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Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: add NeoPixel seed pixels to a polka dot dress and create an electro-swing, dance-reactive retro fashion delight. This is an intermediate guide that will give you ideas and techniques for lighting up your costume and creating effects that react to your motion. From the guide: Put […]

Gotham Whale‘s communications director Chris Saint Lawrence spoke to WNYC’s Sean Carlson about humpback whales in NYC waters. Listen to the story here and get involved with Gotham Whale’s citizen science program: When you’re near or on the water in the New York Bight, keep an eye out for marine mammals. If you spot a […]

The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built during the Fall, 2025 batch at the Recurse Center that runs games made by the community. It has a real CRT, a custom graphics card, spinner controllers, and a deploy pipeline where anyone can ship a game just by pushing to GitHub. It now has over 50 […]

Cubic Doggo 06R High Mobility is an upgrade from the base Cubic Doggo. It has several mechanical improvements and uses an IMU for balance. So far, only BNO055 is tested. Future incorporation with BMI088 or ICM-42688-P will likely improve the IMU performance: the current PID oscillation is potentially caused by delayed IMU correction at the BNO055 […]

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, built the Youth Digital Policy Repository to track digital media legislation introduced by each state to protect minors. The database is intended for researchers and policy makers: The Youth Digital Policy Repository (YDPR) is an ongoing, open-source repository of policies aimed at regulating digital media for […]

The ESP32-C3 SuperMini modules are incredibly affordable, costing around €2, and are equipped with a compact SMD antenna. However, this tiny antenna significantly limits the usable WiFi range due to its design. To address this issue with minimal effort, Peter Neufeld implemented a simple antenna modification that drastically improved performance. This modification involves adding a […]

Alex Kretzschmar built this project, made for a perfect lazy Saturday unwind, after a busy week giving a talk at Devrelcon in NYC. Plane radar is a neat little project that turns an ESP32-C3 and a 1.28-inch round display into a live aircraft radar. It pulls nearby ADS-B traffic, plots each aircraft by distance and […]

Inflect-Micro-v2 is a complete local text-to-waveform speech synthesis under 10M parameters. It has a fixed-voice English Text to Speech (TTS) with deterministic seeds, long-text handling, and CPU or CUDA inference. Inflect v2 uses one public API across two sizes: Micro prioritizes quality below 10M parameters; Nano prioritizes footprint below 4M. The model can be found […]

Memo-1 is a simple 65C02 based computer for fun and learning. The Memo-1 consists on a 65C02 CPU running at 1Mhz, crudely attached to 32K of ram, 16K of rom, and has a 65C22 via and a 6551 ACIA (NOT the W65C51). The system is thought to have 8k of rom available as extension, and […]

ImudClient is an Arduino client library for imud — an IMU daemon for marine and robotics navigation that fuses gyro/accel/ magnetometer data with a Kalman filter and publishes attitude (heading, roll, pitch, quaternion, rate of turn, heave, sea state…) over TCP or UDP. ImudClient receives, validates, and decodes imud’s binary packets on ESP32-class boards — […]

Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself. It features five windows side by side, each taking advantage of the same scanning drum, but with separate LEDs to allow separate images. The windows are a luxurious 9mm x 8mm each, with 20 scan lines. The software uses the Raspberry Pi Pico’s PIO […]

Michal Zalewski on the lcamtuf’s thing website writes: If you tinker with analog electronics, you might have heard that some circuits can exhibit negative resistance. This is usually followed by a current-to-voltage plot featuring some sort of a kinked curve and an assertion that this property might help the circuit designer in some way. But […]

The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python information that you may have missed, all in one place! You get a summary of all the software, events, projects, and the latest hardware worldwide once a week, no […]

A native port of of the ScummVM Adventure game playing engine to the Analogue Pocket portable game device. It is running on openfpgaOS — a RISC-V operating system on the Pocket’s Cyclone V FPGA. Per-engine ELFs (SCUMM / AGI / SCI) run many classic point-and-click adventure games. Each game is a small instance (two text/JSON config files […]

Build your own multi-console emulator system with the Fruit Jam and play all of your favorite retro games! Frank Hoedemakers has created a new multi-emulator launcher called Pico Bootloader that makes it simple and fast to get going. It uses an innovative system of re-flashing the Fruit Jam with a given emulator stored on the […]

If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. To never miss another issue, subscribe now! – You’ll get a terrific newsletter each Monday (which is out before this post). 12,385 subscribers worldwide! The next newsletter goes out Monday morning and subscribing is the best way to keep […]

Hey folks, 3D hangouts livestream will return on Wednesday, August 19th at 11am ET. In the meantime, catch up on previous livestreams. Last weeks livestream aired on Wednesday, Juyly 29th 2026. 3D Hangouts – Voicebox FX, Flight Tracker and Jimothy https://www.youtube.com/live/KKSqjBxRNDA 3D Hangout Show Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVgpmWevin2slopw_A3-A8Y

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image via NYC Parks The family camping lottery is open through August 6 for an overnight stay in Central Park August 14. Check out the remaining events planned through September 18, which includes Orchard Beach and Rockaway Beach! Sleep under the stars! Camp overnight in our parks with our Urban Park Rangers as your […]

The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python information that you may have missed, all in one place! You get a summary of all the software, events, projects, and the latest hardware worldwide once a week, no […]

Arca Cengiz has created creakwork12 which turns your Framework 12 laptop into a creaky wooden door It’s basically this (that was also the inspiration too) but ported to a fw12. It may or may not work on other laptops too, I haven’t tested it. The filtering is optimised for framework 12’s hinge stiffness. See this […]

Patten Studio is no stranger to using structural beams to support art projects, whether on a floor, wall, or ceiling. In their latest work, they are designing another suspended light sculpture. We’ve built a bunch of ceiling-mounted sculptures in recent years. (Check out our Instagram to see All Points Canada and Ceramic Cloud installed at Google Toronto. Shoutout SOSO for two […]

Bob Alexander at Galactic Studios has been recreating Robert Tinney’s Byte magazine paintings as photographs. The latest work is “Technological Breakthrough”. Byte’s January 1986 issue had a focus on robotics. Mr. Tinney painted a robot claw hatching out of an egg. As I’ve done with several other Byte covers, I re-created Tinney’s vision as if it […]

Krebs on Security writes that security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves […]

The world’s first wrist computer system, released in 1984, consisted of a Seiko watch part and a separate “controller” console with a built-in printer. The user could input BASIC programing with a keyboard (sold separately) and enjoy playing games. It also included a memo function, a telephone directory, an address book, and a scheduling function. […]

A nice hands-on hardware hacking write-up making the rounds on Hacker News. The author picked up a bottom-of-the-line $10 TP-Link TL-841N (EU) off Facebook Marketplace specifically to practice the full end-to-end process of tearing into an IoT device: locating the UART, getting a root shell, and extracting firmware. The interesting part is that the firmware […]

Jonathan Elliot Peace has posted a Zephyr fork with board support for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, a 26-file commit adding about 1,300 lines. The Zero 2 W runs a Broadcom BCM2710A1, the same silicon as the original Pi 3, packaged in an RP3A0-AU SiP with 512MB of LPDDR2. Zephyr boots it single-core with […]

Matt Beton trained a tiny Mamba-based autoregressive language model and wrote an inference engine to run it on the 8-bit 6502 processor (from 1975, with 32KB RAM). The MOS 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor released in 1975, powering the BBC Micro and the Apple II. I am lucky enough to have access to my dad’s […]

Moko Fukuyama, “Old School” (2026), aluminum boat, reclaimed wood, plywood, automotive paint (photo Timothy Schenck; courtesy the artist and Public Art Fund, NY) 15 Outdoor Art Shows to See in NYC This Summer via hyperallergic You know what they say: When the heat, and smoke, and floods go away, New York comes out to play. […]

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Version control for 3D models has always been awkward, since a diff of two binary STLs tells you nothing useful. Meshdiff is a free browser-based tool that does the job properly, comparing two versions of a model and showing added material, removed material, and dimensional drift using voxel and surface-heatmap diffing. It handles STL, 3MF, […]

Lon Seidman reviews the TinyNES, an open-source Nintendo Entertainment System. What sets this apart from other NES clones is how it combines original hardware and open source design. If you are looking for an authentic NES experience, the TinyNES might be for you. What it uses from the original NES are the CPU and PPU […]

We really enjoyed this video from the BBC Archive about the microphones the BBC employed in the earliest broadcasts. Via BBC Archives on YouTube: Veteran BBC radio broadcaster John Snagge – who first broadcast for the BBC in 1927 – discusses how microphones evolved throughout his career. Mr Snagge recalls the bulky ‘meat safe’ microphones […]

What’s in that gift?! Here’s a fun and easy way to creatively mislead your next gift recipient with motion-activated sound effects! Use the Adafruit Audio FX board and a vibration switch to make this simple (and reusable) circuit. Before you begin please read: Adafruit Audio FX Sound Board Adafruit Guide to Excellent Soldering The Adafruit […]

Carl Bugeja wanted to build a tiny robot for his son to play with. After reiterating the design, the result was the ProtoBot. Designed for anyone excited about building robots! Bring your bot to life using the build-guide, then control it with your phone, automate it, or even customize with open-source examples. This FlexPCB took […]

If you’ve got a spare single-board computer and a USB webcam sitting in a drawer, CheapSecurity from Giuseppe Marco Randazzo turns them into a full home surveillance setup with no cloud subscription attached. The whole premise is data sovereignty: footage stays local, on storage you control, with retention policies you set. It runs on Raspberry […]

The libsm64 project provides a clean interface to the movement and rendering code which was reversed from SM64 by the SM64 decompilation project, so that Mario can be dropped in to existing game engines or other systems with minimal effort. This project produces a shared library file containing mostly code from the decompilation project, and […]

Davide Gironi found a junked turntable. It was not in a good condition, the plate was broken and enclosure has some cracks. The front cover is pretty, and also it’s powered by tubes, so Davide decided to convert it into a small practice tube guitar amplifier. Most important thing to notice when building tube guitar […]

The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python information that you may have missed, all in one place! You get a summary of all the software, events, projects, and the latest hardware worldwide once a week, no […]

Print and assemble the Overwatch Lucio blaster with this three-part guide from John Park: Overwatch Prop Gun: Lucio’s Blaster Pt. 1 – Lights, music, and sound effects prop circuit design Overwatch Prop Gun: Lucio’s Blaster Pt. 2 – Lights, music, and sound effects prop circuit integration Overwatch Prop Gun: Lucio’s Blaster Pt. 3 – Permanent […]

The 30mm arcade buttons in the Adafruit shop are excellent for retrogame projects. They’re also quite aesthetically pleasing. They feature a translucent body with a very slim micro switch, so it’s great for internal lighting effects. Although they do not have LEDs built in, you can actually fit NeoPixels into the body with a 3D […]

ESP32-S31 now in mass production and available for purchase Replacing a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s Filament Spool Dry Box – Pelican-Style Latching #3DPrinting #3DThursday ESP32-S3 SuperMini + mmWave Sensor Enclosure (ESPHome) #3DPrinting #3DThursday Cassegotchi: Arduino Nano Tamagotchi Framework’s 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C’s complexity CYD Desk Buddy – Bambu Lab + […]

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. ESP32-S31 now in mass production […]

It’s National Coloring Book Day so now is the time to power up your pencils and let your creativity run wild! Whether you’re de-stressing or doodling with the littles, coloring is for everyone. Did you know Adafruit has its own? Check out Ladyada’s Coloring Book – R is for Robots! You can also get instant […]

Star Wars™: The Experience – A Journey Through the Galaxy will be making its exclusive world premiere at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in February 2027. The exhibition will feature immersive environments, props, and original costumes. The all-new exhibition traces the legacy of Star Wars from its handcrafted beginnings to today’s groundbreaking digital frontiers, exploring […]

That Project made a screenless, standalone ESP32-S3 Rubik’s cube solver and shared the project on YouTube: This is a fully handheld, offline Rubik’s Cube solver powered by an ESP32-S3. It scans the cube using a built-in camera, detects colors with OpenCV, allows manual touch correction via an LVGL UI, and guides you through the solution […]

Don’t get fooled by the pleasant weather, more heat and rain are on the way. It won’t be long, though, before false fall to come knocking, bringing shorter days and…a new school year approaching! August is Back to School Month so join us and get prepared for another scholastic voyage into the school year. We […]