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Digi-Comp I image via Wikipedia A very cool piece of computer history from Chris Staecker on YouTube. It looks like a simple toy but the Digi-Comp 1 is actually a fully functional mechanical digital computer. Was this the first ever home computer? Via Wikipedia: The Digi-Comp I contains three mechanical flip-flops, providing an ability to […]

Dean Millien working at his studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn (image courtesy James Fisher-Smith) via Hyperallergic Hyperallergic highlights Brooklyn artist and self-taught sculptor Dean Millien. Millien recently made his debut in MoMA’s Greater New York. While Millien’s background as a self-taught artist might differ from that of figures like Duchamp, his recent inclusion in MoMA PS1’s […]

In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable calculator, about the size of a double refrigerator. The IBM 604 came out just after the transistor was invented, too early to use transistors. At the time, calculators and computers were moving from slow electromechanical components to fast vacuum tubes. One […]

This post gives a modular performance at Modular On The Spot Munich by synthesist and sound designer Martha Bahr, aka Panic Girl. Bahr’s performance, The Day The Earth Stood Still, was recorded at MOTS Munich on July 8th, 2026. It features a Moog Mother-32, a small Eurorack system and an Erica Synths? Echolocator. Modular on […]

🐍 Augusst is ssslipping away which can only mean itsss almost CircuitPython Day 2026! This Friday, August 21, 2026 we celebrate the snakiest of holidays! CircuitPython Day is an official holiday for the Adafruit team; We will still have folks ready to process orders but delays may occur, so plan accordingly!

Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Check out the livestream right here inside this product page you won’t want to miss it because there will be a LARGE DISCOUNT during the show! Tune in […]

Adafruit last reported on Repair Cafés in 2017 where their popularity was growing. Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, […]

Guanzhong Chen’s discusses the experience fixing their Framework 13” laptop with an AMD 7060 series processor that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update. It ended up taking US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard, as suggested by Framework support. In 2023, I was in need of a new laptop that should […]

Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all Cursor paid plans. They’re starting with the essentials, designed for agent scale: repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Agent-native features ship soon. Click +New to create a new repo and name it. Once you do, a page shows you how to install the […]

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 […]

James Bowman on the Excamera Labs Substack discusses that, unlike in the media, real inventors make prototypes. Some rules: At least one prototype before production Not too may prototypes You don’t ship the prototype I normally break prototyping into two parts. The “works-like” prototype is functionally the same as the final product, but doesn’t look […]

A new paper in the Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities entitled Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts by David J. Sailor, Soroush Samareh Abolhassani, Eli P. Martin: Data centers are among the fastest-growing sources of concentrated anthropogenic heat in urban […]

Meta has filed for a patent that includes a “memory recall” system that appears to: detect people via facial recognition, record them automatically, and show you a highlights reel later. Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have garnered a reputation as “covert/spy” glasses, with many reports of them being used to record people surreptitiously using the onboard […]

Philomena posts on Philo’s Website about using an industrial linear scanning camera to take very wide photos out of trains and ferries. Getting it working has been quite the challenge, but I think the results speak for themselves. The camera is pointed out of a moving vehicle and is constantly capturing a single vertical line […]

There’s been a lot of talk about the vuln-pocalypse, to which Dan Luu doesn’t have much to add because Dan isn’t not a security person. But there hasn’t been much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmark-pocalypse. While it’s become easier than ever to make serious performance gains, […]

Hey folks, just a reminder that this weeks 3D Hangouts livestream will happen on Friday, August 21st at 11am ET in celebration of Circuit Python Day 2026. Until then, remember to make a great day! 3D Hangout Show Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVgpmWevin2slopw_A3-A8Y

If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick(s) of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s pick is the NeoPixel Stick – 8 x 5050 WWA White LEDs with Integrated Drivers! Watch the video to find out about the NeoPixel Stick – 8 x 5050 WWA White LEDs with […]

After roughly nine years in progress, Rare’s 1997 spy shooter GoldenEye 007 has successfully been 100% decompiled by KholdFuzion and co., exposing all the working code and microcode behind the landmark title, preserving it for generations to come, and opening the doors to a plethora of possibilities, such as more accurate and complex modifications (like Random-Eye-zer) and ports. […]

Adobe Photoshop was released 36 years ago in 1990. Adobe Photoshop is a proprietary raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS. It was created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. It is the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing, and its name has become genericised as a verb (e.g., to “photoshop” an image, “photoshopping”, and “photoshop contest”) although Adobe disapproves of […]

This project by an engineering student (CroissantPoisson) is the perfect blend of the DIY spirit and that summer feeling. See more details here on Instructables: Last summer, my friends showed up unannounced at my door and ambushed me with water guns. This summer, I made sure that I would be prepared. Water guns are a […]

Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. Reticulum can continue to operate even in adverse conditions with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth. The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to make it cheap and easy […]

Developer Robin van Soelen demonstrates gesture.live, a free, browser-based application that turns your webcam into an instrument. gesture.live lets you play with hand gestures through your webcam. Use you left hand to play chords and the right hand to play melody, bass, drums or FX. See more on Synthtopia. See the video below:

Was IBM’s Simon from 1994 the original smartphone? The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM Simon) is a cellular phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) designed by International Business Machines (IBM), released in 1994. Built on an x86 processor, the IBM Simon features a 4.5 inch resistive touchscreen display and runs an MS-DOS-compatible operating system with the ability to install additional software using its PCMCIA slot. The Simon also […]

One of the biggest questions Jessamyn West gets at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. Her guide is for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Apps […]

It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971. No accounts, no algorithm, no central server. Your entire profile fits in a single plain text file that you control. John Carmack (co-founder of id Software and programmer of Doom and Quake) used it as […]

In the mid-90s the coolest thing to buy for a PC, besides the incredibly expensive Intel Pentium, was a CD-ROM drive. With their capacity of 640 MiB (three times the storage of PC HDD at the time), CDs allowed enthusiasts to step into a world of multimedia, made of high-resolution 640×480 256 colors palette-indexed photos, […]

I’m ready! I’m ready! To 3D PRINT! momandeum created this delightfully fun Gary the Snail inspired housing for an existing phone charger and speaker situation and shared a vide of the process on YouTube While we don’t have any SpongeBob builds in the Adafruit Learning System, the Ruiz Brothers and Liz Clark did make this […]

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). 12,382 subscribers worldwide! The next newsletter goes out Monday morning and subscribing is the best way to keep […]

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 […]

Miss Twisted made this incredible fin prop for their mermaid ballgown. If you’re working on your own mermaid costume and looking to add more props, check out these guides from Erin St. Blaine in the Adafruit Learn System. Glowing Scale Armor Light-Up Costumes in Harsh Environments Ursula’s Seashell Necklace

Space Quest running on a Commodore 64 from Mean Hamster Finally, after decades of waiting, you’ll be able to play Sierra On-Line’s classic adventure games on the Commodore 64. Developed for Sierra’s King’s Quest in 1984, Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) was the game engine behind classic adventure games like Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest […]

No visit with my 4 year old niece is complete without her explaining KPop Demon Hunters to her sister, 1, and cousin, 1 1/2. And she’s totally right to try to get the little ones on board – Rumi, Mira, and Zoe and awesome. Check out SideQuestCrafting’s take on Mira’s Gok-Do on YouTube Did you […]

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. BLOG Back to School LEARN […]

Cyclone Roller Coaster, Coney Island, New York via Wikipedia Did you know every August 16 is National Roller Coaster Day? Ride out the summer, with all of the ups and downs, on a coaster of your choosing. If you can stomach them, coasters are marvels of engineering and have been teaching young engineers lessons […]

This open source translator was built by a team at google. It is an experiment to build a fully offline translator. All the parts are off the shelf and easy to find: a Raspberry Pi 5, portable battery pack, tiny touchscreen display, mini speaker, and micro keyboard with a knob to select languages. It’s all […]

#circuitpythonparsec Use the Fruit Jam Library peripherals module to light on-board NeoPixels. Try out the code example To learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org

Low-Tech Buzzing Operation Game Build a buzzing gameboard that teaches simple circuits — great for kids and classes! This version uses mainly everyday household and recycled materials, and it’s easy for kids to build themselves. There’s no programming involved — just a simple paper circuit, basic components, and 3V coin battery for power. August is […]

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 […]

The Adafruit AS7341 10-Channel Light / Color Sensor Breakout is a multi-channel spectrometer, which is a special type of light sensor that is able to detect not only the amount of light present but also the amounts of light within different wavelengths. This means that you can use it to detect much better than […]

i.boxit shares: A snap-fit Pi Pico case with an integrated sensor cage that lets you keep temp/humidity or other sensors mounted outside the electronics enclosure. Fits Pico, Pico W, and Pico 2. Includes wall mount, Bootsel button access, user LED light tube, cooling grille, and a built-in opener. 0.4mm nozzle at 0.2mm layer height. By […]

Shared by Printpals on MakerWorld: A funny human skeleton — articulated and flexible for easy posing, quick to print, and simple to assemble. Print-in-place, no supports. Includes a keychain hole on top of the head. Alternative Halloween skeleton variant. Download the files and learn more Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D […]

michelem shares: A jiggly articulated skeleton with head, arms, torso, and legs that shake when moved. Print-in-place with only 27 minutes in single color or 1 hour multicolor. Glow-in-the-dark filament recommended. Includes magnet slot (fridge companion) and keyring hole. Alternative Halloween skeleton — GITD-friendly and fastest to print of the batch. By Michele download the […]

Shared by Michele on MakerWorld: a spooky-cute twist on my popular Flexi Skeleton! The body keeps the same super-wiggly, ultra-poseable design everyone loves: articulated arms, legs, head, and pelvis for endless fidgeting and fun. The head has been completely redesigned to capture that iconic flower-shaped creature vibe… delightfully creepy and totally adorable. Download the files […]

VoIP shares: An always-on ultra-low-power e-paper desk dashboard powered by the ESP32-C6 SuperMini (WiFi + Zigbee + battery in one). Use it for clock, weather, 3D printer status, Proxmox monitor, calendar events, shipment tracking, stock market, or Zigbee integrations. Partial-refresh optimization for responsive dashboard-style updates. Full GitHub repository with sample code. Requires minimum soldering skills. […]

Shared by sutra on MakerWorld: Simple diffusers for the common approximately 65×65 mm rigid PCB 8×8 WS2812B matrix modules. The modules don’t quite have a square pixel pitch so it’s fudged a bit for an 8.5 mm square pixel pitch. Fit is snug so will likely require some flexing of the walls to push the […]

It’s JOHN PARK’S WORKSHOP — LIVE! — Coming up at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Today! LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat! Projects CircuitPython Parsec Learn Guide Recap Tool Tips Retro Gear and more! The live video will be on Youtube LIVE, Twitch, Periscope (Twitter) and Facebook. Join maker John Park […]

Fleximania shares: An articulated snake skeleton with strikingly realistic segmented design, mimicking the fluid motion and anatomical accuracy of a real serpent’s skeletal form. Detailed skull and interlocking vertebrae for smooth, flexible movement. Great as a fidget toy, educational model, Halloween display, or classroom curiosity. By Fleximania download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1552929-articulated-snake-skeleton-toy-flexible-model Every Thursday is […]

A modular breadboard workstation with hinge, storage add-on compatibility, and interchangeable microcontroller brackets. July 2025 update added ESP32 and Arduino Nano breakout board brackets, plus a bracket for mini breadboards with small pinned microcontrollers. STEP files uploaded for easy remixing. Compatible with Bambu X1/P1/A1 series, with or without AMS. DJL 3Designs shared this print on […]

Check out the latest tutorial from Erin St Blaine: make a pair of glowing LED devil horns that react to your movements. These lightweight paper-mâché horns are packed with NeoPixels and powered by an Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather. The onboard accelerometer senses head movement and triggers different animations — tilt your head for a slow […]