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The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! Today, 8/17/2022 at 7:30pm Eastern.Hosted this week by Melissa LeBlanc-Williams and Liz Clark.

This beautiful DIY tutorial was shared by Arthur 3D origami on Youtube! If you want to try your hand at making some origami with a little more tech involved we’ve got a great guide in the Adafruit learn system that...

Aludel is a PCB base that accepts any microcontroller board that uses the Feather standard. Golioth created this to make hardware “swapability” possible, while using Zephyr to manage the firmware.During the current chip shortage, this allows for using the Feather...

The Jackie Robinson Museum was first designed in 2006, 14 years before the museum’s inaugural opening this month. Before that, the museum has existed as a concept imagined by Rachel Robinson for decades.Legacy institutions such as the Mets, the Yankees,...

Hey folks! We are live streaming today, Wednesday August 17th 2022 at 11am. Hope to see folks in the discord chat!3D Hangouts – DIY Pi 400, SSD Box and Percussion Frog https://youtu.be/3f_cDaPegCIThis week @adafruit we’re making a DIY Pi 400...

Lennert Wouters, a security researcher at the Belgian university KU Leuven, revealed one of the first security breakdowns of Starlink’s user terminals. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Wouters detailed how a series of hardware vulnerabilities allow...

kellechu and their husband made this beautiful prom dress that changes colors with the help of a magic wand and published a thorough write up on Instructables! Sounds like a pretty epic Cinderella/Fairy Godmother build if you ask me. Cheers...

China’s MetalFish has added a new PC case, called the Y2 Fish Tank Chassis. The product combines a Micro-ATX PC at the bottom with a fish tank above. If you are an aquarist and PC enthusiast looking for a new...

If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s pick is the Step Switches with LEDS https://www.adafruit.com/product/5517 blue https://www.adafruit.com/product/5518 green https://www.adafruit.com/product/5519 white https://www.adafruit.com/product/5502 black https://www.adafruit.com/product/5498 gray https://www.adafruit.com/product/5499...

Delightful rendition of Toxic from Device Orchestra on YouTube. Never thought I’d find myself bopping along to the sound of a credit card machine!Britney Spears’ Toxic, played by eight electric devices: an epilator, 2 toothbrushes, 3 credit card machines, and...

I struggle to remember the differences among the original ESP32 and the subsequent S2, S3 and C3 Series microcontrollers. Was going to carefully assemble a feature grid to organize this, and share it here on the blog…but as it turns...

The NYTimes recently published a beautiful story of a wildlife conservation initiative currently underway in western Ireland. The piece highlights the rare instance of different factions working together (farmers, conservationists, politicians and other government offices) in order to save a...

Olaf Schieche takes light painting to another level. If you head to his Instagram you can view tons of really creative pieces. Some of the most fun though is the reels (like the one below) where the shows the process....

Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, TODAY!Check out the livestream right here inside this product page, you won’t want to...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. Webb’s powerful infrared gaze produced this detailed image of the Cartwheel and two smaller...

UPDATED GUIDE: Deciphering Strange Arduino CodeThis is a guide about weird code. Not necessarily bad code, but weird.It explains a few lesser-seen elements of C syntax. “The Arduino language” is really C++, which is basically C with added flavor crystals....

The Artemis I moon rocket launching soon won’t just be the first integrated flight test of the SLS booster and the Orion capsule. The mission will also present an opportunity to fly lunar science payloads to the Moon in the form...

Have you ever dreamed of getting lost in one of the streets that Van Gogh painted or sinking into one of Edward Hoppers scenes? Yulia Pidlubnyak reimagines classic iconic paintings in the 3D world. Via Design you trustAccording to Yulia...

UPDATED GUIDE: Upgrading ESP32 AirLift FirmwareWe’ve updated our guide on keeping your ESP32 “AirLift” module up-to-date with the latest version of NINA firmware. We’ve updated the instructions for using a web-based ESP Tool so you can upgrade NINA firmware from...

Check out this new guide, John Park’s Flying Faders! Motorized slide potentiometers, or “flying faders”, are incredibly cool. They are most commonly found on large mixing boards at high end recording studios, used to allow fine control of audio levels...

Myles Zhang’s animation on YouTube starts in 1609 and documents the process of renaming and colonization. From Myles Zhang’s site:Here Grows New York visually animates the development of this city’s street grid and environment from 1609 to the present day,...

Adding an Adafruit Feather Huzzah ESP8266 or ESP32 v2 + a FeatherWing 128×64 OLED to a MightyOhm Gieger Counter to automate data collection: WhyzaGC. I am always on the lookout for unique and interesting kits to build which led to...

(Video) A couple weeks ago, we showed off a design for a TCA9548 1-to-8 I2C multiplexer. We wanted to take a look and see if there’s a chip that’s similar but a 4-channel version, since most folks don’t necessarily need...

Bunnie discusses the capability of growing plants indoors using hydroponics – some electronics to monitor things, a pinch of the right salts and some science:I really didn’t have an appreciation for what this meant until the COVID pandemic hit, which...

(image via Met Museum)I don’t exactly hate squirrels; they’re fine in my backyard, part of a little cast of characters (birds, chipmunks, raccoons, rabbits, the occasional skunk, a prowling neighborhood black cat). I do prefer, however, that they stay very...

Digital cameras work by letting light through a lens onto a sensor composed of photosites, each with a photodiode that outputs a signal relative to the brightness of the light. Modern digital camera sensors have millions of photosites, each of...

Tim Birkhead discusses how after an hour of attempting to locate an incubating pair of European nightjars Edmund Selous decided it was better to observe living birds rather than kill them for Smithsonian Magazine:Selous made empathy for birds respectable and,...

Updated guide: EYE SHOOTOUT: Contrasting Open Source and Big Retail ElectronicsA couple years back we started seeing Adafruit Monster M4sk-style animated LCD eyes in Halloween yard props from Home Depot and elsewhere, and cracked one open to see how design...

 A guide has been updated in the Adafruit Learning System: Adafruit SCD-40 and SCD-41. There is a new page with instructions for using the SCD-40 and SCD-41 with WipperSnapper, our no-code IoT platform. You can configure the SCD-4x with a WipperSnapper-compatible...