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32 years after Kevin Costner built his own ballpark two iconic teams revisit the site. The Yankees and the White Sox played a game at the Field of Dreams. Via MLB: The game had everything. Star pow…

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If you missed Tuesday’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. To never miss another issue, subscribe now! – You’ll get one terrific newsletter ea…

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The CGE Vectrex was an 8-bit video game console with a vector (X/Y) CRT that set it apart from its blocky pixel-based contemporaries. But that wasn’t enough to save it from obscurity as the 1983 vi…

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From the mail bag! Just got my order today, I wasn’t expecting it until the 12th at the earliest and the 19th at the latest. Thanks for getting it here earlier than expected, now I can begin …

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phillip torrone posted MCP23017 QT breakout #comingsoon

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We’ve been asked a few times to make an MCP23017 breakout board – wiring up the raw chip is a bit difficult for some. Here’s a loooooong STEMMA QT board with all 16 IO pins broken…

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Love the addition of location in this photo frame from Neeraj Rane on Hackster.io: In this tutorial, I will be making a photo frame using a PCB showing my favorite places on a map. Touching any one…

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via Quanta Magazine But in the case of the bismuth crystal, there is no diffusion. Molecules don’t shift randomly and spread out while reacting with each other. Nevertheless, Fuseya, Kapitulnik and…

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What is the best music video made with LEGOs? Most of them lean way to hard on the figurines. But that’s not where the skill is. For pure LEGO animation, Fell in Love With a Girl for the Whit…

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via How Stuff Works First, let’s dig into just what an accent is. The term refers to the way words are pronounced. As our BrainStuff host Ben Bowlin explains in the video above, accents are p…

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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 …

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TED explains how ultrasound works. In a dark cave, bats can’t see much. But even with their eyes shut, they can navigate rocky topography at incredible speeds. This is because bats aren&#8217…

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Who among us hasn’t fantasized about spending an extended stay in an enchanted forest? This collection from Atlas Obscura Lists showcases some of the most magical woods in the world that boas…

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Takara posted Robotic Chameleon

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The robot can crawl and change color at the same time. via Smithsonian The artificial electronic skin adjusts its hues instantly and automatically to match the background colors the robot crawls ov…

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Fascinating video from Vox on why some animals are actually getting smaller as temperatures rise. Animals all across the world are undergoing a strange transformation. In Appalachia, salamander bod…

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Today is National Waffle Day! via the National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History’s Domestic Life collection includes waffle irons that date from the early 18t…

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Keyboard Builder’s Digest posts information on the classic IBM Selectric typewriter. David V. Hughes made a poster for aa disassembled Selectric for IBM 6 years ago. I took apart a classic IB…

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From the mail bag! Dear Adafruit I just wanted you to know that you guys are running one of the coolest websites and online ordering stores for electronics in the world keep up the good work thank …

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via Quanta Magazine For decades, one classification problem — involving a particular set of infinitely large objects called torsion-free abelian groups (or TFABs) — stymied researchers. This proble…

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The stegosaurus is objectively the best dinosaur. Okay, that’s not how the word “objectively” works, but it is true that the stegosaurus is one of the all-time post popular dinosa…

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Coffee connoisseur James Hoffman recently got a 3D Printer. In this video he starts down the rabbit hole of Thingiverse and printing coffee accessories. Via YouTube: Links to the 3D prints featured…

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via SyFy A planetary system just 35 light years from Earth hosts four and possibly five planets. This includes one (if it exists) that’s squarely in its star’s habitable zone, and anoth…

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If you’ve ever heard drone or dark ambient, or, in some lonely moment, sound your head held by enormous headphones, as the sound of Sun 0))) takes you into its rewarding black heart. Well, ha…

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Takara posted How does AI learn?

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AI as in artificial intelligence, not the great Allen Iverson. via TED Today, artificial intelligence helps doctors diagnose patients, pilots fly commercial aircraft, and city planners predict traf…

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via Scientific American But commercial bees sometimes stray from farm fields to peruse nearby wildflowers. Now, scientists have found that—like for many humans—a jolt of caffeine helps bees stay on…

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adafruit posted mRNA vaccine badge

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Data scientist Paul Klinger has made a small badge showing a schematic of an mRNA vaccine nanoparticle and blinking the RNA sequence of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines. The RNA for the Moderna vacci…

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we haven’t stopped on our goal of qt-ifying all of our sensors. the VEML7700 is one of the last sensors we designed before we switched over to the new STEMMA format. we were thinking of makin…

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Patryk’s blog delves into Google Authenticator: When you’re accessing services over the WEB – let’s pick GMail as an example – couple of things have to happen upfront: The server you’re conne…

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ICYMI (In case you missed it) – the IoT Monthly Newsletter from AdafruitDaily.com went out this morning! If you missed it, subscribe now! – You’ll get one newsletter each month. The next newsletter…

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From the mail bag! Thank you for all of the hardwork your team does to not only educate the world, but make it so much easier to test and integrate different sensors!

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hrnick shares: Inspired by a tofu press found here on Thingiverse I decided to have a go at creating one of my own. download the files on: Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D…

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via TED In 1967, researchers gathered to answer a long-running scientific question: just how long is a second? It might seem obvious at first. A second is the tick of a clock, the swing of a pendul…

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via Quanta Magazine Galois’ edict emerged from a mathematical predicament. In the 1500s, mathematicians had studied polynomials like x2 − 2 and x4 − 10×2 + 22. They had tried to find simple fo…

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xxx The acquired collection also includes photos of and objects linked to abolitionists and the Underground Railroad. From SAAM: To put the exceptional nature of this collection in context, approxi…

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Stephanie posted @Macrofying Ocean Sand

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Macrofying (@macrofying) Back in June @Macrofying posted this slide of ocean sand as seen from a microscope: In contrast to industrial sand, which is qu…

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Ben posted Tiny Pong Game

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Really fun Pong project made with just a handleful of componenents. Next step, wearable pong! From Programing Electronics Academy, thanks for the tip! Check out this retro pong Arduino game built w…

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Ben posted MTA Portal

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Stay on top of your commute times with the MTA Portal. It won’t guarantee the G is actually running on time but it will let you know where it is. Thanks for sharing!. From alejandrorscovan on…

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Controversial but interesting. via Scientific American What exactly is Harvard theoretical astrophysicist Avi Loeb doing co-founding a $1.755 million academic effort to look for UFOs? Yesterday, Lo…

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Kelly posted Smart Fish Feeder

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Neat project by Pedro52 up on Hackster.io: When you have fish in an outdoor pond and have no one to feed them during your holidays, it is useful to have some kind of thing that does the job automat…

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We’re really digging this project tutorial by ossum up on Instructables: If you are anything like me then you have an ever-growing collection of damaged drone parts. Sometimes those parts acc…

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The weekly Python on Microcontrollers newsletter –all the latest news in one place! The Python on Microcontrollers newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware. You can …

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Some folks just aren’t satisfied with one complicated instrument. Andy Graham has made something he calls a Fiddleridoo: part didgeridoo, part fiddle. Here’s more from Synthtopia: Graha…

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You may know Michael Faraday from his invention the Faraday Cage. As it turns out, he also made a discovery central to the origins of the electric motor. Here’s more from the museum: He had s…

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Zay posted DIY Mattresses

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Before the idea of interchangeable parts came along, everything was made by a person somewhere in a workshop. Everything we use can be made by someone, somewhere, on their own, as long as they can …

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Wonderful and thought-provoking piece by Meghan O’Gieblyn on The Paris Review. When my husband arrived home, he stared at the dog for a long time, then pronounced it “creepy.” At first I took this …

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On view at Tierra del Sol, Architecting California pays homage to the architecture of California through different mediums. via Hyperallergic The dwellings are a little off-kilter, the beams saggin…

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Famously, the transporters on Star Trek were invented to keep to the low-budget the network demanded for the show. As it turns out, you can make your own Star Trek transporter effect fairly easily,…

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phillip torrone posted LED Glasses panel tester

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OK we’re about ready to fabricate these LED glasses panels. Lots of LEDs, in a cool grid/circular design! Of course, we have to test each board so that we know all the LEDs were placed proper…

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A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System: Adafruit 1.69″ 280×240 Round Rectangle Color IPS TFT Display. This new guide goes over how to use the new display. Don’t be such a squa…

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From the mail bag! Thank you! Each and every one of you! Adafruit has the best quality and service!

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We have a post showing off all the micro:bit shaped boards and/or boards with the micro:bit style edge connector we’ve come across – and it’s now updated with the BrainPad Pulse &…

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Sony quietly made some updates to its latest, still hard to get, system. Austin Evans does a tear down and comparison. Spoiler, the new version is missing a lot of heat sink: For reference the upda…

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Takara posted Optical Keyboard

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A neat little optical keyboard with LEDs and photosensors. via BenKonin on instructables This optical keyboard/keypad is a low-cost optical user input device capable of deployment underwater, explo…

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phillip torrone posted ADS7830 Stemma QT Breakout

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The ADS7830 ADC chip only has 8-bit resolution, but it has a bunch of things that make up for the low-precision: 2.7 to 5V power/logic, 8-channels of input, high speed I2C interface, fairly low cos…

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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 …

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Would the wood work? via SyFy They will be exposed to the large temperature range of space, cosmic radiation, and, probably most importantly, atomic oxygen. Ultraviolet light from the Sun breaks up…

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via Stanford University Understanding how and why plumes take shape above powerful thunderstorms could help forecasters recognize similar impending dangers and issue more accurate warnings without …

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The weekly Python on Microcontrollers newsletter –all the latest news in one place! The Python on Microcontrollers newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware. You can …

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An unofficial Burning Man was on display made of drones instead of fire. From This is Reno: Rather than a man burning on Saturday, dozens of drones were synchronized in the shape of the traditional…

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Ahhhhh our favorite USB-to-Serial chip, the CP2014, is sorta-EOL and hard-to-find. The CP2012N is the recommended replacement. The ‘2N is soooo similar, with almost the same pinout – bu…

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via the American Museum of Natural History There are more than 84 million fully documented plant and animal specimens in the world’s natural history collections, as well as in vast un-digitized col…

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We often hear about dyslexia, but dyscalculia isn’t somethin we hear about as much. Here’s some info from the Dyscalculia Blog: So what is dyscalculia exactly? Dyscalculia is a learning…

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When did computing start? The Computer History Museum takes a deep dive into the history of computing and answers your questions. Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing is an engaging 25,000…

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Colombian artist and designer Diana Beltran Herrera brings life to her paper sculptures with color and texture. via Creative Boom All pieces are different, so it can take me from a day up to two or…

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phillip torrone posted Soooo many rainbows…

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If it’s got RGB LEDs you know we will put some rainbow swirls on ’em! Here we are testing the LED Glasses breakout and also our new ATtiny8x7 breakout with seesaw. The LED glasses are u…

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phillip torrone posted VL53LCX STEMMA QT Breakout Design

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We just got an email about the VL53L5CX this morning, and it inspired up to whip up a Stemma QT breakout for this new Time of Flight sensor. This sensor is kinda neat in that not only does it have …

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Raunak Singh published their Park It! project on Hackster.io as a way to record and share Parkinson’s symptoms between patient and doctor: The doctor can use the data displayed on an interact…

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All are welcome, show your 3D printing project, Arduino project, CircuitPython project, Raspberry Pi project, work bench, your work from home desk set up, your corvids, your dog, the things your ki…

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From the mail bag! Somebody has to take positive positions in this. You have visibility, and have had influence. You’ve changed things in many ways. Not just in making cool electronics and making i…

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nencinar shares this great design for a Gauge stop for rulers! download the files on: Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for ma…

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Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! Zombie Cap Ian Robinson CR10S Pro Glow PLA 13hr 19mins X:175 Y:181 Z:1…

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gareth branwyn posted 7200-Segment Display, Anyone?

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Check out this amazing 7200-segment display made by my ol’ pal, digital artist Chris Combs. As reported on Hackaday: For [Chris], this project started the same way that many of our projects s…

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When the discussion of global warming and climate change comes up, one of the first topics is coral. The detailed map is a great reference for what we’ve lost and what could be lost. via PBS …

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At this point I’m exclusively using Instax and used Polaroid cameras which likely wouldn’t be possible without the Impossible Project and Brooklyn Film Camera! From Business Insider on …

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Takara posted Defining Dimension

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Depending on the math, defining dimension can be tricky. via Quanta Magazine The notion of dimension at first seems intuitive. Glancing out the window we might see a crow sitting atop a cramped fla…

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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 …

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How can a large animal like a velociraptor develop into the little birds we see today? via Science Focus Today’s birds evolved from dinosaurs, which makes them dinosaurs! The same way bats are mamm…

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Stephanie posted Why Hyperlinks are Blue

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Follow along Elise Blanchard’s journey through tech and internet history to get to the bottom of blue hyperlinks in this piece from Distilled: But now, I find myself all consumed by the quest…

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Climate Week NYC runs from September 20-26. The American Museum of Natural History has scheduled programs starting tomorrow. Tickets are free but you do need to RSVP! Programs for Climate Week NYC …

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The weekly Python on Microcontrollers newsletter –all the latest news in one place! The Python on Microcontrollers newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware. You can …

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This project sounds super lovely, and saturated with the spirit of summer, from Plusea. tucked away under the shade of a tree, a pop-up tattoo studio by day, at night transforms into a stage for te…

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As They Might Be Giants might reming us, “The sun is a mass of incandescent gas / A gigantic nuclear furnace / Where hydrogen is built into helium / At a temperature of millions of degrees.&#…

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From the mail bag! Thanks for making cool tiny hardware, and for all your work on CircuitPython. I started this as an excuse to learn how to code and working in CircuitPython has been great!

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phillip torrone posted EU: USB-C chargers for all phones

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EU rules to force USB-C chargers for all phones – BBC News – Around half of chargers sold with mobile phones in the European Union in 2018 had a USB micro-B connector, while 29% had a U…

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The How to Get What You Want blog explores using sensors on skin. I bought this medical foil at the local Apotheke (drug/medicine store) in Germany. I have also asked the Tattoo shops near-by. They…

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The Apple IIe uses a custom microcontroller and ROM chip to put ASCII values from the keyboard into the computer’s memory. How can this function be emulated? How hard could it be to replace that du…

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The image above is of asteroid 2016 AJ193, the 1,001st near earth asteroid that has been clocked by planetary radar since 1968. But there are about 27,000 near earth objects. What are they? Here&#8…

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via MIT The new system is the latest in a series of applications based on initial findings six years ago by members of the same research team, initially developed for desalination of seawater or br…

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Learn all about blue and bluterflies in this oldie but goodie from It’s Okay To Be Smart on YouTube: Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure.…

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Good use of some vintage tubes. As these become harder and harder to source, projects like this become more special. From reddit shared by Hackaday: When you have a small stock of vacuum fluorescen…

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Mbira are a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. In the 1920s a modern interpretation of the mbira was made and exported by ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey. Tracey’s design w…

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Plastic is very controversial material but it keeps being produced and used in various forms. Why? dezeen breaks down the different types of plastic and what they’re used for. This refining p…

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Out in the city by the bay, the Asian Art Museum is hosting the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab. They have premiered their immersive piece teamLab: Continuity, delayed since 2020. Here’s m…

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Delightful details on duck dryness from SciShow. You might be familiar with the phrase “like water off a ducks back”. But it’s not that ducks don’t get wet, it’s that …

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Illustrator Ori Toor combines color, pop culture, and “gibberish” to make eye-catching art. via Creative Boom A freelancer whose clients include Adobe, Apple and Samsung, Ori Toor loves…

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I can distinctly remember when I was young and bored anything could be an action figure or spaceship. The Instagram account @Spacegooose keeps that youthful imagination going with detailed drawings…

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Using 3D mapping techniques, the invasione creativa team have created three-dimensional panoramas from flat paintings, letting the viewer explore the depths and layers of the paintings’ color…

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A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System: Raspberry Pi Rotary Encoder Animated Gif Player. This new guide goes over how to build 2 different Rotary Encoded-controlled animated Gif Players. While…

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Mark your calendars – Sharks opens December 15 at the American Museum of Natural History! This December, discover the incredible diversity of this ancient and fascinating group of fishes. The…

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From the mail bag! I’ve been a fan and consumer of Adafruit since I first started playing with the Arduino a couple of years ago. I’m a way old school maker, from way before the term ma…

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Crunch time, when the need for focus intensifies, things get stressy – adding new background noise may not be your first instinct, but it can be key. myNoise has a huge collection of seamless, mixa…

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Sometimes the story of Madam CJ Walker is simplified to just a haircare extraordinaire, but she was also a pioneer in manufacturing. via History Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919) was “the first Black …

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via The American Society of Mechanical Engineers While still in her 20s, she strengthened her father’s business by becoming one of the first American manufacturers to expand to Europe. Today,…

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ICYMI (In case you missed it) – the IoT Monthly Newsletter from AdafruitDaily.com went out this morning! If you missed it, subscribe now! – You’ll get one newsletter each month. The next newsletter…

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Today we celebrate inventor Margaret Knight, who made assembly lines safer, and invented the idea and manufacturing method for the modern grocery bag. Here’s more from the Smithsonian With on…

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io9 released their list of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books to get your spooky season in full swing! via Gizmodo October is here! The days are shorter, you’ve already started plotting out your Hal…

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Have you played Toem? Looking forward to giving it a whirl after work! From Something We Made: set off on a delightful expedition and use your photographic eye to uncover the mysteries of the magic…

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I scream, you scream, here’s the science behind ice cream. via Scientific American People have been enjoying ice cream for hundreds of years. But there have never before been as many flavors …

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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 …

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via SyFY When the cosmos was between 2 and 4 billion years old galaxies were just cranking along, converting huge reservoirs of cold gas into stars at a fierce rate, some easily 100 times what we t…

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Lots of great programming from The New York Public Library in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Explore titles by some of our favorite children’s authors from Latin America curated by expe…

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Takara posted Lantern Corps Ring

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A nice addition to your Lantern cosplay. via E Spire on instructables Greetings Hero, You probably are not worthily enough to be chosen to join a Lantern Corps, like me. However, I do have a soluti…

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Neat project write-up from Raymond Lutz up on Hackaday.io. Each devices recorded two channels: the common 220Hz CSW and the YaLTC signal from their respective synchronator (an Adafruit Feather base…

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Researchers at Tianjin University in China created the bot using a flat sheet of 3D printed liquid crystal elastomer. Although fairly small, it can can carry 40 times its own weight. via Mashable D…

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There’s something so alluring and nostalgic about roller skating. It’s no shock that people resurrected the carefree hobby during the turbulent last two years. Check out this wonderful …

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In September I was lucky enough to spend a day at the Armory Show. Being surrounded by radically different styles and mediums was simultaneously overwhelming and exhilarating. I had a hard time mai…

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Incredible works created with neon. Light art sculptures from Fred Tschida at The Art House. Via Aesthetica: Titled CIRCLESPHERE, it includes seven gas-filled illuminated sculptures. The large glas…

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