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ASK AN ENGINEER 4/17/2024 LIVE! – video.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/ask-an-engineer-4-17-2024-live/

The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! 4/17/2024 – video.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/show-and-tell-4-17-2024/

When learning an instrument you can study all the notes but it can still be hard to get the feel. This research project from Yiyue Luo with MIT is turning to haptics and machine learning to help....

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/smart-gloves-teach-piano-playing-through-touch-wearablewednesday/

Sleep Review Mag shares how Bridget Armstrong, Ph.D. of the University of South Carolina was awarded a $3.5 million grant to test a wearable device specifically designed to monitor children’s p...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/using-wearables-to-track-childrens-sleep-and-activity/

As we venture back to the moon we may want to stay a little longer. Design concept from HASSELL for a lunar station. Construction would incorporate 3D printing and soil from the moon.Designed in ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/hassells-modular-moon-habitat-for-eu-space-agency/

– Charlie Brown famously had no touch at all with regards to becoming a ghost. His clumsy hands led him to doing a real Charlie Brown to his annual halloween efforts, which led to a costume th...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/fixing-apple-watch-ghost-touches-wearable-wednesday/

The Adafruit Infrared IR Remote Receiver has two selectable IR receiver chips. Usage is simple: Power the board by connecting V+ and ground to 3 to 5VDC, point a 38KHz remote control at the senso...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/new-guide-adafruit-infrared-ir-remote-receiver-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit-adafruit/

If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick(s) of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s picks are the Adafruit UPDI Friend – USB Serial UPDI Program...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/jps-product-pick-of-the-week-4-16-24-updi-friends-usb-serial-programmers/

DigiKey shared this vide on Youtube!Which should you use for your project, Arduino or Raspberry Pi? In this video, Becky Stern shows you the primary differences and explains why you would choose ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/arduino-vs-raspberry-pi-electronics-with-becky-stern-digikey/

BACK IN STOCK – Espressif ESP32-S3-BOX-3With its freely available development resources, ESP32-S3-BOX-3 is the ultimate choice for prototyping new projects or building complex AIoT systems.Es...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/back-in-stock-espressif-esp32-s3-box-3/

3D Hangouts – IoT Pico DVI, Memory Gun Prop and Flex SnailThis week @adafruit we’re making an Adafruit IO project using Raspberry Pi Pico W and Pico DVI. Finalizing our Memory Gun Prop using ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/live-3d-hangouts-with-noe-and-pedro-21/

Anyone who’s been to GitHub before has no doubt come across the unforgettable Octocat mascot. Its pointy ears and friendly smile accompany a wide library of code shared by thousands of people o...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/raspberry-pi-brings-githubs-octocat-to-life-with-moving-tentacles/

DIY Machines designed a bunch of kinetic coasters and shared the results on Instructables:Not only can you satisfy your fidgety fidding fingers by turning any coaster by hand – the base, of cou...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/make-yourself-kinetic-coasters/

The ZX2040 is a port of Andre Weissflog ZX Spectrum emulator to the Raspberry Pico RP2040, packed with a simple UI for game selection and key mapping to make it usable without a keyboard.This...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/the-rp2040-zx-spectrum-emulator-has-just-been-released/

Need to look up directions but you left your phone at home and only have a dumb terminal? Never fear! You can just telnet (PuTTY on Windows) and get a zoomable world map, all in ASCII.MapSCII is ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/mapscii-maps-in-your-console/

Fun video from IT’S HISTORY, especially for anyone who’s ever lived and commuted in NYC. I’ve probably been in the Astor Place subway station over 200 times but never noticed the sign for C...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/new-yorks-lost-subway-entrances/

My childhood copy of Tar Beach still sits on my bookshelf.NPR shares the life of Faith Ringgold and her impact on art and African American storytelling.Artist Faith Ringgold, well known for her s...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/remembering-faith-ringgold/

NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit CAN Bus BFF Add-On for QT PyOur QT Py boards are a great way to make very small microcontroller projects that pack a ton of power – and now we have a way for you to tur...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/new-product-adafruit-can-bus-bff-add-on-for-qt-py/

A simple design that has stood the test of time. We might take it for granted but this simple hook was once cutting edge design. Made from a single piece of wire with a built in screw end – no ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/early-1900s-hanging-hook-design-manufacturing/

BACK IN STOCK – Adafruit INA228 – I2C 85V, 20-bit High or Low Side Power Monitor – STEMMA QT / QwiicThe INA228 is an amazing power monitoring chip, with best-of-everything support: up to 85...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/back-in-stock-adafruit-ina228-i2c-85v-20-bit-high-or-low-side-power-monitor-stemma-qt-qwiic/

From the GitHub release page:This is CircuitPython 9.0.4, the latest bugfix release of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release.WARNING for nRF52 boards only: If your board has an nRF52 UF2 boo...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/circuitpython-9-0-4-released/

BACK IN STOCK – Adafruit USB Type C Power Delivery Dummy Breakout – I2C or Fixed – HUSB238The HUSB238 USB PD sink chip is neat in that you can either use jumpers (really, resistor selection...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/back-in-stock-adafruit-usb-type-c-power-delivery-dummy-breakout-i2c-or-fixed-husb238/

Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week! Two new product picks will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, TODAY!Check out the livestream right here inside this product page and th...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/jps-product-pick-of-the-week-4pm-eastern-today-4-16-24-adafruit-adafruit-newproductpick/

In an American town devastated by toxic draining, a partnerships between university professors, conservationists, and artists, toxic waste is being transformed into pigments. Here’s more from C...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/environmental-waste-transformed-into-art/

Today Boston Dynamics announced the retirement of their Atlas robot. Boston Dynamics shared this video on Youtube!For almost a decade, Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the next generat...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/farewell-to-hd-atlas/

Jane’s Walk NYC 2024 weekend is only a couple weekends away!Jane’s Walk 2024 weekend is May 3rd, 4th, and 5th. During the weekend, the simple act of exploring the city is enhanced with person...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/janes-walk-nyc-2024/

MattKC on YouTube has apparently done something no one else had thought of tackling: getting the .NET software framework from Windows 98 to work on Windows 95.The biggest hurdle was getting .NET ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/thousands-of-apps-now-work-on-windows-95-with-retro-net-backport/

If you missed this week’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 new...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/icymi-python-on-microcontrollers-newsletter-new-mainline-python-versions-new-raspberry-pi-hardware-and-more-circuitpython-python-micropython-raspberry_pi/

Fun build from maker Markus Opitzk! The end result is both functional and friendly; a less-stress approach to timekeeping.To be honest: If you’re not working, you don’t really need an exact t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/574158/

Michael Gartley, a researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology, will join a team led by the University of Texas at El Paso to study space debris. Using Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Imag...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/investigating-unresolved-space-objects/

BACK IN STOCK – Adafruit Proto Under Plate PiCowBell for Pico – Reset Button & STEMMA QTThe Adafruit Proto Under Plate PiCowBell is intended to be treated like a mini solder-less proto pl...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/back-in-stock-adafruit-proto-under-plate-picowbell-for-pico-reset-button-stemma-qt/

NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit USB Host FeatherWing with MAX3421ELots of microcontrollers these days have USB ports on them, to program or debug, act like a keyboard or disk drive, or simply send data...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/new-product-adafruit-usb-host-featherwing-with-max3421e/

NEW PRODUCT – ELECFREAKS Smart Cutebot Pro Programming Robot Car for micro:bitThis fully assembled and ready-to-rock robot smart car is the nicest we’ve seen and is incredibly easy to use wit...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/new-product-elecfreaks-smart-cutebot-pro-programming-robot-car-for-microbit/

The awesome engineers and musicians over at Look Mum No Computer partnered with Lego to make the Lego Minecraft Shuffle. Here’s more from Look Mum No Computer:a project i did for lego / minecra...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/step-sequencer-made-with-legos-musicmonday/

NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit BNO055 + BMP280 BFF Add-On for QT PyOur QT Py boards are a great way to make very small microcontroller projects that pack a ton of power – and now we have a way for yo...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/new-product-adafruit-bno055-bmp280-bff-add-on-for-qt-py/

New Products 4/12/24 Featuring Adafruit Infrared IR Remote Receiver – STEMMA JST PH 2mm! (Video) ELECFREAKS Smart Cutebot Pro Programming Robot Car for micro:bit (0:09) Fine Tip ESD Plastic Poi...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/new-products-4-12-24-featuring-adafruit-infrared-ir-remote-receiver-stemma-jst-ph-2mm-video/

The Knight Rider Historians’ YouTube channel recently showed off an excellent KITT replica that uses a Raspberry Pi and ChatGPT to work as an interactive prop.This KITT prop is designed to re...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/bringing-kitt-from-knight-rider-to-life-using-chatgpt-and-a-raspberry-pi-4/

This week at my desk, we played around with this CH552-based QT Py board before the chip shortage. Now parts are plentiful, so we made some prototypes and are trying out the CH55xduino board supp...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/desk-of-ladyada-the-8051-throwback-episode-ch552-deskofladyada-adafruit-adafruit/

No, that’s not a typo. Alexander Miller created a fable of emergence that brings together Pandora and Dr. John Conway in the Game of Hope. Fantastic find via flowingdata.Conway led Pandora to a...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/conways-game-of-hope/

This week on the Great Search, we saw someone on social media talking about repairing an old device that has a ‘split’ supply with multiple voltages.Usually your AC-DC adapter converts 110~22...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/the-great-search-multi-voltage-split-ac-dc-power-supplies-thegreatsearch-digikey-digikey/

Troy Sheets decided to develop the $199 Blipblox, an affordable kid-friendly synthesizer designed for ages 3 to up allow music making without a bunch of expensive equipment.“I thought that ther...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/musical-toy-startup-playtime-engineering-wants-to-simplify-electronic-music-making-for-kids/

NesHacker takes a look at how Nintendo developed Zelda’s save system. We appreciate how the video gets into the technical nitty gritty.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/how-zelda-saves-your-game/

Once upon a time, the marketing campaigns for movies required a great poster. The poster had to condense the core idea and overall tone of the film into a single image using art, typography, and ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/14/the-art-of-science-fiction-movie-posters-classic-edition-scifisunday/

ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UPWe’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 hand...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/14/adafruit-weekly-editorial-round-up-national-robotics-week-which-circuitpython-board-is-right-for-you-more/

Mike on the Leaded Solder blog got a really good deal on a Fujitsu FM-8, the big, brown predecessor of the FM-7. It was missing a few parts and needed some care.Officially the Fujitsu Micro 8, t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/14/restoring-a-fujitsu-fm-8-computer-vintagecomputing/

Spending any amount of time with this mapping tool from the Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice is a bit overwhelming considering the sheer amount data and what the data shows. Ex...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/14/nyc-environmental-justice-mapping-tool-shows-users-environmental-hazards-and-more/

As a part of its Overlooked series, The New York Times recently highlighted the fascinating life of Lizzie Magie. Magie invented the game that would be coopted and turned into Monopoly, one of th...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/13/overlooked-no-more-lizzie-magie-the-unknown-inventor-behind-monopoly/

Browse through all that’s new here!NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEKELECFREAKS Smart Cutebot Pro Programming Robot Car for micro:bit: This fully assembled and ready-to-rock robot smart car is the nicest w...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/13/adafruit-new-products-this-week-featuring-the-adafruit-infrared-ir-remote-receiver/

 Some say movie posters are a lost art. Those people might have missed a few things. We may not experience movie posters the way college students around the country do, or the way we did back in...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/13/the-art-of-science-fiction-movie-posters-21st-century-edition-scifisunday/

Some folks who traveled four hours or four days to experience totatlity during the recent solar eclipse were disappointed when their viewing experience was disrupted by cloud cover. But some of t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/13/bein-followed-by-a-moon-shadow-spacesaturday/