Video games are often thought of as something to just past the time. However, they contribute to popular culture, reflect the technology of the times, and sometimes hold a special place in our hearts. The video games you’ve played are...

Blade Runner continues to inspire design and sound decades after it was released. gilou gilou has made an instrument that takes its visual inspiration from both Blade Runner. Here’s more from gilou gilou:I made an inflatable instrument (Named Pascal2049). It’s...

Digit is a very real robot that is currently shipping to customers. Designed by Agility Robotic for spaces where humans can maneuver easily but other robots struggle.Via Business Wire:Digit, Agility Robotics’ humanoid robot with both mobility and manipulation capabilities, is...

IMAGEHelpful tips for passing the remote pilot test from The Drone Girl:That’s because the FAA has a few tricks up their sleeves, including new questions, questions that could tempt you into thinking there are multiple right answers, and more. Don’t...

Make this excellent Circuit Playground Express Spooky Laughing Box from the archives of the Adafruit Learning System!The trick-or-treaters clamber up the steps of the next house on their evening route. The porch light is on, but no one comes to...

Learn about neon noir with this great video from Broey Deschanel on YouTube:Welcome to my most pretentious video yet! Where I try to convince you why this semi-real genre rocks!See more

The system could potentially be adapted to a variety of chemical separation and purification processes.via MITA new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT could provide a way of continuously removing carbon dioxide from a stream of waste gases, or...

My friend Alex of French Guy Cooking has been on a mission to explore various sauces in search of the mother of all sauces.As part of his quest, he traveled to Istanbul, Turkey to visit a friend who hand makes...

ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UPWe’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging...

Last week on the Adafruit Learning System, we published 8 new guides. This weeks guides included a light up top hat, a Halloween special giant tombstone with an embedded Adafruit Matrix Display, an LED neon selfie spot, a face mask...

Women in horror movies haven’t always had the best representation. If you want your horror with a side of social discourse hunker down with one (or 12) of these horror movies that should pass the Bechdel test. There are some...

This experimental aircraft design would mean a larger wingspan and greater fuel efficiency for future aircraft, Via Robb ReportA team from Airbus last week used a mythical seabird to prove that wing design could be significantly more efficient, and potentially...

Via ZDNetRoboticists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) created this centimeter-scale robot resembling a cockroach. Like the insect from which the engineers drew their inspiration, The Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot (HAMR) can turn sharply...

Many remember Minesweeper as that classic pre-loaded time-waster game that started way back with Windows 3.1. Windows 95 offered the game with 100 cells. Andrew Stein has made built a version with one million cells with Regular Table.See project!

Learn about the Gartner Hype Cycle in this fascinating video from Mike Mine on vimeo:A presentation of several novel ways to visualize 25 years of the Gartner Hype Cycle. The goal is to demonstrate how one’s understanding of complex information...

We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here:NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEKAdafruit Grayscale 1.5″ 128×128 OLED Graphic Display – STEMMA QT / QwiicThis OLED goes out to all the fans who want more pixels! Normally our 128×64 OLEDs are...

Here’s a really easy and fun-looking project to create a very fetching witches hat. Steve at SKS Props uses 2mm EVA foam for everything, including the hat band and the buckle. Free cutting templates are included. He finishes off the...

MIT researchers are exploring the use of electronic properties of diamond’s nanoscale needles.Long known as the hardest of all natural materials, diamonds are also exceptional thermal conductors and electrical insulators. Now, researchers have discovered a way to tweak tiny needles...

A super custom ToeJam and Earl cartridge made with some Adafruit parts. This project is being auctioned off with 100% of proceeds going to the NAACP Legal defense team.This project was sent in by Ryan. Thanks for sharing!We purchased several...

Beautiful series from Christian Michael Filardo, via booooooom:Guided tour through built world, galactic blueprint unknown, obstacles many but surmountable. Plane of existence similar but slightly altered from reality. Navigable albeit the language is new. To go or not go at...

Fun tips from Expert Photography:You can take creepy photos of anything with the help of moody lighting, scary locations, and props. Here are some of our Halloween photography tips.Read moreWe #celebratephotography here at Adafruit every Saturday. From photographers of all...

via KT Gadget on instructablesI used old dependable goody dispensing technology and ordered a wire Spiral spare part for a vending machine. After all, vending machines always deliver what was paid for! The one I ordered has a 3.25” diameter...

In a rare catch, European Southern Observatory telescopes recorded a “tidal disruption event,” the term for a blast of light from a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. Here’s more from SlashGear: Scientists have been able to...

MakeCode Arcade Game of the Week: Pixx Artist by GameGodA very cool pixel art program created in MakeCode Arcade! Use the d-pad to move the cursor, A to place pixels, and B to pick from 16-shades of gray.To learn more...

From the GitHub release page: This is the first release candidate of CircuitPython 6.0.0. We don’t know of any stability issues overall. See port status below for more stability detail. If you find any issues with it, please file an...