On this week’s MakeCode Minute, John Park shows how to use the built-in light sensor and NeoPixel ring on the Circuit Playground Express as a light meter! To learn more about MakeCode, check out this guide.

Your turn to operate! Perform surgery on Adabot, but be careful not to touch the sides or the buzzer will sound!!! This new guide in the Adafruit Learn System will show you how to build your own classic board game....

With the help of some local volunteers and community scientists, the New York City Water Trail Association is providing interactive maps and databases that show water quality parameters in the various waterways that surround New York City.  By engaging the...

NEW PRODUCT – CD DVD Spindle Motor What’s this? A record player for ants?? Not at all! This is a CD/DVD Spindle Motor, that thing that’s inside a CD or DVD player, that turns the disc around really fast. These motors have...

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...

The blog 314REACTOR experiments with liquid cooling a Rasperry Pi. Via Hackaday: As a general rule, liquids and electronics don’t mix. One liquid bucks that trend, though, and can contribute greatly to the longevity of certain circuits: oil. Dielectric oil...

Flash cards are important and appeal to visual learners. AR Flashcards are a new way to interact and make Flash cards more entertaining for elementary school students. Flash cards can be bright and colorful and make a real impact on visual learners,...

Adafruit AR has received a brand new update today. Users can now play Circuit Playground videos within the Adafruit AR app by tapping 3D Letters that you bring into the app. Want to play “A is for Ampere”?  Just tap the...

Brett with mimicEducationalRobots gives a walkthrough in how they prototype SMD PCBs in house. Here at mimicEducationalRobots we farm out most of our production circuit board assembly, but we still assemble all prototypes in house. Most people are surprised to...

New Products 8/15/2018 Featuring Adafruit HalloWing M0 Express! (Video) Bluefruit LE Sniffer – Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE 4.0) – nRF51822 – Firmware Version 2 (0:10) Black and White Eye Stickers (1:42) High Temp Waterproof DS18B20 Digital Temperature Sensor – 3m...

Really neat Twitter find via David Ávila Last week I has been working on a pet project called TelescoPI. It allows to control a telescope with a Gamepad using a #RaspberryPi with a Motor HAT. One of the key features...

Great print and build from commanderbeatle2 on Thingiverse: Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with Bitscope Micro and 7″ touch screen. Features a USB port in the front for a mouse, ethernet in the back or you can use the built in...

NEW PRODUCT – High Temp Waterproof DS18B20 Digital Temperature Sensor – 3m Long This is a pre-wired and waterproofed version of the DS18B20 sensor made with a PTFE wire cable. Handy for when you need to measure something far away,...

This cosplay is the definition of badass! Modeled after Urgot from League of Legends: You can see a few more pics of the completed costume as seen at Anime Expo here on Imgur; and also be sure to check out...

Via Medium When TensorFlow was first launched in 2015, we wanted it to be an “open source machine learning framework for everyone”. To do that, we need to run on as many of the platforms that people are using as...

James Mickens at Harvard University gave a keynote at USENIX Security 2018 on Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? Some people enter the technology industry to build newer, more exciting kinds of technology as quickly...

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit IO Environmental Monitor Knowing what’s in the air you breathe is important – and building an environmental monitor is a way to visualize the invisible properties of the air you inhale. This guide covers building a small,...

As we look for creative little robots to build, this video from Taiwan shows several cute robotic creations made with milk cans (which are similar in shape to short Western aluminum drink cans). The cute faces on the cans give...

via Ross Porter My dad could no longer operate a CD player or iPod. But he could use the music player that I designed and made for him, because it operates like a familiar two-knob radio. I was inspired to...

Our friends at Electronut Labs continue their work with the Nordic nRF52840, using QR codes to pass network credentials to the device via a Raspberry Pi camera instead of hardcoding or typing in passwords. They show how to generate the...

Christer Weinigel over at Christer’s Ramblings writes about switching from Tina TI to a new circuit simulator based on Spice: A few weeks ago I got so frustrated that I started writing my own parser which can read a Kicad schematic file...

Light up your drink in style! From the Adafruit Forums, user kazzle101 documents their build of a NeoPixel ring lighted drink coaster: This all started with wanting to modify a cheap camping light replacing the LED’s with NeoPixels. So I...

from RaspberryPi.org It’s time to swap pedal power for relaxed strides with the Raspberry Pi-assisted Draisine from bicyle-modding pro Prof. Holger Hermanns. If you have children yourself or have seen them in the wild on occasion, you may be aware...

In the first of a three-part series, Manuel Dewald for opensource.com walks through the hardware and software recommendations, as well as the USB drive/s configuration, that will be used to setup a homemade NAS (using the Pi) — the Nextcloud...

via Hackster.io The CRT will be perfect for the not-yet-revealed project he eventually has in mind for it, but since it doesn’t have a traditional RCA input, this meant a bit of hacking (while wearing rubber gloves to prevent shock)...