality Sensing with Ultra96V2 and Adafruit IO #FPGA #AdafruitIO #IoTuesday

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Adam Taylor built an air quality sensor and logger as part of their final university project: Due to the Covid-19 crisis at the moment, more and more of us are spending time inside. As such the quality of air in...

This cycling game is controlled by a real bike

From blog.arduino.cc 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

What is one to do when stuck indoors due to bad weather or other circumstances, without the ability to ride your beloved bicycle? If you’re game designer Jelle Vermandere, you build your own cycling simulator as seen in the clip...

“Best of Adafruit” Photo & Video Series Day 59 #photography #art #design #wfh #bestofadafruit

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

“Best of Adafruit” Photo & Video Series Day 59 #photography #art #design #wfh #bestofadafruitThroughout this week, the Adafruit photo team will be posting a “Best of Adafruit” photo each day!Check in as we take you back to all of our...

Breathing New Life into Old School ThinkPad Keyboards

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The ThinkPad is generally considered the unofficial laptop of hackerdom, so it’s no surprise that we see plenty of projects focused on repairing and modifying these reliable workhorses. But while we usually see folks working on relatively modern incarnations of...

Study Focused on Photonics Circuitry Shows Promising Advances for the Use of LiDAR in Autonomous Vehicles

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 day ago in BlogsNews

Researchers at the lab of Tobias Kippenberg at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have reportedly found a new way to implement a parallel FMCW LiDAR engine by using integrated nonlinear photonic circuitry.

MakeCode Live with John Park – Today 5/26/20 @msmakecode @adafruit @johnedgarpark #makecode

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Tune in for MakeCode Live with John Park! Coming up at 12pm PT / 3pm ET ! Live text chat in Mixer and Discord.Check out the live video on Mixer!Each week, John Park codes a project from scratch, integrating MakeCode...

Simple Sprite Routines Ease Handheld Gaming DIY

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Making your own handheld games is made much easier with [David Johnson-Davies’] simple sprite routines for the Adafruit PyBadge and PyGamer boards. Sprites can be thought of as small, fixed-size graphical objects that are drawn, erased, moved, and checked for...

Artist transforms recycled cardboard into incredible Pop Art sculptures of vintage TVs and computers

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Some really cool art that incorporates cardboard and tech!via CreativeBoomFeaturing sculptures of vintage computers, typewriters and television, this new series returns to David’s love of Pop Art, as “portraiture, protest, and celebration”. He continues: “This is a show about ideas...

Blinka Support added to GreatFET One @CircuitPython @Adafruit @gsglabs @makermelissa

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Adafruit Blinka, the CircuitPython Library compatibility layer for Single Board Computers now supports the GreatFET One from Great Scott Gadgets. If you have wanted to run CircuitPython libraries directly from your computer and you’ve used either the FTDI FT232H or ...

Watch David Lynch’s Short Fire (Pozar) #ArtTuesday

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

Awesome news if you are a Fan of David Lynch. Via Design Taxi:Filmmaker David Lynch has released his 2015 short film Fire (Pozar) on YouTube for free. The film was written, directed and animated by Lynch years ago and he...

Xilinx’s New Customizable FPGA for Data Centers is “Born to Run”

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 days ago in BlogsNews

With an increasing burden on networking systems, Xilinx has unveiled a new FPGA with high data processing and flexibility to meet evolving connectivity standards.

A Steampunk Time Traveler Hat with #CircuitPlaygroundExpress #Crickit #NeoPixels @Adafruit

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

Samatronics posts an incredible Steampunk Time Traveler Hat build.The project uses a number of Adafruit parts:A Circuit Playground Express, Adafruit Crickit, NeoPixels, Adafruit OLED displays and drivers.Check out the YouTube video below and information in the Adafruit Forums.

Nintendo Switch Gets a Stylish Dock In a Broken NES

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

The Switch is Nintendo’s latest home console, which has forever blurred the line between handhelds and consoles you plug in to your TV. It does both! Typically, hooking up to a screen is done through the dock, but that wasn’t quite...

A work-from-home “on air” light #CircuitPython #CircuitPlaygroundExpress #Covid #WFH @jkeefe

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

John Keefe has built a fun “on air” light to to warn family when they risk being broadcast to colleagues on video calls.I realized this might be possible when my Quartz colleague David Yanofsky mentioned it was possible to monitor the status...

Edge Impulse makes TinyML available to millions of Arduino developers

From blog.arduino.cc 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

This post is written by Jan Jongboom and Dominic Pajak. Running machine learning (ML) on microcontrollers is one of the most exciting developments of the past years, allowing small battery-powered devices to detect complex motions, recognize sounds, or find anomalies...

Adafruit is open, safely … and shipping all orders

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

Shipping orders!
At this time, all orders are being shipped. Adafruit prioritizes orders for COVID-19 related needs, if there are delays in orders, we may be shipping priority orders first. The Adafruit team thanks our customers and community for all the...

What is a Sector tool?

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

A Sector is a very old tool to graphically lay out proportions with dividers. Based on the principles of similar triangles, it’s mainly used for scaling drawings but can be directly applied to a project if necessary. The tool opens...