Kids, Education and Engineering #MakerEducation

From blog.adafruit.com 23 hours ago in PlatformsStores

Nice profile of educator Christine Cunningham from THE Journal. Nothing brings science more to life for young students than applying what they’re learning through engineering activities. That’s the idea behind Engineering is Elementary, an organization created at the Museum of...

@PublicLab to the Rescue With Eyes in the Sky and Tech #CitizenScience #environment #tech #diy #science

From blog.adafruit.com 24 hours ago in PlatformsStores

This past weekend I joined Public Lab in West Virginia for a regional Barnraising event to hear testimony about the environmental issues faced by the community and to share helpful resources. Public Lab brings people together around the world to investigate...

Using Machine Learning To Cut Down Surgical Videos

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Recording video of medical surgeries is a great way to both educate doctors in training and identify process improvements. However, surgeries can be very time consuming, and it can be a gargantuan task to sort through endless hours of video...

Ligowave LigoPTP Bridges Allow Wireless Point-to-Point Communication up to 100 Km

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

Last week-end I went to a conference showcasing local products and companies, and there was a small section for “smart cities”. Most of that section exhibited solutions for security...

NVMe Spec Gets Major Update

From www.eetimes.com 1 day ago in News

Latest specification address client, enterprise and cloud features including improved support for virtualization and bootstrapping for mobile devices

Purple-emitting LEDs Get Closer to the Sun

From www.eetimes.com 1 day ago in News

Seoul Semi has paired its purple-emitting LEDs with Toshiba Materials-engineered RGB phosphors to more closely mimic natural daylight spectrum.

Trust Me I’m An Artist: Ethics Surrounding Art & Science Collaborations #ArtTuesday

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Via We Make Money Not Art Do artists using biotechnological materials and scientific processes have the same obligations, rights and responsibilities as scientists? Or should they enjoy more liberties and particular prerogatives? And finally, do art and science collaborations bring...

Nintendo SNES Classic Edition Retro Game Console Launching for $80 in September

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

Last year, Nintendo introduced NES Classic Edition mini console running 30 games, which was latter found to be based on Allwinner R16 processor, eventually leading to some hack to install RetroArch...

Simple Wave Generation in Python (and SciPy)

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

[153Armstrong] did a short post on how easy it is to generate waveforms using Python. We agree it is simple, but actually, it isn’t so much Python per se, it is some pretty cool libraries (SciPy, in particular) that do all...

Arduino INDUSTRIAL 101 @arduinoorg #FreeArduino – Is it open-source?

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Arduino INDUSTRIAL 101. Is it open-source hardware? The Industrial 101 is a small form-factor YUN designed for product integration. The Arduino Industrial 101 is a break-out board for the Arduino 101 LGA module. Just like the YUN, it integrates an...

Ambitious ATtiny85 Board Tests a Beginner’s Skills

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

[Chris O’Riley] has been playing around with Arduinos for around a year, and decided he wanted a breadboardable ATtiny85 in order to prototype using the actual controller that would be used in the final project. He wants to use it...

High Power Density Human Sweat Battery

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

The latest generation of sweat based batteries are reaching impressive power levels. The Electronic skin based Biofuel Cell (E-BFC) produced by the University of California San Diego are now producing a wearable patch that can produce over 1mW. That is...

An Introduction to Robot Operating System (ROS)

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 day ago in BlogsNews

Developing a robot with a computer brain needs a bunch of software tools on the computer side—like software drivers, third party tools for computer vision, simulation tools, and more. ROS framework gathers all these tools and manages how you develop...

Wolverine Costume Made from Foam, No Adamantium Needed

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Cosplayer XC Fett, a.k.a. Charles Conley, has made a number of costumes for himself, and he takes commissions for other cosplayers through Ebony Warrior Studios. His work came to my attention via Epbot, and while flipping through his portfolio, I...

Synth Bike 3.0 produces tunes with 12 Arduino Nanos

From blog.arduino.cc 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

After building a bicycle that could travel across town while making music, Sam Battle now taken things in a different direction. Synth Bike 3.0, which will be on display at the Science Center Dublin until September, is set up on a training fixture...

Oscilloscope Mod for the Blues

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Roughly 8% of males and 0.6% of females are red-green color blind, and yet many common oscilloscopes use yellow and green for the traces for their two-channel readouts. Since [Roberto Barrios] is afflicted by deuteranopia, a specific form of red-green...

Graphene Revolution

From circuitcellar.com 1 day ago in News

The Wonderful Material That Will Change the World of Electronics The amazing properties of graphene have researchers, students, and inventors dreaming about exciting new applications, from unbreakable touchscreens to fast-charging batteries. By Wisse Hettinga Graphene gained popularity because of the...

Playing with Creativity – AnnMarie Thomas | TEDxUCLA @tedx @amptm @okgo

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Creativity can be a catch all phrase to speak to the need to see the solutions and possibilities right in front of us, but often invisible to the mind, or, like playing a tough chess game, a few moves out...

A Beautiful Ode to Space Exploration Made Using Only NASA Apollo Photos

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Mesmerizing work from Motion Designer Christian Stangl and his Composer brother Wolfgang Stangl! Via Petapixel. Stangl came up with the idea after stumbling across the archive. He was struck by how many incredible photographs the Apollo astronauts had taken. Read...

Hackaday Prize Entry: Messing Around With New Vacuum Tubes

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Vacuum tubes have been around for ages, and for better or worse, they have their advocates for use in amplifiers and preamps. However, tubes are simply inconvenient devices. Even a 12AX7 preamp tube is huge relative to a handful of transistors,...

IoT Automatic Plant Watering System

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Fun project for getting started with IoT and keeping your plants happy. Shared by Orion Maker on Instructables: This project inspiration came from my guinea pigs. Since I am too lazy to water their beloved wheat grass every day, I...

The iPhone is 10 Years Old – Here’s a pre-iPhone Prototype from Nokia

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

The iPhone celebrates its public unveiling 10 years ago later this week on Thursday June 29th – yes, it really has been that long since Steve Jobs ushered in the first generation of the fruity phone. But Apple was by...

Linux-ready PC/104 board runs on 6 to 7 Watts

From hackerboards.com 1 day ago in News

Win Enterprises announced an “MB-83310” PC/104 SBC with a Vortex DX3 SoC, GbE, Fast Ethernet, SATA, M.2, and a -20 to 70°C operating range. Win Enterprises has unveiled a COM-like PC/104 form-factor single board computer that runs Linux, WES7, Windows...

MEMS: The Biggest Word in Small

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

What’s tiny and on track to be worth $22 billion dollars by 2018? MEMS (Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems). That’s a catch-all phrase for microscopic devices that have moving parts. Usually, the component sizes range from 0.1 mm to 0.001 mm,...

What Apple Thought the iPhone Might Look Like in 1995

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

Via The Atlantic. A decade ago, for the most part, phones were phones. Computers were computers. Cameras were cameras. Portable music players were portable music players. The idea that the future of the computer would be a phone, or vice...

Hack Your Headphones Using Micro:bit @microbit_edu #microbit #microbitlove #microbitmonday

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

Via Makecode Duration: ~15 minutes. Materials micro:bit, battery holder and 2 AAA batteries Headphones Crocodile clips Get started! Each Monday is Micro:bitMonday here at Adafruit! Designed specifically for kids and beginners, the micro:bit is a pocket-sized computer that you can...

Placing the 2×20 SMT female header #ManufacturingMonday (video)

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

Happy Manufacturing Monday from Adafruit! This 2×20 pin female header is one of the largest and most ungainly parts we place here at Adafruit. It’s so long that the camera on the pick ‘n place can’t fit the entire length...

46-inch touchscreen AiO has optional mirror view for augmented reality

From hackerboards.com 2 days ago in News

Advantech’s “UTC-542” AiO PC runs Ubuntu or Android on Skylake, and offers hot-swap SATA and a 42.6-inch, IP65 touchscreen with optional mirror coating. Advantech announced a 42.6-inch, 16:9 aspect ratio, all-in-one (AiO) HD touchscreen computer designed for interactive display applications....

DRAM Prices Expected to Climb

From www.eetimes.com 2 days ago in News

With DRAM chips being used in more applications, ASPs projected to grow even while smartphone and PC shipments remain tepid.

Fidget Spinner Guitar from LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER #MusicMonday

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

It was inevitable that the madman over at LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER would do something with a fidget spinner. In this case he took an old electric guitar and a fidget spinner and made a fidget spinner electric guitar. Because...