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ASK AN ENGINEER 2/7/2024 LIVE! – video.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/07/ask-an-engineer-2-7-2024-live/

The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! 2/7/2024 – video.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/07/show-and-tell-2-7-2024/

We are helping to get the word out about the LED Wearable Gallery by Dazed! New York Fashion Week is typically reserved for big and established brands to showcase fashion. A ticket to attend ofte...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/05/led-wearable-gallery-by-dazed/

ASK AN ENGINEER 1/31/2024 LIVE! – video.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/31/ask-an-engineer-1-31-2024-live/

The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! 1/31/2024 – video.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/31/show-and-tell-1-31-2024/

User accounts on Adafruit will be implementing more security features to help keep your account secure: like many sites, we’ll send email notifications for every new sign-in detected on your ac...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/30/new-sign-in-email-notifications-feature-added-to-adafruit-accounts/

At EuroPython 2022 in Dublin last summer, Trans*Code held its joyous return after the pandemic. This year, in collaboration with the trans/NB community in Czechia, they will be back to continue b...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/05/04/transcode-event-at-europython-23-in-prague-python-europython-trans/

New York, NY – April 1, 2023 – Today, global ticketing and event technology platform Ticketmaster and electronics manufacturer Adafruit announced their plans to merge, with a new company, nam...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/04/01/ticketmaster-and-adafruit-announce-groundbreaking-merger-ticketfruit-to-revolutionize-the-purchase-of-raspberry-pi-4s/

HERE WE GO! We are working on the Adafruit Customer Support Forums, adding updates and doing some maintenance which will add new features and many benefits for the community. We appreciate the pa...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/08/13/adafruit-customer-support-forums-updates-and-maintenance-begins/

On Saturday, August 13, 2022 – we will be working on the Adafruit Customer Support Forums, adding updates and doing some maintenance which will add new features and many benefits for the commun...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/08/12/adafruit-customer-support-forums-updates-and-maintenance/

Starting July 16, 2022, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline updated their contact number to “988” as part of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. We wanted to get this information out th...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/08/01/the-national-suicide-prevention-lifeline-is-now-988-suicide-and-crisis-lifeline/

On the latest episode of The CircuitPython Show, Paul Cutler interviews Adafruit engineer Anne Barela about CircuitPython, retro tech and much more. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv9GtW...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/06/15/anne-barela-joins-paul-cutler-on-the-circuitpython-show-circuitpython-python-circuitpyshow-prcutler/

On the latest CrowdSupply Teardown Sessions livestream on YouTube, Helen Leigh talked to Adafruit engineer Anne Barela about open source hardware and CircuitPython. Link: https://www.youtube.c...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/06/01/crowdsupply-interviewed-anne-barela-on-circuitpython-circuitpython-anne_engineer/

On the next episode of  Tom’s Hardware The Pi Cast, the team is joined by Anne Barela, an engineer with Adafruit working on CircuitPython and the Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter.They wil...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/20/tuesday-toms-hardware-pi-cast-hosts-anne-to-discuss-python-on-microcontrollers-more-tomshardware-circuitpython-anne_engineer/

International Transgender Day of Visibility (also called TDOV, Transgender Day of Visibility) is an annual event occurring on March 31 dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/03/31/transgender-day-of-visibility-march-31st-tdov-tdov2022-transdayofvisibility-istandwithtrans/

Update March 7, 2022: We appreciate the feedback from the community and our customers, and additionally emailed users as part of this disclosure (and Discord, live video shows). We apologize for ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/03/04/a-github-repository-was-public-viewable/

We have an Adabox 20 shipping update – it’s good news, sorta! Due to the global supply chain crisis, and global shipping crisis, we were almost going to need to let customers know this Adabox...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/10/22/adabox-20-shipping-update-good-news-sorta/

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 vacc...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/08/31/a-mrna-vaccine-badge/

Here is a Python script to show the number of main repositories on Github. The script takes the top 1000 repositories on Github based on how many stars they have and shows how many main, master a...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/08/19/a-python-script-to-show-number-of-github-repos-using-main-branch-python/

https://youtu.be/45Zt92dDqDA?list=PL9EykGlsZaOSMsOe6jJgMy-C7Iw24o_BGBlack Entrepreneurs NYC (BE NYC) – SBS / Black Business Month – August is Black Business Month, a month for uplifting and s...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/08/12/black-entrepreneurs-nyc-be-nyc-sbs-black-business-month/

Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) recommendations for Neutral Nomenclature in Pro Audio – The Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) is working with its members and ind...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/07/10/professional-audio-manufacturers-alliance-pama-recommendations-for-neutral-nomenclature-in-pro-audio/

There are approved-by-Arduino closed source Libraries in the Arduino Library manager, we recently saw the following library added – MCHPTouch Library for Arduino, and did not know how this work...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/28/closed-source-libraries-in-the-arduino-library-manager/

The I2C page for the Adafruit Trinkey QT2040 guide has the image (above) which uses the terms controller and peripheral, the page also explains the nomenclature, and references the previous namin...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/24/controller-and-peripheral/

Juneteenth Is Now A U.S. Holiday. Here’s One Woman Behind The Decades-Long Fight : NPR – Opal Lee is 94, and she’s doing a holy dance. It’s a dance she said she and her ancestors have bee...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/18/juneteenth-is-now-a-u-s-holiday-heres-one-woman-behind-the-decades-long-fight/

Juneteenth National Independence Day Act signed into law, now a Federal Holiday – The holiday will be the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983, and will be...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/17/juneteenth-national-independence-day-act-signed-into-law-now-a-federal-holiday/

Micropython replacing “master/slave” with “controller/peripheral”.Python, CircuitPython, Micropython, repos at Arduino, SparkFun, Linux, GitHub, Microsoft, and more are updating or have m...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/12/micropython-updating-to-controller-peripheral/

Black In Astro week is June 20 – June 26. Check out https://blackinastro.com and @BlackInAstro on twitter.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/12/black-in-astro-blackinastro-blackinastroweek2021-week-is-june-20-june-26/

From June of last year, adding this to the ongoing efforts … Regarding Git and Branch Naming – Software Freedom Conservancy – Both Conservancy and the Git project are aware that the initial...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/07/git-and-branch-naming-software-freedom-conservancy/

Here is a note we sent to the EU and UK subscribers, and Switzerland today (short version, we will try to resume to the EU and UK and other locations Switzerland, but for now, Adabox 18 was the l...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/07/adabox-in-the-eu-and-uk/

MOSI/MISO and 140 Years Of Wrong – The engineers who developed SPI in the late 1970s had to come up with a shorthand to indicate that one component controlled the data dialogue and gave the ord...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/03/mosi-miso-and-140-years-of-wrong-make/

Over the course of the next few weeks, we are switching the CircuitPython repositories to use main as their default branch instead of master. This change is a continuation of past efforts to depa...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/01/adafruit-switching-default-branch-of-circuitpython-repositories-from-master-to-main/

The Blue’s Clues Pride Parade 🏳️‍🌈 Sing-Along with Nina West – video. Blue’s Clue’s And You Pride Parade sing-along to the ‘Families Go Marching’ proudly.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/05/29/the-blues-clues-pride-parade-%F0%9F%8F%B3%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8C%88-sing-along-with-nina-west/

The Python programming language repository migrates to main on GitHub… – “The CPython repository’s default branch was renamed to main after the Python 3.10b1 release. If you had cloned ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/05/04/python-cpython-the-python-programming-language-repository-migration-to-main-on-github/

Here are resources and support for – Brooklyn Center, MN – Daunte Wright’s, family, community and more. The Daunte Wright Sr. Memorial Fund (organized by Daunte’s Aunt and family members)...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/04/15/support-resources-brooklyn-center-mn-daunte-wrights-family-community-and-more/

Xenia, the Linux mascot via Anil – video.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/04/11/the-story-of-xenia-linuxs-forgotten-mascot/

Transgender Day of Visibility – Each year on March 31, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) to raise awareness about transgender people. It is a day to celebrate the lives a...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/03/31/transgender-day-of-visibility-transdayofvisibility-tdov/

Our team and community have shared some resources for help in Atlanta, including the verified fundraisers for families of the Atlanta-area shootings and for organizations to help stop hate & viol...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/03/19/resources-education-fundraisers-and-support-safety-for-asian-americans-and-pacific-islanders-aapi-stopasianhate/

Update to our previous post “National Association of Manufacturers Call on GSA to Sign Letter of Ascertainment” – The GSA has informed president-elect Joe Biden the administration is ready ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/23/update-national-association-of-manufacturers-call-on-gsa-to-sign-letter-of-ascertainment-shopfloornam-gsaemily-usgsa/

Manufacturers Call on GSA to Sign Letter of Ascertainment – National Association of Manufacturers—NAM The leadership of the National Association of Manufacturers—NAM President and CEO Jay T...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/19/national-association-of-manufacturers-call-on-gsa-to-sign-letter-of-ascertainment-shopfloornam-gsaemily-usgsa/

The OSHW Community Survey 2020 from the Open Source Hardware Association was published with a lot of details – “In 2020 we conducted the third OSHW Community Survey (see 2012 and 2013), wh...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/19/about-40-of-the-open-source-hardware-is-from-a-minority-and-woman-owned-business-enterprise-ohsummit-opensource-mwbe/

Oct 2020 — MWTH PROJECT – Collect Pond Park, Centre St, Lower Manhattan NY, 10013 October 14, 2020 – April 30, 2021 NEW YORK – MWTH project and NYC Parks is pleased to present Medusa With...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/15/medusa-with-the-head-of-perseus-by-luciano-garbati-nyc-october-14-2020-april-30-2021/

About Us: Bank Greenwood. Modern Banking for the Culture. – It’s no secret the current financial system has failed Black and Latinx communities. Our communities suffer from a lack of wealth, ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/11/greenwood-modern-banking-for-the-culture-makerbusiness-bankgreenwood-bankgreenwood-bankblack/

Washington Square park 8/24/2020 – Jacob Blake was shot 7 times in the back as he entered the driver’s side door with his three kids inside (ages 3, 5, and 8) by the Kenosha, Wisconsin police...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/24/washington-square-park-8-24-2020-jacob-blake-marsha-johnson-elijah-mcclain/

Why Oprah Gave Up Her Cover for the First Time Ever to Honor Breonna Taylor – Oprah Magazine: This story is from the September 2020 issue of O, on stands August 11. To continue the fight for Br...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/03/breonna-taylor-cover-of-oprah-magazine-sayhername/

It’s been 133 days since Breonna Taylor was murdered. As part of our actions as a company adafruit.com/blacklivesmatter, we are asking our teams and our community to use Color of Change‘s cal...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/24/dial-844-298-2731-now-to-demand-city-leadership-get-justiceforbre-breonnataylor-sayhername/

Hate speech soaring online – “Since the day after George Floyd’s death on May 26, the rate of hate speech online in the U.S., as tracked by one digital measurement firm, has been nearly thr...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/22/hate-speech-soaring-online-code-of-conduct-for-communities/

Companies to Watch: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic — Tech:NYC … Adafruit!

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/19/adafruit-companies-to-watch-responding-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-technyc-technyc/

John Lewis, rest in peace. “… when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, say something, do something. Get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble” – John Lewis Rela...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/18/john-lewis/

Video from Discovery – “Dear Grant, thanks for the wild ride. Love, The MythBusters Family.”

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/16/remembering-grant-imahara/

Grant Imahara, Engineer Who Co-Hosted ‘MythBusters,’ Dies at 49. Mr. Imahara also worked behind the scenes on the “Matrix” sequels, among other films, and operated the robot R2-D2 in the ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/14/grant-imahara/