From the mail bag…

From blog.adafruit.com 4 months ago in Platforms Stores

From the mail bag!Hi Adafruit, Just wanted to say your weekly newsletters and variety of products are fantastic. I first fell in love with your products when I came across the “3.5mm (1/8″) 4-Pole (TRRS) Audio Plug Terminal Block” Not many places stock this items, and i find them extremely...

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An adjustable load – design and build @technoblogy

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

Technoblogy presents an adjustable load that provides a constant-current load for testing power supplies and batteries. It allows setting the load current to up to 1.05A, using a potentiometer, and displays the current on a three-digit LED display controlled by...

Fusion of Helios #ArtTuesday

From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Fusion of Helios is a 140 megapixel image of the sun created by Andrew McCarthy and Jason Guenzel. Here’s more from @AJamesMcCarthy on Twitter:A blend of science and art, this photo combined over 90,000 images meticulously layered and processed to...

Project: “My heart beats for you” #NeoPixels #CircuitPython #QTPy

From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Charlie Schick was inspired by this clever little Valentine’s Day card from the delightfully creative Charlyn (left), made with a wee Trinket M0 (a fave), NeoPixels (blikenlights!), laser cut parts, a 3D printed case, and rechargeable battery.I took a side step in my head and got a...

Designing PCIe interfaces and extenders

From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Matt Millman blogs about two designs which provide additional PCIe slots in modern computers.The first, above, is a small form factor OCuLink/U.2 To PCIe X4 adapter.Some time ago I designed an “as small as possible” adapter to make use of...

Legendary Science Fiction Author James Tiptree, Jr. — Who Was Really Alice Sheldon #WHM23 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

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

via NPR No one…has, to my knowledge, ever met Tiptree, ever seen him, ever talked with him on the phone. No one knows where he lives, what he looks like, what he does for a living…. He volunteers no information...

Restoring A $30,000 Neon Sign From The 1940s

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

Great video from Insider showing a professional restoration of a 1940s neon sign. There are few things that evoke nostalgia for early 20th century Americana quite as quickly and overwhelmingly as a neon sign.Howie Cohen, who owns Just Neon Sign...

Illustrations from an Arabic Machine Manuscript – c.1700

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in Platforms Stores

Some fascinating inventions from a ancient Turkish polymath. Reminscant of Da Vinci; some of Ismail al-Jazari‘s diagrams are practical some are a bit fantastical. From Open Culture.A resident of Diyar-Bakir, in modern-day Turkey, he was employed as a court engineer,...

John Park’s CircuitPython Parsec: DotStar LEDs #adafruit #circuitpython

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in Platforms Stores

#circuitpythonparsec How to use DotStar RGB LEDs in CircuitPython

The Great Muppet Synthesizer Caper #MusicMonday

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in Platforms Stores

Who better to explain how synthesizers work but Thomas Dolby, with help from some muppets? Here’s more from the Jim Henson Company:When Farkas buys a robot to help him get rid of the musicians of Faffner Hall on Make a...

MakeCode Arcade Extension for Visual Studio Code #makecode

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in Platforms Stores

The Microsoft MakeCode team has announced the preview release of the MakeCode Arcade extension for Visual Studio Code.You can now import your games into the Visual Studio Code environment, or even start a MakeCode Arcade game from scratch in VS...