We’ve updated the Adafruit Learning System guide on All About Arduino Libraries, to include the Library Manager functionality. Thanks for the tip from an Adafruit user that pointed this out. See the 1,600 tutorials and guides available in the Adafruit Learning...

from Andrea Messina via Synthopia DIY Foot Switch Controller: Let’s see how to build a foot switch controller from a usb computer keyboard. With it you can map a control in Ableton Live and, for example, launch scene, stop clip...

From the Guardian: By reproducing some of the complex wing motion patterns and aerodynamics of fruit flies, in particular, researchers in the university’s newly opened Robohouse, a hub for Dutch expertise, believe they will be able to create swarms of...

via Johns Hopkins Newsletter A 2015 study from the Harvard Business Review found that nearly half of African-American and Latina women in U.S. STEM careers reported being confused for administrative or janitorial staff. In its 2017 survey of women of...

Follow all the news concerning Python on Microcontrollers via the Adafruit Weekly Newsletter! Catch the weekly news on Python for Microcontrollers with adafruitdaily.com. This ad-free, spam-free weekly e-mail is filled with all the Python news that you may have missed, all in one place! This will...

Atlas Obscura recently featured this awesome 1970s footage of astronauts and gyroscopes in space from archive.org. Why are gyroscopes so important to spacecraft? Well, why not let a couple of astronauts from the 1970s explain? (And if, for some reason,...

via Analog Industries Above is the fruits of hurricane-induced tardiness, the Magic Robotic Contact-Mic Hitter Thingie. Essentially, there are four cantilevered hammers I made on my Shapeoko that are struck by solenoids; the solenoids are driven via MIDI. In the...

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Cool concept + design from Czech design firm 52hours, featured on Dezeen. The bench, called Heer, is designed to offer mothers and babies a “small oasis of peace” in public spaces where they can come to rest, feed their child...

via CDM Yes, there’s no question that a lot of today’s synths seem lifted from the pages of the 1970s, from monosynth to modular. And yes, a lot of keyboard chops today are shameful, though – well, if you’re going...

Great project if you have a broken GameBoy laying around and love to play the ukulele! The use of IR to sense string movement is particularly clever. Via Hackster.io Chiptunes are all the rage these days, and they’re usually created...

From Mongabay: The survey looked easy on paper. All they had to do was to go the Babai Valley in western Nepal and fly a drone (or unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV) along a river. But wildlife researchers Gokarna Jung Thapa,...

Wonderful ode to libraries from Susan Orlean in the The New Yorker. grew up in libraries, or at least it feels that way. My family lived in the suburbs of Cleveland, about a mile from the brick-faced Bertram Woods Branch...

Make a fancy, color changing Pixie Dust Bag with Circuit Playground Express! How can your fairy costume be complete without a glowing pixie dust bag?! It sparkles and blinks, and you can squeeze the touch sensor wire to change the colors on the beautifully...

What an incredible story! via Johns Hopkins Newsletter Patches, a nine-year-old dachshund, is now cancer-free thanks to a group of researchers. Veterinary surgical oncologist Michelle Oblak from the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College and Cornell University’s small-animal surgeon Galina...

ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’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,...

This sounds an awful lot like the plot of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Via Fast Company: Dubbed Deep Angel, it’s an AI that lives inside a simple-to- use website, which will scan photos you upload, or even your...

The mini organs may help scientists develop therapies for eye disorders such as color blindness and macular degeneration Via Scientific American Sight begins when light bounces off surfaces and enters our eyes. The muscles of our pupils control how much...

via MOTHERBOARD On August 21, 2017, an estimated 215 million people across America watched a total solar eclipse, either in-person or online. But humans weren’t the only animals that dropped what they were doing to experience the eerie moments of...

Huge thanks to Kerry for letting us know about their Burning Man installation! Kerry writes: My Burning Man installation uses two Adafruit Trinket M0s (ID 3500) and an Adafruit Trinket Pro 5V (ID 2000). In addition the project uses an...

Browse through all that’s new here! NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEK Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark – Illustrated by Katy Wu: Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code is an inspiring, upbeat picture-book biography of one of STEM’s...

This could be a great project for a classroom or even open-plan offices. Shared by Jeremy S. Cook on Hackster.io: What I came up with was the “Hello Light,” named by my son to signify the fact that you say...

via MIT News Since the 2003 discovery of the single-atom-thick carbon material known as graphene, there has been significant interest in other types of 2-D materials as well. These materials could be stacked together like Lego bricks to form a...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has created a tool to let you view beaches at different levels of sea rise. Tom Scocca over on Hmm Daily used to the tool to examine what the “top 10 beaches” might look...

Interesting read and fascinating photos from JPC van Heijst: In a small space like the cockpit of an aircraft the Fisheye lens proved to be a winner, but the camera was clearly a limiting factor. Soon, my holiday-money was invested...