This cannon shoots vapor rings! JBV Creative shared this video on Youtube! Check out their previous videos like Building a Vortex Ring Shooter and Vapor LED Ring Project: Proof of Concept
The Vortex Ring Cannon 💨⭕️
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This was a side quest…but I couldn’t stop thinking about ways to improve it, and the side quest became the full quest 🤷♀️ I have some plans for how I can turn this into a full scale installation, but for now it’s going to rest here 🙏
It’s that moment when you wander off the dance floor of an enormous music event. You want to escape the ridiculous wall of speakers and four to the floor EDM thump. You pass by the little bar, by the four couches set up in a corner somewhere, and down a dark hallway. At the end of the hallway you pull aside a dark red, sound dampening curtain. Inside there’s a musician standing in front of an modest Eurorack, modulating chill sounds as they move wires and plugs from one connection to another. And projected behind them is a screen with visualizations moving to the music, pulling you in like the journey into a monolith in orbit around Jupiter. The musician might just be using SlimShader. Here’s more form Erik Oostveen:
SlimShader is an Open Source Raspberry PI project based on glslViewer** capable of displaying OpenGL/GLSL shader files (stills or motion graphics). Shader files can be displayed “as is” or controlled in various ways: Manually (knobs), LFO (three digital low frequency oscillators), MIDI, Audio or CV. In this video we see the “Just Shaders” version in action. This version only requires you to power the Raspberry pi and hook it up to a HDMI monitor (or projector in these examples) and it will run randomly through all 200+ onboard shader files. The full version -the one with all additional controls- is still under development.
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The folks over at Raspberry pi shared this project where a Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller web server facing the internet, allows visitors to control Billy remotely! Kevin McAleer shared the video on Youtube!
We definitely have a soft spot for Big Mouth Billy Bass projects. Over the years, we’ve seen countless hacks of the animatronic aquatic, the majority using our board to retrofit Billy with Amazon Alexa, or rig the fish to sing and dance along with streaming music. So it should come as no surprise that we were bream-ing with delight to see the fin-tastic Kevin McAleer seize the oppor-tuna-ty to introduce Billy to our new Raspberry Pi Pico W in his latest livestream.
…cod-sider this the last of the fish puns.
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The Biopolymer Research of In-Situ Capabilities is an experiment developed by Nanoracks and Stanford University. This research will be used to determine how microgravity affects the process of creating biopolymer soil composite (BSC).
BSC, a concrete alternative made of organic compound and silica, will one day be used to create habitats on other planets. During the investigation in space, small bricks will be made using a Nanoracks platform and will be studied to determine their relative strength.
The payload consists in part of 12 pinch valves, securely fastened within the Nanoracks enclosure. Each pinch valve has the ability to make two 1 cm long bricks. Servos on the pinch valves are activated roughly once per day, allowing adequate time for each pair of bricks to dry before introducing new humidity into the environment. Desiccants are interspersed throughout the interior box to ensure the humidity remains constant as the bricks dry. A Raspberry Pi Zero logs pressure, temperature, and humidity values from six (Adafruit BME680) sensors every 30 seconds on an SD card. The daily average of these measurements and the daily status of the pinch valves, which total less than 25kb in data, is stored for a weekly downlink. In the unlikely case that the humidity becomes too high, the Raspberry Pi ceases activation of the servos until the desiccants absorb the excess moisture.
See the video below, more in the article on the CRS-25 mission.
Read the NASA page on this experiment.
I initially saw this project as my partner was thumbing through TikTok, “Whoa whoa whoa! Go back. Was that a Pi?” Since we’re all here now, yes, it was a Pi. I was excited to be right but that feeling was quickly eclipsed when the magnets came out to play. A quick search later found me bookmarking this article from Tom’s Hardware so I could share this Lego Submarine from Brick Experiment Channel with you!
This radio-controlled submarine can maintain a steady depth or a certain distance from the bottom. It is equipped with a pressure sensor and a laser distance sensor. Raspberry Pi and PID control are used for automation.
See more https://youtu.be/KLEH8RJsYgI and here
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Shared by HarleyYan on Thingiverse:
Minecraft ore led lamp, only need one cr2032 battery and some Leds, very easy to build.
Download the files and learn more
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Super cute project from Team CodersCafe: Shebin Jose Jacob, Nekhil up on Hackster.io
looks great! maybe update the button text for https://ift.tt/5ohnCSD to Coming Soon or Notify Me since it’s not yet in stock?
and for scientist of the week, just think there needs to be a comma after 1887, and a space deleted after Engineer before the comma on the second to last line of text
mr-elephant shared on Thingiverse:
This was my first ever design. Wanted to make it to save some space on our kitchen shelf. I’m sure there is a much more efficient way of printing it, but it actually came out pretty great, and it is very sturdy. Hope it’s useful to you!
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!
PICOZX is a 128kB ZX Spectrum clone using a Raspberry Pi Pico. It uses the pico-zxspectrum software to emulate a 48k/128k ZX Spectrum retrocomputer.
The hardware is being documented on hackaday.io by bobricius.
The software by GitHub user fruit-bat features:
Supported Boards:
A new guide today in the Adafruit Learning System: Using QMK on RP2040 Microcontrollers
Love mechanical keyboards? You’re among friends. Friends who want to show you how to use QMK with the great RP2040 microcontroller from Raspberry Pi. Support for this was added in July 2022 to the develop branch by the QMK community.
This project will show you how to compile the QMK firmware and install it on RP2040 boards including the Raspberry Pi Pico and the Adafruit KB2040 “Kee Boar”.
See this guide now >>>
Eric Badger demonstrates the Pico’s ability to emulate a 6502 computer and shows a side-by-side comparison of the Pico running next to an Apple II computer.
Badger developed this homebrew emulator and ported a copy of Apple II’s Loderunner to test it out. If you’re unfamiliar with the classic title, Loderunner is a 2D puzzle game that first debuted in 1983. Its basic system requirements make it a fun choice for testing the limits of his Pico-powered 6502 emulator.
Check out the demonstration video below see it in action. This video shows not only the 6502 emulator, but compares it to an original Apple II running the same application, so you can see how well the Pico operates compared to vintage hardware.
See the video below and more on Tom’s Hardware.
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electronupdate provides a detailed teardown of the new Raspberry Pi Pico W board.
The Pico W is a great example of modern silicon engineering.1) An ASIC which provides a CPU, RAM, Peripherals2) An RF chip which provides WiFi (and, unused, Bluetooth)3) A memory device (the SPI NOR Flash)4) A power supply PMICAll wrapped in a compelling state-of-the-art assembly. nice.
Film editor Oriel Malik recently shared three Wizard of Oz scenes, which he remastered in 4k, on his YouTube channel. They are exceedingly beautiful – look at that rust on the Tin Man! We would definitely be curious to see a behind-the-scenes look at Malik’s process.
via boing boing
Happening now in Philly. Bruce Munro creates art with light. Epic LED gardens to 1000 brightly lit flamingoes, there are 8 light based instaltions at Longwood Gardens. If you happen to be in the area this looks like a really neat exhibit, through October 30
Best known for his immersive, large-scale, light-based installations, British artist Munro is inspired largely by his interest in shared human experience, keeping sketchbook journals for the last 40 years to record moments and memories of feeling at one with the world. He first discovered light as a medium after graduating art school with a degree in fine art and then working in Australia as a research and development designer for a lighting company.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!Follow along as North of the Border makes a demogorgon banana, a simbiote apple, sarlacc strawberries and eyeball grapes with clay, aluminum, wire, paint, resin, modpodge, glue and varnish. The results evoke alternative universe Cézanne vibes and belong photographed and framed on a wall near you. Or at the very least near me. Adam’s clay pieces take on the look of real, folding flesh that become more and more convincing with each layer of paint.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
Okay, so when I first saw this headline, I was confused. I somehow thought a Magic Mirror was one of those incredibly fancy pieces of at-home gym equipment. I clicked mostly to resolve my confusion but was drawn into the story right away. For those not in the know (like myself) Magic Mirrors date back to the Han Dynasty in China wherein polished bronze, not glass, was used to make mirrors. CNN describes the complex and difficult process here:
To create the mysterious effect, artisans began by casting images, words or patterns onto one side of a bronze plate. Scientists believe they then scratched and scraped the plain surface on the other side, before polishing it until it became reflective like a conventional mirror. Because the plate was of varying thickness, due to the embossed design, the process created very slight changes in curvature on the seemingly blank mirrored side. A mercury-based substance was then used to make additional surface stresses that were invisible to the naked eye but matched the elaborate patterns on the back, according to an article in the UNESCO Courier journal.
When sunlight hits the reflective surface in a certain way, a hidden image — matching the design on the back — would be revealed, giving the illusion that light was passing right through the mirror. For this reason, they are known in Chinese as “transparent” or “light-penetration” mirrors. (In the case of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s discovery, however, a second metal plate was likely soldered onto the back, leaving the original embossed Buddha concealed inside.)
After reading about how these mirrors were created, and how so much of the final product revolved around the maker’s specific techniques, all of which are still not fully understood, it was no surprise that finding one in storage at the Cincinnati Art Museum was so exciting. If you’re in the area, go check it out!
Just when we thought MidJourney and DALL-E 2 were the most mind-blowing examples of AI art generators, along comes Google Imagen.
Check out this incredibly detailed timelapse video, in which Steven Richter sculpts Darth Vader. There’s something so satisfying about watching that plaster dry and crack apart so neatly. There’s also a great use of color in the section where he’s painting Anakin. Be sure to visit Steven Richter’s YouTube Channel for loads of similarly impressive prop/art content.
Old-Steve shares:
I really like this design.
I added a 20mm hole in the bottom, don’t know why but I think it looks better this way.
Printed in PLA @25% infill
download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5356117
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This plant project will text you throughout the day. Cute updates like a [actually] living tamagotchi. Made with the new Pico W from Sandeep Mistry on Hackster.io:
Do you forgot to water your plants? What if your plant was able to text you when it needed water? This project will use a Raspberry Pi Pico W board along with a Pimoroni Grow HAT Mini to make this a reality!
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I have long been a huge fan of the Mr. Hobby Polisher Pro sanding tool. This is a simple (and a bit overpriced) battery-operated disc polisher/sander sold to the hobby market for sanding off sprue material and finishing models. It’s basically an electric toothbrush with a disc head.
The Polisher Pro comes with 3 sheets of sanding pads in 600, 800, and 1000-grit. There are 45 pads in all. I’ve had my tool for several years now, use it often in modeling, and still have plenty of pads left. There are also replacement sanding pads available on Amazon (and there are pads available in other grits).
This video introduces a use I hadn’t thought of: for sanding layer lines and joins in resin and FDM 3D prints. The video doesn’t have a lot of content beyond that basic idea, but I was happy to discover another use for a tool I already own.
I know many will think: Just use a Dremel tool. You can if you have a mini Dremel, but for modeling, this tool is better sized and not as aggressive as a Dremel. And, don’t be like this guy. Always wear a mask when sanding resin and plastic.
Climate control in a house is nice. Universal climate control would be nice as well, although it would also be a little bit Lex Luthorish. But in your home, it’s nice to be able to know what’s going on in each room. In this project, Michael Horne find uses the Raspberry Pi Pico W to display environmental data for the different rooms in his house. Here’s more from Raspberry Pi Pod:
I decided recently to set up a string of temperature sensors around our house to work out the temperature profile of different rooms.
With the recent release of the Pico W, I realised that I could do this quite simply, as long as I could find a way to “nicely” display the data.
You’ll have read my exploits with Anvil last week, I expect, and saw that I didn’t have much luck. However, I knew that Adafruit had their very own IoT platform – Adafruit IO – and that it had been around awhile, so I thought I’d give that a try and document it.
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Erellaz built an open source seismograph, Seisberry, with a Raspberry 3B+, Waveshare High precision AD / AC board, geophones and wire. There’s even a fast build tutorial! Erellaz’s build is forked from will127534’s RaspberryPi-seismograph on GitHub
I wanted a seismic node, fully open source, with 1 to 4 components, able to record either autonomously in the field and output SEGYs, or be used as an Iris seismic station recording mini-seeds and uploading to an Iris server. I also wanted the node to run an Apache web server accessible in 1 click from anywhere in the world and displaying the last 48 hours of recorded seismic activity. The 1 component version needed to be under $100 and the 3C version under $160, to be truly accessible to schools or institutions in developing countries.
Read more about Seisberry on Instructables, Erellaz and GitHub
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TAKAAKI SASANO shared on Thingiverse
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5391405
5.25 inch bay cover.
Simple is best.
It is made a little thick and hard so that the nails do not break easily.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!
Kmobrain Shared on Printables.com
https://www.printables.com/model/213996-space-shuttle-multi-parts-1200
I made the Model of the space shuttle on a scale of 1:200 to make a small collection of launchers on an equivalent scale.
It is about 28 cm high for 18 cm wide.
I printed it in about 40 hours.
you need about 450g of filament
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!
Micah Carrillo shared on THingiverse:
These covers are best made from TPU.
I just color in the scalpel shape with a black marker.
makes it super easy to find the one I need.
for #11, 12, 15, and 22, but will fit most sizes…
I included the Fusion 360 file so you can change em however you want.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!
Jung-Hwan Kim shared on Thingiverse:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5393690
It is a modular battery case.
Insert the desired socket and use it!M3*30mm or more bolts and nuts are required to assemble the hinge.
referenced the design from https://ift.tt/AiV1qFY
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!
turbett1 shares:
I was unable to find and Ender 3 S1 Pro Tray Insert anywhere so I decided to take a deep dive and dabble in some Fusion 360 3D modelling learning a lot in the process.
download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5393379
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
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The Art of Penguin Science Fiction examines the history and cover art of science fiction published by Penguin Books.
Penguin Books was launched in 1935 as a paperback imprint of The Bodley Head and became a separate company early the following year. The books were extremely popular and instantly recognizable by their eye-catching covers, which featured two horizontal bands of color – orange for fiction, green for crime, blue for biography – separated by a third, white band containing the title and author’s name. This simple yet striking cover design gave the books a modern look and remained in use for many years, eventually acquiring iconic status as a design classic.
Penguin Books and its banded covers has played its part in our cultural heritage, and the books themselves have influenced generations of readers. In the 1950s the covers changed to vertical bands and illustrated covers were introduced, followed by a radically new cover design, the Marber grid, in the early 1960s. Then came the launch of a science fiction series featuring abstract and surrealist cover art by Max Ernst, Paul Klee, René Magritte and others, a pairing of sf and modern art that is all the more intriguing for the subtle and often ingenious connections between each book’s cover painting and its contents.
In the 1970s Penguin sf turned to covers inspired by Op Art and Pop Art, while the Penguin Modern Classics linked sf with paintings by Léger, Malevich and Edward Hopper. But to put these developments in perspective it is best to begin in the 1930s, for these early covers, now celebrated on a stamp, are themselves regarded as pocket-sized artworks.
Check out the website here.
3D Hangouts – Selfie Action Figures and Stormbreaker
https://youtu.be/CRqRDxtVH2I
This week @adafruit we’re making 3D selfie action figures! Learn how to use 3D scanning apps and Tinkercad to make snap-fit heads for new action figures. The timelapse this week features an epic prop Stormbreaker by Peter Beard, magnificent!
Learn Guide
https://learn.adafruit.com/3d-printed-action-figure-selfie/
YouTube Video
https://youtu.be/VFd6I8jfhyI
Timelapse Tuesday
Stormbreaker – Peter Beard
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3269141
https://youtu.be/EpqJ4HR4z-4
Community Makes:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5436540 talking d20
https://www.printables.com/model/7271-heat-set-insert-press/comments/317729
https://www.printables.com/model/7269-kingdom-key-yet-another-keyblade/comments/319017
Seeing all of these sculptures in person would be a bit of a challenge. Checkout a massive digital archive on art UK. Via BBC:
More than 13,500 public sculptures have been photographed and put online for the first time.
Art education charity Art UK took 140,000 photographs of works by artists such as Antony Gormley, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
The five-year project features famous figures including Princess Pocahontas, Captain Mainwaring played by Arthur Lowe in sitcom Dad’s Army, and The Bee Gees.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
You can use ArtUK to easily search almost 300 thousand pieces of art from UK’s national collection. Searches can be conducted by year, location, type, topic and even license. Via DesignTaxi
When you’re lucky, you’ll come across a statue that stops you in your tracks. Art UK, a charity with an ambition to host all of the nation’s public art in one online home, has brought 13,500 sculptures to the web for the first time so that you can take in these works from your own abode.
The Art UK portal encompasses sculptures seen not only in cities but also rural areas, making public art far more accessible to, well, the public. It’s thanks to the effort of 500 photographers and data volunteers, and the collections of 3,400 British institutions, that the nonprofit has managed to accelerate the online preservation of these works.
Sculptures include work by Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Henry Moore, and Barbara Hepworth, among thousands of others. Through this massive, five-year initiative, the charity hopes to paint the richness of British art history for the masses.
Search now and check out this learn guide that will teach you how to use your PyPortal to display works of art
Yes, this photo is still making the rounds, and that’s just fine. Each time it pops up I learn something new! Live Science and Scott Gaudi provide a very easy to read guide for folks looking to a simple tour of what is now viewable:
“You start looking at this image and realize there’s no blank sky,” Scott Gaudi, a professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, told Live Science. “There’s something crazy happening everywhere.”
To try and understand this historic image a little better, we asked Gaudi to walk us through the big, small and strange details of Webb’s deep field.
Note: We don’t condone putting machine learning in terminators, we embrace Make Robot Friend, but it’s a cool project, so…
314Reactor, the creator which made the machines, made two Terminator skulls with a single board computer.
Their mission: to make a cool Terminator head that uses machine learning to see and talk.
The first Terminator was The Raspbinator, in the year 2018… before the Raspberry Pi 4. It was pretty cool. The second was made using an Nvidia Jetson Nano, when it was new.
As before, the Pi Foundation was able to make a new Raspberry Pi. A more powerful single board computer.
It was just a question of when they would use one to make a new Terminator Skull…
The project uses a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB, an Adafruit Braincraft HAT and a prop T-0800 skull and uses TensorFlow for machine learning.
Check out the video below and more on Hackster.io.
There was that time when some folks thought “Via Getty” was the name of a photographer. That’s easily understood, really, given how many online photos can have that watermark set at a jaunty angle across the image. Getty Images is a supplier of stock images, video and music, with an enormous library library of over 477 million assets. And now Getty Images had made over 30,000 photographs of Black history and culture available online. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:
From a black-and-white portrait of a reclined James Baldwin to a candid shot of a father and daughter on a Harlem park bench, a new archive from Getty grants open access to thousands of images devoted to Black history and culture. The massive collection—which was developed with historians and educators Dr. Deborah Willis, Jina DuVernay, Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Dr. Mark Sealy MBE, and Renée Mussai—comprises 30,000 photographs taken in the U.S. and U.K. that are available for free non-commercial, educational use. Applications for access are open now.
Organized by decade from the 1800s to the 2020s, the Black History & Culture Collection offers a broad, varied look at the people, events, and undeniably influential movements that continue to shape life today. The collection is further searchable by type and subject matter, which encompasses everything from art and entertainment to politics and sports. You can find a curated selection of images from the multimedia platform Black Archives, which partnered with Getty to shine light on specific moments from the collection.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!Bogolan or Bògòlanfini is a handmade Malian cotton fabric traditionally dyed with fermented mud. Traditionally men weave the cloth and women dye it. The paint, carefully and repeatedly applied to outline the intricate motifs, is a special mud, collected from riverbeds and fermented for up to a year in a clay jar. The video above was shared by La Vie à Endé on Youtube, learn more at The Ethnic Home
The Dogon still make the traditional cloth called Bogolan. It’s totally handmade and really authentic. If you are interested in the project or in the fabric, please write to coenengelhard@gmail.com.
Film made by Coen Engelhard
https://lavieaende.com/
Maker bobricius posts this Raspberry Pi Pico project on Twitter:
PicoTouch HMI – a Raspberry Pi Pico based single board panel. Amazing CircuitPython libraries with MP3, touch and IPS (LCD) display support. Minimum components. SD card, RTC and some free GPIO are ready to use in my next projects.
Making the keypad on the PCB is fabulous. See the video below and post on Twitter.
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.
A Raspberry Pi Pico ‘pal’ we’re knocking around in our CAD software today
whenever we start making add-ons we always do a protoboard first, and so it is that this is adafruit’s first design for a Raspi Pico add-on. it’s the simplest and ‘cheapest’ to start – just a through-hole PCB with a spot for a THM reset button and some pads for creating a custom wiring jig. there’s not really enough space for a DIP chip plus holes on either side so we went with just strips of pads, with power buses, a ground bus, and all the GPIO broken out. we can use this as we design more boards! now all we need is a name for what to call these pico pals… stay tuned, we have some ideas 🙂
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Build your own IR remote using QT Py RP2040 and CircuitPython! The LED arcade button can be programmed to transmit just about any IR signal.
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Raspberry Pi Foundations Gender Balance in Computing study released some of their findings related to pair programming earlier this month. Pair programming is a teaching approach that involves students working together on a problem to develop programs.The tasks that students have to complete are shared between them, with the learners switching rolls periodically reducing the cognitive load.
While there was no statistically significant evidence that the pair programming approach used for this study positively affected girls’ attitudes towards computing – there were some important takeaways.
Today we share the second report in our series of findings from the Gender Balance in Computing research programme, which we’ve been running as part of the National Centre for Computing Education and with various partners. In this £2.4 million research programme, funded by the Department for Education in England, we aim to identify ways to encourage more female learners to engage with Computing and choose to study it further.
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One teaching approach in computing that promotes collaborative learning is pair programming (a practice also used in industry). This is a structured way of working on programming tasks where learners are paired up and take turns acting as the driver or the navigator. The driver controls the keyboard and mouse and types the code. The navigator reads the instructions, supports the driver by watching out for errors in the code, and thinks strategically about next steps and solutions to problems. Learners swap roles every 5 to 10 minutes, to ensure that both partners can contribute equally and actively to the collaborative learning.
As one part of the Gender Balance in Computing programme, we designed a project to explore the effect of pair programming on girls’ attitudes towards computing. This project builds on research from the USA which suggests that solving problems collaboratively increases girls’ persistence when they encounter difficulties in programming tasks [4].
In the Pair Programming project, we worked with teachers of Year 4 (ages 8–9) and Year 6 (ages 10–11) in schools in England. From January to March 2020, we ran a pilot study with 10 schools and used the resulting teacher feedback to finalise the training and teaching materials for a full randomised controlled trial. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, we trained teachers in the pair programming approach using an online course instead of face-to-face training.
On The Brick Experiment Channel, they show how they built this really amazing R/C controlled Lego-powered sub housed in an acrylic cylinder and using an actuated 60ml syringe as a ballast tank.
The sub also has a pressure sensor, a distance sensor, and is controlled by a RBpi Zero 2. The engineering on this thing is jaw-droppingly clever.
Reddit user u/ThisIsTheNewSleeve upgraded an old Talking Whiz Kid into a Pi powered Cyberdeck. Maintaining a lot of the original charm but giving it a vastly more functional new life. You can check it out on Reddit where they go through a lot of the details and on Imgur you can see the process unfold!
Made a retro inspired portable pi over the past two years. I call it the Ceres 1!
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!
