Native American Heritage Month 2026

Image from NYC Public Schools

 

November is Native American Heritage Month, also known as American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. All month long we will be sharing blog posts to celebrate. You can check throughout the month for new posts paying tribute to the experience, history, traditions and contributions of American Indians and Alaska Natives. We hope you will join us for Native American Heritage Month 2026

 

Via NYC Public Schools:

National Native American Heritage Month was recognized federally for the  first time(Open external link) in the United States in 1990. However, the creation of Native American Heritage Month traces its roots back to New York State at the turn of the twentieth century, and specifically to the Seneca archaeologist, Dr. Arthur C. Parker. As the director of the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Parker fought for a federal recognition day for Native Americans throughout the early 1900s. In no small part due to his advocacy, New York became the first state to recognize “American Indian Day” in May 1916—a first step on the path to the month-long recognition we have today.

 

For more resources checkout:

American Library Association

California Parks

NYC Public Schools

National Parks Service

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Edible sculptures and snap-button metal armatures activate philip johnson’s wolfhouse in NY #ArtTuesday

Artist Lang Lang, founder of studio No.29, worked with Xie Peng on a site-specific exhibition at Wolfhouse, the 1949 Philip Johnson residence in Newburgh, New York, documented on designboom. Called Island on Land: A Landscape in Five States, it ran on October 10th, 2026, and turned five fragments of Lang’s 2024 short film into physical works placed through the interior rooms, the terrace, and the grounds.

The pairing is edible media against industrial hardware. Black Pearls, chocolate spheres filled with grape jelly and jasmine cream, sat in recesses on The Panel, a mirrored stainless steel tray that reflected the room as pieces were taken. The metal and acrylic structures were fastened with fashion snap buttons rather than threaded hardware, so The Partition, a folding aluminum screen, could be reconfigured.

Outside, Red Soil combined buckwheat, fig, and chocolate on a two-panel aluminum table with red steel stabilization rods, facing the Hudson River. White Trace used rice-paper vessels holding watermelon and perilla syrups. A Quiet Turn scattered biodegradable door handles across the lawn. Visitors moved through in no set order and ate the perishable parts, leaving the armatures behind.

See more at designboom.com.

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Raspberry pi’s Coolest Projects of 2026

Young creators from around the world have shared some remarkable projects this year and with over 15 thousand participants from 40 countries, Via Raspberrypi.org

There are a few Coolest Projects events still to come in the Coolest Projects 2026 cycle, but we are already getting ready to kick off Coolest Projects 2027. Before we do, we’re taking a  look back at some of the incredible things the young tech creators in the global Coolest Projects community have achieved this year, both through the online showcase and at in-person events around the world.

More than 15,000 young people from 40 countries shared over 4500 creations in the Coolest Projects online showcase. The Coolest Projects team hosted events in the UK, Ireland, India, and two locations across the US, while our partners brought creators together at in-person events in a further 11 countries, with events in Malaysia, South Africa and Argentina still to come.

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ESP32-S3 Based Toddler Phone That Calls Family

Build by Allan Binder in his blog MUON SORTES built this phone so his children can call out to relatives and grandparents. Oversized arcade buttons create a satisfying interface to automatically dial one of 4 people. To avoid unwanted calls, at random hours, the system also has some built in call hours and duration.

Each button has a light. You can give each person call hours in their own time zone, so grandma’s light is only on when she said she is happy to pick up. A light that is on means “you can call now”. That is a rule a small child can learn in a day.

See the full guide!

Video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI2wXzl3ZJM

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

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16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

otya has published winevdm, also called otvdm, a 16-bit Windows emulator ported to 64-bit Windows. It runs programs written for Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0 and 3.1 on a modern 64-bit system, where the original NTVDM support does not exist.

The project hooks the mechanism 64-bit Windows uses to swap in an alternative installer when it detects a 16-bit one. It also redirects the settings files that old programs try to write into %WINDIR%, since current versions of Windows block writes there. Behavior is configured through otvdm.ini, and an uninstall.reg is included to remove the registry entries.

There is DOS executable support as well, with the reported DOS version set by the VDMDOSVER environment variable. The author calls that part incomplete and points people to DOSBox or MS-DOS Player instead. Stable and latest unstable builds are both offered.

See more on GitHub. Via Hacker News.

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ESP32-S3 WiFi bridge for a USB printer

 

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 bytes  through its USB Host port to the printer.

The board’s native USB port goes to an OTG adapter and then the printer, while the separate UART port handles flashing and power. A charge-only adapter will not work. The firmware is an Arduino sketch built with the Espressif ESP32 board package, and it is set up for an N16R8 board with 16 MB flash and OPI PSRAM.

On first boot the board brings up a PrintServer-Setup access point at 192.168.4.1 for entering 2.4 GHz WiFi credentials. After that, a browser dashboard at http://hl1110.local shows printer status, WiFi settings and a restart control. The build also includes mDNS, a watchdog, OTA updates and a 512 KB PSRAM print buffer.

This is a raw port-9100 bridge with no AirPrint, IPP or LPD, and no authentication, so it is meant for a trusted local network. Code is MIT licensed.

See more at hackster.io and content on GitHub.

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