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Build a wise cracking skull to MC your Halloween costume party. This project uses a Raspberry Pi 5 paired with a NoIR PiCamera and speaker bonnet. The Pi runs a Python script with OpenCV person detection. When a person crosses paths with the skull, a...

A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System: FLAC and Ogg Playback with CircuitPython by Anne Barela with programming by Mikey Sklar....

#circuitpythonparsec Plug-and-play cap touch sensing with STEMMA ports, plus bonus ground reference wire!...

Daniel Catt built a markdown to handwriting tool, written up in his newsletter at newsletter.revdancatt.com. He runs a Bantam Tools NextDraw 8511 pen plotter driven by Kitty, his AI assistant, which writes out his morning todo lists, addresses envelo...

Dave VW has posted a new way to remap the Commodore 64 keyboard, writing at Tech with Dave. Earlier remapping drivers loaded into lower BASIC RAM at a fixed address and vanished on restart. The keyboard tables actually live in the KERNAL ROM, which h...

Stephen Cass built a lockbox that opens only when the right gesture is traced with a magnet, and wrote it up for IEEE Spectrum. The sensor is SparkFun’s $100 magnetic imaging tile, a small-run board based on work by Peter Jansen. It carries an 8-by-8...

doomformer is a project from alp (@mottopanikeiku) that compiles an integer neural network into a DOOM map. Voodoo dolls do the arithmetic. Light levels and plane heights hold the values. Every value the map exposes is read back and compared against ...

Julian Horsey at Geeky Gadgets writes about a handheld radar built by NorthWorks Lab, modeled on the motion tracker from the movie Aliens. It pairs an ESP32-S3 microcontroller with an LD2450 radar module, a small display and a speaker....

Kristijonas Adomaitis has published Kadmos-1 on GitHub, a decoder-only transformer language model with 45.8 million parameters that holds a short conversation and writes small Python functions. The architecture, tokenizer and weights were built in th...

SylphideOS is a general purpose GUI operating system for microcontrollers, written by a developer named Thomas. The look owes a lot to the early Macintosh, with a desktop and windows driven through a framebuffer. Underneath it runs on the FreeRTOS ke...

Sebastian-Ion Nae has put two small neural networks on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, and published the project on GitHub. One network is a world model: given the current frame and an action, it predicts the next frame and the reward. The other is an actor...

Bo Made It measured what it costs to push an e-paper display far past its normal refresh rate, in a video published on YouTube. The test board is the Waveshare ESP32-S3-ePaper, running a custom display driver and a Game Boy emulator at 30 frames per ...

Digital sand, or PaintYourDragon’s PixelDust is one of our favorite libraries. Learn how to make your own PixelDust Digital Sand in the Adafruit Learning System:...

Forum member flok posted on the PJRC Forum about building a Eurorack interface for the Teensy 4.1. The reason was simple: no kit or ready made Eurorack-to-Teensy board turned up, so the work started from scratch....

Brian Jepson, writing on raspberrypi.com, walks through running an Apple II emulator on a Raspberry Pi. The tutorial comes from The Raspberry Pi Guide to Retro Gaming book and uses LinApple, a fork of the AppleWin emulator originally created by Mike ...

When it comes to decoration for Halloween, or setting up an elaborate, Scooby Doo-esque plot to scare a bunch of meddling kids, it’s hard to beat a creepy skull that looks at you out of one eye whenever it detects movement!...

Anne Trafton at MIT News reports on a robotic enteroscope built by MIT engineers to travel through the small intestine. The organ runs more than 20 feet and is about an inch across, which makes it hard to reach. The current option is double balloon e...

A desk-side modular system built around a universal clamp (0-40mm range, 33mm depth, 4mm-pitch threads, anti-slip grooves). Core parts: headphone hanger (50mm shaft), phone holder, cup holder (80mm ID), 5mm Skadis section, cable organizer (3 cables),...

Add a touch of magic to your Christmas tree with this 3D-printed bauble. Its unique design incorporates a rotating inner ring, embellished with three delicate snowflakes at the apex and an elegant deer at the base. A festive and original adornment, p...

A face mask is one of the fastest ways to put together an instant Halloween costume! MakingThingsCLT shared this quick 3D print on Printables!...

Ramazan Eren Arslan turned a Deutsche Bundespost FeTAp 791 rotary telephone into a voice assistant, with the build documented on Hackster.io. Lift the handset and talk, and Google Gemini answers through the original earpiece....

Mack DeGeurin, writing at Popular Science, covered a team at the National University of Singapore College of Design and Engineering that built what it calls the first touchscreen woven into a garment. The display is 96 by 54 pixels and sits on the in...

Sid Bala wrote a walkthrough of how H.264 video compression works, published on sidbala.com. He starts with a demonstration: a screen capture of the Apple homepage, 300 frames long, encodes to 175KB as H.264. A single frame of that same video saved a...

sheikh shuhad has posted a tutorial on Hackster.io that moves Bluetooth Low Energy sensor readings into a serverless database. A HibouAir sensor advertises air quality data over BLE. A BleuIO dongle plugged into a computer’s USB port scans for that s...

Synthhead at Synthtopia looks at a run of recent announcements that let musicians replace or extend the software running on their hardware. The starting point is the M-Vave FM-1, a low-cost FM synthesizer that drew independent developers writing thei...

MAXXTANG published a project on Hackster.io that puts a USB-only Brother HL-1110 laser printer on a WiFi network using an ESP32-S3. The computer prepares the job with the normal Brother driver and sends it to TCP port 9100. The ESP32-S3 passes the by...

Ananthu Ashok, writing at Open Source For You, covers Hermes, an open source push-to-talk voice assistant that pairs an ESP32 with a Windows PC. The project comes from developer ROHITCRAFTSYT and is released under the MIT license, with firmware, wiri...

These Christmas ornaments use twisted ribs to create a lightweight, flowing shape that changes depending on the viewing angle. The collection includes three different designs: a Single Wave, Double Wave and Double Wave Hollow. Each design is availabl...

A tiny seasonal collection: pumpkin, pinecone, ghost, mushroom, chestnut, apple, acorn, and maple leaf — each with its own face. Small autumn decorations, gifts, or party favors. Separate monocolor profiles for individual figures (10.6h, 8 plates). S...

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A case for a Raspberry Pi 5 with the official AI HAT installed, plus a camera mount on top — an ‘all-in-one setup to tinker with the AI Module.’ Great fit for Adafruit’s Pi + machine-learning audience exploring vision pipelines or on-device AI. Compa...

The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi)....

A ribbed pumpkin centered in an intertwined branch ring, with layered flowers, maple + oak leaves, wheat, acorns, and buds. Open center. Fall wall decor. Printed in Wood & Matte PLA (just as beautiful only in Matte). Three profiles at 12.4h / 6.7h / ...

A free 3D-printable LED lamp driven by Arduino Uno + Adafruit NeoPixel ring. Electronics: NeoPixel ring with 24 LEDs, Arduino Uno (NeoPixel data on pin 2), uses the Adafruit NeoPixel library. Fire-effect light pattern flickers randomly. Arduino code ...

A protective case for ESP32-S3 development boards (44-pin layout, ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 and N16R8 variants). Supports both PINNED and PINLESS configurations with separate print profiles. Wi-Fi pattern on top for a tech-themed look. Dual USB Type-C port op...

3D Hangouts – Holiday Wreath, DIY HomeView and Twisty Eyeball https://youtube.com/live/60gsCGmLxzw?feature=share...

Build a holiday inspired wreath that lights up with animated NeoPixel LEDs! This project uses the Adafruit Sparkle Motion Mini, 12 NeoPixel JST breakouts and matching cables so there’s no soldering required....

MIT Technology Review marks 50 years of EMACS, one of the first full-screen text editors and still in use today. It grew out of TECO, a text editor Dan Murphy wrote in 1962 for the PDP-1 at MIT, and Carl Mikkelsen’s Control-R add-on from 1971, which ...

Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week:...

Bonhams reports that the “Hatfield” Apple-1 sold for $1.15 million at its History of Science, Technology & Computing sale, which closed on October 14. Two bidders fought over it for 28 minutes. The price is a new world auction record for a commercial...

Happy National Cat Day! All animal friends are great, but here at Adafruit we happen to have a particular fondness for felines who love electronics and engineering, like the cats you see here, from our Cats of Engineering page!...

Repair Café International marked the first anniversary of its Linux Repair Café starter kit on repaircafe.org. The kit is a guide for running sessions where visitors bring an old laptop and leave with Linux Mint installed. One year in, 165 Repair Caf...