New nEw NEWS From Adafruit Round-Up: July, August & September 2026

New nEw NEWs is Adafruit’s weekly newsletter that features new products, special offers and more. Sign up at Adafruit.com/Newsletter to receive New nEw NEWs!

• Vol. #471: Summer Nights Gift Guide!
• Vol. #472: Build with the VEML7700 Lux Sensor – I2C Light Sensor
• Vol. #473: NeoPixel Stick – 8 x 5050 WWA White LEDs with Integrated Drivers!
• Vol. #474: Get Back to Retro Computing with our Fruit Jam Mini-Computer Kit
• Vol. #475: Back to School 2026
• Vol. #476: Adafruit SCD-43 – True CO2 Temp & Humidity Sensor
• Vol. #477: Full Fruit Jam Mini Computer Kit
• Vol. #478: Adafruit Stereo I2S 3W Amplifier Breakout Coming Soon!
• Vol. #479: TMF8801 & TMF8806 Time of Flight Distance Sensors
• Vol. #480: CircuitPython Watchdog Module
• Vol. #481: CircuitPython Turbo
• Vol. #482: Adafruit TCS3448 14-Channel Light / Color Sensor Breakout
• Vol. #483: Arcade Machine Emulator

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Queens Public Library’s Hispanic Heritage Month Booklists

The folks at Queens Public Library have put together 6 fantastic book lists to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month:

• For Adults
• For Teens
• For Children
• Libros Para Adultos
• Libros Para Adolescentes
• Libros Para Niños

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Eye Pendant V2

A followup to last year’s Soul Cage vishalsoniindia has another entry in the spooky wearable category.

The Eye Pendant is a wearable electronic pendant with a small round display that shows an animated eye. The eye moves around the screen, looking in different directions and creating the illusion of a realistic eye watching you. It gives the pendant a creepy personality that is perfect for Halloween

See the details on Instructables!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! All month on the Adafruit Blog we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween

Learn, Shop and get inspired with the Halloween Gift Guide

Working on a project for Halloween this year? Let us know about it or tag us on socials!

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A picnic table, binaural birdsong and double forest POTA ATNO action! – EI3LH

EI3LH wrote up two days of Parks on the Air activations in County Kilkenny, Ireland, on ei3lh.eu. Both parks were ATNOs, or all time new ones, meaning nobody had activated them before.

The first was Coill an Fhailtaigh National Forest, IE-0056, one of Ireland’s 16 Millennium Forests. With the park close to closing, the setup was a Yaesu FT-891 and an ATAS antenna at 100 watts on CW. Ten contacts came in 16 minutes, and the session finished with 27 QSOs in an hour and nine minutes, including Tennessee, Washington state and New York.

The next day brought a lunch break test of an Elecraft KH-1 with a battery that had not been charged. Output was around 2 watts. That was enough for four SOTA contacts in Spain, Slovenia, Switzerland and Germany in 20 minutes.

The evening park was Jenkinstown, IE-0057, activated in 11 minutes and finishing at 37 QSOs. EI3LH also made a binaural field recording of the forest birdsong using a Tascam recorder and Roland CS-EM10 earphones, best heard on headphones.

See the video below and more at ei3lh.eu.

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Happy World Teachers’ Day 2026 @UNESCO #Education #Teacher #WorldTeachersDay

Since 1994 World Teachers Day is honored every October 5. This is a time to celebrate teachers on the anniversiary of a 1966 UNESCO Reccomendation on teachers. Teachers are doing transformative work and they need support! 2026 marks the 60th anniversary!

From UNESCO:

Under the theme “Standing with teachers: 60 years of protecting the profession, advancing its status and shaping our futures,” the 2026 edition will centre on reviewing the current challenges related to teacher status and the strategies to address them, calling on society and policy-makers to protect, promote and elevate that status.

Every day Adafruit has resources to help Teachers:

• We have a special channel on our forums where teachers and academics trade notes: Forum For Educators.
• Our Learn Guides make great resources for designing projects or curriculum.
• Check out the Adafruit blog for stories and links for teachers.
• You can learn even more on our Educators page

If you have a teacher in your life take a minute to share your gratitude. If you are a teacher, THANK YOU!!

Watch events live below:

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Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Adafruit Top 10, Pepper’s Ghost effect, 3D printing Timelapse 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

Adafruit’s Top 10 Blog Posts of September 2026 #StateOfTheFruit #AdafruitTopTen

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LEARN

Build a desktop size Pepper’s Ghost effect using the Adafruit Qualia ESP32-S3 and a 2.1in round TFT display!

Check out the full guide!

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YOUTUBE

One eye monster #timelapse

Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! See more on Youtube!

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Catch up with us on the blog, in the Adafruit Learning System, and on YouTube.

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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

A phyllotaxis describes a distinct arrangement of leaves some plants form. It is one of nature’s mesmerizing patterns and one that maker Jagi Natarajan is particularly interested in. In this project they created spiraling audio-reactive LED display. It has 89 individual cells each lit by an addressable LED. The project has already gone through two iterations with a third planned sometime in the future.

I’ve been fascinated by understanding patterns that appear in nature, through code. Communing with the inherent emergent patterns that exist in the universe.

The phyllotaxis is one such pattern, the expanding double-spiral shape that appears in the center of sunflowers, succulents, other plants. It’s surprisingly simple code

Learn more!

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