After months of work, MIT students in 1982 inflate a giant weather balloon in the middle of a Harvard-Yale football game. They buried the balloon under 3 feet of dirt, and had the whole thing popped out of the ground with a freon-driven hydraulic piston, and inflated the balloon with a vacuum cleaner motor. They even included instructions on how to dismantle and remove the device so the game could continue. I love the hand-made drawings used to show how the device worked during the press conference.
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.
Join 30,000+ makers on Adafruit’s Discord channels and be part of the community! http://adafru.it/discord
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
Join us every Wednesday night at 8pm ET for Ask an Engineer!
Follow Adafruit on Instagram for top secret new products, behinds the scenes and more https://www.instagram.com/adafruit/
CircuitPython – The easiest way to program microcontrollers – CircuitPython.org
Maker Business — Savannah tells the story of the supply chain crisis in the U.S.
Wearables — Feathers from leather
Electronics — Get Oriented!
Python for Microcontrollers — Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Events, Projects, and much more! #Python #Adafruit #CircuitPython @micropython @ThePSF
Adafruit IoT Monthly — No-Code IoT with WipperSnapper, Beaming Internet across the Congo, and more!
Microsoft MakeCode — MakeCode Thank You!
EYE on NPI — Maxim’s Himalaya uSLIC Step-Down Power Module #EyeOnNPI @maximintegrated @digikey
New Products – Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! — JP’s Product Pick of the Week 10/19/21 DRV2506L Haptic Motor Controller @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #newproductpick
Get the only spam-free daily newsletter about wearables, running a "maker business", electronic tips and more! Subscribe at AdafruitDaily.com !
4 Comments
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Wantabees – it was Caltech that started the fun in the 1960s. When MIT did the ’82 stunt, Caltech had to fire back, performing the 1984 Rose Bowl stunt taking over the scoreboard to read (among other things) Caltech vs. MIT (instead of UCLA and Illinois). My classmate programmed that one with an 8 bit microprocessor if I remember right, and got class credit until the connection was made.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rose_Bowl_Hoax#Similar_hoaxes
Loved hearing Bob Lobel’s voice… he’s a Boston Legend… 🙂
cmon now freon isn’t that harmless, I caught my neighbors AC repairman essentially out to lunch hanging out behind her AC unit sniffing all the freon! Seems like they left this part out when explaining freon usage =)
Remember when people could have some harmless (if slightly annoying) pranks (hacks) without having swat arrest them at gunpoint, sent to Guantanamo, and not be charged with being terrorists?
Now you can’t even wear a watch or a led without being considered the worst criminal in the US