NEW PRODUCTS – Official Raspberry Pi Optical Mouse + KeyboardThis is a mouse. But, hark, it’s no generic mouse. It’s the Official Raspberry Pi Mouse!It’s optical for good resolution and precision, three buttons, and has a sturdy USB connector. The track wheel has...

Twitter’s Trammell Hudson highlights an article from 1977 where it was suggested adopting Python-like syntax in BASIC.Russ Walter suggested changes in January/February 1977 issue of Personal Computing Magazine. At that time 90% of business code was in COBOL but 60%...

It’s never too early to start thinking about how to snazz up your mortar board! From rachelklesius on Instructables:I was attending the graduation of my friend last May and my friend leaned over to me and said “Hey Rachel, you...

Via Core77Muji first announced it would enter the autonomous vehicle game back in November with plans for Gacha, an all-weather, self-driving minibus. Now just a few months later, the first real-world Gacha’s are hitting the streets of Espoo, Finland as...

ICYMI (In case you missed it) – Tuesday’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter from AdafruitDaily.com went out – if you missed it, subscribe now!Next one goes out in a week and it’s the best way to keep up with all things Python for hardware. It’s the fastest...

Via Scientific americanOn the heels of the recent announcement by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration of the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole, I interviewed astrophysicist Katie Mack about the new image and black holes in general. Katie is...

From Samuel on Hackster.io:Charge it and enjoy music I repeat it but it’s not very lound but still audible and lacks a bit of bass but overall a great project. Also I didn’t expect this but there is not a...

via Phys.orgThe Earth’s magnetic field experiences unpredictable, rapid, and intense anomalies that are known as geomagnetic jerks. The mechanisms behind this phenomenon had remained a mystery until the recent discovery of a CNRS researcher. Working with a colleague in Denmark,...

via Phys.orgTo assess differences and trends in personal chemical exposure, Oregon State University researchers deployed chemical-sampling wristbands to individuals on three continents. After they analyzed the wristbands that were returned, they found that no two wristbands had identical chemical detections....

Bloomberg Businessweek looks at the hearing aid industry and what the future holds. What if they made a hearing aid people wanted before they needed? Starkey is now the only one of the surviving Big Five manufacturers based in the...

From the GitHub release page: This is it! We think this is stable but want you to test it out to be sure. If we don’t find anything major, then this will be the 4.0.0 release. If there are any...

Version 1.4.0 of the Adafruit SAMD Boards package for the Arduino IDE is available now (Tools→Board→Boards Manager), and if you use any of our SAMD51-based M4 boards (Metro M4, Grand Central, PyPortal and several others) you’re in for a treat…with...

UPDATED GUIDE: PyPortal Animated GIF DisplayOur first take on this GIF viewer project tended to be choppy with large GIFs. Good news is that we’ve revisited the code and found ways to speed things up considerably…even when reading images from...

1856 – Inventor Granville Woods is born.In 1872, Woods obtained a job as a fireman on the Danville and Southern Railroad in Missouri, eventually becoming an engineer. In December 1874, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, and worked at a rolling...

JOHN PARK’S WORKSHOP — LIVE! Coming up at 4pm ET / 1pm PT this THURSDAY! LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat!This week’s project: PyBadge MakeCode Arcade Sprites!Plus, MakeCode Minute, Product of the Week, Tools & Techniques,...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ekaterina Lukasheva (@ekaterina.lukasheva) on Feb 24, 2019 at 2:01pm PST Watching Ekaterina Lukasheva’s pieces move is oh so soothing. From Colossal:The beautiful works have a double presentation, as they each work...

Hyperallergic takes a fascinating look into diversity that ‘just happened’:As a previously commissioned artist, Shin is sometimes asked to serve on the selection panels for future projects. Panelists are not only allowed to vote for proposed projects, but have the...

From Starthief99 on Instructables:This planetarium is light, portable, and brings space into your home. The fun addition of a lazy susan allows the stars to rotate in their orbits, and the circuit playground allows for changing colors of stars, as...

We’ve updated the Adafruit eInk Display Breakouts guide to show how to use the Adafruit CircuitPython EPD library with all of the eInk display breakouts available in the Adafruit store! The different breakouts use different chips, and require slightly different...

There’s mis-en-scène and then there’s Stanley Kubrick.via Creative BoomThe exhibition tells the story of Stanley Kubrick the obsessive genius. It shows step by step how he created genre-defining worlds for his films and how London was his endlessly inventive canvas....

The style that seems to be ubiquitous with futuristic and modern turns 100! Fun, interactive, article from New York Times:In April 1919, the architect Walter Gropius founded one of the most influential art and design schools ever: the Bauhaus. Students...

This is another one of those topics in education where there’s never a consensus. This piece from The Atlantic explores the most recent research influencing the homework debate.The 21st century has so far been a homework-heavy era, with American teenagers...

Dormando writes about a classical raycasting engine using embedded microcontrollers and FPGAs.The project uses a Adafruit Metro Mini (ATmega 328P) and a small Field Programmable Gate Array (a TinyFPGA BX ICE40LP8K) on two small boards, outputting to a 320x240x16bit SPI...

SOMA Laboratory, known for their synth products has come out with the PIPE:PIPE is a voice / breath / mouth-controlled dynamic FX processor and synthesizer. It turns your voice into a powerful FX / beat / lead / soundscape synthesizer...

OMIS is a 3D tool for performing small-scale chemical synthesis and analysis. The system is Arduino-based and consists of an automated syringe pump run by an inexpensive stepper motor and reaction vessels. The design is meant to allow for fabrication...