Most True Tales: On the Hazards of Field Work, Part One

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

Hey folks, Crow here. This time on MTT I present one of my own stories. For the first fifteen years of my professional career I was an industrial instrumentation and power controls design engineer. I made (along with my then-roommate and still one of my best friends–digital imaging expert Ed...

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1970 Moog Demo with Wendy Carlos @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #moog

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

This 1970 Moog synthesizer demo with Wendy Carlos is wonderful — from the BBC Archive:Electronic music composer Wendy Carlos – whose debut album Switched-On Bach has introduced a new audience to classical music – explains the fundamentals of electronic sound...

Adafruit’s Top 10 Blog Posts of June 2022 #StateOfTheFruit #AdafruitTopTen

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

1. An EFF Investigation: Mystery GPS tracker on a supporter’s car @EFF 2.Foxconn executive discusses the dramatically scaled back project in Wisconsin #makerbusiness 3.David Ahl places all his classic computing publications into the Public Domain4.This 1930s Video on How Differentials...

Touchdown: First Raspberry Pi-powered mini satellite finishes record flight #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

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

Nice article from ZDnet on the Pi Zero’s adventure in space with The Get Away Special Passive Attitude Control Satellite [GASPCAS].The first satellite to use Raspberry Pi Zero as its flight computer re-entered Earth’s atmosphere in May, completing a record...

The Great Search – Programmer/Debugger for ATSAMD21 Chips @Adafruit @DigiKey @MicrochipMakes

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

This week (video) we’ve got a request from someone who didn’t manage to get a J-Link Mini EDU before the part shortage kicked in. These things were great for use for programming just about any ARM chip, and are very...

A lightweight development web server for macOS/iOS/iPad OS #Apple #Development @Iconfactory

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

The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning, Mac OS X included the ability to run an Apache web server by clicking a Start button. About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder...

Smart Hockey Table @Raspberry_Pi #RaspberryPi #PiDay

From blog.adafruit.com 23 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Fun project from Bram Bossuyt shared via Instructables.So i decided to make one , so i can have it at home and if needed being able to easily transport it to somewhere else . The main goal is to have...

Smart Parking System using Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

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

They say in California a New Ager invented a parking deity named Goddess Squat. The New Ager would change “Goddess Squat, full of grace / please find me a legal parking space!” over and over again until a parking space...

Local Text Generation on Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

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

This project uses GPT-2 models to generate text on a Raspberry Pi locally. Here’s more from Michael Darby – 314Reactor via hackster.io: The goal of this project is to run GPT-2 models for text generation on Raspberry Pi 4, with...

Live Captioning with Azure Cognitive Services @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

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

Handy project + write-up from Jen Fox up on Hackstser.ioThis project uses Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services speech recognition* to generate real-time captions on a Raspberry Pi. You can also run this project in a.NET framework on a laptop or computer!Read...

PALPi V2 is a DIY Game Console #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

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

Learn how Arnov Sharma made PALPi V2 from this write up on Instructables or in the video above. No need to wait for restocks when you can DIYThe goal for making this project was to make a low-cost game console...