понедельник, 30 ноября 2020 г.

Some info on a way to contribute to a great organization, Calculated Genius Inc., from PRNewswire. As many organizations prepare for Giving Tuesday, Calculated Genius Inc. the Chicago-based STEM nonprofit founded by President and Founder of KDM Engineering Kimberly Moore, has planned a Giving Tuesday Season Fundraiser that will extend from...

Rachel Maddow shares video of Arizona Governor Doug Ducey muting a call from the White House as he continues the process of certifying his state's election results in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/36psk8D via IFT...

Laurie Garrett, health policy analyst, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the HHS takeover of the CDC's Covid-19 data was so poorly handled that health officials are now without a crucial tool for understanding trends in the spread of the virus and the needs of hospitals and medical workers. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/3fRuYXL via IFT...

Trump's election loss has led the head of Arizona's Republican Party to tell the state's Republican governor - who is defending the state's results - to 'shut the hell up.' MSNBC's Brian Williams has details from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/3lrKTgm via IFT...

MSNBC Medical Contributor Dr. Vin Gupta breaks down what you need to know and what you should do if you traveled for Thanksgiving or have been exposed to Covid-19. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/33NNfk3 via IFT...

Foreign Policy columnist and MSNBC science contributor Laurie Garrett predicts that even though there are a few promising covid vaccines, they will not be widely distributed throughout the country until well into the spring from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/39sVKEv via IFT...

This Giving Tuesday, consider donating to Kids In Need of Desks. The use of a desk has become an important part of the public health strategy in schools in Malawi to fight Covid-19. Support the K.I.N.D Fund at lastworddesks.msnbc.com. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/39rdWOZ via IFT...

The Washington Post reports that, in private, a brooding Trump was at times delirious over his election loss. Ashley Parker, one of three journalists on that report, joins to discuss. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/3ocmIV0 via IFT...

“Republicans need to win at least one of the races to maintain control of the Senate. But they are depending on two very flawed candidates to try to get there,” says Chris Hayes discussing Republican candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/3o9ieyy via IFT...

We got our Coral TF accelerator chip footprint verified this weekend, so now we’re going to try adding a power supply on the same board. The TPS62827 seems like it might work! You can see our video about spec’ing this part on The Great Search. Here’s a unified design with a cute USB stick shape. This should give 10x better TensorFlow Lite...

Laura Kampf takes a military jerry can and transforms it into an outdoor cook stove. from Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! https://ift.tt/36q7HJj via IFT...

Make:Cast – Ten Years of Open Source Hardware. Dale writes – “This definition has been managed by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) and expanded in detail and scope. In this episode, I talk with Alicia Gibb, Executive Director of OSHWA and board president, Michael Weinberg, about the growth of open source hardware, its certification...

We got our Coral TF accelerator chip footprint verified this weekend, so now we’re going to try adding a power supply on the same board. The TPS62827 seems like it might work! You can see our video about spec’ing this part on The Great Search. Here’s a unified design with a cute USB stick shape. This should give 10x better TensorFlow Lite...

Laura Kampf takes a military jerry can and transforms it into an outdoor cook stove. from Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! https://ift.tt/36q7HJj via IFT...

Make:Cast – Ten Years of Open Source Hardware. Dale writes – “This definition has been managed by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) and expanded in detail and scope. In this episode, I talk with Alicia Gibb, Executive Director of OSHWA and board president, Michael Weinberg, about the growth of open source hardware, its certification...

NBC News’ Dasha Burns says health care workers in Appalachia are facing a disinformation crisis: “They were seeing patients who were coming into the hospital, coming in sick and did not believe that they had Covid even when the test came back positive.” from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/36ofWFA via IFT...

Dr. Chris Pernell joins The ReidOut to talk about the potential post Thanksgiving surge in cases along with the current record hospitalizations the United States is seeing. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/2HV2X55 via IFT...

The Supreme Court heard President Donald Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census figures that are used to calculate each state's representation in Congress. New York Attorney General Tish James calls it ‘more anti-immigrant rhetoric:’ "Regardless of your immigration status, you don't cease to be a whole person." from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/3mD3hVj via IFT...

The always-experimenting, ever-clever Uri Tuchman is at it again. In this video project, he adds a new use to his foot-powered antique Singer sewing machine base. He trial-and-errors his way through the building of a sharpening wheel. Always entering, inspiring, and funny. from Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! https://ift.tt/3ofJ741 via IFT...

The always-experimenting, ever-clever Uri Tuchman is at it again. In this video project, he adds a new use to his foot-powered antique Singer sewing machine base. He trial-and-errors his way through the building of a sharpening wheel. Always entering, inspiring, and funny. from Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! https://ift.tt/3ofJ741 via IFT...

Former RNC chairman Michael Steele and Washington Post national political reporter Robert Costa discuss how Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are simultaneously campaigning for the upcoming senate runoff races while also pushing Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/36oHZEX via IFT...

Washington Post White House bureau chief Phil Rucker discusses his newest report about what went on inside the White House during the 20 days between Election Day and when the GSA ascertained Joe Biden’s victory from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/2KVtekQ via IFT...

Nursing home workers across Chicago are striking in hopes that their demands for PPE, hazard pay, and a living wage will be met. "I go in and take care of [residents], but I'm not being taken care of myself...I can't take care of you if I'm not healthy," one worker commented. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/2HScz0e via IFT...

Great project video from CNLohr on YouTube. Ben, over at Applied Science made a video on e-paper displays and got me hooked on this thing. Here is the link to the code for this project (and schematic): https://github.com/cnlohr/epaper_proj… Read more. from Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! https://ift.tt/36icSuJ via IFT...

Don't focus too much on Biden's Cabinet picks to prejudge his foreign policy. They may be centrist, but the goals they're aiming for are progressive. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/2KW0hW5 via IFT...

While brick and mortar stores may be struggling, online retailers and the buildings they require are spreading. From space, it’s pretty clear what online shopping has done to some landscapes.  Here’s more from The Verge: The satellite imagery shows the explosive growth of warehouses surrounding the San Bernardino International Airport...

While brick and mortar stores may be struggling, online retailers and the buildings they require are spreading. From space, it’s pretty clear what online shopping has done to some landscapes.  Here’s more from The Verge: The satellite imagery shows the explosive growth of warehouses surrounding the San Bernardino International Airport...

Women are dominating the music industry as seen by the recently announced Grammy nominations! Via NME: For the first time in the awards’ history, only female and female-fronted acts are nominated for Best Rock Performance at the 2021 Grammys. Made up of entirely solo women or female-fronted bands, nominees for Best Rock Performance include...

Women are dominating the music industry as seen by the recently announced Grammy nominations! Via NME: For the first time in the awards’ history, only female and female-fronted acts are nominated for Best Rock Performance at the 2021 Grammys. Made up of entirely solo women or female-fronted bands, nominees for Best Rock Performance include...

From Deep Carbon Observatory: This project uses innovative Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) technologies (drones with miniaturized gas-sampling equipment) to collect volcanic gas measurements at Manam and Rabaul volcanoes in Papua New Guinea. These volcanoes are actively degassing, but little is known about them because their plumes are difficult...

From Deep Carbon Observatory: This project uses innovative Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) technologies (drones with miniaturized gas-sampling equipment) to collect volcanic gas measurements at Manam and Rabaul volcanoes in Papua New Guinea. These volcanoes are actively degassing, but little is known about them because their plumes are difficult...

воскресенье, 29 ноября 2020 г.

Great piece on the history of the first supermarket from some of our favorite local historians – The Bowery Boys. Did you know the modern supermarket was created in New York City? The ways people purchased groceries in the first few decades of the 20th century had evolved very rapidly. And by the 1930s all roads to the grocery store would...

Great piece on the history of the first supermarket from some of our favorite local historians – The Bowery Boys. Did you know the modern supermarket was created in New York City? The ways people purchased groceries in the first few decades of the 20th century had evolved very rapidly. And by the 1930s all roads to the grocery store would...

As we close up Native American Heritage Month and enter the season of big spending we would like to point you towards Buy Native. A list of Native owned businesses. I created this list years ago to promote Native-owned businesses on the web. Each year, customers spend over a trillion dollars on e-commerce sales. By launching online businesses,...

As we close up Native American Heritage Month and enter the season of big spending we would like to point you towards Buy Native. A list of Native owned businesses. I created this list years ago to promote Native-owned businesses on the web. Each year, customers spend over a trillion dollars on e-commerce sales. By launching online businesses,...

Anybody see this show in real life? Looks like it was a stunner! From MilwaukeeDowntown on YouTube: A behind-the-scenes look at the production of Milwaukee Downtown’s 200-drone show, filmed over the downtown Milwaukee skyline. Read more Welcome to drone day on the Adafruit blog. Every Monday we deliver the latest news, products and more...

Anybody see this show in real life? Looks like it was a stunner! From MilwaukeeDowntown on YouTube: A behind-the-scenes look at the production of Milwaukee Downtown’s 200-drone show, filmed over the downtown Milwaukee skyline. Read more Welcome to drone day on the Adafruit blog. Every Monday we deliver the latest news, products and more...

That’s right folks – Cyber Monday is CIRCUITPYTHON Monday here at Adafruit this year! In addition to our 15% off site-wide sale we are offering 20% off products from our CIRCUITPYTHON category for ONE DAY ONLY. The code is the same – ADATHX – and will apply a 20% discount *only* to items shown here! All other items will be 15% off. The code...

SyFy goes behind the science of Rapunzel’s hair and if it’s possible in real life. There’s not a clear answer on why our head hair grows so long while the same isn’t seen in other animals. It could be there’s some evolutionary advantage putting pressure on longer hair. Or it may be an artifact. Evolution, after all, doesn’t necessarily care about the objective best, so much as it cares about the good enough. What we do know...

That’s right folks – Cyber Monday is CIRCUITPYTHON Monday here at Adafruit this year! In addition to our 15% off site-wide sale we are offering 20% off products from our CIRCUITPYTHON category for ONE DAY ONLY. The code is the same – ADATHX – and will apply a 20% discount *only* to items shown here! All other items will be 15% off. The code...

SyFy goes behind the science of Rapunzel’s hair and if it’s possible in real life. There’s not a clear answer on why our head hair grows so long while the same isn’t seen in other animals. It could be there’s some evolutionary advantage putting pressure on longer hair. Or it may be an artifact. Evolution, after all, doesn’t necessarily care about the objective best, so much as it cares about the good enough. What we do know...

This week, we will hear who President-elect Biden will nominate to key economic posts in his administration. The team will be faced with the urgent task of bringing the U.S. economy back from the brink. MSNBC’s host of “American Voices” Alicia Menendez speaks with NBC News Political reporter Ali Vitali and Political Analyst and Former Biden Campaign Consultant Alencia Johnson about who we might see in these key roles. from MSNBC...

Wisconsin’s partial ballot recount boosted President-elect Joe Biden’s victory by even more votes. Amid the looming deadline for states to certify the results, President Trump is promising more election related lawsuits although numerous cases continue to be tossed out of court due to lack of evidence. MSNBC’s host of “American Voices” Alicia Menendez speaks with Sahil Kapur, NBC News National Political Reporter, Lauren Gambino,...

The Biden, Harris transition team announced an all-female White House communications team. NBC News’ Ali Vitali reports. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/2KLSzNT via IFT...

Glenn Kirschner, a Former Federal Prosecutor, discusses Trump’s interview with Fox News where he made claims about the election. One of President Trump’s claims is the possibility of him appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the election. Kirschner says, “The President has really enjoyed the benefit of his own private special counsel for the last couple of years, and his name is Bill Barr.” from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/2Vi0bKg via...

Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday online retailers are doing well, with record sales but small businesses are continuing to suffer. NBC News’ Stephanie Ruhle spoke with shop owners struggling to survive. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/39qawfi via IFT...

If you’re missing family, might as well start filling in this chart from FlowingData and see how far you can get before you have to start sending texts. Super fun challenge is to apply this logic to friend families! When you have a big family, it’s a challenge to figure out how everyone is related. So here are some charts to help you figure...

In her personal essay for the New York Times, Duchess of Sussex Meghan shares the intimate details of her pregnancy loss and reflects upon the widespread grief brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and the increasingly polarized political climate. MSNBC’s host of "American Voices" Alicia Menendez speaks with Elizabeth Holmes, journalist and author of “HRH: So Many Thoughts On Royal Style”, and Marisa Renee Lee, CEO of Beacon...

суббота, 28 ноября 2020 г.

This list from Leah Schnelbach on Tor.com is full of so many forgotten throwbacks, I found myself spiraling into Wiki-hole faster than you could say “Lemme at ’em! I’ll splat ’em!” After years wandering the wilderness, Princess Adora and her bad-ass alter ego—She-Ra, the Princess of Power—is starring in a series of new adventures on Netflix....

This list from Leah Schnelbach on Tor.com is full of so many forgotten throwbacks, I found myself spiraling into Wiki-hole faster than you could say “Lemme at ’em! I’ll splat ’em!” After years wandering the wilderness, Princess Adora and her bad-ass alter ego—She-Ra, the Princess of Power—is starring in a series of new adventures on Netflix....

At least part of my fear and distrust for birds can be traced back to a 7th grade sleepover party where we watched the Hitchcock classic The Birds. I didn’t really understand who Hitchcock was at the time, beyond Psycho, and The Lady Vanishes, which I used to catch on late night cable. But I remember being glued to the screen, unable to look away, even as I felt more and more uneasy. Even now, as a huge Hitchcock fan (I’ve seen...

At least part of my fear and distrust for birds can be traced back to a 7th grade sleepover party where we watched the Hitchcock classic The Birds. I didn’t really understand who Hitchcock was at the time, beyond Psycho, and The Lady Vanishes, which I used to catch on late night cable. But I remember being glued to the screen, unable to look away, even as I felt more and more uneasy. Even now, as a huge Hitchcock fan (I’ve seen...

The Coral accelerator chip is an all-in-one pick-n-placeable edge TPU that is designed to speed up inferences on TensorFlow. It has PCIe and USB interfaces and is just so cute! We made a simple breakout for this chip, to just test out power supply needs and wiring. We hand-stencil with an IEEE membership card and a tube of paste. Then we’ll hit it up with our hot air station! Hopefully it’ll just ‘come up’ when we wire it up...

The Coral accelerator chip is an all-in-one pick-n-placeable edge TPU that is designed to speed up inferences on TensorFlow. It has PCIe and USB interfaces and is just so cute! We made a simple breakout for this chip, to just test out power supply needs and wiring. We hand-stencil with an IEEE membership card and a tube of paste. Then we’ll hit it up with our hot air station! Hopefully it’ll just ‘come up’ when we wire it up...

We love these ‘chip on board’ ultra-flexible white LED Strips with hundreds of SMT LEDs per meter, soldered side-by-side, and diffused with a silicone epoxy! They look a lot like neon or incandescent tubing or maybe really-nice EL wire, but without the need for expensive transformers, glass tubing, or inert gasses. Unlike pixel-dot strips these lights have a continuous, pure light source, and unlike our ‘Neon’ tubing, they’re...

We love these ‘chip on board’ ultra-flexible white LED Strips with hundreds of SMT LEDs per meter, soldered side-by-side, and diffused with a silicone epoxy! They look a lot like neon or incandescent tubing or maybe really-nice EL wire, but without the need for expensive transformers, glass tubing, or inert gasses. Unlike pixel-dot strips these lights have a continuous, pure light source, and unlike our ‘Neon’ tubing, they’re...

In the last few years, YouTube maker, Jimmy DiResta, has been creating an increasing number of products to sell. His ice pick has become both a useful everyday tool (I use mine nearly every day) and a sort of must-have maker status symbol. Recently, he has started making and selling blades, like a cutter in the shape of a giant utility knife blade. And his most recent tool offer, the Skeleton Knife. The idea was to create a big,...

Former FBI Assistant Director of Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, talks about the assassination of the Iranian scientist and Israel's role in the attack. Leading nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed near Tehran in a roadside attack on Friday, a day after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to retaliate and pledged to continue Iran's nuclear work. Figliuzzi says, "Israel realizes they have a few weeks...

NBC News' Pete Williams details the latest election challenge to be rejected by the Pennsylvania high court. The case was led by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, who argued that a law permitting no-excuse mail voting violated the state Constitution. from MSNBC Top Stories https://ift.tt/2VfrZ1S via IFT...

In the last few years, YouTube maker, Jimmy DiResta, has been creating an increasing number of products to sell. His ice pick has become both a useful everyday tool (I use mine nearly every day) and a sort of must-have maker status symbol. Recently, he has started making and selling blades, like a cutter in the shape of a giant utility knife blade. And his most recent tool offer, the Skeleton Knife. The idea was to create a big,...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2020: Free shipping worldwide, free gifts with MK3S+, discounts on SL1 and more at Prusa – This year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday are nearly here and we’re here to bring you several attractive offers you don’t want to miss! Also, if you haven’t seen it yet, we have recently published an extensive November...

For ADADEALS I emailed Arduino, SparkFun, and Teensy to see if there were/are any Friday – Monday deals, did not hear back so here’s what was findable. If there are different / other ones, post’em up in the comments or tag’em #ADADEALS and we’ll see them. Arduino Power up your world with our most iconic boards, now up to 25% OFF. Arduino...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2020: Free shipping worldwide, free gifts with MK3S+, discounts on SL1 and more at Prusa – This year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday are nearly here and we’re here to bring you several attractive offers you don’t want to miss! Also, if you haven’t seen it yet, we have recently published an extensive November...

For ADADEALS I emailed Arduino, SparkFun, and Teensy to see if there were/are any Friday – Monday deals, did not hear back so here’s what was findable. If there are different / other ones, post’em up in the comments or tag’em #ADADEALS and we’ll see them. Arduino Power up your world with our most iconic boards, now up to 25% OFF. Arduino...

Browse through all that’s new here! NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEK micro:bit or CLUE Connector – Sunken Right Angle Type: If you want to do more with the BBC micro:bit, getting those pins from the card-edge connector is going to be your first hurdle. Unlike many dev-boards, the micro:bit isn’t breadboard-friendly. That makes the ‘bit durable...
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