Parallel Programming for FPGAs From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs One of the best features of using FPGAs for a design is the inherent parallelism. Sure, you can write software to take advantage of multiple CPUs. But with an FPGA you can enjoy massive parallelism since all the pieces are just...
Hack a JVC KY-1900 into a Real-Time Polarimetric Imager #celebratephotography From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores From prutchi on Instructables: Polarimetric imaging offers a path to develop game-changing applications across a wide range of fields – spanning all the way from environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics to security and antiterrorism applications. However, the very high cost...
romain jacquet-lagrèze captures hong kong’s rooftops in new photo series #CelebratePhotography From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores Via DesignBoom romain jacquet-lagrèze’snew photo series is a collection of four years worth of capturing various moments on hong kong’s rooftops. what started out by chance, developed into a diverse assemblage of scenes that portrays moments of the city’s elevated...
Wendy Suzuki on Neuroscience and Exercising From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores Interesting!
Nuclear Synchroscope Gets New Life From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs The Synchroscope is an interesting power plant instrument which doubles up as two devices in one. If the generator frequency is not matched with the grid frequency, the rotation direction of the synchroscope pointer indicates if the frequency (generator speed)...
Arduino Unveils its First FPGA Board with MKR Vidor 4000, Updates UNO WiFi Board with ATmega4809 MCU From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News Arduino has been busy with new boards announcements in the last week, as after introducing MKR WiFi 1010 and MKR NB 1500 IoT boards with respectively WiFi + Bluetooth, and NB-IoT + eMTC connectivity,...
The Wizzzer #SaturdayMorningCartoons From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores That’s a commercial for The Wizzer from the 1970’s. Here’s one from the 1980’s: We love science toys, from the simplest to the most complex. The Wizzzer was one of the best. From Wikipedia: The Wizzzer or Wiz-z-zer is a...
18th Annual Malcolm X Birthday Commemoration at the Schomburg Center #MalcolmX #MalcolmXBirthday @nypl @SchomburgCenter From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores If you are a New Yorker like me you’ll be celebrating Malcolm X day tonight at the Schomburg center! The Schomburg Center is proud to celebrate the 18th Annual Commemoration of the Birthday of Malcolm X. This year we have...
Hybrid Bench Power Supply Can Also Hit the Road From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs Everyone needs a bench power supply, and rolling your own has almost become a rite of passage for hackers. For a long time, the platform of choice for such builds seemed to be the ATX power supply from a computer. While...
MY600 solder paste jet printer arrived! From www.pololu.com 2 days ago in Stores In my February post about our new equipment, I wrote about why I did not get a jet printer for solder paste. Well, I ended up getting one after all, and it arrived today. We have a great building, but...
Modular Blocks Help Fight Disease From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs When engineering a solution to a problem, an often-successful approach is to keep the design as simple as possible. Simple things are easier to produce, maintain, and use. Whether you’re building a robot, operating system, or automobile, this type of...
Les P’s Friday Fun: Adafruit Gemma M0 and Neopixels From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Adafruit sponsored PyCon 2018 with a limited edition Gemma M0. Les P went right home and started working on some brilliant light-up projects of his own using the Gemma M0 and some NeoPixel rings. He did an amazingly detailed post...
NEW GUIDE: Bring Van Gogh’s Starry Night to life using CRICKIT, CPX, and CircuitPython From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores This project will guide you through the process of animating and illuminating your own version of Van Gogh’s famous Starry Night using materials you can find around the house, Adafruit’s CRICKIT and Circuit Playground Express, and a dash of CircuitPython....
Robot Archaeology: Analog Clocks #Robots From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Ask nearly anyone, and they would say a clock is a robot, a specialty device that provides the time of day. In this post of Robot Archaeology, we’ll review clocks that move. The best known robotic clock is the Plotclock...
Tiny Transmitter Brings Out the Spy Inside You From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs When it comes to surveillance, why let the government have all the fun? This tiny spy transmitter is just the thing you need to jumpstart your recreational espionage efforts. We kid, of course — you’ll want to stay within the...
Infineon to Spend $1.9 Billion on New 300-mm Power Semi Fab From www.eetimes.com 3 days ago in News Power semiconductor market leader plans new facility in Austria that is expected to be up and running in 2021.
T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account From krebsonsecurity.com 3 days ago in BlogsSecurity T-Mobile is investigating a retail store employee who allegedly made unauthorized changes to a subscriber's account in an elaborate scheme to steal the customer's three-letter Instagram username. The modifications, which could have let the rogue employee empty bank accounts associated...
Autonomous Agribots For Agriculture From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs For his Hackaday Prize entry, [TegwynTwmffat] is going all-in on autonomous robotics. No, it’s not a self-driving car with highly advanced features such as cruise control with lane-keeping. This is an autonomous robot that’s capable of driving itself. It’s a...
Subscribe to the Adafruit Youtube channel! #Youtube #AdafruitLearnSystem From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Are you subscribed to the Adafruit Youtube channel? If you’re not already subscribed, click here! http://adafru.it/subscribe . It’s a free and easy way to keep up with our newest episodes. Here’s some of what we’re up to. Electronics Show and...
“Smart watering advice” using a Feather and Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Adafruit user Sketchy shared his project in the Adafruit forums! Via Github During the summer, we grow a lot of herbs, fruits, and vegetables. Thanks to the wonders of technology, we can be EVEN LAZIER than we already are when...
Raspberry Pi Robot Randomly Generates Comic Strips #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Via Hackster.io: As seen on Reddit, the Vomit Comic Robot is not only able to spew words out of its thermal printer mouth, but generates actual pictorial comics via a Processing sketch running on a Raspberry Pi. A simple user...
Robot Archaeology: Garco, the Robot of the 1950s @Disney #Robots From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores GARCO represents one of the first attempts at an all-purpose functional humanoid robot. He had most of his success in entertainment. Garco was built in 1953 by Harvey Chapman, an engineer for the Garrett Supply Company of Los Angeles (which...
Robot Archaeology: TensorFlow and Machine Learning @Google @TensorFlow #Robots #AI From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores TensorFlow is an open-source Machine learning library developed by by the Google Brain team and released in 2015 for general public use under the Apache 2.0 open source license. It is used by folks who wants to work with artificial intelligence. Along the way,...
Adafruit Not Shipping Orders On Memorial Day Monday, May 28 From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Adafruit will not be shipping orders Monday May 28, 2017 for the federal holiday Memorial Day. Any orders placed after 11am EST Friday May 25 will go out Tuesday May 29. See more shipping info and read more about Adafruit’s...
Raspberry Pi gets in touch with touch panels From hackerboards.com 3 days ago in News The Raspberry Pi 3 and RPi 3 Compute Module are quickly expanding into the industrial touch-panel market. Here’s a guide to six RPi-based contenders. In the smart home, voice agents are increasingly replacing the smartphone touchscreen interface as the primary...
Myth Busted: The Truth About Developing Embedded Vision Solutions From circuitcellar.com 3 days ago in News Are embedded vision solutions complex? Expensive? Strictly about software? Get answers to your top questions about developing embedded vision solutions, right from Avnet & Xilinx. We’re at the moment of truth with embedded vision systems as scores of new applications...
InSight Brings New Tech to Mars From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs Unless you’ve got your ear on the launch pad so to speak, you might not be aware that humanity just launched a new envoy towards the Red Planet. Estimated to touch down in Elysium Planitia on November 26th, the InSight lander is...
NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit NeoPXL8 FeatherWing for Feather M0 – 8 x DMA NeoPixels! From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit NeoPXL8 FeatherWing for Feather M0 – 8 x DMA NeoPixels! Since we first started carrying NeoPixels back in 2012, the chainable RGB LEDs have taken over the world. And a big part of that success is...
LayerOne InfoSec Conference Returns Next Weekend From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs This year’s LayerOne conference is May 25-27 in Los Angeles and Hackaday will be there! Hurry and get your ticket now as today is the last day for pre-registration. As the InfoSec community takes over the Pasadena Hilton next weekend...
New Products 5/16/2018 Featuring Adafruit CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express! (Video) From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores New Products 5/16/2018 Featuring Adafruit CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express! (Video) TT Motor Pulley – 36mm Diameter (0:10) TT Motor All-Metal Gearbox – 1:90 Gear Ratio (1:06) TT Motor Bi-Metal Gearbox – 1:90 Gear Ratio (2:20) Large Clear Practice Padlock...