Happy Chinese New Year 2020: Celebrating the Year of the Rat!

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

Today marks the beginning of the year of the Rat. In New York rats often have a negative connotation but in the lunar zodiac the Rat signifies “wealth and surplus,” from ChineseNewYear.netRats are clever, quick thinkers; successful, but content with living a quiet and peaceful life.Through the next couple of...

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Learning More about Proxima Centauri #SpaceSaturday

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

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our own Sol, even though it is not visible to the naked eye. Scientists are using microlensing to learn more about this low-light neighbor. Here’s more from Centauri Dreams:Here we’re in new terrain....

Creating a Dingy, Burned Out Cyberpunk Bar for Gaming #cyberpunk

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

On Tabletop Time, the team came together to create a cyberpunk bar for their ongoing REBOOT.EXE roleplaying game.I love the way they painted everything so drab and monochromatic, with pops of bright color and light effects to create the mood...

John Park’s CircuitPython Parsec: Setting Real Time Clock with NTP Timeserver @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #circuitpython

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

Learn to set your board’s RTC (real time clock) with the NTP time server using CircuitPython. ESP32-S2 TFT Feather: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5300Learn more about CircuitPython

On the hour: CrowdSupply interviews Anne Barela on CircuitPython

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

3PM Eastern, Noon Pacific, 8PM UK live:On this week’s Teardown Sessions livestream CrowdSupply and Helen Leigh be talking with Adafruit’s Anne Barela about open source hardware and CircuitPython. Join us tomorrow at noon Pacific to ask questions and you might...

Subscribe to the Adafruit Youtube channel! #Youtube #AdafruitLearnSystem

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

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...

New Products 5/26/2022 Featuring Pogo Pin Probe Clip – 2×5 1.27mm Pitch SWD! (Video)

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

New Products 5/26/2022 Featuring Pogo Pin Probe Clip – 2×5 1.27mm Pitch SWD! (Video) RP-SMA to w.FL / MHF3 / IPEX3 Adapter (0:09) Surface Mount Rotary Encoder – EC11J (1:40) Pogo Pin Probe Clip – 6 Pins with 2.54mm /...

Building a Medieval-Style Bushcraft House in the Woods

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

In this TA Outdoors video, they build an Anglo-Saxon-style house with thatch roof using simple hand tools. This medieval-era bushcraft building was inspired by the Anglo-Saxon “pit house”. “The Saxons occupied Britain from the 5th to the 11th centuries. Many...

Multi-room Spotify Controller #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

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

via jessyjones on instructablesMy use case was that I have four different audio players running Snapcast (open source multi room project) and I wanted to control the volume on each of them. These audio players are all running the Snapcast...

Catching Up with Clickspring’s Antikythera Project

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

For years now, Chris at the YouTube channel Clickspring has been reverse engineering a copy of the infamous Antikythera Mechanism, a hard-to-believe 2nd century B.C. clockwork computer. As much as possible, Chris has been trying to use the same technologies...

CircuitPython reaches 3,000 Stars on GitHub! #CircuitPython @GitHub @Adafruit

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

CircuitPython has reached 3,000+ Stars on GitHub today!CircuitPython is an education friendly open source derivative of MicroPython. CircuitPython supports use on educational development boards designed and sold by Adafruit and a number of other vendors in addition to single board computers (SBC) running the Blinka...