The First Wearable Electric Gown #WearableWednesday

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

How do you literally outshine 1200 bejeweled party guests at a masquerade ball? By dressing as the latest advancement in technology of course! This is what Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt did in the 1883 masquerade ball hosted by Alva Vanderbilt, an Adafruit forum member informs us. While other attendees dressed as...

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Bricked Dice Box #3DThursday #3DPrinting

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

hillbilly1806 shares: This is my take on a dice box for the tower. I used the brick from the tower so that the tray and tower match exactly. Despite not having a ramp from the exit of the tower, around...

ASK AN ENGINEER 3/22/2023 LIVE!

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

ASK AN ENGINEER 3/22/2023 LIVE! – video.

SHOW and TELL 3/22/2023 with @johnedgarpark #ShowandTell @adafruit

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

The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! 3/22/2023 at 7:30pm Eastern. Video. Hosted this week by John Park.

Soft-sensor-saurus

From blog.adafruit.com 14 hours ago in Platforms Stores

This neat sensor toy is a great way to test your e-textiles skills. melmomo on instructables share their project:Soft-sensor-saurus is an interactive e-textiles soft toy. It has an embedded pressure sensor and an LED globe. When you give the dinosaur...

Costly Mistakes To Avoid When Developing Wearable Tech #WearableWednesday

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

Wearables are a massively expanding industry. If you are planning on bringing a wearable device to market you would be wise to heed some advice. Forbes has this list from a panel of Technology Experts on what to avoid.The growth...

Chien-Shiung Wu #WHM23 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

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

Chien-Shiung Wu and her graduate student, Irving Shaknov were the first to document entanglement between photons, inspiring decades of research in quantum foundations. Scientific American explains how her research laid the foundation for the Nobel Prize Committee honored experimental work...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 3/21/23 QT Py SAMD21 @adafruit @johnparkmakes #adafruit

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

If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick(s) of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s pick is the Adafruit QT Py – SAMD21 Dev Board with STEMMA QT! Watch the video to find...

Adding a vintage ISA bus slot to a modern computer #VintageComputing #Retrocomputing @rasteri

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

Andy on Twitter and YouTube has demonstrated the dISAppointment board. It’s a 16 bit ISA slot (which were in old computers from the PC inception to the 1990s). How can a fairly modern computer be interfaced with an ISA card?In...

REMINDER: SHOW and TELL 3/22/2023 with @johnedgarpark #ShowandTell @adafruit

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

The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! 3/22/2023 at 7:30pm Eastern. Video. Hosted this week by John Park.

The Macintosh art of Susan Kare #MARCHintosh #mac #PixelArt @SusanKare

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

Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and Creative Director at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985. She was a design consultant...