Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Adafruit deemed an essential service, Open Source Protective Face Shield Designs, Raspberry pi activities you can do at home, Adafruit Pets and more!

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP

We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.

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Adafruit Industries, Essential service and business: NYC – Executive Order 202.6

Please note: We are back! Sorta … We are Shipping a limited number of orders for health care professionals / urgent needs only. All other orders are being held for now.

Adafruit is a 100% woman-owned, loan-free, VC-free. profitable, USA Manufacturing company. Please see our about page and press page to read about us. Our founder and lead engineer is Limor Fried, a MIT Electrical Engineer.

We have paused some operations in NYC due to COVID-19, we are paying all team members, contractors, and more. There are no layoffs for 130+ Adafruit team members.

Adafruit was deemed an essential service to distribute/make some PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) such as face shields, and manufacturer electronics for essential life-saving/preserving equipment and developement which is needed in New York and beyond.

Adafruit Industries located at 150 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 by Executive Order 202.6, “Essential Business” by New York State:
https://esd.ny.gov/guidance-executive-order-2026

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Open Source Protective Face Shield Designs

The current global pandemic has spurred many people to search for ways to help support the overstretched medical system and many designs for personal protective equipment can now be found online, with examples ranging from 3D printed masks, to replacement respirator parts and Venturi valves, to DIY face shields.
Prusa Research has released this open source face shield (adapted from this original design) which anyone with access to the right tools can manufacture themselves.
In this guide, we’ll show how you can make this design with a 3D printer and a 2 Liter PET bottle or two (3 L may work even better if you can get one!) in case you do not have a laser cutter or Cricut vinyl/craft cutter.

Check out the full guide!

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Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!

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New Products – Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! — JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 4pm Eastern TODAY! 10/8/24 @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick

Python for Microcontrollers – Adafruit Daily — Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: New Python Releases, an ESP32+MicroPython IDE and Much More! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @ThePSF @Raspberry_Pi

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