Boeing awarded Star Wars tech patent for energy force fields #SciFiSunday

From blog.adafruit.com 7 years ago in Platforms Stores

From Geek: The boffins at Boeing haven’t just been watching a lot of Star Wars lately, they’ve been experimenting in the lab trying to recreate some of its defense ideas. And one of those ideas has just been awarded a patent by USPTO entitled “Method and system for shockwave attenuation...

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‘Super-Earths’ Could Host Alien Life for 84 Billion Years, Study Finds

From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Super-earths is catchy but really just refers to very large planets that aren’t quite massive enough to be ‘ice giant’ status. New research suggest that many of these could host life, consequently expanding the search-net of life in the cosmos....

The Black Roots of Disco, House, and Techno #MusicMonday

From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in Platforms Stores

That music you listen to probably wouldn’t be possible without techno, house, and disco. And all of those musical forms were founded, developed, and perfected by black musicians. Here’s more from CDM:And if some of those connections sound far-flung to...

Making the Metro M4 @adafruit #manufacturingmonday #manufacturing

From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in Platforms Stores

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Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Shows Us How to Find Joy in Climate Action

From blog.adafruit.com 19 hours ago in Platforms Stores

In this TED talk, marine biologist, policy expert, writer, Brooklyn native and co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, The All We Can Save Project and How to Save a Planet Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson tell us how together we can play...

2022 Developer Survey Results: HTML top for learning to code @StackOverflow

From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in Platforms Stores

The 2022 Stack Overflow Developers Survey contains many insights into how the developer community is doing. One of the results to highlight: what languages are people learning to code with: 2022 marks JavaScript’s tenth year in a row as the...

A Web Serial API demo @SparkFun

From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in Platforms Stores

WebTerminalDemo is a simple demo of the Web Serial API which implements a bare-bones serial terminal, now on GitHub by the SparkX branch of SparkFun. This demo uses TextEncoderStream and TextDecoderStream to encode/decode the serial stream, so it only deals in...

Mars 2112: A Space Odyssey – The History of Times Square’s Weirdest Themed Restaurant

From blog.adafruit.com 21 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Really fun bit of dining history in this video from Alex Novell.As someone who ate at Mars 2112 multiple times (I asked my mom for an explanation, she declined to comment), I can say it was a truly baffling experience....

Martin Gouterman #Pride2022

From blog.adafruit.com 21 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Martin Gouterman was a groundbreaking chemist and activist. From the Wiley Online Library abstract of An Exemplary Gay Scientist and Mentor: Martin Gouterman:Martin Gouterman was an iconic figure of porphyrin science. Using his eponymous four-orbital model, he accomplished a grand...

PVC Pipe Multi-Flute #MusicMonday

From blog.adafruit.com 22 hours ago in Platforms Stores

If you live in New York, then you have had folks visit you in New York. And if you’ve had folks visit you in New York, you may at some point have heard the question “Why don’t we go see...

Giant Dandelion Sphere

From blog.adafruit.com 24 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Wowzer! That’s one giant dandelion (or dandelion-looking plant).Check out this rad video from Peter Brown on YouTube, who came across this marvelous plant and decided to cast it in resin, which was a little tricker than anticipated.Want To Make this...