Via Fashionista“Technology is really sexy! For me it’s better than a thigh-high split in a skirt.” Stella McCartney may have delivered the line with a laugh while onstage at Vogue’s Force...
Via My Modern MetRecently, we’ve introduced you to a range of cat-tastic designs that demonstrate how modern cat furniture doesn’t have to be an eyesore. Cat-sized cardboard landmarks, tetris...
1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist is born.Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch businessman, scientist, and one of the notable representatives of the Gold...
Via Creative Applications NetworkCreated by Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch of Quadrature and currently on view within the Ars Electronica exhibition at the DRIVE Volkswagen Group Forum in Be...
Gravitational Waves explained via National Geographic.What are gravitational waves and how are they detected? These ripples in space-time, sometimes caused by neutron stars colliding, were recent...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/23/gravitational-waves-101/
Engadget has a great in-depth piece about the designing of the technology in Blade Runner 2049. Check it out here.Peter Eszenyi was Territory’s creative lead on Blade Runner 2049. He joined the...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/23/designing-the-technology-of-blade-runner-2049/
By Great Big Story on YouTubeGamer or not, you know Mario. Nintendo’s high-pitched, turtle-squashing Italian plumber has become a beloved stalwart of pop culture. But how did this video game ic...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/23/how-mario-got-his-mustache-and-his-name-gaming/
This neat wearable Transit Card patch project is from Alex Glow at Hackster.io. Unfortunately, it won’t work with non-NFC transit cards so New Yorkers are out of luck. But if your city uses NFC...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/18/wearable-transit-card-patch-by-glowascii-wearablewednesday/
Via Digital TrendsLove it or hate it, but selfies are a pretty potent part of today’s popular culture. To some, they’re a symbol of a narcissistic generation in love with presenting an ideali...
1604 – Kepler’s Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.Supernova 1604, also known as Kepler’s Supernova, Kepler’s Nova or Kepler�...
Via Creative Applications NetworkCreated by David Colombini as part of his diploma project at the Royal College of Art (IED), The Weather Followers is a commentary on ‘smart’ applications and...
Via The AtlanticWe may think of Leonardo Da Vinci as an artist, but he was also a scientist. By incorporating anatomy, chemistry, and optics into his artistic process, Da Vinci created an augment...
Via Open Culture. Check out Every Noise at Once here.If you are ready for a time-suck internet experience that will also make you feel slightly old and out of step with the culture, feel free to ...
Neat project from JoshBuilds.A DIY laptop anyone can make for under $100. This simple, homemade laptop can even run games like minecraft and others that come preloaded with the operating system.E...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/13/simple-diy-laptop-for-under-100-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/
Thanks to John from Pi Supply for sharing this Halloween project! Read more here.Halloween festivities are always lurking around the corner. Zombies and witches will be knocking at your door and ...
Pretty wearable project from Chen Justina on YouTube to help with networking. Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovat...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/11/wow-t-shirt-will-help-you-break-the-ice-wearablewednesday/
Via My Modern MetHalloween is just around the corner and things are about to get spooky! It’s time for scary costumes, grotesque makeup, and perhaps the most fun activity of all: pumpkin carvin...
1731 – Henry Cavendish, French-English chemist, physicist, and philosopher is born.Henry Cavendish FRS was a British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretica...
Via Creative Applications NetworkCreated by Jayson Haebich, The Crystallisation Event explores a speculative future in which the endless digitisation and quantification of data has caused informa...
This year was my first time attending New York Comic Con (actually any comic con) and I have to say it was one of the most fun experiences I’ve ever had at the Javit’s Center! There was a lot...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/09/ny-comic-con-2017-in-photos-nycc-nycc17-ny_comic_con/
Via Co. DesignPicture a pair of scissors, and there’s a good chance they’re orange. But have you ever wondered why? It’s all thanks to the 368-year-old Finnish company Fiskars, whose ubiqui...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/09/how-a-pair-of-orange-scissors-made-design-history/
Via BoingBoingIf you’ve ever used Facebook Live, you know there is a delay in the audio/video feed. It’s not very long, maybe a few seconds. Instead of just ignoring it, the Irish indie band ...
Via Viceland on YouTubeEngineer Dave Sieg has spent the last 20 years preserving the only working Scanimate, an analog motion graphics machine that was the staple of film/tv animation in the 70�...
Via Black CloverIlhan Ünal, a Brussels-based university student studying multimedia and communications who works weekends as a hardware / software developer, has won a Guinness World Record for ...
Via Matthew May & Brendan Harlow on GitHub.The goal of this project is to create a private secure portable cell network utilizing basic technologies for mobile phones that can be easily deployabl...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/06/portable-cell-network-made-with-raspberry-pi/
Thanks to Matt for writing in to share his project with us! Check out the full tutorial here.This is a simple watch using two pixel rings, a Flora and a real time clock (RTC). I wanted a less exp...
1. Quick Reviews of 3 Top-Rated Python IDEs2. “WhatsNext” @arduino clones from @federicomusto “Ph.D”3. Adding a Headphone Port to the iPhone 74. VICE Reviews The Internet’s Top Five Noo...
1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.WERD was the first radio station owned and programmed by African Americans. The station was established i...
Via alexellis.ioThis blog post will show you how to create your own Serverless Raspberry Pi cluster with Docker and the OpenFaaS framework. People often ask me what they should do with their clus...
Thanks to Drew for sharing. Via OmzloIn a previous blog post, we described “SKWARE” our revised Arduino-compatible IoT modules. These nodes are designed to be connected together in a daisy-ch...
1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate is born.Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. Fro...
Via National GeographicWhat are equinoxes? What causes these astronomical events? Find out how they influence the seasons and hours of daylight on each planet.
Thanks to Joonas for sharing! Read the full post here.This article will detail how to build a USB MIDI adapter (one-directional: you connect the adapter with USB cable to your computer, and it re...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/09/25/usb-midi-adapter-with-atmega32u4/
Via The MagPiScott Edenbaum, a recent graduate from the NYC Data Science Academy, has turned a humble Pi Zero into DataSciencePi: a data crunching, code trialling, data science-ing auxiliary proc...
By Tom Galle Via Design Collector Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using ...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/09/19/making-corporate-logos-into-weapons-arttuesday/
1889 – Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and author is born.Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany was an African-American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her y...
Via Estafannie Explains it All on YouTubeHey World! My channel is one year old! To celebrate, I revamped my BB-8 Pumpkin Droid make from last Halloween and turned it into a birthday cake. And Sta...
Via the Code Club BlogCode Club is expanding to secondary school ages up to 13 years to provide more opportunities and resources for our network of after-school clubs run by volunteers and educat...
1894 – Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher is born.Dorothy Maud Wrinch was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to ...
Episode 2 of Adafruit and Hackster present Women in Hardware: The Interview Series is now live! I had a blast talking with Heather Kerrick, Senior Research Engineer at Autodesk’s Applied Resear...
Via Domain of Science on YouTubeComputer science is the subject that studies what computers can do and investigates the best ways you can solve the problems of the world with them. It is a huge f...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/09/11/animated-map-of-computer-science/
Via Nautilus. recent advance in geometry makes heavy use of Ramsey’s theorem, an important idea in another field—graph theory. Ramsey’s theorem states that in any graph where all points are...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/09/11/a-simple-visual-proof-of-a-powerful-idea-in-graph-theory/
We’ve posted a bunch of Dmitry Morozov‘s projects before and his latest is called Motorgan. Motorgan is an electromagnetic/electromechanical organ based on 3 dc motors of different size. The ...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/09/11/motorgan-an-organ-that-makes-sounds-with-dc-motors-musicmonday/
Via The MagPiPetrolog Automation has created a smart oil drilling with Raspberry Pi monitor. It increases the revenue from each well by a reported $7,000 (roughly £5,300). The smart monitor is b...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/09/08/oil-drilling-with-raspberry-pi-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/
Here’s an alternative to SDL for working with small screens on linux! Works great with Adafruit PiTFT displays. Via David Lechner.Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our...
Via My Modern MetNow in its third year, the Bird Photographer of the Year is a “celebration of avian beauty and diversity.” Organized by Nature Photographers Ltd and the British Trust for Orn...
1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.Labor Day in the United States is a public holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. It honors the American l...
Via Great Big StoryKirk Tunningley is responsible for making America glow. As the founder of Big Dog Neon in Lockhart, Texas, he has been creating neon signs and sculptures for over 38 years, add...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/09/05/the-artist-keeping-neon-aglow-in-the-heart-of-texas-arttuesday/
Via Patel Darshil on Hackster.ioThe Project Tells You About Interfacing Soil Moisture Sensor And LCD to Give Display. I Forget Everyday To Water My Plant and my grandmother used to recall me to w...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/09/04/build-a-soil-moisture-sensor-with-lcd-display/