One of the best parts of living in the city, particularly around this time of year when spring is slowly waking up, is walking around outside and keeping your eyes on what the plants are doing. Depending on where you are you can catch flowers beginning to bud or a cluster of crocuses already blooming. As the season progresses and the trees begin to sprout their leaves, you might start to remember which trees along your path flower. Most of these flowers smell great and are a welcome addition to day to day life, however, there’s always the one stinky tree that catches you off guard. There’s where this tree map comes in handy. Or you know you could just use the tree map to identify which trees you always see and find out about recent tree care activities ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For the first time, you can access information about all the trees individually managed by NYC Parks in New York City, from those lining streets to the ones growing in landscaped areas of parks. Learn about them, favorite and share them with your friends, and record and share your street tree stewardship activities.
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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.
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