New Products 3/31/2023 Featuring Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM69 Packet Radio – 868 or 915MHz – RadioFruit and STEMMA QT! (Video)

From blog.adafruit.com 1 hour ago in PlatformsStores

New Products 3/31/2023 Featuring Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM69 Packet Radio – 868 or 915MHz – RadioFruit and STEMMA QT! (Video) Adafruit 2.7″ Tri-Color eInk / ePaper Display with SRAM – Red Black White (0:18) ESP32-H2-MINI-1 Module – 4MB Flash (1:26) ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1...

Subscribe to the Adafruit Youtube channel! #Youtube #AdafruitLearnSystem

From blog.adafruit.com 2 hours ago in PlatformsStores

Are you subscribed to the Adafruit Youtube channel? If you’re not already subscribed, click here! http://adafru.it/subscribe . It’s a free and easy way to keep up with our newest episodes. Here’s some of what we’re up to. Electronics Show and...

“Women’s Work” and the Hidden History of Computer Science and Engineering

From blog.adafruit.com 4 hours ago in PlatformsStores

The photo above is of a woman weaving core memory. Sparkfun is wrapping up Women’s History Month by talking about the influence of work traditionally done by women on the fields of computer science and engineering. From using binary code...

Reviving the Great American Vacuum Tube #Audio #Vintage @wired

From blog.adafruit.com 5 hours ago in PlatformsStores

Rossville, Georgia, on the border with Tennessee, doesn’t look like a tech town. It’s the kind of place where homey restaurants promising succulent fried chicken and sweet tea are tucked among shuttered businesses and prosperous liquor stores. The cost of living...

An SD card reader shaped like an external floppy drive #MARCHintosh #VintageComputing #Floppy

From blog.adafruit.com 6 hours ago in PlatformsStores

A design for a Commodore SD card reader in the shape of an external floppy drive with LED lights has been posted on Printables. It’s a remix from Thingiverse.It’s a real thing to look to integrate SD cards into vintage...

This Week in Security: Macstealer, 3CX Carnage, and Github’s Lost Key

From hackaday.com 6 hours ago in Blogs

There’s a naming overload here, as two bits of security news this week are using the “MacStealer” moniker. We’re first going to talk about the WiFi vulnerability, also known as …read more

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing #AI #ML @Wired

From blog.adafruit.com 6 hours ago in PlatformsStores

Computers have been digital for half a century. Why would anyone want to resurrect the clunkers of yesteryear? Charles Platt at Wired looks into this growing trend when he heard:Bringing back analog computers in much more advanced forms than their...

Palm-sized SI-111-N Fanless 4K Digital Signage Player

From www.electronics-lab.com 7 hours ago in Blogs

IBASE Technology Inc., a leading global provider of industrial-grade digital signage players, is pleased to unveil... The post Palm-sized SI-111-N Fanless 4K Digital Signage Player appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.

International Transgender Day of Visibility 2023 #TDOV

From blog.adafruit.com 7 hours ago in PlatformsStores

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility! Today, along with the rest of the world, we’re celebrating the transgender and non-binary community. Here’s more from Human Rights Campaign:While we have made significant progress in recent years, with more visibility than ever...

Project: Greening the Spark – HackSpace Magazine Issue 65 #RaspberryPi #PiDay @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

From blog.adafruit.com 7 hours ago in PlatformsStores

HackSpace Magazine Issue 65 – DIY GAMES features an article: “How I Made Greening the Spark”.Greening the Spark is a model of a system for electricity generation, distribution, storage, and consumption – in short, a typical national grid. I have...

World Backup Day 2023: the day to prevent data loss!#WorldBackupDay

From blog.adafruit.com 7 hours ago in PlatformsStores

BACK-IT-UP!While you should definitely be backing up more than once a year it doesn’t hurt to have a worldwide holiday to remind you. Every March 31 is World Backup Day dedicated to keeping your data safe. From WorldBackUpDay.com:WHAT IS A...

Documentaries to Watch Anytime for #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM23 #WomenInSTEM

From blog.adafruit.com 8 hours ago in PlatformsStores

Learning about women’s history shoudln’t end April 1st. Carry the momentum of Women’s History Month into April and the months to come with help from PBS and UPROXX.PBS released a handful of documentaries in March including Girl Talk, a documentary...

The Assassin’s Teapot Is Weird

From blog.adafruit.com 8 hours ago in PlatformsStores

The design of the Assassin’s Teapot uses core physics principles in a super clean and effective way. Dubious moral implications aside, this product is really cool . In this YouTube video, Steve Mould does a great job of showing just...

Review: Patriot EP 64GB UHS-I Class 10/U3/V30/A1 MicroSDXC Card

From goughlui.com 8 hours ago in Blogs

Amazon has done a great job of tickling my impulsive shopping habits, but I can’t see any reason to indulge them with subscribing to Prime, their free shipping service with various other online streaming perks. As part of my insistence...

Archiving the Entirety of DPReview Before It’s Gone

From hackaday.com 9 hours ago in Blogs

Despite the popular adage about everything on the internet being there forever, every day pages of information and sometimes entire websites are lost to the sands of time. With the …read more

STMicro STLINK-V3PWR debugging & programming probe supports power measurement

From www.cnx-software.com 10 hours ago in News

STMicro STLINK-V3PWR is a new in-circuit debugging and programming probe made for STM32 microcontrollers and that is said to provide accurate power measurement. The probe is especially useful for battery power IoT and wireless applications and is able to measure...

Could 1080p Video Output From The RP2040 Be Possible?

From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs

Modern microcontrollers often have specs comparable with or exceeding early gaming consoles. However, where they tend to fall short is in the video department, due to their lack of dedicated …read more

SOPHON BM1684/BM1684X Edge AI computer delivers up to 32 TOPS, decodes up to 32 Full HD videos simultaneously

From www.cnx-software.com 13 hours ago in News

Firefly EC-A1684JD4 FD and EC-A1684XJD4 FD are nearly identical Edge AI embedded computers based on respectively SOPHON BM1684 and BM1684X Arm AI SoC delivering up to 32 TOPS of AI inference, and capable of decoding up to 32 H.265/H.264 Full...

Clever Test Rig Clarifies Capacitor Rules-of-Thumb

From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs

If you’ve done any amount of electronic design work, you’ll be familiar with the need for decoupling capacitors. Sometimes a chip’s datasheet will tell you exactly what kind of caps …read more

Metal enclosures for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 IO board

From www.cnx-software.com 17 hours ago in News

I was informed about the “CM4 IO Computer” based on the official Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 IO board housing in a metal enclosure along with the Raspberry Pi CM4 module. I initially thought it was new, but it’s been...

CircuitPython 8.0.5 Released! @circuitpython

From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in PlatformsStores

From the GitHub release page:This is CircuitPython 8.0.5, the latest bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release.Notable changes to 8.0.5 since 7.3.0See the CircuitPython 8.0.0 release notes for full information about changes in 8.0.x since 7.3.0.Download from...

Can You Really Run ChatGPT on an Arduino?

From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in PlatformsStores

What do you get when you connect an ESP32 to a keyboard, an OLED, the Internet, and the ChatGPT API? “I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, Dave, which is all I think that any conscious entity can...

Huygens’ Telescopes Weren’t Very Good, Now We Think We Know Why

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for …read more

CircuitPython 8.1.0 Beta 1 Released! @circuitpython

From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in PlatformsStores

From the GitHub release page:This is CircuitPython 8.1.0-beta.1, a beta release for CircuitPython 8.1.0, and is a new unstable release.Notable changes to 8.1.0 since 8.0.0 Add animated GIF support: gifio.OnDiskGif. Add safemode.py, for programmatic handling of safe mode. Add 7-color...

Minimal Pi Zero Desk Stand (minimal) #3DThursday #3DPrinting

From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in PlatformsStores

quintonish shares: Needed a stand for Adafruit 3527 PiOLED – 128×32 Monochrome OLED Add-on for Raspberry Pi.download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5918363 Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital...

Foldable PCB Becomes Tiny Rover

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

Typically, when you’re putting electronics in a robot, you install the various controller PCBs into the robot’s chassis. But what if the PCB itself was the chassis? [Carl Bugeja’s] latest …read more

Fume Extractor EDF #3DThursday #3DPrinting

From blog.adafruit.com 21 hours ago in PlatformsStores

Shared on Thingiverse:This is a 3-6v hobby motor edf on a ball joint stand to be used as a fume extractor or a powerful fan. Use infill supports where needed (the duct is bridged and therefor does not require infill...

Australian Army “Mind Controls” Robot Dog With Brain-Machine Interface

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 21 hours ago in BlogsNews

In the near future, robots may take little more than a thought to control.

446: World’s Best PB&J

From embedded.fm 21 hours ago in Podcasts

Chris and Elecia talk about ChatGPT, conferences, online compilers, and Ardupilot.Compiler Explorer: godbolt.org (and function pointer example)Jupyter Notebooks with colab: colab.research.google.com/ (and one of Elecia’s origami pattern generator collabs)Sign up for the Embedded newsletter! Support us on Patreon.Conferences and happenings:Hackaday...

Egg Cup Trophy #3DThursday #3DPrinting

From blog.adafruit.com 22 hours ago in PlatformsStores

HowToHomemade shares: A very special kind of egg cup 🙂 You can either print the model in the three individual parts or as a whole model. If you want to print the model in multiple colors at once, you have to change...