“We consume 1 million breaths of air every month without knowing how the air quality affects our bodies, mind and comfort.” Air quality data can be easily obtained through various apps and websites, monitored with commercial gear or even using...

As 2018 comes to a close we like to reflect on how the year went and set goals for 2019. In the last two years (2017, 2018) this has been a blog post by me (Scott aka tannewt). For 2019,...

Parallax Forums – Propeller 2, coming soon it seems’ Today we are going to test the P2 Eval boards, so that we can start shipping them out. Look and see… Read more & larger image here.

Did you know you can send an AdaBox gift subscription?!Buy a specific number of AdaBoxes up front. Starting with the next AdaBox installment we will ship one AdaBox directly to the gift recipient until the gift subscription is fulfilled. Send...

Prolific microchip photographer and investigator Zeptobars has posted a newly decapped die shot.Inside old (199x) Belorussian wristwatch I’ve found this IC.Taking a look at quartz – tuning fork cut at XY plane:Check out even closer shots of the quartz tuner...

Here at Adafruit, we believe in making robots our friends! So if you find yourself wanting a companion, consider the robot. They’re fun to program, and you can get creative with decorations.With that in mind, we designed the Adafruit Crickit HAT – That’s our Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It’s...

A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System – Adding a WiFi Co-Processor to CircuitPython!This guide will show you how to connect your CircuitPython board to the Internet, by using an ESP8266 or ESP32 as the ‘Wireless modem’ – we’ll even...

From VR Scout:A self-proclaimed futurist, Zappa was heavily intrigued by holographic imagery. The concept was so enticing that the musical icon actually took it upon himself to record a 1974 private performance at his Los Angeles rehearsal space and deliberately...

Know someone who loves electronics but doesn’t know the difference between an XBee, a soldering iron, and a SMA to uFL/u.FL/IPX/IPEX RF Adapter Cable? Want to buy the perfect gift but don’t know whether your Maker friend is a BeagleBone...

From LIFT on YouTube, Via Digital Trends:Do you yawn at the suggestion of bungee diving? Bored by the prospect of kayaking and couldn’t care less about performing some laps in the latest race car? No problem: Very soon you’ll be...

TrackTalk is a new feature from the Adafruit music team. In this companion to the MusicMakers Q&A series, we invite artists to take us behind the scenes of a particular track to talk creative process, recording set up, and more.Artwork by Benjamin Shaw“Party in...

Via GizmodoSee how Intel is using their drone technology for its first major indoor performance, at the Rockettes’ annual Christmas Spectacular show.See more!

Beautiful story from NASA.50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service module. This historic mission launched on...

via The VergeSince its beginning in 2014, Cities and Memory has created sound maps focused on protest, sacred places, and photographs. Its newest project, however, steps away from humans and instead focuses on the areas where the natural world is...

It’s Manufacturing Monday at Adafruit! Printed circuit boards (PCBs) can come in all shapes and sizes. This whirlwind tour through Adafruit’s wide range of PCBs gives an idea of the variety of boards we work with everyday. View this post...

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst welcomed a new face to the Columbus laboratory, thanks to the successful commissioning of technology demonstration Cimon. Short for Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN, Cimon is a 3D-printed plastic sphere designed to test human-machine interaction in space.Developed...

From Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz on Hackster.io:Learning a new language is difficult, but there are those that believe children around the ages of 6 or 7 are at the peak age for learning a second language (although I haven’t personally read any...

Have you ever needed scale accurate drawings of people, places, and things? Enter dimensions.guide:Dimensions.Guide is a comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world. Created...

Another amazing build by Blitz City DIY shows you how to build a light-up Funko POP figure stand all your own.I decided to design and 3D print a display stand for all of them. I wanted it to be tiered...

YouTube user MakeCode and Hardware has a new video out with a pair of LED goggles using NeoPixel rings and an Adafruit Trinket M0 microcontroller running Microsoft MakeCode, the easy to use block programming language.Here’s a hat with goggles and 12...

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Nice write-up from designboom on Olafur Eliasson’s new installation in London.working in collaboration with leading geologist minik rosing, the blocks of ice were taken out of the waters of the nuup kangerlua fjord in greenland where they were melting into...

via The VergeAt first, it was thought that the hole may have been caused by a tiny meteorite slamming into the Soyuz. But pictures of the hole showed a particularly clean, round opening — as if it had been made...

via GizmodoThe 1,500-year-old Pumapunku temple in western Bolivia is considered a crowning achievement of Andean architecture, yet no one knows what the original structure actually looked like. Until now. Using historical data, 3D-printed pieces, and architectural software, archaeologist Alexei Vranich...