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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Cat Ears LED Mask Glasses #3DThursday #3DPrinting

I am not sure it is a pair of glasses or just a led mask.

download the files on: https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/71595-cat-ears-led-maskglasses

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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piwheels update for August 2021 #RaspberryPi @piwheels @ben_nuttall @Raspberry_Pi

piwheels blog – Python 3.9 wheels for Bullseye –

Debian 11 (Bullseye) is due to be released shortly, and Raspberry Pi OS will follow suit. Bullseye comes with Python 3.9, so we needed to rebuild all platform wheels for the new ABI.

When piwheels started, we built for Jessie (Python 3.4), and moved onto Stretch (Python 3.5) when it was released. We stopped building on Jessie when it reached EOL, and we’ll continue to iterate like this. Although Python 3.5 itself is EOL, Debian Stretch still has another year of support so we’ll continue building on it until then (above).

We use a GitHub repo to manage issues with packages we have on piwheels, when people find that packages are missing or don’t work as expected… GitHub just rolled out issue forms, so we’ve added them and integrated the project pages so that clicking on one of the new issue buttons completes the form, allowing people to give extra information and not be able to continue without filling out all the required fields.

The team has also recently surpassed 50 million downloads, and have saved over 500 years of build time!

See the full post here

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BeBot robot collects tiny plastic waste to clean our beaches

Solar powered bot is on beach cleaning duty. Almost like a roomba for nature. Via Designboom:

4ocean in collaboration with poralu marine created an eco-friendly solution for beach cleanups. BeBot is a mobile beach-cleaning robot that mechanically sifts sand to collect plastic waste and other debris as small as 1 square cm without harming the environment. the 100% electric vehicle can silently clean up to 3.000 sqm of beach per hour depending on the terrain.

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Make a metronome, powered by Raspberry Pi Pico and CircuitPython #CircuitPythonDay2021 #CircuitPython @cytrontech

Idris at Cyton Technologies presents Metronome Maker Pi Pico, programmed with CircuitPython:

A metronome can help you keep a consistent tempo so that you don’t inadvertently speed up or slow down. It provides a steady click marking a musical interval. Let’s built our own metronome!

There is a CircuitPython sample program and it has been tested with CircuitPython 6.3.0.

The project uses a Raspberry Pi Pico, a Maker Pi Pico Base and a Grove LCD display.

See the video above and the details here.

Celebrate CircuitPython Day 2021 by tagging your projects #CircuitPythonDay2021 and consider showing them on Show and Tell tonight!

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

After Dark: Seeing the Unseen #ArtTuesday

The Exploratorium will be hosting After Dark: Seeing the Unseen on Thursday, August 12th.

How can tools and technologies help us “see” aspects of the environment, both natural and built, that are otherwise hidden to the human eye? And how are these new visions of landscapes—from cities to forests to oceans—supporting a new understanding of the world around us? Tonight at After Dark, learn more about cutting-edge technologies in use across science, industry, and the arts to help us better understand the world around us, protect our environment, and catch a glimpse of civilizations from the past. Then engage with projects taking a creative and sometimes speculative approach to mapping landscapes.

Hyper Landscapes: A Portrait of Your Path Through the Internet #ArtTuesday

What does your path through the internet look like? If Kandinsky painted a big data portrait of you, what would it look like? The artist Kazuki Umezawa’s work Hyper Landscape answers just that question. Here’s more from HYPERALLERGIC

Kazuki Umezawa, also known as Umelabo, has made a series of “internet landscapes” that vividly captures the schizophrenic experience of the internet. Sprawling, printed collages of found images are coupled with his own designs and occasionally overlaid with layers of paint. Each work presents a dense, meaningless barrage of visual information — for example, chocolate cookies, feeds, threads, disembodied legs, mushrooms, icons, anime characters, fractals, shrines — condensing years’ worth of browsing history into a single frame. Amid this chaos, the specificity of individual images, moments, places, and persons drops away to reveal expansive, jagged shapes, especially when viewed from a distance. Hyper Landscape, currently at the Watari-Um museum in Tokyo, surveys Umezawa’s career to date, with work ranging from early sketches to recent collages. It also provides a window into the rise of online otaku communities in Japan (a term that translates loosely as “nerd” and indicates obsessive interest in media such as manga and anime).

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Kinetic Display Water Simulations by @motus-art #ArtTuesday

1of4: Water simulations running on my large flip-digit kinetic display. #kineticdisplay pic.twitter.com/MnieDVKsqx

— Motus Art (@motus_art) July 20, 2021

@motus-art published 4 water simulations running on flip-digit kinetic displays and they are crazy cool. You must watch with sound on!

See the set here!

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!