Urban Art Mapping Research Project Hosts George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art and COVID-19 Street Art Databases

Hyperallergic published Hakim Bishara’s Mapping Anti-racist Street Art in Minneapolis and Worldwide back in April. You can contribute an image to the George Floyd & Anti-Racist Street Art database here or the Covid-19 Street Art database here. From Hyperallergic:

“Street art matters because it represents the voices of the community, often providing a counter-institutional perspective, and so a crowd-sourced archive is in keeping with the goals of this art form itself,” the team said. “People have used walls to claim space, tell their stories, express their anger, show their vision for the future: our goal is to amplify these voices and experiences and to make sure that these textual and visual messages are not erased.”

Read the full story from Hyperallergic and learn more about the George Floyd & Anti-Racist Street Art database and the Covid-19 Street Art database .

GIF Art from Herr Schmidt #ArtTuesday

Dot to hypercube from Herr Schmidt. What’s a hypercube? Here’s more from Impossible World:

In geometry, a hypercube is an n-dimensional analogue of a square (n = 2) and a cube (n = 3). It is a closed convex figure consisting of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space’s dimensions, at right angles to each other.

It’s also known as tesseract. The tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square; or, more formally, the tesseract can be described as a regular convex 4-polytope whose boundary consists of eight cubical cells.

Herr Schmidt

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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!

#StarWarsDay: May the 4th Be With You

Happy Star Wars Day! Not only has the Star Wars universe brought us massive amounts of joy, fun, and cultural content, it’s also been an incredible source of inspiration for makers over the years (including us!) We’re celebrating May the 4th over here by reviewing some of our favorite Star Wars themed projects, plus searching the web for ideas and builds from makers around the world.

We hope you’re celebrating in style! (And, of course, May the 4th be with you)

Here’s a round-up of some cool stuff/resources for this year:

• Round-up directly from StarWars.com.
• Star Wars Droids Commemorative Forever® Stamps from USPS
• Star Wars snack stand
• Making a Full Metal Mandalorian Helmet
• Star Wars Experts Answer More Questions From Twitter
• Printing a Star Wars-Inspired Hobby Paint Holder

And, last but not least, here’s a list of some of our favorite Star-Wars-themed Adafruit projects:

Construct your own Star Wars​ lightsaber using 3D printed parts and the Prop Maker Feather Wing!

• Han Solo Blaster Cosplay
• Bluetooth Remote Control for the Lego Droid Developer Kit
• For a taste of the dark side, which you should technically be celebrating tomorrow on Revenge of the 5th, DIY Darksaber Build – 3D Print with PropMaker FeatherWing and BLE
• 3D Printed NeoPixel LED Gas Mask
• Mystical LED Halloween Hood

The Art of Unique Tears from Sasha R. Gregor #ArtTuesday

Sasha R. Gregor ‘s art project Lacrimosa is made of high magnification tears shed by family, friends, and even celebrities. Why? Emotional tears have so many proteins and hormones that the structure of the tear is affected. At high enough magnification, a tears is a unique as a fingerprint. Here’s more from Art the Science:

One day, I was surprised to find my girlfriend crying (nothing too serious, luckily). After reassuring her, the image came to mind of how the internal structure of that substance—the tear—was capable of symbolizing the affective and emotional capability of the human being.

With permission granted, I captured one of the tears that had spilled from her eyes with a microscope slide glass, and the next day, I went to the laboratory to solve the enigma. The surprise was great: the chemical composition of the tear (salts, proteins, lipids, hormones, etc.), together with the power of the photomicroscope and the epistemic character of light, revealed a wonderful landscape of shapes, geometries, and colors.

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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!

Caption contest! RP2040 boards!

Caption contest! RP2040 boards! Tweet, comment, etc. we have 4 boards that have the Raspberry Pi RP2040, come up with a great caption, we’ll pick the winner weds may 5th and if it’s your, you get to pick one of the boards and we send to you! please use the tag #adafruitrp2040cc

New Layer by Layer – Ideation of a Lemon via @ecken

Hey folks, in this video I’m chatting about how I came up with the idea of the lemon keypad. Quick look at using the Pattern on Path feature in Fusion 360 and checking out some sources where I got the inspiration from.

Lemon Keypad Build Guide
https://learn.adafruit.com/qtpy-lemon-mechanical-keypad-macropad/

Layer by Layer – Fuzzy Skin
https://youtu.be/89oRp64lFfU

Cherry MX switch on GrabCAD
https://grabcad.com/library/cherry-mx-switch-2

3D Printing Projects Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOWD2dJNRIN46uhMCWvNOlbG

3D Hangout Show Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVgpmWevin2slopw_A3-A8Y

Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVsMp6nKnpjsXSQ45nxfORb

Timelapse Tuesday Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVagy3CktXsAAs4b153xpp_

Milling Monday
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVL48weqeHiu7aw-_sPhCSA

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: QT Py RP2040, Vivien’s Seismometer, Lemon Mechanical Keypad and More!

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP

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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.

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BLOG

Testing out QT Py RP2040 with Xiao Extension Board

This Expansion board is designed for the Seeed Xiao, and since the QT Py is pin compatible we thought we’d try it out with the RP2040 QT Py we just released to see how it works with CircuitPython. The RP2040 has toooons more flash and RAM than the SAMD21 so it’s a great little add-on! There’s a 128×64 OLED, button, piezo beeper, battery charger and booster, SD card and RTC.

Check out the full post here!

More BLOG:

Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:

• Possible to send PPE to India Makerspaces / Hackerspaces? Maybe we can help…
• Here are some free things to do after getting vaccinated
• Adafruit in Space: UNISAT-7 Breakout
• Adafruit is a PyCon 2021 participating sponsor
• Testing out CircuitPython library support for U2IF on Pico
• Catch up with Collin’s Lab Notes
• Language Map of NYC
• A Brief History of Pulp Fiction
• A high school student’s consumer seismometer delivers low-cost earthquake early warning
• The Animated Medical Illustrations of Ni-ka Ford
• McTesla – A Strange Mini Tesla Coil

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LEARN

Lemon Mechanical Keypad

Make a custom USB-HID keypad in the shape of a citrus fruit. This keypad features six mechanical switches for controlling media players like Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, etc. Powered by the Adafruit QT Py RP2040 and CircuitPython.

Inside the case is a NeoPixel Jewel that slowly fades in and out making the keypad illuminate. The QT Py and NeoPixel are housed in a 3D printed case with parts that snap fit together.

See the full guide here!

More LEARN:

• Creating FunHouse Projects with CircuitPython
• Neo Trinkey Zoom Shortcuts
• Sound Reactive Sunflower Baby Crib Mobile with Bluetooth Control
• Adafruit FunHouse
• FunHouse Motion Detecting Lights with LIFX Bulbs

Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!