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Resisty – Resistor CAPTCHA – solve the resistor values to post a comment!
The Open Kinect project – THE OK PRIZE – get $3,000 bounty for Kinect for Xbox 360 open source drivers

3D printing

mini drum #3DThursday #3DPrinting
Mystery box planter Super Mario inspired #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Raspberry Pi

HexBoard MIDI controller strikes a chord with RP2040
Building a Mini Pi5 Cyberdeck Running Kali Linux #piday

art

The Astonishing Lego Creations of Katherine Duclos #ArtTuesday
On Harriet Tubman Day, a new effort to place the abolitionist on the $20 bill launches

wearables

Designing Wearable Devices for Body-to-Body Communication
A Chameleon That Tells You the Temperature #WearableWednesday

science

The Connection Between Birdsong and Human Language
NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System

arduino

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit PCM510x I2S DAC #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Fully automating Arduino development – Giving Claude Code access to hardware

random

Mostly Public Domain Image Search
Epic Spaceman shrinks 10x every 21s until I’m an atom – The Micro Universe

CircuitPython

John Park’s CircuitPython Parsec: ANSI Text Formatting
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free

adafruit learning system

Digital Clock with WiFi and Weather (Huzzah & 128x64OLED) #AdafruitPlayground #FeaturedNote @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit PCM510x I2S DAC #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

music

DIY Project: Making an Electric Violin
“Hearing the Invisible” at The University of Arizona Health Sciences

costuming

New Tutorial: Sparkle Skirt 2D: Make a Light Up Ballgown with WLED
Tutorial: DIY Icicle Crown Cosplay Project with WLED and Hot Glue

cosplay

New Tutorial: Sparkle Skirt 2D: Make a Light Up Ballgown with WLED
Tutorial: DIY Icicle Crown Cosplay Project with WLED and Hot Glue

robotics

The Robot in the Mirror
Apple prototypes a friendly table lamp robot

educators

Engineers Week 2025 #EWeek2025 #DesignYourFuture
AI by Hand ✍️

community

Valentine Blink: Temperature controlled LED heart #ValentinesDay
NYC Parks celebrate Valentine’s Day

history

Remembering the Manchester Baby, arguably the first modern computer
On Harriet Tubman Day, a new effort to place the abolitionist on the $20 bill launches

space

What You Need To Know About the March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse #PiDAY
NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System

ask-an-engineer

New Products 3/14/2025 Featuring Adafruit TPS65131 Split Power Supply Boost Converter! (Video)
Adafruit Top Secret for March 12, 2025

New Products

BACK IN STOCK – Lightning Bolt LED Filament
New Products 3/14/2025 Featuring Adafruit TPS65131 Split Power Supply Boost Converter! (Video)

holiday

Andrea Ghez: Astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, and Professor #WHM25 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Happy Pi Day 2025! 🥧We’re celebrating with a SALE – 🏷️Use Code PIDAY for 15% off Pi HATs 🎩& Bonnets 🎀 #Piday

maker business

On side A, our baby’s first words! The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
Apple announces $500 Billion investment in the U.S. #makerbusiness

projects

Punch cards like last century with this web interface
A Raspberry Pi 5 cyberpunk themed brain scanner

leds-lcds

NEW PRODUCTS – RGB Backlight Displays
Round display EYESPI tester is a go!

gaming

New Guide Pages: Raspberry Pi 5 RGB Matrix Panel X Mirroring #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
New Learn Guide: Flappy Nyan Cat game on Metro RP2350 #Gaming #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

python

An off-grid RFID card reader based on Raspberry Pi 2W and Python #PiDay @Raspberry_Pi
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free

manufacturing

On side A, our baby’s first words! The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
Sheffield Makes: Ernest Wright

NeoPixels

How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Illuminated Butterfly Wall Art #AdafruitLearningSystem @ben_everard

EE

HSTX DVI output on Fruit Jam!
Ladyada’s desk gets a scope cart

tutorials

Breakout Game on the Metro RP2350 #Gaming #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit

photography

The Man Who Captured Snowflakes #Photography #celebratephotography
Meet the Photographer Behind Rasperry Pi’s Awesome Desktop Images #piday #raspberrypi

Adafruit Video

Adafruit Top Secret for March 12, 2025
Python on Hardware weekly video for March 12, 2025 #Python @adafruit

customer projects

Poetry Heart in Motion
Christmas lights made from Adafruit MagTag

design and architecture

Looking back at the MacTable from the 1980s
The Slow Death of Neon

STEM

New Tutorial: Sparkle Skirt 2D: Make a Light Up Ballgown with WLED
Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: Hanukkah Menorah Sweater with Interactive Lights #Sweaters #Hanukkah

announce

QT adapter for Sensirion SEN6x
PCM5122 is an I2S DAC that does it all

Uncategorized

Raspberry Pi Pico Powered Air Quality Monitor @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi
New Products 3/14/2025 Featuring Adafruit TPS65131 Split Power Supply Boost Converter! (Video)

science fiction

Star Science Fiction Storis No. 3! #SciFiSunday
The Best Science Fiction Board Games of 2025 #SciFiSunday

NYC

Years of Printmaking at the Park Avenue Armory #ArtTuesday
Black History Month at The Met #BlackHistoryMonth

components & parts

EYE ON NPI – ISSI Serial NAND Flash Chips #EYEonNPI #digikey @ISSI_WW @digikey @adafruit
The Great Search: u-blox GNSS Modules with Built-in Antenna #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey #adafruit @Digikey @adafruit

micropython

The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free

drones

New Year’s Eve Fireworks in the Parks Are Canceled #drone #droneday
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air #drone #droneday

adafruit learning technologies

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Text mode HSTX DVI output on the Fruit Jam, Illuminated Butterfly Wall Art, TLV320DAC3100 first bops and more!
Light-Up Costumes in Harsh Environments #AdafruitLearnSystem

open source hardware

From Russia with Code? The 2024 Arduino Open Source Report
WHASER – sponsored by Mouser, powered by Adafruit at Hackaday (io bits newsletter)

Programming

Python on Hardware weekly video for March 12, 2025 #Python @adafruit
ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: 12,000 Subscribers, Zephyr, MicroPython on Flipper Zero and More! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @Raspberry_Pi

internet of things

HardBreak: the hardware hacking wiki
Long Distance IoT Hug Plushie

young engineers

55 NASA Engineering Internships for Summer 2025
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day #GirlDay2025 #EWeek2025 #DesignYourFuture

feather

Guide Updated: Adafruit Feather RP2040 with USB Type A Host Gamepad Example #AdafruitLearningSystem #CircuitPython
Small form factor amateur rocket avionics and flight software

events

Visiting the Student Tech Showcase at Boston College 2024
Adafruit on the Open Source Hardware Association Show and Tell event – Oct 2nd, 6:40 PM EDT #OpenOct

sensorsparts

The Chilled Drinkibot Is A Host’s Best Friend
The Sensor Watch #WearableWednesday

show and tell

SHOW and TELL 3/5/2025 with @johnedgarpark #ShowandTell @adafruit
REMINDER: SHOW and TELL 3/5/2025 with @johnedgarpark #ShowandTell @adafruit

halloween

Ghost Candy Dispenser
Halloween Skeleton Transformation Illusion Prop #LED Strips #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

Women In STEM

Emily Warren Roebling #WHM25 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
International Women’s Day #WHM25 #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction

Newsletter

The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free

tools

The touchscreen backlash and the power of buttons
Making A Screw Shortener

biohacking

ZOO architects designs biomorphic shelter prototypes for otters
High-Flying Frigate Birds Collect Data from the Top of the Sky

books

Making software: a reference manual for people who design and build software by Dan Hollick
KFAX4: Logos of the Early Computer Software Scene

vintage computing

Remembering the Manchester Baby, arguably the first modern computer
Punch cards like last century with this web interface

mail bag

From the mail bag…
From the mail bag…

fashion

Sandy Powell: Dressing the Part
Tutorial: DIY Icicle Crown Cosplay Project with WLED and Hot Glue

ald

Books for Ada Lovelace Day ALD24 @findingada
Irene Solaiman #ALD24 @findingada

Adafruit Blog

Adafruit’s Top 10 Blog Posts of February 2025 #StateOfTheFruit #AdafruitTopTen
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Prototype of a Compute Module backpack, Lighting LED Nets with WLED and xLights and more!

Adafruit Daily

The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free

retro

Nice Windows 95 PowerStrip Tapestry Patterns
NEW GUIDE: Portable Macrodata Refinement Terminal #Severance #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

code

Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering
We’re vibin’ with Claude 3.7 and writing uBlox drivers

software

Free95, a Windows compatible operating system
ReKernel: Linux on a 386, again

Python on Microcontrollers

The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free

MakeCode

Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: Hanukkah Menorah Sweater with Interactive Lights #Sweaters #Hanukkah
Halloween Monsters with CRICKIT and Circuit Playground Express #ElectronicHalloween

computers

Remembering the Manchester Baby, arguably the first modern computer
NEW GUIDE: Portable Macrodata Refinement Terminal #Severance #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

livestream

John Park’s Workshop — LIVE TODAY 3/13/25
John Park’s Workshop — LIVE TODAY 3/6/25

displays

A Raspberry Pi 5 cyberpunk themed brain scanner
A Transit Tracker build party!

Breakout Boards

NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit TPS65131 Split Power Boost Converter
USB-C “Fixer” for Missing CC Pins

Publications

The MagPi Magazine (+ HackSpace) Issue 149: Raspberry Pi 500 + Monitor @TheMagPi
The MagPi Magazine (+ HackSpace) Issue 148: Gear Guide 2025 @TheMagPi

photos

What Runs Doom? The iOS Photos app #Doommas #DailyDoom
Sitina 1: an open source 35mm full-frame CCD mirrorless camera #Photography #OpenSource

gift guides

Use Code AdaHeart for 15% off our 2025 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Give them what they really want this holiday season, an Adafruit Gift Certificate!

FLORA

Make Your Own Glowing WhoVille Hat #WearableWednesday
FLORAbrella – LED Umbrella with NeoPixels

education

How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit
55 NASA Engineering Internships for Summer 2025

circuit playground

Circuit Playground Powerpuff Girls Valentine
Gizmo Ornaments with Circuit Playground

Circuit Playground Express

Poetry Heart in Motion
A Ouija Robot – The MagPi Issue 148 @TheMagPi

Artificial intelligence

Fully automating Arduino development – Giving Claude Code access to hardware
Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon on Twitch — slowly

cardboard

DIY Halloween Ghost that has Flapping Wings using Arduino
Make Your Own Animation Machine with Cardboard

bluetooth

Track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple’s “Find My” network without Apple hardware
Getting a Zephyr Shell over USB or BLE + Bluefruit Connect

LEDs

BACK IN STOCK – Lightning Bolt LED Filament
How To Install WLED on an ESP32 Board and Connect / Control Addressable LEDs

solar

Ivanpah concentrated solar thermal plant in the California Mohave Desert is shutting down after 11 years
Shade Map #Maps

DIY

How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit
New Tutorial: Sparkle Skirt 2D: Make a Light Up Ballgown with WLED

LEGO

LEGO Thoughtfully Recreates Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ In Textured, 2,615-Piece Set #ArtTuesday
Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: LEGO #Sweaters #LEGO

clocks

Making an Accurate Stylish Clock Using a Micro:bit and MicroPython
Cartoon Character Clock #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

reverse engineering

Reviving an old Kindle Paperwhite 7th gen as a weather display
WinterBreak, a new jailbreak for Amazon Kindle devices

comics

Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comics #ShackToberFest
Watch Drone Galactus Rise to Menace San Diego Comic-Con #drone #droneday

clocks & watches

Making an Accurate Stylish Clock Using a Micro:bit and MicroPython
Cartoon Character Clock #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

batteries & power

An off-grid RFID card reader based on Raspberry Pi 2W and Python #PiDay @Raspberry_Pi
Paralyzed jockey lost his ability to walk after manufacturer refused to fix the battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton

trinket

17 O’Clock: a watch using Roman numerals with just 17 LEDs
The Chilled Drinkibot Is A Host’s Best Friend

gemma

Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: Hanukkah Menorah Sweater with Interactive Lights #Sweaters #Hanukkah
Make a Neon Cat Light with GEMMA

kits

NEW PRODUCT – Pimoroni Tiny FX W – Wireless LED Effects Starter Kit – PIM753
The Clockwork PicoCalc

Video

The Raspberry Pi can now output interlaced composite video
Return to The Matrix with the Metro RP2350 #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

Sensors

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: WLED Matrix Display with Sparkle Motion, PCM5122 is an I2S DAC that does it all, and more!
Duck Radio

beaglebone

EYE on NPI: BeagleBoard.org BeaglePlay® Single Board Computer Chips #digikey #BeaglePlay @beagleboardorg @digikey ​@adafruit
A new Beagle! BeaglePlay development board #BeaglePlay @beagleboardorg

materials

Quake ported to Arduino Nano Matter
Fixing a Faulty PSone #PlayStation

cyberpunk

Tutorial: Fog Machine with Motion-Reaction and IOT Internet Control with Adafruit IO
Illuminate Your Garden with DIY Crystal Path Lights: WiFi Control and Sunset Timer Using Feather Huzzah ESP32

wireless

Wireless CNC Plotter
LED Dreidel Project with Induction-Powered Lights

machine learning

BitDogLab is a Raspberry Pi Pico learning lab which encourages AI assisted programming
The code for ELIZA, the original 1960s chatbot, found

time travel

Vintage Floppy Booklet: The Secrets of Perfect Memory
Tor.com Rates 15 of the Best Time Travel Movies Ever Made #SciFiSunday

Adafruit IO

Adafruit IO in 2025 – We Want Your Feedback! #AdafruitIO2025
WipperSnapper No-Code IoT Firmware now works with the Raspberry Pi Pico 2W!

Python on hardware

Python on Hardware weekly video for March 12, 2025 #Python @adafruit
Python on Hardware weekly video for March 5, 2025 #Python @adafruit

math

International Day of Mathematics 2025
The Science Episode of Craft in America on PBS

Adabox

ADABOX 021 UNBOXING LIVE on Ask an Engineer RIGHT NOW! 3/20/24
GUIDE ALERT: AdaBox 021 Main Guide

open source

From Russia with Code? The 2024 Arduino Open Source Report
“FLOW” (2024): Made With Open Source

microcontrollers

New Learn Guide: Adafruit Metro RP2350 #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Phyx LANA TNY CH32V203 #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

bluefruit

Track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple’s “Find My” network without Apple hardware
Getting a Zephyr Shell over USB or BLE + Bluefruit Connect

adafruit.io

NEW GUIDE: No-Code Offline Data Logger with WipperSnapper #Sensors #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: John Park’s Espresso Water Tank Meter

women's history month

Andrea Ghez: Astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, and Professor #WHM25 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
2025 Women’s History Toolkit #WHM25 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

power supply

PocketPD: a portable USB C bench power supply that fits in your pocket
The Great Search: 12V Lead Acid Battery for Bumper Kart #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey @Digikey @adafruit

lasers

Making a laser vector display
17 O’Clock: a watch using Roman numerals with just 17 LEDs

Adafruit Top Secret

Adafruit Top Secret for March 12, 2025
Adafruit Top Secret for March 5, 2025 #adafruit

educational mini UAVs

The Rye Riptides Connects Schools in New Hampshire and Norway
Apple Expands Coding Partnership with HBCUs #Apple

stemma

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit DAC7578 – 8 x Channel 12-bit I2C DAC #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit INA228 I2C Power Monitor #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

useful-stuff

The CD Revival Is Real #MusicMonday #Vintage #Retro
Easiest Way to Coil Ropes, Extension Cords, & Hoses

linux

ReKernel: Linux on a 386, again
Using Python with virtual environments #Python @TheMagPi

ESP32

How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit
Failed Kickstarter Leads to Open Source Racer

RP2040

BitDogLab is a Raspberry Pi Pico learning lab which encourages AI assisted programming
Raspberry Pi Pico MIDI Gesture Controller: The MagPi Issue 149 @TheMagPi

physics

ESA Euclid Telescope – Cosmic atlas
How to Make an Ornithopter

biomimicry

Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air #drone #droneday
A Twist of the Tail Inspires New Bird Drones #drone #droneday

black history month

Black History Month at The Met #BlackHistoryMonth
National Society of Black Engineers Annual Convention #BlackHistoryMonth

LEGOs

Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: LEGO #Sweaters #LEGO
Vsauce Built An Emordnilap Machine

micro:bit

MakeCode for micro:bit 2024 Update
“Libby” the Literary Micro:pet

gps

NASA uses GPS on the moon for the first time
Desk of Ladyada – Triple Matrix Bonnet & u-blox UBX Vibes #adafruit @adafruit

prototyping

NEW PRODUCT – Replacement Breadboard Strips – 10 Strips of 10 Rows
Newxie prototype testing success

kinect hacking

EYE on NPI – Intel RealSense LIDAR camera #EyeOnNPI #LIDAR #DigiKey @DigiKey @Intel @Adafruit
New Products 10/3/18 Featuring Adafruit #NeoPXL8 Friend! @adafruit #adafruit

Keyboards

Reverse engineering the Stream Deck Plus
Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: Keyboards #Sweaters

The Great Search

The Great Search: u-blox GNSS Modules with Built-in Antenna #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey #adafruit @Digikey @adafruit
The Great Search: Pocket Multimeter #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey @Digikey @adafruit

CRICKIT

A Ouija Robot – The MagPi Issue 148 @TheMagPi
Crickit Powered Dancin’ Snowman!

vintage

Tutorial: DIY Icicle Crown Cosplay Project with WLED and Hot Glue
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Super Cassette Vision #Gaming #Vintage

apps

Shade Map #Maps
NEW GUIDE: ItsaSNAP for HomeKit PIR Motion Detection

anthropocene

Is Poland’s tap water really protected by clams? #Mollusk #Sensors #Biomonitoring
3D-Printed Stars Functioning as Hybrid Coral Reefs To Be Installed in New Underwater Park in Miami #3DPrinting

radio

ESP32 Internet Radio
Public Radio Broadcasting Day 2025 #PublicRadioBroadcastingDay

Makers

How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit
A new makerspace, Brooklyn Spark, is slated to open in Bushwick

virtual reality

Virtual Glassblowing Is Real At Pittsburgh Glass Center
Mixed Reality AR + VR Concert from Jean-Michel Jarre #MusicMonday

wires-cables-etc

NEW PRODUCT – USB-C Screw Panel Mount to 4pin JST PH Cable
NEW PRODUCT – USB Type C Screw Panel Mount to 6 pin JST PH Cable

USB

USB-C “Fixer” for Missing CC Pins
New Learn Guide: Flappy Nyan Cat game on Metro RP2350 #Gaming #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

breaking news

New Pico 2 W just dropped – and CircuitPython is ready to go!
Circuit breaker: How Limor Fried wired Brooklyn’s woman-owned tech movement with biz Adafruit – Brooklyn Paper

cnc

CNC + Laser = Personalized Cutting Board #Laser #CNC @McuOnEclipse
There oughta be a wooden Game Boy #Nintendo #Gaming @diconx

floppy

A floppy disk archiver made using a Raspberry Pi
Why does the Commodore 1541 disk drive keep spinning? @tynemouthsw

EL Wire

Lightscape at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Twisted Torch: an EL wire art lamp #Art

sound

NEW GUIDE: Feather RP2350 Audio Reactive Video Synth #Feather #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Creating an electromagnet and sound wave learning environment #Education

EYE on NPI

EYE ON NPI – ISSI Serial NAND Flash Chips #EYEonNPI #digikey @ISSI_WW @digikey @adafruit
EYE on NPI – ST ST25R200 NFC/HF RFID Reader IC #EYEonNPI #digikey @ST_World @digikey @adafruit

hackers

KFAX4: Logos of the Early Computer Software Scene
HOPE_16 August 15-17, 2025

iPhone

NEW GUIDE: ItsaSNAP for HomeKit PIR Motion Detection
Can You Build a Working iPhone From AliExpress…?

digikey

How to pick the best microcontroller for your project
EYE on NPI: Wurth Elektronik SMD Spacers #EYEonNPI #digikey @DigiKey @adafruit

Electronics

Emulating 27xx series programmable ROMs with an RP2040 board
Lightscape at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Learning

Free Zephyr training: February 26th, 2025 @GoliothOfficial
AI by Hand ✍️

enclosures/cases

NEW PRODUCT – Snap-on Enclosure for Adafruit Feather RP2040 DVI
NEW PRODUCT – Snap-on Enclosure for Raspberry Pi Pico / W / 2 / 2W

audio

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit PCM510x I2S DAC #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Desk of Ladyada – More TLV320 DAC’ing with a Bit of a Run-around #DeskOfLadyada @adafruit

graphics

NEW GUIDE: Portable Macrodata Refinement Terminal #Severance #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
KFAX4: Logos of the Early Computer Software Scene

makeymakey

A Spotify Jukebox for Your Wall (No-Code)
El Living Room #MusicMonday @TheGreeneSpace

QT Py

NEW GUIDE: QT Py S2 Round Display Compass #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Cartoon Character Clock #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

Stemma QT

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit DAC7578 – 8 x Channel 12-bit I2C DAC #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit LPS28 Pressure Sensor #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

rfid / nfc

An off-grid RFID card reader based on Raspberry Pi 2W and Python #PiDay @Raspberry_Pi
EYE on NPI – ST ST25R200 NFC/HF RFID Reader IC #EYEonNPI #digikey @ST_World @digikey @adafruit

CircuitPython Newsletter

ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Python on the new Raspberry Pi Pico board and RP2040 chip! #Python #Adafruit #CircuitPython #ICYMI @micropython @ThePSF
Subscribe to the weekly Python on Microcontrollers newsletter #CircuitPython #Python @CircuitPython @micropython @ThePSF

android

From Circuit Playgrounds to IoT: A Guide to Adafruit’s Apps #adafruit @adafruit
NEW GUIDE: PyLeap ESP32-S2 TFT Boxing Glove Tracker w/ Adafruit IO #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @Trevs_Dev

editorial

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Espresso Water Tank Meter, Cartoon Character Clock on Round Display, & more!
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: CircuitPython 2025, Adafruit Hits 800 OSHWA Certifications & more!

hackerspaces

High schooler? Make projects, earn prizes: High Seas! @hackclub
First Annual Adapted Toy Hack-A-Thon December 12th in BK @MakerMakeChange @MakerspaceNYC @SecondChanceToy

emulation

NES86: an IBM PC emulator for the NES
Emulating 27xx series programmable ROMs with an RP2040 board

PyPortal

John Park’s CircuitPython Parsec: Touchscreen Distance #adafruit #circuitpython
Conway’s Game of Life on a PyPortal

Nintendo

Mystery box planter Super Mario inspired #3DThursday #3DPrinting
Happy Mario Day 2025 #MarioDay #MAR10

recycling

Canada has fixed copyright law for repair
The new iFixit Circular Electronics Design Guide

avr development

Making an electronic secret maze game
Building gates with the AVR Event System #AVR @MicrochipMakes @technoblogy

Metro

New Learn Guide: Flappy Nyan Cat game on Metro RP2350 #Gaming #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit Metro RP2350 with PSRAM

covid-19

Former CEO of RadioShack was an ER doctor on frontlines of COVID-19 fight #ShackToberFest
Making a classroom carbon dioxide air quality indicator #ESP8266

arm development

QT Py of the Day: Adafruit QT Py – SAMD21 Dev Board with STEMMA QT #QTPyOfTheDay @MicrochipMakes
Armulet allows Raspberry Pi to run Arm code on RISC-V

biometric

PiEEG-16 measures 16 channels of biodata on a Raspberry Pi #PiDay @Raspberry_Pi
How Bionic Wings Are Reinventing Drones

idevices

Qualia S3 iOS Photo Display with itsaSNAP #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Building the world’s LARGEST functional iPhone

Engineering

World Engineering Day 2025: Shaping Our Sustainable Future Through Engineering #WorldEngineeringDay #WED25
55 NASA Engineering Internships for Summer 2025

assistive technology

Paralyzed jockey lost his ability to walk after manufacturer refused to fix the battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton
Visiting the Student Tech Showcase at Boston College 2024

iOS

NEW GUIDE: ItsaSNAP for HomeKit PIR Motion Detection
New Video! itsaSNAP #IoT

Circuit Playground Bluefruit

Visiting the Student Tech Showcase at Boston College 2024
The University of Reading Looks to Amateur Astronomers for Comet Photography

TensorFlow

UPDATED GUIDE: Running TensorFlow Lite Object Recognition on the Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi 5 @Raspberry_Pi @TensorFlow #MachineLearning #BrainCraft @circuitpython #circuitpython #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @MakerMelissa
UPDATED GUIDE: Running TensorFlow Lite Object Recognition on the Raspberry Pi 4 @Raspberry_Pi @TensorFlow #MachineLearning #BrainCraft @circuitpython #circuitpython #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @MakerMelissa

cameras

Desk of Ladyada – I2S DACs, Claude API, and Compute Module Backpack #adafruit @adafruit
EYE ON NPI – Analog Devices MAX96714 Deserializer #EYEonNPI #Digikey @DigiKey @ADI_News @adafruit

CitizenScience

Icequakes Rattle Midwest #raspberrypi #raspberryshake
The Worlds Most Average Espresso

Women's History Month

Andrea Ghez: Astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, and Professor #WHM25 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Harriet Tubman Day #WHM25 #WomensHistoryMonth

e-paper

An epaper transit information display
Reviving an old Kindle Paperwhite 7th gen as a weather display

ham radio

The most hackable handheld ham radio yet #HamSunday @IEEESpectrum
Building GM3OXX’s little OXO transmitter #HamSunday

development board

NEW GUIDE: Phyx LANA TNY CH32V203 #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
What Runs Doom? Day 3 – an STM32F429 dev board #DailyDoom #Doommas

Upcycling

A floppy disk archiver made using a Raspberry Pi
Reviving an old Kindle Paperwhite 7th gen as a weather display

EE bookshelf

The Ultimate Electronics Book is online for free #Electronics #Books
The Unsung Beauty of Analog Devices Datasheets @ADI_News @neilpanchal

Clue

What Runs Doom? An Adafruit CLUE #DailyDoom #Doommas
BACK IN STOCK – Adafruit CLUE – nRF52840 Express with Bluetooth LE

discover electronics

Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: Hanukkah Menorah Sweater with Interactive Lights #Sweaters #Hanukkah
Beginner Tutorial: Holiday Garland Lights with WLED

skill badges

New Guide: How to Solder Headers – A Beginner’s Guide
NEW PRODUCT – ATMakers – Skill Badge, iron-on patch

Nintendo Switch

Happy Mario Day 2025 #MarioDay #MAR10
Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo

test equipment

Desk of Ladyada – More TLV320 DAC’ing with a Bit of a Run-around #DeskOfLadyada @adafruit
The Great Search: Pocket Multimeter #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey @Digikey @adafruit

Security

The Raspberry Pi RP2350 Hacking Challenge results are in @Raspberry_Pi
Shop Safe This Holiday Season #Phishing #Smishing

motors

Making volumetric displays with LED matrix panels
NEW PRODUCTS – 5V Square USB Fans

TensorFlow Lite

UPDATED GUIDE: Running TensorFlow Lite Object Recognition on the Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi 5 @Raspberry_Pi @TensorFlow #MachineLearning #BrainCraft @circuitpython #circuitpython #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @MakerMelissa
UPDATED GUIDE: Running TensorFlow Lite Object Recognition on the Raspberry Pi 4 @Raspberry_Pi @TensorFlow #MachineLearning #BrainCraft @circuitpython #circuitpython #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @MakerMelissa

mintyboost

The Adafruit MintyBoost Kit V3.0 – HackSpace Magazine Issue 78 @HackSpaceMag
Adafruit Holiday Gift Guide 2016: Getting Started with Electronics (Kits!)

Jobs Board

Career tips for beginner developers #Developers @GitHub
AISES Career Hub Connects Talent with Opportunity

AR

Raspberry Pi Based AR Glasses
We’re updating Adafruit AR

microprocessors

The awesome Motorola 6809 8-bit microprocessor
486SocketBlaster: a simple voltage adapter for 486 processors

MakeCode Newsletter

The MakeCode monthly newsletter is spectacular – sign up now! #MakeCode #Adafruit @MSMakeCode @Adafruit
The MakeCode monthly newsletter is out Friday – sign up now! #MakeCode #Adafruit @MSMakeCode @Adafruit

Adafruit Chronicles

SATA Hard disk case #3DThursday #3DPrinting
Building a better The Star Wars AT-AT toy

Adafruit IO Newsletter

ICYMI – March 2025 Adafruit IoT Monthly: Wearables for Kids, The Humane AI Pin, and more!
Adafruit’s IoT Newsletter Is Out This Week, Subscribe Today!

gift ideas

Use Code AdaHeart for 15% off our 2025 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: Hanukkah Menorah Sweater with Interactive Lights #Sweaters #Hanukkah

wippersnapper

WipperSnapper No-Code IoT Firmware now works with the Raspberry Pi Pico 2W!
Adafruit VCNL4200 Long Distance IR Proximity and Light Sensor Breakout Now Supported by WipperSnapper’s No-Code IoT Firmware!

culture

DOOM: The Gallery Experience
Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: Star Trek #Sweaters

site updates

Under attack please stand by – Forums
“New Sign-in” Email Notifications feature added to Adafruit accounts

ESP32-S3

A Transit Tracker build party!
ESP32 Internet Radio

PyGamer

ESP32 Gaming Console – Homemade Emulator for Cheap
JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 4pm Eastern TODAY! 11/7/23 @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick

fpga

FPGA design tutorial
Making an FPGA-based disk controller for an Apple II

Arkit

Raspberry Pi Based AR Glasses
We’re updating Adafruit AR

tinyML

Google TensorFlow Lite for Micro Experiments on Adafruit CLUE
Edge Impulse closes $15m series A investment round

iPad

NEW GUIDE: ItsaSNAP for HomeKit PIR Motion Detection
NEW GUIDE: Use Apple HomeKit Devices with itsaSNAP and Adafruit IO #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

ItsyBitsy

Light up Your Room With an LED DNA Lamp
A DNA Lamp That Uses the Full Genetic Code of Humanity

Hacks

MicroPython comes to the Flipper Zero
TypeScript types can run DOOM

FeatherWing of the Day

FeatherWing of the Day: Adafruit 0.54″ Quad Alphanumeric FeatherWing Display – Yellow #WingOfTheDay
FeatherWing of the Day: Adafruit 0.54″ Quad Alphanumeric FeatherWing Display – Yellow/Green #WingOfTheDay

xbee

This Is What Happens When You Trigger Sound With Movement #WearableWednesday #wearabletech #Arduino #art #dance
360º Circular Smartphone Camera Rig

NeoTrellis

Build a NeoTrellis MIDI Feedback Controller For #ValentinesDay
Holiday Soundboard with NeoTrellis M4

PyBadge

Creating a video game wedding invite with Adafruit badge boards – MAKE Issue 91
Play Checkout Challenge on your PyBadge

waveshield

THE GREAT SEARCH – Latching Power Relay for FeatherWing #TheGreatSearch @adafruit @digikey #deskofladyada
A Pink Floyd clock with TIME alarm sound #FromTheForums #Adafruit

fona

Desk of Ladyada – Floppsy bring-up & a FONA revival #DeskOfLadyada @Adafruit @DigiKey
Made in NYC 1/13/2021 Featuring the #Adafruit Reflow Oven in Action

Accelerometer

NEW GUIDE: QT Py S2 Round Display Compass #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
LED Snowboard with Motion-Reactive Animation

RISC-V

NEW GUIDE: Phyx LANA TNY CH32V203 #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
EYE on NPI: Nordic nRF54L15 Wireless SoC and Development Kit #EYEonNPI #DigiKey @DigiKey @NordicTweets @Adafruit

Adacast

5 Questions with Limor Fried on ASME E-Fests @EFestsASME
Are you subscribed to the Adafruit Youtube channel? #Youtube

Fritzing

Now you can simulate circuits with Fritzing! #Fritzing @FritzingOrg
AutoFritz: Autocomplete for Prototyping Virtual Breadboard Circuits in #Fritzing

PCB

A digital cassette deck for 8-bit retro computers #VintageComputing
Creating an animated Medusa head with PCB art and LED noodles @clubmadlab

tvbgone

DuroSport: Fake Mp3, Real Website #Mp3 #TheOffice #EasterEggs #Comedy #DunderMifflin
Adafruit Holiday Gift Guide: Kits #adafruitgiftguides

MIDI

New Guide: USB MIDI Host2Host
MIDI Synth, an analog synthesizer simulation built on the Web Audio API

Legos

What Runs Doom? The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 #DailyDoom #Doommas
Lego Neon NeoPixel Sign with CircuitPython

RP2350

NEW PRODUCT – Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W – RP2350 Dev Board with Pico Shape – PIM726
NEW PRODUCT – Pimoroni Tiny 2350 – RP2350 Mini Dev Board with 4MB Flash – PIM721

adabot

MagSafe Tripod Mount #3DThursday #3DPrinting
Adabot Helping Out on the Machine Line @adafruit #manufacturing #manufacturingmonday #adafruit #electronics #adabot #robot #madeinamerica #madeinnyc #makerobotfriend

documentation

Creating file bundles for Adafruit Playground Notes #CircuitPython
Documenting electrical plugs and sockets around the world

motorshield

A physical Earth Moon Model using Python #Python #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi @ElliotBarlas
Making a clock that automatically knits #Knitting #PiDay @Raspberry_Pi @kylerankin

teensy

FeatherWing of the Day: Adafruit Teensy 3.x Feather Adapter #WingOfTheDay
Robotic Reflections Kinetic Sculpture

badge life

Creating a video game wedding invite with Adafruit badge boards – MAKE Issue 91
The Aerospace Village badge for DEF CON 32 is an aircraft position display

telephony

What Runs Doom? A Landline Phone Handset #DailyDoom #Doommas
The first virtual meeting was held in 1916 @IEEESpectrum

LoRa

Making a Diet Coke office button
FeatherWing of the Day: Adafruit LoRa Radio FeatherWing – RFM95W 900 MHz – RadioFruit #WingOfTheDay

Cats of Engineering

“FLOW” (2024): Made With Open Source
Code Anomaly Trapper (CAT) #CatsOfEngineering

wippersnapper

NEW GUIDE: No-Code Offline Data Logger with WipperSnapper #Sensors #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
HDC3022 Precision Temperature & Humidity Sensor Breakout Now Supported by WipperSnapper’s No-Code IoT Firmware!

Connectors

The Great Search: Tall Contacts for Compute Module #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey @Digikey @adafruit
EYE on NPI – Bel Fuse 1xN port MagJack and specialty ICMs #EYEonNPI #digikey @digikey @belfuseinc @adafruit

ESP32-S2

NEW GUIDE: QT Py S2 Round Display Compass #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Cartoon Character Clock #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

animation

Floyd Norman – Black History Month 2025 #BlackHistoryMonth
Automatons: Jason Nuttle

ALD

Takita Bartlett-Lashley #ALD24 @findingada
Today Is Ada Lovelace Day 2024!! #ALD24 @findingada

GitHub

Lenovo small PCs – technical details and comparison chart
An open-source dashboard for tracking GitHub repo traffic history

Data Science

Congestion Pricing Tracker
Is the love song dying?

Desk of Ladyada

Desk of Ladyada – Triple Matrix Bonnet & u-blox UBX Vibes #adafruit @adafruit
Desk of Ladyada – More TLV320 DAC’ing with a Bit of a Run-around #DeskOfLadyada @adafruit

tweet-a-watt

Time travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science, technology and engineering world
RaspiWatt: discover power consumption using a Kill-A-Watt & Pi

particle

Particle Bay Area Maker Faire 2023 Water Balloon Badge #BadgeLife @particle
Physics Girl Explains Time Crystals

watches

The “ultimate” smartwatch with LiDAR and wireless control
ESP32-Based Wireless Smartwatch #WearableWednesday

Paper Craft

Guy Building Enormous 1/25th-Scale USS Enterprise from Cardboard, Foamcore, Plastic #SciFiSunday
Can You Really Make Ink (and Paper) Out of Leaves?

drawdio

Why Are Pencils Painted Yellow?
Detecting Marine Debris and Expediting Clean Up with Drones #drone #droneday

coloring book

National Coloring Book Day 2024
National Coloring Book Day 2023

nRF52

How to help build open source Pebble software @ericmigi
FeatherWing of the Day: Adafruit RGB Matrix FeatherWing Kit – For nRF52840 Feathers #WingOfTheDay

propeller

Building a Huge R/C Plane with 50 Engines and a 30-Foot Wingspan
The Propeller 2 receives semiconductor fab approval by @ParallaxInc #Propeller #Microcontrollers @ParallaxKen

littleBits

BREAKING NEWS! Sphero littleBits will have a micro:bit bit this spring! @Bett_show #Bett2020 @littlebits @sphero @microbit_edu #microbit
Pearson is adding LittleBits kits to its STEM curriculum #MakerEducation

disassembly

Repairing an Amiga 1000 boot issue #Amiga #VintageComputing @linuxjedi
Restoring a retro Acorn Electron computer #VintageComputinng @LinuxJedi

speech

Cybercraftics Makes Desktop MIDI Drums
Henry Kidman’s Quest to Make the World’s Second Fastest Camera Slider

MagTag

From the mail bag…
Christmas lights made from Adafruit MagTag

Analog

A 65-in-1 kit, 1976 vs. 2024 #ShackToberFest @hackaday
Everything from a 1991 Radio Shack ad you can now do with your phone

accessories

Retractable Lightsaber Built By Mass. Student
NEW PRODUCT – Square Maker-Friendly Zipper Case – Purple

environment

Happy Fat Bear Week!
The Mbed platform and OS will reach end of life in July 2026

Deep Learning

Madison Square Garden bans Girl Scout troop mom at Christmas Spectacular show at Radio City Music Hall using facial recognition – Time for a CV Dazzle badge for Girl Scouts?
How CUDA programming works #CUDA #Graphics #GPU @nVidia

EMSL & EggBot

New Book Examines the Inner Beauty of Electronic Components
NEW PRODUCT – “Three Fives” 555SE Discrete Timer SMT Soldering Kit

Feather of the Day

Feather of the Day: Adafruit Feather 32u4 RFM96 LoRa Radio – 433MHz – RadioFruit #Adafruit #Feather @MicrochipMakes
Feather of the Day: Adafruit Feather 32u4 RFM69HCW Packet Radio – 868 or 915 MHz – RadioFruit #Adafruit #Feather @MicrochipMakes

Digital

Emulating 27xx series programmable ROMs with an RP2040 board
The Great Search: SOIC SMT Clip #TheGreatSearch @DigiKey @adafruit

ADADEALS

Cyber Monday Sale 2020 at SEEED #ADADEALS @seeedstudio
Particle sales and deals #ADADEALS @particle

Black Lives Matter

We Need To Fix Black Hair in Video Games #TheBlessingShow #KindaFunny
The Racial Discrimination in Face Recognition Technology

Trinkey

NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit SHT45 Trinkey – USB Temp and Humidity Sensor with PTFE
Switch Between Wayland and X11 on a Pi

game of life

Conway’s Game of Hope
Alec Singh Animates Conway’s Game of Life

project packs

Throwback to the ‘Shack: LED Fun #ShackToberFest
An Arduino EEPROM reader PCB design #PCB #Arduino @diyelectromusic

made with code

Meet the Maker: Yvonne Schindler – Giant Connect 4 Art Installation with Lights & Animations
Tutorial: LED Dress with Water Drip Illusion

gardening

Make a Smart, Self-Watering Flower Pot
Garden Nomad Collects Garden Data

360 videos

NASA Black Hole Simulation
Miniatur Wunderland Train Ride in 360°

modding

Patches to make Emperor: Battle For Dune work on a modern system
DS Lite mod uses dual WiFi chips for TV out

trellis

Make a MIDI Adobe Lightroom Controller #celebratephotography
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Adafruit MatrixPortal, #HispanicHeritageMonth, Custom Scrolling Quote Board Matrix Display and more!

Mu

Mu Python editor version 1.2.0 released today #Mu #Python
Mu creator Nicholas Tollervey on The CircuitPython Show #Mu #CircuitPython @circuitpyshow

Operating System

Free95, a Windows compatible operating system
The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up

calculators

The Clockwork PicoCalc
The calculator that spawned the Intel 4004 microprocessor

MacroPad

A Raspberry Pi 5 cyberpunk themed brain scanner
Hacking the Adafruit MacroPad keypad #CircuitPython

AirLift

FeatherWing of the Day: Adafruit AirLift FeatherWing – ESP32 WiFi Coprocessor #WingOfTheDay
Adafruit Metro M7 with Airlift – HackSpace Magazine Issue 73 #Adafruit #RaspberryPi @HackSpaceMag

iron on patches

Holiday Tech and Popular Culture Sweaters: Hanukkah Menorah Sweater with Interactive Lights #Sweaters #Hanukkah
New Guide: Hanukkah Menorah Sweater with Interactive Lights

bunnie studios

Illuminating silicon chips to detect tampering @bunniestudios
Iteration and learning from the mistakes along the way @bunniestudios

Augmented Reality

Raspberry Pi Based AR Glasses
Investigating Augmented Reality glasses USB protocols #ReverseEngineering

x0xb0x

The first 2 orders at Adafruit… now up to 2,161,166 orders @adafruit #OHM2019 #oshwa @ohsummit #opensource #opensourcehardware @opensourceorg
#x0xb0x Spotted in the Wild

Nintendo Labo

Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo
Happy Mario Day 2023 #MarioDay #MAR10

CAD

Adventures in Eagle Package Design
Introducing Text-to-CAD @zoodotdev

spokepov

Festival / Playa Bike Build Tutorial
Adafruit Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Photography

boarduino

Time Travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science, technology and engineering world
NeoPixel 60 Ring Wall Clock

Circuit Boards

Circuit Artist: a digital circuit drawing and simulation game #ArtTuesday
Circuit Canvas – draw circuits in a browser

MONSTER M4SK

Made in NYC 10/13/2021 Featuring Monster M4sks in the Pick ‘n Place Machine
Made in NYC 5/12/2021 from the #Adafruit Factory!

Eye on NPI

LPS28 – from EYE ON NPI to new product in the fruit shop
EYE on NPI – SLN-VIZNAS-IOT Secure Facial Recognition Solution #EyeOnNPI #DigiKey #Adafruit @NXP @DigiKey

chumby

Upgrading a Chumby computer – audio
Upgrading the Chumby 8 Linux kernel #Chumby #Linux

stickers

New wearable patch can monitor blood pressure, caffeine levels #WearableWednesday
The Last True Sticker Factory in America! @MrsGrossmans

Cartoons

National Coloring Book Day 2024
The Rise and Fall of Saturday Morning Cartoons

Grand Central

UPDATED GUIDE: Adafruit 2.8″ TFT Touch Shield v2 #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @adafruit
JP’s Product Pick of the Week 3/14/23 Grand Central M4 Express @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #newproductpick

minipov

The first 2 orders at Adafruit… now up to 2,161,166 orders @adafruit #OHM2019 #oshwa @ohsummit #opensource #opensourcehardware @opensourceorg
Time Travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science, technology and engineering world

wavebubble

Amateur Radio Sleuthing Pins Down Source of Strange RF Interference
@fcc fines @smartcityntwks $750k for blocking Wi-Fi hotspots at convention centers @ #Cincinnati #Columbus #Indy #Orlando #Phoenix

people

Meet the Maker: Blue Moon Designs
Mary Ross, Engineer and NASA hidden figure #Space #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NAHM #AINAHM @NASA

QT Py BFF

NEW GUIDE: QT Py S2 Round Display Compass #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Cartoon Character Clock #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

literature

Cybercraftics Makes Desktop MIDI Drums
Henry Kidman’s Quest to Make the World’s Second Fastest Camera Slider

Matrix Portal

A Transit Tracker build party!
A Halloween LED matrix display #FromTheForums

Technology

Making software: a reference manual for people who design and build software by Dan Hollick
The MagPi Magazine (+ HackSpace) Issue 149: Raspberry Pi 500 + Monitor @TheMagPi

privacy

Flipper Zero, the hacker tool blowing up on TikTok #FlipperZero #NFC #Security @tiktok_us @Wired @dmehro
Google is making its internal video-blurring privacy tool open source #Privacy #OpenSource Engadget @Google

ST

What Runs Doom? Day 3 – an STM32F429 dev board #DailyDoom #Doommas
The Blues Wireless Swan – a Feather Board based on the STM32L4R5 #Feather #CircuitPython @blueswireless

discord

Celebrating over 39,000 members in the Adafruit Discord Community! @adafruit @discord
Celebrating over 38,000 members in the Adafruit Discord Community! @adafruit @discord

Pico 2

An epaper transit information display
Desk of Ladyada – Fruit Jam jam party #adafruit #FruitJam @adafruit

hackfriday

The smallest HDMI display: a common breakout board wired direct #HDMI #Hacks #Displays
Finding 8 Extra GPIO Pins on Raspberry Pi 4 #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Paper Art

Tutorial: Sound Reactive Paper Lanterns – Dance to the Music of the Spheres
Tutorial: Magic AI Storybook with ChatGPT and Voice Recognition with Raspberry Pi #adfruit

m4

Chip Shortage: ST STM32F405 #ChipShortage #adafruit @Adafruit @ST_world @micropython
Chip Shortage: Microchip ATSAMD51J19 #ChipShortage #adafruit @Adafruit @microchipmakes

Networking

EYE on NPI – Bel Fuse 1xN port MagJack and specialty ICMs #EYEonNPI #digikey @digikey @belfuseinc @adafruit
ESP32 open WiFi MAC proof-of-concept

netduino

NEW PRODUCT – NETduino 3 WiFi (.NET-programmable microcontroller)
NeoPixel Ripple Animation

Single Board Computers

EYE on NPI – Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 #EYEonNPI #DigiKey #adafruit @DigiKey @raspberrypiorg
Digit: the companion bot that talks to you! (a local AI in action) @DigiKey

Health

Building a T1D smartwatch from scratch #Health
A Module That Can Track How Hard a Football Player Gets Hit

Temperature Sensors

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit LPS28 Pressure Sensor #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit DS2482S-800 8 Channel I2C to 1-Wire Bus Adapter #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

EYE on NPI

LPS28 – from EYE ON NPI to new product in the fruit shop
EYE ON NPI – Infineon XDPS2201XUMA1 and ‎170 W AC-DC Charger Design for E-bikes and Power Tools

DigitalFruit

DigitalFruit- Alina Boon
DigitalFruit- Elle Clayton

WLED

How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit
New Tutorial: Sparkle Skirt 2D: Make a Light Up Ballgown with WLED

Othermill

New Guide! How to CNC Mill Keycaps #CNC #Bantamtools @ecken @videopixil
The Vertical Mill – Finally we can make flat things

tinyUSB

NEW GUIDE: DIY Turbo Button Controller #Hacks #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
USB OTG High Speed support for ESP32-P4 merged into TinyUSB

Adaptive Technology

A.L.S. Stole His Voice. A.I. Retrieved It
UPDATED GUIDE: TRRS Trinkey – Adaptive Joysticks

cellular

Nokia 3310 Gets USB-C Upgrade
Simple SIM breakout

Maker Update

Meet the Maker: Yvonne Schindler – Giant Connect 4 Art Installation with Lights & Animations
UPDATE – Black Magic Probe with JTAG Cable and Serial Cable

WebIDE

Cloud Connected Power Meter and AIO Keys. This is the #AdafruitIO Weekly Update #IoTuesday
Adafruit webIDE updated to support BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black

Kicad

Making custom KiCad bitmap silk screens @MrBananas
Avoiding mechanical parts from disappearing in KiCad

Synthesizer

MIDI Synth, an analog synthesizer simulation built on the Web Audio API
Exploring the Winterbloom Castor & Pollux II Oscillator Synth

Medicine

Wearable sensors will transform the practice of medicine
Wearable patch wirelessly monitors estrogen in sweat #Wearables #Medicine #Wireless @Caltech

protoshield

New Products 3/10/2021 Feat. Adafruit CYBERDECK Bonnet for Raspberry Pi 400! @adafruit #adafruit #newproducts
Collin’s Lab: Echo 2-XL

brain machine

Back to School: Kits for Educators #BackToSchool
Brain-Computer Interface Lets You Control IoT Devices

Makerfaire

Spinning Cube Project by Lasers and LEDS at Maker Faire 2024
An upscaled Spinning Disc Step Sequencer for the Orlando Maker Faire

Gizmo

NEW GUIDE: Sailor Moon Star Locket #CircuitPlaygroundBluefruit #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @Adafruit
NEW PRODUCT – Circuit Playground 200×200 Tri-Color E-Ink Gizmo – E-Ink Display + Audio Amplifier

Huzzah

Beginner Tutorial: Holiday Garland Lights with WLED
Minecraft Game Life-bar

MQTT

Modpoll – a command-line tool for Modbus and MQTT
The Bald SENSE Wing monitors environmental data with Feather and CircuitPython

Retro Tech

Retro Tech August 30, 2023 #Adafruit #AdafruitRetroTech #RetroTech #Keyboard @Adafruit
Excellent Alexa Upgrade 🤖 #Robotics #Alexa #Animtronic

Hardware

What Runs Doom? Jack-o’-lantern of DOOM #DailyDoom #Doommas
What Runs Doom? Day 2 – an RP2350 #DailyDoom #Doommas

Raspberry Pi 5

Fixing the Performance of the Raspberry Pi 5 on Ubuntu 24.04
New Guide Pages: Raspberry Pi 5 RGB Matrix Panel X Mirroring #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

sugru

NEW GUIDE: Pathfinder Robot Companion @adafruit @johnedgarpark @sugru #apexlegends
How to Custom Make Wax Candles Using Sugru Moulds

workbenches

11 Cheap Tools You Want to Have in Your Workshop
Modular 3D Printed Workshop Organizing System

WiFi

How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit
Control Wiz Lights With CircuitPython #CircuitPython #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

Chip Shortage

Chip Shortage: TDK Invensense MPU-6050 #ChipShortage #TDK @InvenSense @Adafruit
Chip Shortage: MicroChip ATSAMD51G19A #ChipShortage @MicrochipMakes @Adafruit

Maker to Market

Making is Show Business now #MakerBusiness #Making
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Interview with Tim Clarke, CircuitPython Tests, EZ Make Oven and More!

BrainCraft

Adafruit BrainCraft HAT – HackSpace Magazine Issue 76 #BrainCraft @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi
UPDATED GUIDE: Using Google Assistant on the BrainCraft HAT or Voice Bonnet #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @Raspberry_Pi #MachineLearning #BrainCraft #VoiceBonnet @MakerMelissa

PiCowbell

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit Proto Tripler PiCowbell #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit Proto Tripler PiCowbell for Pico and PicoW

Pico

The Clockwork PicoCalc
Raspberry Pi Pico-Powered Valentine’s Day LED Light Display #piday #raspberrypi #ValentinesDay

mbed

Arduino to Switch From Arm Mbed to Zephyr Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)
Mbed online compiler “retirement” @arm @ARMmbed #mbed

Edge Badge

Creating a video game wedding invite with Adafruit badge boards – MAKE Issue 91
A custom Feather interfacing a hydrophone to Adafruit dev boards #PyBadge #EdgeBoard #Feather @LukeBerndt @Adafruit

CAN

QT Py of the Day: Adafruit CAN Bus BFF Add-On for QT Py #QTPyOfTheDay
Feather of the Day: Adafruit Feather M4 CAN Express with ATSAME51 #Feather @MicrochipMakes

CANbus

QT Py of the Day: Adafruit CAN Bus BFF Add-On for QT Py #QTPyOfTheDay
An ATtiny1616 CAN Bus NeoPixel lighting controller PCB

debugging

Demystifying common microcontroller debug protocols
The Great Search: SOIC SMT Clip #TheGreatSearch @DigiKey @adafruit

From the desk of Ladyada

From Ladyada: A Crickit Manifesto #Crickit #Robotics #Design #Manufacturing #MakeRobotFriend @digikey
ADAFRUIT-INSPIRED DESIGN BLOCKS COME TO AUTODESK EAGLE @ADSKEAGLE @adafruit

citizenengineer

Icequakes Rattle Midwest #raspberrypi #raspberryshake
Help Map LA River in Stereo

hackathon

Fancy M4 Eyes on new hardware – a round display!
High schooler? Make projects, earn prizes: High Seas! @hackclub

standards

The broken promise of USB-C
Why are there fuses in British electrical plugs?

HDMI

A Raspberry Pi 5 cyberpunk themed brain scanner
New Learn Guide: Flappy Nyan Cat game on Metro RP2350 #Gaming #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

LED Matrix

A Transit Tracker build party!
Desk of Ladyada – Triple Matrix Bonnet & u-blox UBX Vibes #adafruit @adafruit

qualia

Qualia S3 iOS Photo Display with itsaSNAP #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Qualia S3 Sushi Conveyor Belt #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

quantifiedself

NEW GUIDE: CircuitPython BLE Heart Rate Zone Trainer Display @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit
How to Get Youth Excited About Wearable Tech #WearableWednesday #wearabletech #STEM #education @4H

ESP32-C3

A little Espressif helper for programming
Building an NFC selectable movie library for kids

Restoration

Paralyzed jockey lost his ability to walk after manufacturer refused to fix the battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton
The Great Search: 3M VHB tape for Affixing a Dinosaur to Tile #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey @Digikey @adafruit

sparky

NEW PRODUCTS – Limited Edition Enamel Pins – Joy & Sparky the Blue Smoke Monster
“Charles Crawford III!” Celebrating mistakes together with Sparky the Blue Smoke Monster :) @adafruit @discordapp #adafruit

scratch

Wild! Linux running on RISC-V emulated in Scratch #RISCV #Linux #Scratch
Marty the Educational Robot from Robotical – a review #Education #Robotics #Scratch

magazines

Brilliant is Beautiful: 2022 Princesses with Powertools Calendar #WomenInSTEM @reinventedmag
COMING SOON – HackSpace Magazine Issue #34 – Discover Feather – September 2020

LoRaWAN

FloodNet – New York’s flood sensor network #NewYork #Sensors #OpenSource
EYE on NPI – Murata Type 1SJ Integrated LoRaWAN Module #EYEonNPI @murata_na @digikey @adafruit

diversity

Científico Latino #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth
Unleashing the Power of Your Punch: Building a Boxing Glove Tracker

Puzzles

Karel The Robot In CircuitPython #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem #CircuitPython @Adafruit
Laser Cut Christmas Calendar Puzzle

quantum

Topological Superconductors from a Materials Perspective
Electronics, Adafruit-themed printable high-contrast images for babies or anyone … (PDFs)

KB2040

New Learn Guide: DOOM Keeb
Turn Child’s Sensory Toy into a Switch Controller

gpsshield

Autonomous Kayak
Adafruit GPS Hat in Windows IoT Core + Adafruit Class Library for Windows IoT Core

pneumatics

Folding paper flowers with a pneumatic robot #ArtTuesday
Making a 3D printed, servo-controlled pneumatic valve

Cartoon Network

Steven Universe Future Finale: Rebecca Sugar Interview from Vulture
Make Cartoon Network ornaments and more with the Adafruit CN stickers and light kit! Get your kit here! @cartoonnetwork #cartoonnetwork

Barometric pressure

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit LPS28 Pressure Sensor #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit BNO055 + BMP280 BFF #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @adafruit

vote

Leeamerica’s Walking Envelope #ArtTuesday
I Voted badge kits from @Alpenglowyarn #Vote

NFC

EYE on NPI – ST ST25R200 NFC/HF RFID Reader IC #EYEonNPI #digikey @ST_World @digikey @adafruit
Portable thermometer – NFC/ QT PY/ SHT40

Audio

PCM5122 is an I2S DAC that does it all
Desk of Ladyada – Triple Matrix Bonnet & u-blox UBX Vibes #adafruit @adafruit

PCIe

A PCIe Deep Dive: The Link Training and Status State Machine (LTSSM) #RaspberryPi #PCIe
The online PCIe database for Raspberry Pi CM4 and Pi 5 #PCIe #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi @jeffGeerling

ybox

NEW GUIDE: Pico W YBox3 #Arduino Compatibles #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
ThinkGeek profile in Wired

Journey to the Center of the Catalog

What’s in a bin? The Ice Tube Bin!
It was a mission if there ever was one – Part Two.

Edge Computing

NEW GUIDE: Automatic Naughty Cat Detector using Lobe #AdafruitLearningSystem @lobe_ai @Raspberry_Pi @CircuitPython #MachineLearning @MakerMelissa
Smart Stethoscope Powered by Edge Impulse

Magnetometers

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit BNO055 + BMP280 BFF #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Qualia S3 Compass #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

Blinka

NEW GUIDE: Portable Macrodata Refinement Terminal #Severance #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
UPDATED GUIDE: CircuitPython on Linux and Raspberry Pi #AdafruitLearningSystem #Blinka @Adafruit @CircuitPython @raspberrypi @MakerMelissa

pic

Sealed lead acid battery testers #Batteries @Brian_Dorey
Podcast: Ken and Chip Gracey of Parallax Inc. @ParallaxInc @ParallaxKen @‏ParallaxChip @MacroFab

WebUSB

webЯcade: play games entirely within a browser #Gaming @webrcade
Trying out a pure-javascript WebSerial Plotter in Chrome #webserial #chrome #glitch #adafruit @glitch @googlechrome @adafruit @arduino

Seesaw

NEW GUIDE: Feather RP2350 Audio Reactive Video Synth #Feather #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit UPDI Friend #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @adafruit

GNSS

Desk of Ladyada – Triple Matrix Bonnet & u-blox UBX Vibes #adafruit @adafruit
The Great Search: u-blox GNSS Modules with Built-in Antenna #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey #adafruit @Digikey @adafruit

USB-PD

PocketPD: a portable USB C bench power supply that fits in your pocket
Updated Guide – Understanding USB Type C: Cable Types, Pitfalls and More

midisense

Pedalino: A smart, open source wireless MIDI foot controller for guitarists and more
Skelo’s DIY Space Invaders MIDIsense Controller

Pi Plates

New Products 10/17/18 Featuring Adafruit BMP388 #Barometric Pressure + Altimeter @adafruit #adafruit
Time Travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science, technology and engineering world

software-defined radio

FM radio RDS data extraction with RFtap and Wireshark
Track aircraft in real-time with a Raspberry Pi using FlightAware Pro #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi

Swift

SWIFTUINO – Arduino Circuit Simulator for iPad in Swift Playgrounds
Adafruit AR Update #11 #RaspberryPi #Teensy

Motor Controllers

NEW GUIDE: Portable Macrodata Refinement Terminal #Severance #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Meet the Maker: Vanessa the Robot, a Piano-Playing Animatronic Puppet #makerfaire

EYESPI

QT Py of the Day: Adafruit EYESPI BFF for QT Py or Xiao – 18 Pin FPC Connector #QTPyOfTheDay
Desk of Ladyada – Standing Desk Complete! #DeskOfLadyada #Adafruit

Adafruit Playground

Getting Started with Zephyr on Linux #AdafruitPlayground #Zephyr #Linux
Getting a Zephyr Shell over USB or BLE + Bluefruit Connect

nOOds

NEW PRODUCTS – Single ended nOOds – 300mm long Flexible LED Filament in Various Colors
NEW PRODUCTS – Single ended nOOds – 128mm long Flexible LED Filaments in Various Colors

Sparkle Motion

How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit
New Tutorial: Sparkle Skirt 2D: Make a Light Up Ballgown with WLED

duelnature

Where do math symbols come from? #MakerEducation
ValenThrowieM + TempM

bedazzler

Adafruit featured on HISTORY – The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd – S1 E4 Weird Weapons
10 years ago we tried to make an open source flash light to make us puke … #OHM2019 #oshwa @ohsummit #opensource #opensourcehardware @opensourceorg @adafruit @DHSgov #BEDAZZLER

atoz

A to Z of electronics videos have captions enabled…
A to Z of electronics videos by Jeri Ellsworth now with text transcripts and captions

Windows IoT

Windows 10 ARM on Raspberry Pi 4 is off to a good start #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
DIY Facial Recognition With Raspberry Pi and Windows 10 IoT Core #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi #Win10IoT

Ruler

Bob Clagett’s Top Ten Gifts for the Shop
Is There a Difference Between a Ruler and a Rule?

PyRuler

PyRuler Video Call Panic Buttons
Made in NYC 6/23/2021 Featuring Two #RP2040 #Testers

ThinkInk

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit Feather RP2040 ThinkInk #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @adafruit @blitzcitydiy
NEW VIDEO: Eink Partial Updates #eink #thinkink

PyCon

PyCon US 2024 announced + Call for Proposals #PyCon @pycon
Jeff’s experiences at #PyConUS2022 @adafruit

wippersnapper

NEW GUIDE: ItsaSNAP for HomeKit PIR Motion Detection
NEW GUIDE: No-Code WipperSnapper Summoning Horn #AdafruitIO #Wippersnapper #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

Amplifiers

NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit PT100 RTD Temperature Sensor Amplifier – MAX31865
Retro Internet Radio Using ESP32

ESP32-C6

A little Espressif helper for programming
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit ESP32-C6 Feather #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

ald

Diana Iracheta ALD24 @findingada
Kathleen Booth #ALD24 @findingada

gakken

“Best of Adafruit” Photo & Video Series Day 51 #photography #art #design #wfh #bestofadafruit
Adafruit Holiday Gift Guide 2016: Artists

tesla

Driving Tesla Cybertruck: Everything You Need to Know!
on GitHub: Tesla Light Show xLights Guide @Tesla

compass

NEW GUIDE: QT Py S2 Round Display Compass #LCDs & Displays #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Qualia S3 Compass #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

SwiftUI

Adafruit AR Update #11 #RaspberryPi #Teensy
Election Day iOS app made with SwiftUI #Swift #SwiftUI #iOS

Spanish Guide

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up July 26 – August 1st: AdaBox015 Unboxing, Code of conduct for communities, #deskofladyada, Adafruit Discord 23k Members Strong and More!
Translated Guide: CircuitPython Sin Complicaciones para la Circuit Playground Express y la Bluefruit #AdafruitLearningSystem #CircuitPlaygroundExpress #CircuitPython

Build Back Better

Adafruit @ the NYC Small Business Recovery & Growth event @nyc_sbs @NYCMWBE
Upcoming White House Science Team

Semiconductors

The Invention of the Integrated Circuit : Jean Hoerni’s Patent Notebook
A Brief History of Semiconductor Packaging

parenting

A is for Alien: An ABC Book – Little Golden Books
My Little Hacker: Making an MVP (Minimum Viable Player) for the Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes hack

Bus

Hackaday hands on: the Bus Pirate 5 #RP2040 @Hackaday
PCIe / PCI Express: extenders and expanders

CH32V

NEW GUIDE: Phyx LANA TNY CH32V203 #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: QT Py CH32V203 eInk / ePaper Daily Calendar and Clock #Arduino #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

Zephyr

Free Zephyr training: February 26th, 2025 @GoliothOfficial
Getting Started with Zephyr on Linux #AdafruitPlayground #Zephyr #Linux

Raspberry Pi 4

Easy graphing of temperatures with Raspberry Pi and NodeRed #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi
A Raspberry Pi map of Manhattan which shows subway train status

itsaSNAP

New Video! itsaSNAP #IoT
NEW GUIDE: Memento Photo Capturing w/ itsaSNAP #CircuitPython #Apple #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

meggy jr

Drink making unit @ Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Meggy Jr in stock!

sim reader

OSH FTW!
Citizen Engineer volume 01 video transcript now available

patents

Is Stratasys a 3D printing patent troll? Stratasys v. Bambu Lab
Electronics, Adafruit-themed printable high-contrast images for babies or anyone … (PDFs)

inductive

LED Dreidel Project with Induction-Powered Lights
The Great Search: Miniature Ferrite Core Ring (Toroid) #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey @digikey @Adafruit

WebSerial

ESP8266 and ESP32 browser-based installation + configure Wi-Fi via Bluetooth LE @Home_Assistant
A JavaScript only serial terminal for Chrome, no plug-in or install #JavaScript #Chrome @mmiscool

sustainability

Electrify – An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith @GriffithSaul @rewiringamerica @mitpress #electrifyeverything #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
An Australian inventor wants to stop global warming by electrifying everything

Scorpio

Feather of the Day: Adafruit Feather RP2040 SCORPIO – 8 Channel NeoPixel Driver #Adafruit #Feather
Adafruit Feather RP2040 SCORPIO – HackSpace Magazine Issue 74 #Feather @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

Humidity Sensors

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit HDC3021 Precision Temperature & Humidity Sensor #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit SEN54 or SEN55 Adapter Breakout #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @adafruit

Internet of Things Monthly

ICYMI – November 2024 Adafruit IoT Monthly: Halloween, WiLo, and more!
ICYMI – Adafruit IoT Monthly: (Google) Photo Frame, Matter Standard, and more!

Motor Driver

Adafruit TMC2209 Stepper Motor Driver Breakout Board #Adafruit Products #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit A4988 Stepper Motor Driver Breakout Board #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

Safety

Shop Safe This Holiday Season #Phishing #Smishing
Pyrotechnician Answers Fireworks Questions

movies

“FLOW” (2024): Made With Open Source
Inside the Science and Tech of 007

Microtouch

A General Purpose In/Out Expander for Microtouch
Heat Death for the Microtouch

hackchat

From the Hackchat – Etched Glow-Through Keycap with Hackaday Logo for MX Compatible Switches
Machine learning bubble blowing … Tiny Machine Learning on the Edge with TensorFlow Lite Running on SAMD51 @arduino @tensorflow #tinyML #tensorflow #machinelearning #ai

counting

Making Of THE LAST OF US Episode 2: The Clickers
Getting to Know the 555 Timer Chip

Micro Servo

NEW GUIDE: MIDI Controlled Robot Lyre with CircuitPython #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @BlitzCityDIY
NEW GUIDE: PyLeap CLUE Barometer #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @BlitzCityDIY

Thermal Camera

From the Forums: A fever alert – modding the MLX90640 PyBadge Thermal Cam #Fever #Themometer #FromTheForums
NEW GUIDE: MLX90640 Thermal Camera with Image Recording #AdafruitLearningSystem #Thermal #Adafruit @Adafruit

everyday

Exploring the World of Dry Pasta
New Guide: No-Sew Cotton Face Mask with a Window – DIY Tutorial

Raspberry Pi 3

A Raspberry Pi map of Manhattan which shows subway train status
A Raspberry Pi 1 to Pi 5 performance comparison

ESP32-P4

Playing 1024×592 30fps MJPEG AVI video on an ESP32-P4
A little Espressif helper for programming

USB HID

Guide Updated: Adafruit Feather RP2040 with USB Type A Host Gamepad Example #AdafruitLearningSystem #CircuitPython
Raspberry Pi Pico MIDI Gesture Controller: The MagPi Issue 149 @TheMagPi

Repair

The 8086’s Last Gasp – Tandy 1000 RL Hard Drive
Paralyzed jockey lost his ability to walk after manufacturer refused to fix the battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton

Compute Module

Prototype of a Compute Module backpack ready!
Desk of Ladyada – I2S DACs, Claude API, and Compute Module Backpack #adafruit @adafruit

fuzebox

Uzebox Games Trailer
New Kit! Fuzebox, an open source 8-bit game console

New Category

Celebrating Charles Darwin #DarwinDay
Watch a Japanese Kokeshi doll emerge from a spinning block of wood #ArtTuesday

Firsts

Alejandro Mayorkas Tapped as First Immigrant and First Latinx Person to Lead DHS #CelebratingFirsts
Janet Yellen Set to Lead Treasury Department Under Biden #CelebratingFirsts

Telework

1940s Bell Telephone introduces the mobile phone
Workers Are Using ‘Mouse Movers’ So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace #Telework #Lifehack @VICE

BeaglePlay

Bootlin offers open source embedded Linux training on BeaglePlay
Use BeaglePlay and NodeRed to make a UI dashboard visual #BeaglePlay

Nintendo Game Boy

Raspberry Pi Pico Game Boy Pokémon-themed alarm clock #piday #raspberrypi
Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card

Zero

An off-grid RFID card reader based on Raspberry Pi 2W and Python #PiDay @Raspberry_Pi
Use your wireless Bluetooth keyboard & mouse on non-Bluetooth computers

nRF54

Track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple’s “Find My” network without Apple hardware
EYE on NPI: Nordic nRF54L15 Wireless SoC and Development Kit #EYEonNPI #DigiKey @DigiKey @NordicTweets @Adafruit

USB Host

New Learn Guide: Flappy Nyan Cat game on Metro RP2350 #Gaming #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Breakout Game on the Metro RP2350 #Gaming #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

ladyada.net

Server move

benefits

Our new Mother’s Room @Adafruit

Xcode

New Guide – Stream iPhone Sensor Data to Adafruit IO

MicroBlocks

NEW GUIDE: MicroBlocks Circuit Playground Express Ornament #AdafruitLearningSystem, #Adafruit #CircuitPlaygroundExpress @Adafruit @MicroBlocks

KittenBot

NEW PRODUCT – KittenBot Meowbit – Codable Console for MakeCode Arcade

French Guide

Newly translated guide: Qu’est-ce que MakeCode? #MakeCode #CircuitPlaygroundExpress

Continuous Integration

Arduino releases Arduino Lint to test sketches for issues #Arduino #CI @Arduino

WebNFC

NFC tag reading comes to the web with WebNFC #NFC @sapcxlabs

The Reel World

Adafruit’s The Reel World – MMA8451 accelerometers are in! #AdafruitReelWorld @Adafruit

RP1

The datasheet for the Raspberry Pi RP1 chip #PiDay #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi5 @Raspberry_Pi

BeagleV-Fire

EYE on NPI – BeagleBoard.org BeagleV-Fire® Featuring Microchip PolarFire #EYEonNPI #DigiKey @digikey @beagleboardorg @adafruit

MEMENTO

MEMENTO Camera Quick Start Guide #Camera #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

SproutSense

Desk of Ladyada – Desk plant health monitoring with SproutSense and Adafruit.io

Zigbee

Automating my gate door using HomeKit, Home Assistant and Zigbee

Industry City

A quick timelapse as we get more footage going of the move and setting up our machines at the new factory!

Die Shot

Reverse engineering the RP2350 chip powering the Raspberry Pi Pico 2

ikea hacks

“Ikea starts classifieds site for its used furniture – “Ikea hacks” section maybe??

Nordic

Track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple’s “Find My” network without Apple hardware
EYE on NPI: Nordic nRF54L15 Wireless SoC and Development Kit #EYEonNPI #DigiKey @DigiKey @NordicTweets @Adafruit

RTOS

Getting Started with Zephyr on Linux #AdafruitPlayground #Zephyr #Linux

xLights

How to Light Up RGB LED Nets with Sparkle Motion Controller from Adafruit