General Motors fridge factory converts for the war effort…
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat and our Discord!
Join us every Wednesday night at 8pm ET for Ask an Engineer!
Join over 38,000+ makers on Adafruit’s Discord channels and be part of the community! http://adafru.it/discord
CircuitPython – The easiest way to program microcontrollers – CircuitPython.org
New Products – Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! — New Products 11/15/2024 Featuring Adafruit bq25185 USB / DC / Solar Charger with 3.3V Buck Board! (Video)
Python for Microcontrollers – Adafruit Daily — Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Programming Pi 5 PIO, CircuitPython & VSCode and Much More! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @ThePSF @Raspberry_Pi
EYE on NPI – Adafruit Daily — EYE on NPI Maxim’s Himalaya uSLIC Step-Down Power Module #EyeOnNPI @maximintegrated @digikey
Adafruit IoT Monthly — Halloween, WiLo, and more!
Maker Business – Adafruit Daily — The worlds largest car exporter: China
Electronics – Adafruit Daily — Are you grounded?
Get the only spam-free daily newsletter about wearables, running a "maker business", electronic tips and more! Subscribe at AdafruitDaily.com !
3 Comments
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Sixty years later, everything is outsourced to China. Oops.
Actually General Motors also made M1 Carbines and M1 Garand rifles.
I have one.
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7623/37434149026366322114328.jpg
Heres the roll mark on my barrel:
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/2473/36914149039510650714328.jpg
“INLAND MFG DIV.
GENERAL MOTORS
11/44”
There were two divisions of GM making rifles and other war machinery. Inland and Saginaw Steering. Inland even continued to make rifles and other stuff into the Korean War (by that time they were converting M1 Carbines to M2 Carbine machine guns).
Other companies that made M1 Carbines and Garands were:
– National Postal Meter
– Rock-ola Jukebox Company (they also made .50 Caliber Heavy Machine Guns)
– Standard Equipment
– International Business Machines (some of the rarest and most expensive WWII rifles to collectors were made by IBM because they only did small runs of rifles).
GM also built tanks, because it only takes a slight tooling change to switch from trucks and cars to tanks. Thats why when evaluating a countries strength, an automobile industry is considered a military asset. Just like it took a small change for IBM to make rifles from making typewriters.
Actually General Motors also made M1 Carbines and M1 Garand rifles.
I have one.
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7623/37434149026366322114328.jpg
Heres the roll mark on my barrel:
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/2473/36914149039510650714328.jpg
"INLAND MFG DIV.
GENERAL MOTORS
11/44"
There were two divisions of GM making rifles and other war machinery. Inland and Saginaw Steering. Inland even continued to make rifles and other stuff into the Korean War (by that time they were converting M1 Carbines to M2 Carbine machine guns).
Other companies that made M1 Carbines and Garands were:
– National Postal Meter
– Rock-ola Jukebox Company (they also made .50 Caliber Heavy Machine Guns)
– Standard Equipment
– International Business Machines (some of the rarest and most expensive WWII rifles to collectors were made by IBM because they only did small runs of rifles).
GM also built tanks, because it only takes a slight tooling change to switch from trucks and cars to tanks. Thats why when evaluating a countries strength, an automobile industry is considered a military asset. Just like it took a small change for IBM to make rifles from making typewriters.