From the mail bag! Dear Lady Ada and Phil, Besides the great products for makers, enthusiastic customer support, and promises like no blinking Christmas trees, what makes me confident Adafruit will stay a cool company is something that didn’t even...

Shared by CD_MT on Thingiverse: These are quick designs and prints. I thought they would be fun on my whiteboard at work. They are designed to press-fit 2mm x 2mm circular magnets into the holes on the back, so I...

Making + Learning introduces a framework to support learning in library and museum makerspaces. . This project aims to share ways that we can nurture and grow conditions for learning within making experiences. We do this through a description of...

We have been celebrating National Week of Making all week with 15% off selected products. If you haven’t grabbed any (or enough) deals yet do it quick! Our sale ends tonight at 11:59 PM EST Go to Adafruit.com/sale The sale...

ASK AN ENGINEER – LIVE electronics video show! 6/21/17 (video). What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or...

SHOW-AND-TELL Google+ LIVE Hangout! 6/21/17 (video). Want to join the #showandtell Here’s how and video.

What is the most efficient way to row a boat? Should all the oars pull simultaneously or out-of-phase?  French researchers in Paris’s Laboratory of Hydrodynamics (LadHyX) explored this question by actually building arduino based robotic rowers. At this point, everyone...

Silhouette Cosplay has applied her skills to a variety of characters from the worlds of film and television, including Loki. She’s completed a couple of different versions of the the Marvel trickster’s costumes, including his ensemble from Thor: The Dark...

Spinal muscular atrophy is a debilitating deficiency of SMN proteins. But thanks to assistance from AT Makers and Mishawaka, Indiana Penn High School students Ella is regaining control with the aid of assistive technology. Thanks to Bill for sending this...

NEW PRODUCT – HDMI to RCA Audio and CVBS NTSC, PAL, or S-Video Converter Do you have a S-Video display, projector or monitor that is not compatible with your HDMI devices? Here’s an adapter that will allow you to convert...

From the GitHub release page: One fix thanks to @ntoll! Further release candidates will be made from the stable branch. The master branch is now working towards the 2.0.0 release. This release is based on MicroPython 1.8.7. Change highlights since...

Watches By SJX have a fantastic write-up on Japanese watchmaker Masahiro Kikuno, including photographs of his studio and the tools he uses to hand-make wadokei-inspired wristwatches. Despite being just 33 years old, Masahiro Kikuno makes wristwatches by hand in a...

Quick meals as easy as a paint by number, Via My Modern Met: Cook This Page doesn’t just list what ingredients you’ll need and how much. It goes one step further to tell you where to place the food on...

NEW PRODUCT – VGA to HDMI Audio and Video Adapter Do you have an an older VGA-output computer, game system, or other device, that you want to hook up to your fancy new HDMI monitor? This converter will take a...

NEW PRODUCT – Insulated Silicone Rework Mat – 34cm x 23cm x 4mm Work Surface This silicone mat is made of 4mm thick rubber and can take just about anything you throw at it. It’s stable, strong, non-slip, non-conductive and...

Via Wareable Smart bulbs are the perfect place to start if you’re looking to haul your home into the connected house revolution. What’s more, they’re getting cheaper and easier to set up all the time. Aside from being a gadget...

Always cool to see how people tackle unique ideas like turning a CPU on a lathe!

From Ian Switzer-Lambrick on vimeo An Adafruit NeoPixel strip that is being controlled simultaneously by an accelerometer and a lux sensor. The code reads that reducing light into the lux sensor increases the brightness of the LEDs, and altering the...

Via Geek! “Only those who dare to fail greatly,” Robert F. Kennedy said, “can ever achieve greatly.” If that’s true, then Sweden’s new Museum of Failures is going to be a massive success. Curated by 43-year-old clinical psychologist Samuel West,...

Redditor Ginnabean, a.k.a. cosplayer Ginny Di, is working on a costume that’s new to me: one of the centaurs from Disney’s Fantasia. She’s debuting the cosplay in less than two weeks at Denver Comic Con. She’s been wanting to work...

Have you always wanted fashion that reacts to its environment or costumes that sparkle and beep? Come join me in Philadelphia for a one week bootcamp on wearable tech July 9th-13th at The Hacktory. We will dive into Adafruit’s plug...

Via Wearable You’ve likely seen professionals wearing it during training sessions or revealing it during impromptu goal celebrations, but now Catapult Sport’s Playertek compression vest is making its way to grassroots football. The result is players in Sunday leagues, five-a-side...

Great project from sallyhall on Instructables: This jacket has 40 neopixels sewn to the back to display the status of the 40 3D Printers in Duke’s Innovation Co-Lab Studio. Each light corresponds to one printer and is either blue (in...

This fabric keyboard responds to touch, pressure stretch, proximity and electric field! Thanks to Irmandy Wicaksono for sharing this with us, Via MIT We are from Responsive Environments Group, MIT Media Lab would like to show our new project in...

Transit passes often take the form of cards, whether they be swipe or NFC (Near Field Communication). They are thin, but unless you wear them like a badge around your neck they are easy to lose in a pocket and...