Nothing beats learning that feels like game play! From Learning Synths:
Synthesizers make sound using electricity, usually with controls that let you change their sound. Some controls change just one specific aspect of the sound, while others, like the box above, change many aspects of the sound at once.
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.
Tiny Machine Learning on the Edge with TensorFlow Lite Running on SAMD51 (video and/or skip to the demo part at 7 min 28 secs). You’ve heard of machine learning (ML), but what is it? And do you have to buy specialty hardware to experiment? If you have some Adafruit hardware, you can build some Tiny ML projects today!
Our 1,900th guide has landed in the Learn System! It’s John Park’s Trash Panda 2: Garbage Day and it’s lots of fun! You can make it with MakeCode Arcade, and mod and hack it all you like.
In Trash Panda 2: Garbage Day, you play as the suburban dweller just trying to get some sleep when the raccoons and cats decide its time to make noise and throw garbage our of the trash bins! You must try to stop them by shining your flashlight on them. But you can only play at night, so be sure that your PyGamer or PyBadge’s light sensor indicates it’s dark out!
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.
Tiny Machine Learning on the Edge with TensorFlow Lite Running on SAMD51 (video and/or skip to the demo part at 7 min 28 secs). You’ve heard of machine learning (ML), but what is it? And do you have to buy specialty hardware to experiment? If you have some Adafruit hardware, you can build some Tiny ML projects today!
Our 1,900th guide has landed in the Learn System! It’s John Park’s Trash Panda 2: Garbage Day and it’s lots of fun! You can make it with MakeCode Arcade, and mod and hack it all you like.
In Trash Panda 2: Garbage Day, you play as the suburban dweller just trying to get some sleep when the raccoons and cats decide its time to make noise and throw garbage our of the trash bins! You must try to stop them by shining your flashlight on them. But you can only play at night, so be sure that your PyGamer or PyBadge’s light sensor indicates it’s dark out!
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.
Tiny Machine Learning on the Edge with TensorFlow Lite Running on SAMD51 (video and/or skip to the demo part at 7 min 28 secs). You’ve heard of machine learning (ML), but what is it? And do you have to buy specialty hardware to experiment? If you have some Adafruit hardware, you can build some Tiny ML projects today!
Our 1,900th guide has landed in the Learn System! It’s John Park’s Trash Panda 2: Garbage Day and it’s lots of fun! You can make it with MakeCode Arcade, and mod and hack it all you like.
In Trash Panda 2: Garbage Day, you play as the suburban dweller just trying to get some sleep when the raccoons and cats decide its time to make noise and throw garbage our of the trash bins! You must try to stop them by shining your flashlight on them. But you can only play at night, so be sure that your PyGamer or PyBadge’s light sensor indicates it’s dark out!
The Rescue and Restore channel on Youtube is fantastic. Check out their latest restoration video when you have some time to spare (you will get hooked!). Here’s what Rescue and Restore has to say:
About: I focus on restoring vintage classics & antiques. I do my best to use modern techniques to bring back the life of items that were built to last. Join me on my journey as I attempt to improve my craft.
1980 Mighty Tonka Dump Truck Restoration: In this video I restored a 1980 Mighty Tonka Dump Truck. I bought this dump truck from a nice older lady on Facebook marketplace. She said that it had been rusting away for years in her backyard. This one had a unique challenge, repairing bullet holes. I had a lot of fun, I hope you enjoy. Thank you for your support!
The Rescue and Restore channel on Youtube is fantastic. Check out their latest restoration video when you have some time to spare (you will get hooked!). Here’s what Rescue and Restore has to say:
About: I focus on restoring vintage classics & antiques. I do my best to use modern techniques to bring back the life of items that were built to last. Join me on my journey as I attempt to improve my craft.
1980 Mighty Tonka Dump Truck Restoration: In this video I restored a 1980 Mighty Tonka Dump Truck. I bought this dump truck from a nice older lady on Facebook marketplace. She said that it had been rusting away for years in her backyard. This one had a unique challenge, repairing bullet holes. I had a lot of fun, I hope you enjoy. Thank you for your support!
Animation has come a long way, INSIDER shared this video on Youtube!
From “Toy Story” through “Toy Story 4,” Pixar has revolutionized animation in its nearly three decades of existence. Each new movie requires new technical innovations. “Monster’s Inc.” helped them create fur, “Ratatouille” helped them create wet fur, and “Finding Dory” led them to create an octopus from scratch. In “Toy Story 4,” which comes out June 21, they updated Bo Peep, created Forky, and made perhaps the most realistic-looking cat you’ll ever see in animated form.
Now, the team has struck gold again, further evidence of the benefits of its innovative luring technique which could transform how the striking sea life is tracked in future. The group from the Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA) has developed a tool they dubbed The Medusa, a stealth camera system designed to be particularly unobtrusive. It’s based on the theory that animals like giant squid are frightened off by the bright lights on traditional submersibles, not to mention the loud noises they make.
From Team Plant Protector: Brian Cottrell, Christine Cottrell, Joe Gonzalez, Ruby Hsu, Chih-Wei Hsu on Hackster.io:
In order to efficiently distribute water and nutrients to our plants regardless of the shape or size of the planter, we place a small inexpensive ultrasonic humidifier into a 3D-printed enclosure so that it would fit in the base of the planter and allow air to flow inside so that it could be pushed through the vaporized fluid and into the interior of the planter.
The Star Wars article I never knew I needed from Emily Asher-Perrin on Tor.com.
I’m sure when you were a kid watching Star Wars, you just assumed that the instruments being played by Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes (note: if you just called them “the cantina band” I’m really not sure what to do with you) were variants on instruments that you have already seen or played upon. Look, it’s an oboe! That one’s a space saxophone! How wrong you were, my young friend. How misguided. That instrument that Figrin D’an is playing is called a kloo horn. It’s totally different from our lousy Earth instruments. (It’s not.) And the Star Wars universe is full of musicians who loved that instrument, at least according to the Legends canon.
USB C Jack to USB A Jack Round Panel Mount Adapter: If you need to add a panel-mount connection for USB C, but don’t have the time or tools to cut a custom oval or square hole, this Round Panel Mount Plug is the easiest and fastest way to panel-ify your project. It’s about 30mm in diameter, so you can drill a hole in your wood, plastic or metal with a common hole-saw or bit, no special shapes or filing required. Un-screw the plastic nut, insert the plug and re-attach. Ta-da! Now you have a USB C jack to a USB A jack adapter!
USB C Jack to Micro USB Jack Round Panel Mount Adapter: If you need to add a panel-mount connection for USB C, but don’t have the time or tools to cut a custom oval or square hole, this USB C jack to USB Micro B jack Round Panel Mount Plug is the easiest and fastest way to panel-ify your project. It’s about 30mm in diameter, so you can drill a hole in your wood, plastic or metal with a common hole-saw or bit, no special shapes or filing required. Un-screw the plastic nut, insert the plug and re-attach. Ta-da! Now you have a USB C socket to USB Micro B socket adapter!
Adafruit PiRTC – Precise DS3231 Real Time Clock for Raspberry Pi: This is a the best battery-backed real time clock (RTC) you can get that allows your Raspberry Pi project to keep track of time if the power is lost. Perfect for data-logging, clock-building, NTP servers, time-stamping, timers and alarms, etc. Equipped with a genuine DS3231 RTC, it works great with the Raspberry Pi and has native kernel support.
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – 1GB RAM: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is the newest Raspberry Pi computer made, and the Pi Foundation knows you can always make a good thing better! And what could make the Pi 4 better than the 3? How about a faster processor, USB 3.0 ports, and updated Gigabit Ethernet chip with PoE capability? Good guess – that’s exactly what they did!
The Raspberry Pi 4 is the latest product in the Raspberry Pi range, boasting an updated 64-bit quad core processor running at 1.5GHz with built-in metal heatsink, USB 3 ports, dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless LAN, faster Gigabit Ethernet, and PoE capability via a separate PoE HAT. This version has 1 GB of RAM
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – 2 GB RAM: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is the newest Raspberry Pi computer made, and the Pi Foundation knows you can always make a good thing better! And what could make the Pi 4 better than the 3? How about a faster processor, USB 3.0 ports, and updated Gigabit Ethernet chip with PoE capability? Good guess – that’s exactly what they did!
The Raspberry Pi 4 is the latest product in the Raspberry Pi range, boasting an updated 64-bit quad core processor running at 1.4GHz with built-in metal heatsink, USB 3 ports, dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless LAN, faster (300 mbps) Ethernet, and PoE capability via a separate PoE HAT. This version comes with 2GB of RAM
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – 4G RAM: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is the newest Raspberry Pi computer made, and the Pi Foundation knows you can always make a good thing better! And what could make the Pi 4 better than the 3? How about a faster processor, USB 3.0 ports, and updated Gigabit Ethernet chip with PoE capability? Good guess – that’s exactly what they did!
The Raspberry Pi 4 is the latest product in the Raspberry Pi range, boasting an updated 64-bit quad core processor running at 1.4GHz with built-in metal heatsink, USB 3 ports, dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless LAN, faster (300 mbps) Ethernet, and PoE capability via a separate PoE HAT. This version comes with 4 GB of RAM
A few blocks from Adafruit, today’s photo for Pride weekend here in NYC –
Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019, held in June of 2019, is a celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots and WorldPride 2019, with related events in Manhattan, across New York City, New York State, and throughout the world. The 2019 festival is the first time WorldPride, the annual global LGBTQ pride event, is being held in the United States. The theme of the celebration and educational events is, “One World, One Pride, One New York City – Unite in 2019.”
The Stonewall uprising of June 1969 was a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community in Greenwich Village, New York City. Patrons of the Stonewall Inn, local street kids from the surrounding area, and members of the community who came from neighboring gay bars, fought back against an early morning police raid, refusing to be arrested for simply patronizing a gay bar and being out in public. The Stonewall rebellion is widely considered to be one of the most important events, and by many the most important event, leading to the gay liberation movement, and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
The events are being held throughout June, which is traditionally Pride month in New York City and worldwide, under the auspices of the annual NYC Pride March. Organizers are planning for Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 to be the largest international LGBTQ event in history, and are expecting as many as four million people to attend in Manhattan alone. Currently, the NYC Pride March rivals the São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade as the world’s largest LGBTQ event with over three million people.
The amino acid chains that make up proteins can be easily visualized as a sequence of musical notes, according to Markus Buehler, a materials scientist at MIT. Buehler and his colleagues used the similarities between these sequences to convert 20 types of amino acids into a 20-tone scale. The results, published in a study published Wednesday in ACS Nano, include trippy original songs and fresh insights into protein structure.
The Pilton Portrait provides the viewer with a brief snapshot of life beyond the Pyramid Stage – attempting to reach the core of what (and who) makes Glastonbury what it is. From young to old, fringe performers to circus acts, sewage collectors to charity workers – each with their own unique reason for being there, each truly fascinating in their own way.
We #celebratephotography here at Adafruit every Saturday. From photographers of all levels to projects you have made or those that inspire you to make, we’re on it! Got a tip? Well, send it in!
If you’re interested in making your own project and need some gear, we’ve got you covered. Be sure to check out our Raspberry Pi accessories and our DIY cameras.
The Pilton Portrait provides the viewer with a brief snapshot of life beyond the Pyramid Stage – attempting to reach the core of what (and who) makes Glastonbury what it is. From young to old, fringe performers to circus acts, sewage collectors to charity workers – each with their own unique reason for being there, each truly fascinating in their own way.
We #celebratephotography here at Adafruit every Saturday. From photographers of all levels to projects you have made or those that inspire you to make, we’re on it! Got a tip? Well, send it in!
If you’re interested in making your own project and need some gear, we’ve got you covered. Be sure to check out our Raspberry Pi accessories and our DIY cameras.
This project requires the PIR to be connected directly to the PiJuice instead of the Raspberry Pi so that power will only be provided when necessary thereby saving the battery charge as much as possible.
The ability to efficiently use the battery charge is one of the main features of this project and we have optimised the configuration of both the software and the hardware so that the Raspberry Pi is powered on only when required and with the minimum of its hardware running. Have a look at How to save power on your Raspberry Pi to know more.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
…the plans do include: a “VR experience room,” a meditation room, a VIP viewing bridge, and various meeting rooms. Additional renderings released by Mount Pleasant earlier this month note that there will be a “Japanese garden,” and provide detailed descriptions of the shrubbery. They do not, however, say anything about LCD manufacturing.
News comes from the Adafruit factory in New York. Broadcast June 26, 2019
Adafruit broadcasts the weekly ASK an ENGINEER video show and this is the segment on items or concept products that may/might/could be introduced into the Adafruit store in the future (or not)! It’s not out yet, so please don’t ask questions or ask when it’ll be available …. keep an eye on the new products list to see what we’ve put in the store or have coming soon.
Check out the Adafruit store for all the great products that are available and for coming soon products, you can sign up to be notified when they are in stock. https://www.adafruit.com/
Episode 36! (June 26, 2019) This is our weekly video-newsletter-podcast!
Watch Ladyada and Phil and special guest Naomi Seder discuss this week’s Python on hardware news and events.
The news comes from the Python community, Discord, Adafruit communities and more. It’s part of the weekly newsletterwe do each week which has more than 5,900 readers!
This guide will go through showing you how to wire up the sensor with the Raspberry Pi as well as exploring how we can utilize the sensor also to read distance.
We will be showing you how to wire the HC-SR04 sensor up to the Raspberry Pi, including how to wire a voltage divider as the circuit requires one to drop the 5v output from the sensor to 3.3v for the Raspberry Pi.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Here’s material from Chris Osterwood’s Teardown2019 talk on using Jupyter Notebooks to aid in electrical design & testing. Via Twitter:
I had a blast the Crowd Supply’s Teardown 2019 conference and was thrilled to present how I’m using Jupyter Notebooks to aid electrical design & testing. I’ve open-sourced the notebooks: so fork, steal, CTRL-C/V, whatever. Video and notebooks are on GitHub.
Chris writes:
Note these notebooks are intended to be a starting point for your own adaptation and use in your own electrical design work. They are not designed to be general purpose tools.
If you find these useful please let me know, and also let me know if you publish your own notebooks publicly! I’d love to link to them and show the world more examples of notebooks aiding in product design and testing.
Here’s material from Chris Osterwood’s Teardown2019 talk on using Jupyter Notebooks to aid in electrical design & testing. Via Twitter:
I had a blast the Crowd Supply’s Teardown 2019 conference and was thrilled to present how I’m using Jupyter Notebooks to aid electrical design & testing. I’ve open-sourced the notebooks: so fork, steal, CTRL-C/V, whatever. Video and notebooks are on GitHub.
Chris writes:
Note these notebooks are intended to be a starting point for your own adaptation and use in your own electrical design work. They are not designed to be general purpose tools.
If you find these useful please let me know, and also let me know if you publish your own notebooks publicly! I’d love to link to them and show the world more examples of notebooks aiding in product design and testing.
Here’s material from Chris Osterwood’s Teardown2019 talk on using Jupyter Notebooks to aid in electrical design & testing. Via Twitter:
I had a blast the Crowd Supply’s Teardown 2019 conference and was thrilled to present how I’m using Jupyter Notebooks to aid electrical design & testing. I’ve open-sourced the notebooks: so fork, steal, CTRL-C/V, whatever. Video and notebooks are on GitHub.
Chris writes:
Note these notebooks are intended to be a starting point for your own adaptation and use in your own electrical design work. They are not designed to be general purpose tools.
If you find these useful please let me know, and also let me know if you publish your own notebooks publicly! I’d love to link to them and show the world more examples of notebooks aiding in product design and testing.
This is your periodic reminder that there are two Raspberry Pi computers in space! That’s right — our Astro Pi units Ed and Izzy have called the International Space Station home since 2016, and we are proud to work with ESA Education to run the European Astro Pi Challenge, which allows students to conduct scientific investigations in space, by writing computer programs.
The Challenge has two missions: Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab. The more advanced one, Mission Space Lab, invites teams of students and young people under 19 years of age to enter by submitting an idea for a scientific experiment to be run on the Astro Pi units.
Samba is a re-implementation of the SMB (Server Message Block) networking protocol and allows Linux computers to integrate into Microsoft’s active directory environments seamlessly.
CIFS or Common Internet File System is an implementation of the SMB protocol. In modern setups, CIFs or SMB is used interchangeably, but most people will use the term SMB.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Awesome post from Alasdair Allan up on Hackster.io.
At the start of last month I sat down to benchmark the new generation of accelerator hardware intended to speed up machine learning inferencing on the edge. So I’d have a rough yardstick for comparison, I also ran the same benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi. Afterwards a lot of people complained that I should have been using TensorFlow Lite on the Raspberry Pi rather than full blown TensorFlow. They were right, it ran a lot faster.
Then with the release of the AI2GO framework from Xnor.ai, which uses next generation binary weight models, I looked at the inferencing speeds of these next generation of models in comparison to ‘traditional’ TensorFlow. This also ran a lot faster.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
I’m using a fish tank temperature controller at the moment to control a heater belt with a relay which is kind of ok apart from I need to go into the garage to check what it’s doing and the temperature sensor which is just a cheap thermistor just gets bungee’d to the outside of the mash tub so I’m not sure how accurate it is, especially since the temperature sensor ends up being close to the heater.
So I’m going to use my raspberry Pi to upgrade this to use Node Red so I can check what my beer is doing without leaving my arm chair. I’m also going to use an industrial PT100 probe so I get a better temperature reading. The first thing to do is a quick drawing of how this is going to be wired up, I’ll use an Analog Hat (PiIO_ADIO) for the Pi to do all the interfacing so I just need to add a power supply and mains relay to my enclosure, since the interface PCB has a step down supply for the Pi I can just use a single 0.63A 24V PSU to power everything. I’ll mount everything on DIN rail then just use gands to seal the box (ignore irrigation references that’s another project).
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!