Capsule Radar — Live Flight Radar Desk Gadge #3DPrinting #3DThursday

kirtash shares:

Capsule Radar is a 3D-printed desk gadget that shows live air traffic around your location. It pulls nearby aircraft from a free online ADS-B feed over Wi-Fi and plots them on a glowing round radar scope, rotated by heading and colour-coded by altitude, with an animated sweep and fading trails

download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2907695-capsule-radar-live-flight-radar-desk-gadget

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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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Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Chris Young’s Retirement, International Women in Engineering Day 2026, & 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

International Women in Engineering Day 2026

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LEARN

Minecraft GPS Compass

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YOUTUBE

Balloon Boat #timelapse #3dprinting #adafruit

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NEWS

Chris Young announces his retirement after 14 years and 55+ Show and Tell appearances

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

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Rare Fruits of the World

Durian, one of the few from the list that I have tried. image via Wikipedia

 

Adafruit isn’t the only rare fruit out there. Luis Morato of Atlas Obscura compiled this list of global fruits that aren’t as common in your grocery isles. Each entry links to a full article on the fruit: where it’s common, what it tastes like and more.

Check it out!

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If you have some extra fruit laying around you could build a FruitBox Sequencer –

You can make your own awesome rhythms once you’ve built the FruitBox Sequencer! Use the Circuit Playground Express board’s built-in capacitive touch sensors plugged into pieces of fruit to program and trigger your beats, in a 16-step sequence. Play back sampled drum sounds in perfect time with the on-board speaker, or optionally, you can plug it into an amplified speaker to rock the crowd!

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A remote web rig control system for the Albrecht AE-5900 radio #HamSunday

AE5900 Remote Control V2 is a Python project for a sophisticated LAN/web remote control for the Albrecht AE-5900 radio. While it’s not comparable to rigctl or hamlib, it works. Ultimately, the purpose is also to revive CB radio and make it more attractive. Flexible solutions provide better access. And that’s exactly what this project should enable.

Control is generally done using a Raspberry Pi 3 or higher.

See this MIT licensed project on GitHub and video here.

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Adafruit New Products 6/24/2026

We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here

This week we debuted 3 New Products.

Visit www.adafruit.com/new for more info.

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Continuously Monitor Blood Pressure without a Cuff #Wearables

The University of Utah shares how a team of mathematicians and engineers developed a new wearable smartwatch that can measure the electrical properties of blood, monitoring blood pressure without the need of a cuff.

Blood pressure is a key metric of cardiovascular health, but standard methods for measuring it rely on occasional readings using inflatable cuffs, usually in a clinical setting. Today’s blood pressure monitors are bulky, uncomfortable and only give readings while you’re sitting still.

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Spotify Music Display with a RGB LED Matrix

@Mewtru makes good use of a RGB Matrix Bonnet with this Spotify CD Spinner. It uses a 64×64 RBG LED Matrix, the Adafruit Matrix Bonnet and a Raspberry Pi Zero to display the album art of the song you are currently playing.

Code available on GitHub

Shows the current Spotify album art on a 64×64 RGB matrix as a circular record. The album art is the record surface itself: it is cropped to a disk, spun while Spotify reports playback as active, and left stopped at the current angle when paused.

Stay tuned for updates!

 

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