With this new capability, the color possibilities are opened up compared to standard PCB colors represented by the substrate, copper, silkscreen and solder mask. Any design an artist wishes to be placed on a thin, hard surface can be made easily at a fairly low cost.
This guide will show you how JLCPCB was used to make some colorful jewelry as an example.
Two teams of successful high school students with Storming Robots Technology Learning Lab in the US recently won world titles from this year’s international RoboCup Junior (RCJ) competition.
Held at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands July 17-20, the annual competition saw 2,000 participants in 300 teams from 35 countries come together and enter a world of AI, where robots are no longer a futuristic fantasy but a living reality.
RCJ stands out among pre-college robotics competitions, said Elizabeth Mabrey, founder and principal of Storming Robots. Held in conjunction with RoboCup, the RCJ event allows students to meet researchers and draw inspiration from the world’s top robotics professionals’ exhibitions and contest entries.
“These young minds have demonstrated exceptional problem-solving capabilities and technical skills, which are well beyond their years,” said Mabrey. “The RCJ experience has not only honed their technical and collaborative skills but has also inspired them towards future careers in engineering and technology.”
At RCJ, Team New AJE consisted of 10th-graders Etaash Mathamsetty Venkata Jain, Jiachen Jiang and Andrew Dai. The three clinched first place in the software algorithms-intensive Robotics Rescue Simulation League. This league tests competitors’ abilities in algorithmic development and virtual navigation.
An all-girls team − Team JAM Sessions − of 10th-grader Aditi Gopalakrishnan and 9th-graders Julia Chan and Maya Baireddy earned second place in the OnStage (STEAM initiative) Robotics League. Their project merged technology with the arts by developing a system that interprets American Sign Language (ASL) into music played on a piano through machine learning and robotic mechanisms.
Keith Hammond of Make: talked with Catie Cuan. Cuan, a dancer and engineer, works with “choreobotics” The art of robot movement (not to be confused with robotic movement).
We are on the precipice of the most tremendous change in the way we experience our environment. Previously everything around us that moves — animals, trees in the wind — was part of nature. Robots are not part of nature. It’s an enormous change — we are extremely attuned to motion around us, because we’re animals, we used to get eaten. It’s like when personal computers moved from just military and academia into many other domains, they created the whole field of human-computer interaction — the psychology, interface design, all that. The same thing is happening now with robots — choreography, architecture, AI, medicine, “corobotics” in the workplace — robotics is moving into all these areas. This is the big transition we’re experiencing at the moment. In the future thousands of people will have this as their job — to understand how to choreograph robots to be around human beings.
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!
Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: build a modern spiral floor lamp out of a dowel and some Hot Wheels track. The lights are diffused with clear crystal gems. We love the way the plastic gems refract the light, making this lamp beautiful to view from all angles.
This lamp is controlled by a QT Py Pico ESP32 microcontroller running the free, open source WLED software. Learn to add touch control in WLED using the button functionality and .json presets that cycle through modes and turn the lamp on and off. WLED gives you so many options for control.
From the guide:
The lighting in your home can really change the energy and the mood. This modern floor lamp uses addressable NeoPixel LEDs, a QT Py Pico ESP32 with WiFi, and the free, open-source WLED software: a wonderful and easy way to create animations, schedule programs, and take control of the lighting in your house.
This lamp also uses the capacitive touch sensor pads on the QT Py. A copper foil decoration on the base allows me to turn the lamp on and off and change modes just by tapping it with my toe.
This saxophone accessory sits inside the instrument’s bell and lights up in different colors based on the note being played.
PyAudio interfaces with the microphone and captures audio emitted by the saxophone, then aubio derives separate tones from the recording. After that, NumPy converts this output into MIDI tones and a particular colour is assigned to each tone across the range of MIDI tones recorded. The colours are assigned sequentially based on an RGB colour wheel.
Everything is coded in Python and the LEDs even respond to the saxophone’s volume, shining brighter as the instrument gets louder, fading as a note trails off, and appearing again when the next note is played.
“Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone”, manipulated with the @intellijel Metropolix Solo, VCV Rack, and VDMX from @vidvox on a Sears “Go Anywhere” portable television.
Just pick up the receiver and tell this telephone what scent you would like to smell, you can make your request in English. French, German, Chinese, Korean and more! Via Raspberrypi.org
If you’re into fashion history, you may know that a man named Paul Poiret is credited with inventing the idea of a signature scent in the early twentieth century. Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent also had a crack at it. And now the good folks at Techpla Lab have incorporated Raspberry Pi 5 into a device which sprays you with the scent it thinks best suits your needs according to what you say to it.
PiMyLifeUp shares how you can utilize Flask to write and run a web application using Python.
This framework is a great way to add a web interface to your Python scripts. For example, if you have a Raspberry Pi reading data from a temperature sensor, you can print that value straight to a web page.
If you are familiar with Python, developing a web app on your Raspberry Pi will be a pretty simple process. Flask is a really easy framework to get started with, and it allows you to define new routes with just a couple of lines of code.
This is a re-do of a video Jeff made previously but now with the Pi 5. The Pi 5 is a capable, and versatile, replacement for stream-boxes like the Apple TV.
If you want a TV box that’s more flexible than Apple TV, Nvidia SHIELD, Roku Ultra, or any of the regular Android-based TV set-top boxes, this Pi build’s for you!
I built a Raspberry Pi 5 media center using LibreELEC and Kodi, and I’ll show you how you can do it, too. It’s good enough for almost any modern content, up to 4K60, but there are a few caveats.
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How long do printers last? High-use printers might not last a few years. And even for printers that are well-maintained or low-use, and the operating system might go out of style. How do you extend the life of a printer when operating systems rende them useless? Raspberry Pi and Linux. See more from hackaday:
Around here, printers have a life expectancy of about two years if we are lucky. But [techtipsy] has a family member who has milked a long life from an old Canon PIXMA printer. That is, until Microsoft or Canon decided it was too old to print anymore. With Windows 10, it took some hacking to get it to work, but Windows 11 was the death knell. Well, it would have been if not for [techtipsy’s] ingenuity with a Raspberry Pi.
It is a simple task to connect the printer to the Pi, set up CUPS, and then share the printer over the network. While Windows doesn’t want to drive the printer directly, it is more than happy to talk to it as a network printer.
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This game is centered around the idea of ‘pie’, Via Raspberrypi.org
This innovative game, made by just_another_person, incorporates three different forms of pi(e): the mathematical constant, a whipped cream pie, and Raspberry Pi Pico. The aim is for the player to enter up to 15 digits of pi in the correct order into the machine. If they successfully enter them, they will be celebrated with a colourful LED light show. However, if tragedy doth strike, and the user enters a digit incorrectly, they will be greeted with a pie in the face! Who wouldn’t want to add a dash of terror to their education?
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We call these RadioFruits, our take on a microcontroller with a “Long Range (LoRa)” packet radio transceiver with built-in USB and battery charging. It’s an Adafruit Feather RP2040 with a 900MHz radio module cooked in! Great for making wireless networks that are more flexible than Bluetooth LE and without the high power requirements of WiFi.
Feather is the development board specification from Adafruit, and like its namesake, it is thin, light, and lets you fly! We designed Feather to be a new standard for portable microcontroller cores. We have other boards in the Feather family, check’em out here.
It’s kinda like we took our RP2040 Feather and RFM95 900MHz breakout board and glued them together. You get all the pins for use on the Feather, the Lipoly battery support, USB C power / data, onboard NeoPixel, 8MB of FLASH for storing code and files, and then with the 8 unused pins, we wired up all the DIO pins on the RFM module. There’s even room left over for a STEMMA QT connector and a uFL connector for connecting larger antennas.
This is the 900 MHz LoRa radio version, which can be used for either 868MHz or 915MHz transmission/reception – the exact radio frequency is determined when you load the software since it can be tuned around dynamically.
At the Feather’s heart is an RP2040 chip, clocked at 133 MHz and at 3.3V logic, the same one used in the Raspberry Pi Pico. This chip has a whopping 8MB of onboard QSPI FLASH and 264K of RAM! This makes it great for running LoRa and LoRaWAN stacks that need a fairly strong processor to manage packets.
The history of Hip-Hop has been in the limelight since its 50th anniversary last year. So it’s only right to see statues, museum exhibits, and more honor the legends of arguably one of the most influential genres in history.
WBLS shares the details and inspiration behind the new statue unveiled in Harlem in honor of DJ Red Alert.
On Friday, July 19, Kool DJ Red Alert is being honored with a statue in Harlem to commemorate his 40 years in radio. The statue, which will live in Montefiore Square, was designed by artist Sherwin Banfield, who has also crafted commemorative pieces for the late Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G” Wallace, LL Cool J, and more.
Lily Clark’s sculpture “Dew Point” creates beads of water seemingly from nowhere. Surface tension holds the beads together as they roll to the center of the sculpture. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:
Although Los Angeles-based artist Lily Clark incorporates stone, wood, and metal into her sculptures, she considers water her primary medium. One of her more recent works, “Dew Point,” explores the supple, plump shape of the life-giving liquid as it condenses and succumbs to gravity. A boxy sculpture with a wide but shallow depression, the superhydrophobic ceramic piece pushes individual droplets to the surface seemingly from nowhere. Each ultimately tumbles down into a slender slit in the middle of the form, before returning to repeat the cycle.
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Easy e-paper and RP2040 finally come to your Feather with this Adafruit RP2040 Feather Think Ink that’s designed to make it a breeze to add almost any common e-Ink/e-Paper display. Chances are you’ve seen one of those new-fangled ‘e-readers’ like the Kindle or Nook. They have gigantic electronic paper ‘static’ displays – that means the image stays on the display even when power is completely disconnected. The image is also high contrast and very daylight readable. It really does look just like printed paper!
We’ve liked these displays for a long time, and we’ve got Arduino/CircuitPython drivers for tons of the various display chipsets, so wouldn’t an e-paper RP2040 Feather make a ton of sense? Luckily for us, just about every small-medium size eInk display made these days has a standard 24-pin connection. This Feather will add all the power supply support circuitry and level shifting so you can attach your favorite display – we’ve tested it with up to 5.6″ sized 7-color ACeP displays.
Since all ePaper displays with the 24-pin interface require you to buffer the layers of data and write them all out at once over SPI, the RP2040 chip is an excellent driver. It has 264K of internal SRAM so even with the largest displays, there’s plenty of memory to store all the image data plus run your own code. We also put the display on it’s own SPI port so that the Feather’s main SPI port can be used for other peripheral devices.
Feather is the development board specification from Adafruit, and like its namesake, it is thin, light, and lets you fly! We designed Feather to be a new standard for portable microcontroller cores. We have other boards in the Feather family, check’em out here.
At the Feather’s heart is an RP2040 chip, clocked at 133 MHz and at 3.3V logic, the same one used in the Raspberry Pi Pico. This chip has a whopping MB of onboard QSPI FLASH and 264K of RAM! There’s even room left over for a STEMMA QT connector for plug-and-play of I2C devices.
Business Insider visited the La Maison du Pastel in France to learn how Isabelle Roché and Margaret Zayer make pastels. This behind the scenes look at the La Maison du Pastel manufacturing process is captivating, and the color varieties are just 😍
This project from maker MichaelH3777 makes good use of a Pi Zero W.
I needed a way to check the level of my underground water tank so that I can manage water usage.
A Raspberry Pi monitors the water level using a submersed 4-20ma sensor and sends MQTT messages over WIFI to Node-RED which is running on a Synology NAS, but it could be running on another Raspberry PI or other hardware.
The iPod is back… kinda. Full disclosure, I never owned an iPod because they went out of fashion and into obsolescence before disposable income was a thing for me. Still, I love a good nostalgia bandwagon, so here we are.
Maker Del Hatch put his electrical engineering skills to use and created the ePiPod, a portable music player with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for a brain, masquerading as an iPod.
How is it made?
All of the external components are wired directly to the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO.
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An SSH honeypot is a fake SSH server that you can run on your Raspberry Pi to capture bad actors. A user or bot attempting to access your network would get stuck in the honeypot.
One of the cool things about this honeypot is that you can quickly get an idea of how an attacker might approach your system and the commands they might issue over SSH once they gain access.
Since this is a honeypot, any command an attacker uses never actually occurs, and the sshesame daemon fakes the responses.
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One of the Raspberry Pi’s great strengths is giving new life to retro-tech. Joe Pasqua on GitHub 3D-printed this FauxTRS powered with a Raspberry Pi running emulation. Not an exact clone of the TRS-80 Model III but heavily inspired.
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System was introduced in 1977 when Tandy launched it for sale in its Radio Shack stores. Initially, it used the popular Zilog Z80 processor, and several successors followed over the next few years. In 1983, the Model 4 got a faster Zilog Z80A CPU and a larger display.
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When working with a code editor on Raspberry Pi, many folks like to use the free Visual Studio Code. Sublime Text is a shareware alternative that provides a different experience. Here’s how to use Sublime Text on Raspberry Pi from PiMyLifeUp:
Sublime Text is a shareware text and code editor known for its native support for many programming languages, extensibility, robust auto-completion, and more.
While Sublime requires a license for continued use, it has an evaluation mode you can use to see whether this code editor suits your needs. The only drawback of the evaluation mode is that it will continually prompt you to purchase a license.
Learn more!
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If there is one thing Adafruit is known for, its mega-blinky-fun-rainbow-LEDs. We just love sticking NeoPixels anywhere and everywhere. When we saw the new ‘PIO’ peripheral on the RP2040 from Raspberry Pi, we just knew it would be perfect for driving large quantities of NeoPixels. So we created this board, the Adafruit Feather RP2040 SCORPIO, designed specifically for NeoPixel (WS2812) driving but also good for various other PIO-based projects that want to take advantage of the Feather pinout with 8 separate consecutive outputs (or inputs).
The RP2040 PIO state machine is perfect for LED driving: it can generate perfect waveforms, with up to 8 outputs concurrently, all through DMA. That means that you don’t need to use any processor time to bit-bang-out the LED data. Just set up the buffer and tell the PIO peripheral to ‘make it so’ and it will shove that data to the 8 outputs without delay while your code can continue to read buttons, play music, run CircuitPython – whatever you like!
The SCORPIO has a clever pinout, where all the standard Feather pins are the same as the GPIO pins, plus the standard I2C, SPI and UART lines – and there’s still enough pins left over to have 8 consecutive pins for PIO usage on GPIO16 through GPIO23 inclusive.
To make NeoPixel usage glitch-free, there is a 3V->5V level shifter so that the output logic is 5V. If you happen to want 3V signals, you can adjust the shifter voltage with a jumper on the bottom. It’s also possible to flip the direction of the level shifter to make the 8 I/O pins inputs – say for making a logic analyzer – with a directional jumper selection also on the bottom of the PCB.
The RP2040 SCORPIO also has a ton of RAM, 264KB, making it trivial to buffer huge numbers of NeoPixels…several thousand if needed. In fact there’s so much RAM you can even dither the pixels to get finer brightness control, for better-looking LEDs at low brightness or for gamma correction.
A decade of change, politics, tragedy, art and musical revolution, the 1960’s was an interesting time. The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York has some awesome film posters from the decade on display. Check it out if you’re in the area or view it through their virtual 360 tour.
Films from the 1960s depicted the turbulence of the time. Poster artists from across the globe assigned to capture the essence of these films brought their own wildly differing creative interpretations of the subject matter to the masses.
An era of political, cultural, and sexual revolutions, the 1960s was a decade of great changes and great tragedies determined by such world-impacting events as The Space Race, the Cold War, Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, the JFK assassination, but also by the cultural influences of The Beatles, James Bond, and even fashions, including the popularity of jeans and bikinis. This was also one of the greatest decades in film history.
Hyperallergic surveys Nancy Holt’s work. Holt created sculptural pieces that were conscious of time and place, literally! The movement of bodies both human and celestial play into her work:
Nearly a third of Nancy Holt: Circles of Light at Gropius Bau is dedicated to preparatory drawings, scientific calculations, and time-based photographs for “Sun Tunnels.” Only after coming out the other end did I understand that the essence of the work — and Holt’s practice as a whole — lies in the interaction between human bodies and celestial systems like the stars, rather than the earthen materials and monumentality emphasized by many other Land Art practitioners.
For “Sun Tunnels,” Holt studied physics and worked with engineers to design culverts in which visitors could observe the sun falling and rising during the summer and winter solstices — but also to protect their bodies from extreme heat and cold. There’s great poetry in the image of a human body sheltering inside a circle, as the sun makes its circular journey, tracing shadows on concrete. The poetic dimension of this work shouldn’t be surprising. Holt borrowed her motto from the poet Emily Dickinson: “My business is circumference” — a line that’s all about geometry in motion.
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Many more people have easy access to macro photography, thanks to the bug-eyed reverse side of today’s smartphones. Access doesn’t equal sheer gumption, time, and dedication. Here’s Vadim Sherbakov with an amazing macro film that uses suprrising materials and macro photography to explore the cosmos. Here’s more from Sherbakov:
Exploration of a macro cosmos is a theme for this short film. The ink and glitter make the compositions like the outer space and I love to dive into that. I started that journey in my previous film called Velocit…and continue the journey in this one. I implemented new techniques and new materials including the magnets and different liquids and inks. A total of 12 hours of footage was captured for this film and only less than 1% of best shoots were used in edit.
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Jenny Holzer: Light Line is a reinterpretation of Jenny Holzer’s 1989 Guggenheim installation accompanied by pieces of Holzer’s other previous works and is on view through September 29.
What to Expect
Jenny Holzer: Light Line includes descriptions of violence, explicit language, low light levels, and an electronic light program.
The exhibition does not contain traditional wall labels or explanatory texts. To enhance your experience, download the free Bloomberg Connects app to access the museum’s Digital Guide, which offers information about the works on view in multiple languages.
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If you’re looking to interface with telco, retro or industrial equipment you’ll probably run into RS-232 interfaces. The Adafruit RS232 Pal – Two Channel UART to RS-232 Level Shifters is your friend in such cases, giving you two duplex channels of level shifting and taking care of the high/negative voltage generation all in a low cost breakout board. We use the trusty MAX3232E, a classic chip that is part of the MAX232 lineage so you know it will work great for all your RS-232 needs, up to 250Kbps.
PiMyLifeUp shares a guide on how to set up your Raspberry Pi to install and use Flatpaks.
Flatpak is a different way of packaging and deploying applications on to Linux based operating systems such as Raspberry Pi OS.
These special packages contain all the different pieces to run that specific application on your system. They are isolated from the rest of your system.
App developers like to use Flatpaks because it often makes updating their software significantly simpler, and the installation process isn’t any more complicated than using the apt package manager.
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It was a royal occasion as King Charles went in for a slice of Pi. The UK Monarch toured Sony’s production facilities. Reported on by Tom’s Hardware:
The King’s visit coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Pencoed site, which originally made Sony’s Trinitron televisions. During the early days of Pi, Sony worked with Raspberry Pi to move production of the credit-card-sized computers to the United Kingdom.
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Maybe when you were a kid, you lived behind a movie theater. And maybe that movie theater threw away movie posters and cardboard uprights. And maybe you nabbed those posters and uprights and that was pretty great. How much greater to make your very own animated movie poster display? Here’s more from CompactKidney via instructables:
This display is powered by a Raspberry Pi, which plays MP4 videos created from animated movie poster GIF files. The posters will cycle through at a predetermined interval.
Additionally, I wanted the display to serve other purposes, so I set up a simple web server. This server allows you to select which items to display at any given time. While this Instructable will primarily focus on the movie poster display, I’ll also highlight how you can easily display other information on the dashboard.
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My house is incredibly neat and organized, but when it comes to my digital life, the word “hoarder” comes to mind. If that sounds like you, a network attached storage device—or NAS for short—is the perfect investment to make your files wirelessly available on any device in your home.
Unfortunately, these devices can get expensive. Instead of skipping out on improved file storage, one way to save money is to build one yourself for cheap! This might sound complicated, but it’s easy to do if you have an inexpensive Raspberry Pi board at the core. Here’s how to build your own NAS device.
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Starting July 12th, the Speed Art Museum will have Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room– LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER on exhibition. The immersive artwork will mark the first time that a major Kusama artwork has ever been on view in Kentucky.
An icon of global contemporary art, Yayoi Kusama has eclipsed art historical categorization even as her multifaceted practice has found kinship over the decades with movements such as Minimalism, Pop Art, and Surrealism. Born in Matsumoto City, Japan, in 1929, she studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York in the late 1950s. Beginning in childhood, the artist was (and continues to be) transfixed and consumed by hallucinations in which the world around her appears to be teeming with repetitive forms. By the mid-1960s, Kusama had become well known in the avant-garde community for her provocative vision, exhibitions, and “happenings.” Since this time, the artist’s remarkable artistic journey has grown to span performance and live events, installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and film, as well as commercial design and fashion. Through Kusama’s artworks, we, too, can enter her dynamic worlds of wonder, mystery, and imagination.
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