Native Art Market

The Native Art Market will be hosting over 30 Native American artists this weekend in NYC and Washington DC.

Art by award-winning and innovative Indigenous artists from the Western Hemisphere is featured in the museum’s annual Native Art Market. Items for sale include both traditional and contemporary beadwork, jewelry, paintings, photography, pottery, and sculpture.

Check it out!

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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!

Sarah Meyohas’s Tech-Art Explores the Mechanics of Perception #ArtTuesday

Sarah Meyohas is an artist who works with tech. Her work as ranged from film, photography, virtual reality, performance art and sculpture. Last spring she presented an exhibit at Marianne Boesky, in New York. Nice profile from W Magazine:

Her latest body of work has less conceptual sleight-of-hand but even more technical wizardry. For the show at Marianne Boesky, she created sculptures out of holograms and diffraction gratings. (The latter is a device used to manipulate light that is often employed in spectroscopy and telecommunications.) Meyohas—whose red bob and wide-set eyes make her resemble a Millennial Shirley Temple—spent months trying to convince the grating manufacturer to work with an artist. “I had to show them I was willing to pay,” she explains. “They don’t want their time to be wasted.”

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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!

Pulped Fiction: The Da Vinci Code Transformed into 1984

If you’ve read The Da Vinci Code, you know that it’s a very fast read. We have a friend who picked up Dan Brown’s bestseller in a bookshop, opened to the first page, went into a fugue state, and came back to consciousness a few hours later having finished the book, almost against their will. During those strange and dark times when the book first came out, many otherwise discerning readers had similar experiences — so many people, in fact, that the world is still overrun with copies of The Da Vinci Code, decades after its first release. Now artists David Shrigley has a solution to this disturbing phenomenon. Here’s more from JUXTAPOZ:

The story goes that Shrigley’s studio worked with a specialist papermill, book designer and screenprinters to upcycle and repurpose the books into a release of 1,000 copies of Nineteen Eighty- Four, which came out of copyright in 2021. Each book in the edition has been signed and numbered by David Shrigley and comes with a signed and numbered screen-print. Fragments of the original novels remain on the paper, with letters and sometimes whole words of Robert Langdon’s adventures appearing on the pages. The typeface was carefully chosen to mirror the type used for The Da Vinci Code’s first edition, while the book’s cover has been repurposed from the card backing and dustjackets of more than 1,250 copies of the hardback special edition.

“I am fascinated by the power of books to rewrite our culture, something that Dan Brown and George Orwell have each addressed in their wildly successful works,” Shrigley said in a statement. “Pulped Fiction should not be seen as a commentary on either writer, but as one artist’s effort to rescue a mountain of unwanted paperbacks and turn them into something new.”

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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!

Someone Had to Build the Giant Mushrooms for the Candy Forest

Thanksgiving Day is upon us, and with it the long-running Macy’s Day Parade (The parade began in 1924, making this year its 99th!). The parade has always been a spectacle; at times magical, at times cinematic, at times misfortunate (see balloon mishaps, via CNN), but always iconic. I grew up, like many, both watching the parade on television and sometimes live. One really special year my Dad booked a hotel room and took my siblings and I to watch the balloons and give my mom some room to prepare for Thanksgiving. I never realized what a smart move this was until now, especially since there were four of us ages 1-7 at the time.

Anyway, the parade’s spectacle has always been front and center that sometimes it’s hard to remember the level of artistry involved as well. New York Magazine’s Curbed recently wrote about Macy’s Studio and the makers and artists who bring the parade to life, 1 fake cherry at a time.

In the era of Amazon and Alibaba, a surprising amount of what you see at the parade is made from scratch; Carnivale told me that she tried to purchase fake cherries for the tree on the Timothee Chalamet–fronted Wonka-themed float she’s working on but couldn’t find any that were big enough to be seen by gathered crowds on Sixth Avenue, 28 million viewers at home, and Hoda and Savannah dancing in a little booth. She made 80 of them at a rate of about five per day.

Eric Joyner’s Pop Surrealism #ArtTuesday

Folks have their favorite robots, of course. Some lean toward R2-D2, some really dig the T-1000, some like cuddly little WALL-E, and some grey-haired obscurantists will talk your ear off about V.I.N.CENT. from The Black Hole. But a everyone, we hope, has a soft spot in their heart for Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet, the classic CinemaScope science fiction riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. But only the pop surrealism master Eric Joyner would think of painting Robby playing the blues on an electric guitar. Here’s more from Sci-Fi-O-Rama:

First I get a kernel of an idea, then think about it, expand upon it… consider all the possibilities. I may do some sketches, depending on how lost I am. Then I do research on the subject I want to paint. Next, I may photograph some of my toy robots. Then on the computer I will combine the sketches, research and photos into a composition. Then after transferring the image to the canvas, I spray it with fixative. Next is a thin wash of oil paint (1/2 thinner, 1/2 Galkyd); a brown or grey color. After that drys I work from dark to light, background to foreground, thin to thick and fuzzy to sharp. I mix regular oil paints with alkyds, so the paint drys faster. After a couple weeks I can varnish it, usually spray varnish.

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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!

HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 – Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 compares the Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors with the Zero Barcode HAT. About the Tiny Code Reader:

This is the product that inspired the entire roundup. The Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors is available at Adafruit. It has an RP2040 on the back and a camera module on the front. It allows you to quickly scan a QR code and feed the data into a microcontroller or single board
computer. And it’s really inexpensive! Just $7!

The on-board microcontroller runs TensorFlow Lite and does some complicated image recognition to decode the QR code. Simply connect it to your microcontroller via the STEMMA QT / Qwiic connector or wire it up the old-fashioned way. It’s amazing to think about this $7 technology compared to what was available ten years ago. We are in the future!

HackSpace Magazine awards the Tiny Code Reader a 10/10, saying “Amazing tech at an amazing price.”

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HackSpace Magazine Issue 72- Making Music on Pico #CircuitPython @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 writes about making music on a Raspberry Pi Pico:

Most microcontroller programming environments have a way of making beeps, and even if  there’s not an in-built method, it’s a pretty simple thing to do – just flick a pin on and off quickly (but not too quickly) and you have an audio signal that you can send to a speaker, headphones, or other audio devices.

CircuitPython, however, has just gained a complex audio synthesis module called synthio. This lets you not just create beeps and boops, but control these sounds in a variety of ways.

We’ve only really scratched the surface of what you can do with synthio here. It’s a hugely powerful system for creating music using microcontrollers. There’s a more in-depth introduction online at hsmag.cc/synthiofundamentals.

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Lightscape returns to Brooklyn Botanic Garden to cast a ‘Winter Spell’

The flowers may have faded but the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is awash in LEDs. Winter months bring holiday lighting to this Brooklyn park.

If you happen to be in Brooklyn some evening head over and check it out!

Details from the Gothamist:

The third annual “Lightscape” returns on Friday, Nov. 17, with 18 glowing art installations that feature thousands of lights, spread across a mile-long walking trail around the garden grounds.

“It’s very much about getting you to look at things that maybe you’re not looking at on a day-to-day basis,” said Zoe Bottrell, the UK-based creative producer behind this year’s show.

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HackSpace Magazine Issue 72- the Pico W Air #CircuitPython @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 shows the Pico W Air:

Free software and open hardware have enabled a boom in citizen science. This is just the latest device to add to our knowledge of the world around us.

This board comes with a Raspberry Pi Pico W, and adds a Qwiic connector for I2C devices, breaks out a few GPIO pins for 3.3 V, ADC, GND, and four more pins. Most usefully though, is the built-in MQTT client and built-in HTML server, so it can easily transmit the environmental data coming in. It comes with a connection for a PMS5003 particulate matter sensor, which you’ll have to buy separately, along with a power source. Other than that, it’s a one-stop device.

The project can be found at https://hsmag.cc/PicoAirQualityBoard

The board ships with CircuitPython firmware baked into the board. All you have to do is connect to a computer and edit the settings.toml file with WiFi credentials and edit any other settings you might want to change. Comprehensive documentation in the Github repository and beginner-friendly code documentation.  The Air is available on Tindie.

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Space Science and Coding with AstroPi Mission Space Lab @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

The Astro Pi Mission Space Lab is once again open. Young makers have the opportunity to have their code for a science experiment run in space on the International Space Station. Here’s more from the Raspberry Pi Foundation:

Astro Pi Mission Space Lab is officially open again, offering young people all over Europe the amazing chance to have their code for a science experiment run in space on the International Space Station (ISS).

With this year’s Mission Space Lab, astronauts from the European Space Agency are setting young people a task: to write a computer program that runs on the ISS and calculates the speed at which the ISS is orbiting planet Earth. Participation in Mission Space Lab is completely free.

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How Raspberry Pis Were Used to Protect NASA Telescope Data

The Register explains how scientists used the power of Raspberry Pis saved data from the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT).

However, the cost saving is undeniable, as is the benefit of ensuring precious science data doesn’t get lost when things go wrong. The team recommended that future balloon missions consider the technology and said: “For a relatively small cost, we insured the scientific returns of superBIT against a loss event that came true: high bandwidth communication links failed, then the telescope was destroyed upon landing.”

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Scientists use Raspberry Pi tech to protect NASA telescope data #piday #raspberrypi

Things did not go to plan for NASA’s SuperBIT [Super Pressure Ballon Imaging Teslescope]. Communications and a rough landing could have spelled disaster if it weren’t for some trusty Raspberry Pis!!

Shortly after launch the Starlink connection went down and the US TDRSS [Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System] was unstable. During re-entry a parachute failed and the telescope was destroyed. All was not lost thanks to the Raspberry Pi 3B powered DRS [Data Recovery System].

More from the Register:

Each capsule included a Raspberry Pi 3B and 5TB of solid-state storage. A parachute, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, and an Iridium short-burst data transceiver were also included so the hardware could report its location to the recovery team. The capsules were connected to the main payload via Ethernet, and 24V DC was also available.

“For a relatively small cost, we insured the scientific returns of superBIT against a loss event that came true: high bandwidth communication links failed, then the telescope was destroyed upon landing.”

The design and software is open source and freely available. According to the team, further development is continuing at NASA.

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HackSpace Magazine Issue 72: Raspberry Pi 5 Projects @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 – Raspberry Pi 5 Projects

We’ve had our hands on the Raspberry Pi 5 for a while; now it’s time to put it though its paces. From machine learning to building a home server, we see how the new computer works in the real world.

• Make music on a Raspberry Pi Pico with CircuitPython
• Upgrade a humble K40 laser cutter to work with G-code
• Turn motion into a slightly different kind of motion with 3D printed mechanical linkages
• Monitor your home power consumption (and save money/carbon emissions) with a Raspberry Pi W and MicroPython
• … and loads more!

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Making Music with CircuitPython and the Raspberry Pi Pico #CircuitPython @coopersnout

Anyone looking to do synth music must take a look at the work done by Cooper Dalrymple. Introducing the pico_synth_sandbox – a new development board for CircuitPython synthio which was featured at Pensacola Maker Faire.

Want to dive in and started programming your own digital synthesizer? The pico_synth_sandbox might just be the route for you. Leverage the power of the RP2040 and the simplicity and versatility of CircuitPython and the synthio library to get your ideas off the landing strip and into the sky.

See the video below and more on pico-synth-sandbox.dcdalrymple.com, via GitHub.

Fantastic Flower Light Garden in Japan Made With Over 5 Million LED Bulb #ArtTuesday

The days might be getting shorter but that only means more time for LED displays. These spectacular flowers light up Ashikaga Flower Park. Currently the gardens display the installation Flower Garden of Lights ~Flower Fantasy 2023~. Starting in December they switch to a Christmas Fantasy. From My Modern Met

From now until February 2024, the Ashikaga Flower Park in Japan will be a spectacular display of lights. Over 5 million LED bulbs have been used to create a garden of glowing wisteria, cherry blossoms, and other flora. Visitors can wander the grounds and immerse themselves in a nighttime exhibition that changes theme three times over the duration of its installation.

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Have you started your holiday lighting journey this season? The Adafruit Learning System has a ton of projects from beginner through advanced!

• Holiday Tree with Feather RP2040 Scorpio
• Holiday Icicle Lights with Flair
• Simple and Beautiful NeoPixel Holiday Lights
• Festive Feather Holiday Lights
• CircuitPython Animated Holiday Wreath Lights
• Magical Mistletoe

…and more!

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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!

Retro Technology as Pixelated Ceramic Sculptures #ArtTuesday

Toshiya Masuda grew up in the age of boom boxes and tape decks, both technologies that have been devoured by the digital everything devices we carry in our pockets. Masuda expresses the uncanny feeling of digitization with his unique pixellated sculptures of retro tech. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:

[Toshiya Masuda] fuses the low-resolution, pixelated imagery associated with early virtual worlds with quotidian objects from a similar time in pop culture history. Blurry cubes of painted clay form a bright red boombox and cassette tape, a pair of high-top Converse, and a Polaroid camera with a crinkled photo emerging from its slot. By melding the two disparate forms, Masuda creates what he calls an “image gap,” an uncanny feeling in which the unreal is made tactile.

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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!

Radio Art Zone #ArtTuesday

Radio Art Zone presents radio as a form of art, Via Hatjecantz

This book explores the central themes and techniques of artist-made radio, emerging from over 20 years of practice by a multitude of artists in the field. It brings to the page excerpts of long-form radio works from the world’s largest exhibition of radio art, Radio Art Zone, a joint project by the artist duo Mobile Radio (Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann) and the Luxembourg community station Radio ARA, which was broadcast for 100 days as part of the programme of the European Capital of Culture Esch2022. Interspersed with newly commissioned works ranging from micro-essays and texts on radio form, practice and poetics, to radio plays and illustrations, it is full of unique images which allow the imagination to expand outward into radio space. Radio Art Zone performs an exquisite transformation from airwaves to paper, providing a treasury of ideas and reflections about radio as art.

Lessons Learned by a Software Guy Venturing into Hardware #SidecarT

The creator of SidecarT discovered that hardware development is a whole different world from software. Insightful post for anyone interested in making the leap to hardware. He covers a lot of ground from getting started to operating budgets and more.

Any software developer with time and dedication can venture into hardware development… if they study A LOT. There’s abundant content online to learn the basics of hardware design. My background in Computer Science, which included fundamentals of computing, laid the groundwork for diving into topics like how level shifters work between 5-volt TTL and 3.3-volt CMOS architectures.

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Adding buttons and LEDs to the Raspberry Pi Pico #RaspberryPi #MicroPython @simon_prickett

Simon Prickett decided it would be useful to learn how to control LEDs and detect button presses in MicroPython… it is the basis of a lot of projects you could use the Pi Pico for.

I still love the Adafruit LED arcade buttons that are an input and output in one, so I got a couple of those and set out to write software that toggles the LED each time the button is pressed.

Note that the Pi Pico runs 3.3v GPIO, so you’ll want the blue and green buttons. The red and yellow ones need 5v and I keep forgetting that then wondering why they don’t work on Pi projects! (They work great on Arduino though).

Check out the project video below and details in the post here.

Harry Potter-Styled Newspaper #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

See how a Raspberry Pi powers this lively newspaper.Tom’s Hardware shares:

If you’re a maker with a soft spot for Harry Potter, you’re sure to enjoy this beautiful creation put together by developer Whitney Knitter. Using our favorite SBC, the Raspberry Pi, she’s created a Harry Potter-styled newspaper PCB. The project was made entirely from scratch by Knitter and, in our opinion, is absolutely gorgeous to look at.

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Pi 5 vs. Pi 4 Drive Speeds! #piday #raspberrypi

How much of an improvement is the new Pi 5 over previous generations? Maker By Mistake runs through the paces to get some real data.

How much faster is the Pi 5 vs the Pi 4 when it comes to IO speeds?

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Running Immich on the Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

What is Immich? It’s self-hosted photo and video backup software. It has an excellent web interface. Here’s more on how to run Immich on Raspberry Pi from PiMyLifeUp:

Using this software, you can very easily back up your photos and videos directly from your Mobile phone to Immich. People often use this software as an alternative to Google Photos or iCloud. This software allows you to retain control over your images and saves you a monthly subscription.

Immich even has some of the fancier features of iCloud and Google Photos, with it able to automatically process your images with facial recognition, geolocation, and more.

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Smart compass @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Cool project built with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W from Yash Indane up on Hackster.io!

A normal compass just points north (boring). Lets make something smarter, that points to any required place.

See the full details here.

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Make your own pedal Stream controller with an Adafruit KB2040 #CircuitPython @biglesp @TomsHardware

When Elgato announced its new Stream Deck Pedal, the maker world said “Hey I can make one of those for less dollars.” And with that battle cry, Les Pounder reached for a Raspberry Pi Pico (actually an Adafruit’s KB2040) and raided the box of switches to build an alternative.

The circuit for this project is extremely simple. It uses three GPIO pins (2,3 and 4) and a common Ground (GND) connection. We connect the buttons to pins 2,3 and 4, then connect each button to a different GND pin on the Pico. All of the GND pins connect to a single GND, creating a common reference point.

Installing CircuitPython is extremely simple and Adafruit has a fantastic guide on how to do this.

Check out the build in the post here.

Reverse engineering the Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe connector #RaspberryPi #PCIe @m1geo

Folks have been reverse engineering the Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe high speed connector before release of official documentation by Raspberry Pi.

George Smart posts on YouTube work to reverse engineer the wiring of the Pi 5 connector. He writes:

A crude reverse engineering of the Raspberry Pi 5’s FPC PCIe connector & potential breakout board.

In this bare-bones project I document a working PCIe pinout talk through my hardware tinkering to get the Raspberry Pi 5’s PCIe connected to something. I had only seen Raspberry Pi’s boards with their RP2040 and lots of parts on board. My professional experience with PCIe was that it either just goes or it really doesn’t. I decided to try and make it do something for no reason other than the technical challenge.

Note: This project is a reverse engineering – Please wait for/use the official Raspberry Pi documentation when using the PCIe FPC.

George’s work with KiCad schematics are on his GitHub site.

See the video below.

3.3V serial MIDI Thru #MIDI #RaspberryPi

The Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects writes:

I have a need to route MIDI to several Raspberry Pi boards at the same time, so I’ve hacked together a variant of my MIDI Matrix Patch Bay to give me a 3.3V level serial MIDI THRU interface.

The INPUT board for my MIDI patch bay gives two MIDI INPUT channels, each broken out to 10 MIDI THRU channels. In my case I just want a single channel so will be using half of the INPUT board and the power supply section.

But as I want to provide a direct serial link to a Raspberry Pi, I need two things:

• I don’t need a full MIDI OUT stage, so will be taking the IO level directly from the 74HC14 inverters.
• I need it to work with 3V3 logic voltage levels.

See the video below and more in the post here.

Corollaria Gyroid for the Albany Airport #artTuesday

Generative design studeo Nervous System created this sculpture inspired by the patterns seen in plant cross sections. The sculpture will be on display at the ALB airport for the next 3 years, via n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com

Corollaria Gyroid is a sculpture created by Nervous System for the Albany International Airport which explores the connections between mathematics and the natural world, highlighting the presence of mathematical principles in biological structures.

Measuring almost 7 feet in diameter, it is made up of 121 flat aluminum panels connected by 1789 rivets into an undulating surface perforated by morphing cellular patterns. The surface represented is a gyroid, a minimal surface discovered in 1968 by Alan Schoen at NASA as a purely mathematical invention but which was later found in natural structures such as the scales of butterfly wings.

A 3D printable Raspberry 5 case #3Dprinting @microcenter

Micro Center has released a design for a 3D printable case for the new Raspberry Pi 5.

It was printed in PLA filament and is licensed under a Creative Commons (4.0 International License) Attribution-NonCommercial license. The files are on Printables.

Other cases are appearing including the case below by extrawitz under the same license.

Dana Claxton’s Headdress

Dana Claxton’s Headdress features portraits of 5 womxn and their personal collections, showing how “the beadworks are cultural belongings, and the womxn are cultural carriers.”, via Colossal

The personal collections of five womxn are featured: Jeneen’s collection of beadwork spans three generations from Old Crow Yukon, with designs that are specific to the Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation; Connie, matriarch of beadwork, adorns her own hand beaded pieces; Shadae mixes it up with hip-hop baseball caps, a Coast Salish woven cedar hat, and her husband’s pow wow/peyote fans; Dee and Dana wear pieces of the same inter-tribal collection made by beaders from the four directions.

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How ‘I Spy’ Books Are Made

We really enjoyed this 2019 video from Insider Art about the production of the legendary I Spy books.I had completely forgotten about this book series even though I used to spend hours poring over them when I was little. The video shows the high level of intricacy involved in the set building process.

The “I Spy” book series has captured the imagination of millions of readers. Part of what made these books so magical is that all of the images were created with real objects. Photographer and photo-illustrator Walter Wick carefully arranged each scene and hid the objects. Then author Jean Marzollo wrote the rhymes. Since “I Spy” Walter has written and photographed the “Can You See What I See” series and “Hey, Seymour!.” Walter’s newest book, “A Ray of Light”, uses beautiful photographs to teach kids about the principles of light.

Super Mario Wonder Toy Box Automata

WUZU clay was attempting to make their first automata inspired by Super Mario Wonder and ended up making an adorable moving sculpture. Don’t forget to turn captions on when watching!

Smart Kitchen Display #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Tom’s Hardware shares how this smart kitchen display is powered with a Raspberry Pi.

The kitchen is one place you might not expect a smart display — but with the right application, it’s actually quite useful. Today we’re sharing one created by maker and developer Stanislav Khromov who decided to build his own from scratch using a Raspberry Pi. The display is loaded up with cool dashboards and tools but you can always add more if you’d like.

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Harry Potter Newspaper Powered by Raspberry Pi Zero #piday #raspberrypi

Inspired by the moveable pages of the Daily Prophet, Whitney Knitter set out to create her own PCB variant. The results are better than wizarding magic – the magic of open source! The custom Hackster Headlines uses a 2.9″ Flexible 296×128 Monochrome eInk / ePaper Display and a Pi Zero W.

See full details from Hackster.io:

I had recently been watching Harry Potter and the white white substrate with black text immediately made me think of a newspaper. And then I thought about how the eInk display could rotate a series of images to appear like they are moving similar to the magical newspapers at Hogwarts.

So off I went to go shopping on Adafruit’s website I went to see what eInk display options there were and what components I needed to drive it to put on my own custom Harry Potter Newspaper PCB!

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Solar Camera Powered by Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Here’s a great project from Will Whang. During the pandemic, Whang made his own solar tracking camera, using a Raspberry Pi 4. Here’s more on the project from Hackaday:

[Will Whang’s Raspberry Pi solar photography setup] integrates a lot of cool stuff: multiple sensors, high bandwidth storage, and some serious hardware. This is no junk drawer build either, the current version uses a $2000 USD solar telescope (an LS60M with 200mm lens) and a commercial AZ-GTi mount.

He also moved up somewhat with the imaging devices from the Raspberry Pi camera module he started with to two imaging sensors of his own: the OneInchEye and the StarlightEye, both fully open source. These two sensors feed data into the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module, which dumps the raw images into storage.

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Empowering Your Raspberry Pi: Adding External Relays with Venus OS

Adam De Lay shared this video on Youtube!

Ready to supercharge your Raspberry Pi running Venus OS and unlock a world of new possibilities? In this in-depth video guide, we’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of adding external relays to your Raspberry Pi setup.

Venus OS, with its remarkable capabilities for energy monitoring and management, becomes even more versatile when you harness the power of external relays. We’ll show you how to integrate and control these relays, enabling you to expand your system’s functionality and automate various tasks.

Pieca: A Raspberry Pi camera system for Leica M Mount lenses #RaspberryPi #Photography

The Tea and Tech Time blog presents a camera project which is a culmination of countless hours of learning to code in various languages, design 3D parts, print them successfully, build basic electronic circuits, use optical elements, and solve complex problems in general, resulting in the Pieca Camera System!

Based on the venerable Raspberry Pi4 and the High-Quality image sensor module it incorporates a 5-in touch screen with a live view and full manual controls. The camera uses the M mount system for attaching lenses. Allowing the camera to use a plethora of small manual lenses from Leica, 7Artisans, TTartisan, and other vintage lenses. The name is a play on the combination of Raspberry Pi and the Leica cameras because it was just too hard to pass up this pun…

The 3D files are on GitHub and the software is here.

See the video below and more in the post here.

I built a Bus Clock with a Raspberry Pi #RaspberryPi #Python @Raspberry_Pi

Purple Hoisin had a problem: missing public transportation by mere second, then having to wait for the next arrival. Rather than use a transport app, they created a bus clock to always see when to hurry up and get out to catch the bus.

Since I already had an unopened Raspberry Pi 3B that I ordered in 2016 (6 years ago!!) I decided it was now the perfect opportunity to start using it. I also needed a screen to display the times but I was a bit hesitant to buy it before the project even started, considering I bought the Raspberry Pi and never even touched it. But just like many times before, I told myself this time it would be different and I would take this project over the finish line so I went ahead and ordered a 4-inch, plug-and-play (mostly) HDMI display.

Fortunately, the Raspberry Pi runs a full Unix system and you can program it with whatever you want, unlike other simpler chips out there. On top of that, I didn’t have the patience to read a data sheet, program I/O pins or learn a chip-specific language – so I went with Python.

Once the Python environment was up and running, I had to somehow fetch the live bus data from TFL (Transport for London) and for that I decided to just scrape the local transport website using the good old requests package and BeautifulSoup4. The full code is available at github.com/purplehoisincoder/…/bus_time.py

See more about this build in the post here.