Raspberry Pi Lego Robot #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

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

From Computerphile on YouTube: This Lego drone has a mind of its own (kind of) – Luke Geeson shows us a Lego Mindstorm car hacked together with a Raspberry Pi. Read more Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry...

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Multi-omic Microsampling

From blog.adafruit.com 8 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Researchers at Stanford Medicine have shown they can measure thousands of molecules from a single drop of blood. Here’s to hoping doctor’s appointments in the coming years are less stressful.Instead of focusing on any single protein, metabolite or inflammatory marker,...

The 403-page Dungeons & Dragons game system is now licensed under Creative Commons

From blog.adafruit.com 10 hours ago in Platforms Stores

Cool news for tabletop fans. Via Tech CrunchIt’s now official: Dungeons & Dragons is licensed under the Creative Commons. This makes the popular tabletop roleplaying game “freely available for any use,” Dungeons & Dragons executive producer Kyle Brink wrote in...

Determining the Age of Ancient Galaxies #SpaceSaturday

From blog.adafruit.com 12 hours ago in Platforms Stores

A mystery that began with a radio signal that has been traveling since almost the beginning of the universe has led astronomers on a journey of discovery that led to some of the most distant galaxies ever discovered. Here’s more...

We take apart the Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes Musical Toy #BabyEinstein #takeapart #adafruit

From blog.adafruit.com 15 hours ago in Platforms Stores

We’re taking apart the Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes Musical Toy, we’ll soon replace the electronics, and then the music, make it Wi-Fi enabled to transfer new songs on it, light shows and more. Probably will put The Cure on...

A new BFF with I2S audio amplifier

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

Introducing a new BFF for your tiny audio projects! This sketch-of-a-board adds a MAX98357 3W I2S amplifier to your favorite QT Py or Xiao boards.The pins have been picked to work with RP2040, ESP32 series, and nRF52840 boards. For SAMD21...

Turning a Drill Press Into a Disc Sander

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

This is such a cool idea — turning a drill press into a disc sander using a thick, CNC-cut acrylic disc, a mandrel, and adhesive-backed sanding discs.If you have access to a CNC, you could obviously do this yourself, but...

When Screens were Secondary: Mario Bellini’s TCV 250 for Olivetti

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

Fun post from Core77 that revisits Mario Bellini’s TCV 250, designed for Olivetti in 1966. It’s a good reminder that screens weren’t always front and center on our desktops. As the post points out, keyboards were much bulkier back then,...

John Park’s CircuitPython Parsec: List Filtering @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #circuitpython

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

Get more (less?) out of lists with List Filtering! To learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org

A Rustic Cabin Diorama Made Out of Matchsticks and Popsicle Sticks

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

Here is your maker visual ASMR for the day. Watch as a little cabin in the woods is constructed out of wooden sticks, styrofoam, bits of tree branches and bushes, sand, and other simple materials. The results are jaw-dropping.

Physical “Spambots” Housed in Spam Cans

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

How cool is this? Artist Neil Mendoza has created a little army of 4-key literal Spambots (bots in Spam cans) that collaborate with each other and a deep learning AI to type out an altered version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave...