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Transform your regular sunglasses into smart ones with the single-board computer you wear on your face Paul Stefaan Mooij’s PMSG opens source smart glasses work with the QT Py! PMSG (P.M. Smart Glasses) is a compact wearable electronics platform designed for small development boards such as Adafruit QT Py and Seeed Studio XIAO. More from […]

The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python information that you may have missed, all in one place! You get a summary of all the software, events, projects, and the latest hardware worldwide once a week, no […]

The Creatures of Thought blog discusses the early days of Apple Computers. By early 1980, the Apple II, which had trailed the Commodore PET and Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 at first, had become a remarkable success, with a great deal of help from Personal Software’s VisiCalc. The Apple IPO at the end of the year ratified […]

If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s pick is the TMAG5273 (A1 & A2) 3D Hall Effect Magnetometers! Watch the video to find out about the TMAG5273 (A1 & A2) 3D Hall Effect Magnetometers, how to use them, a live […]

The The Virtual OS Museum by Andrew Warkentin is a virtual museum of over 1,700 operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM. A custom emulator-independent launcher is provided, and all OSes and emulators are pre-installed and pre-configured. The launcher includes a snapshot feature to […]

While the internet is full of tutorials that tell you how to blink the on-board LED or read a sensor, this board is hiding some surprisingly capable networking capabilities that most people never explore. You can fix Wi-Fi deadzones with just $5 and 15 minutes of your time, check device presence, even block ads, using nothing […]

Hiro on Reddit posts a ultrawide display cyberdeck: This is my first cyberdeck. I’ve been working on it for around a month. It features a Nuphy Air60 v2 keyboard, a Waveshare 11.9 display, Raspberry Pi 4 and a USB Hat powering the whole thing with two 18650 batteries. The interface is a customized tmux with […]

ScuffedBits on YouTube takes a look at displays salvaged from broken laptops. While the devices don’t have connections to make them immediately useful, one can get aftermarket adapter boards and put the panels to use in creative ways. See the video below. Via Hackaday.

Yafira, electrocutelab on Instagram, has created ribbon_logic (2026): “apparently i can’t stop making things about computers. my thesis is a computer. now this is a little computer that writes poems about computers. at some point i stopped questioning it lol ✿. a tiny poetry generator that lives on a 2.1” round screen. one button, one LiPo […]

Tearable is a webpage by Daniel Beauchamp that shows the capability to use a mouse to tear at a graphic, fluidly, to reveal graphics “behind” it. The last page shows a fluidic but untearable page. Check it out at https://pushmatrix.github.io/tearable/ Via LinkedIn.

  Memorial Day 2026 is coming up next Monday, May 25. This is a federal Holiday as well as a holiday for the Adafruit team. While some of the team will be shipping orders there will be no carrier pickups. Expedited orders placed after 11am EST Friday May 22 will not go out until Tuesday […]

Light-Up Angler Fish Embroidery This is a very simple FLORA project with no soldering– a single NeoPixel lights up on an embroidered angler fish on a pair of shorts. The main board is stitched on the front of the design, in the belly of the fish. A snap is used on the fin as a […]

Claude Code Telegram Bot provides remote access to Claude Code. Chat naturally with Claude about your projects from anywhere — no terminal commands needed. What is this? This bot connects Telegram to Claude Code, providing a conversational AI interface for your codebase: Chat naturally — ask Claude to analyze, edit, or explain your code in plain […]

Hisabumi Hatsugai has tried implementing virtual memory using two MC68000 chips. The MMU was configured using SRAM. There were two SRAMs: one was TransRAM, which converts logical addresses to physical addresses, and the other was AccessRAM, which records access to physical pages (read/write). The logical space is 8 Mbytes, ranging from 0xFF800000 to 0xFFFFFFFF. The […]

3D Hangouts – Prop Game, Compass and Flexi Raptor https://youtube.com/live/evHG1X0T5Lo This week @adafruit we’re checking out Noe’s prototype of his new handheld game design using PropMaker Feather. Pero is working on a new compass project. This week’s timelapse features a velociraptor flexi dino. Feather RP2040 Propmaker: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5768 Alpanumeric LED Display https://www.adafruit.com/product/2158 Timelapse Tuesday Velociraptor Flexi […]

image via Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Tours   Whether you live in or are visiting NYC, going behind the scenes at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in LIC has got to be worth budgeting for! Enjoy a truly unique opportunity to tour Jim Henson’s Creature Shop,the elite puppet-building workshop in Queens, New York City, where legendary […]

Temuri Takalandze on abgeo.dev looks at a smart doorbell bought on Temu. Recently I bought a smart doorbell off Temu, the Chinese marketplace that has been gaining popularity worldwide over the past couple of years. I wanted to know how secure the cheap connected hardware sold on that platform actually is. The unit ships under […]

While there are only 11 days left in the month, NYPL has 30 remaining planned events celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Scroll through them all here!

Patten Studio features Flagscape, the 15’ kinetic sculpture installed last spring on the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue in New York. … We wanted to take a deeper dive into the technical work that brought Flagscape together. We sat down and had a chat with the design team to talk about the plot […]