Shared by Grossmiller on Thingiverse:
A 1/18 scale apple crate.
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Shared by Badowtie on Thingiverse:
I redesigned this case to more accurately fit the red aluminum deburring tool along with 10 spare cutters. The lid supports a piece of 1/2″ foam to keep the tools in place while stored.
The latches have been remade so the back side has permanently attached hinges while the front hinges are sized correctly and are easy to flip open.
Download the files and learn more
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!
rwmech shared this project on Thingiverse!
“See Right Through You” is a modern vase with a hole in it. This print does not require any supports to print and is an impressive 3D print you and your friends will talk about. Also a great piece that can be scaled and sold in your etsy or 3D Print store.
Download files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6165974
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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Hosted this week by Liz Clark.
A really nice lit up cowboy hat sent in to us. EL products proved to be the perfect solution for Dave Matthews Band’s Fire Dancer.
Get started on your own concert ready attire with EL Wire and the Adafruit Learning System
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
3D-printed shoes require much less energy in production compared to traditional footwear manufacturing processes – are 3D printed shoes the future? Rose Anvil shared this video on Youtube!
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
Colorado based artist Chris Bagley created Space Command. The kid-friendly, interactive show invites visitors to investigate the reality of space. The installation at the Denver Art Museum features astronaut helmets, out-dated electronics, digital projections, and more.
The installation repurposes vintage scientific equipment, Mylar, and other space-age materials to create an interactive environment with emanating light, pulsing sound, and rotating objects. Visitors are encouraged to investigate its many layers and experience the optical illusions. In this altered reality, challenge your perceptions of the real and the unknown, spark your imagination, and consider limitless possibilities yet to be explored.
Laser Bear Industries in Nebraska provides 3D printing services for a wide range of items including toys and retro computing parts.
Recently they posted an interesting video tour of their facility. The variety of 3D printers is fabulous.
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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In this BlondiHacks video, Quinn runs down her top ten “secret weapons” for a hobbyists machine shop. While some of these tools are only relevant to machining, others, like the different Loctite products, the backside deburring tool, tack hole punch, and =Scotch-Brite wheel, would be at home in any workshop.
In this See Jane Drill video, Leah shows how you can temporarily stop a pipe leak with white bread. It’s for when a situation arises when you need to sweat on a new pipe and the wet, leaking existing pipe won’t allow you to properly heat it. The bread will stop the flow long enough to add the new pipe.
From learning to spell SIGH using numbers on my calculator in 5th grade in an effort to oh-so-cooly express boredom to my classmates, to frantically accosting friends in the hallway in high school minutes before a calculus exam, begging to borrow their TI83s, because I had predictably forgotten mine at home, the calculator is weaved through a surprisingly large amount of my school age memories. And I wasn’t even any good at math! But that didn’t stop me from appropriating the phrase Syntax Error to express burnout at the end of a long study session.
Like the overlooked best friend in the 80s high school rom-com, calculators weren’t cool, but they were always there.
Alexander Nazaryan penned a charming review of Keith Houston’s Empire of the Sum – a book that champions the humble pocket calculator and chronicles its history.
Earlier this year, my 7-year-old lugged home a TI-89 graphing calculator, an updated version of the legendary models from Texas Instruments that were once the must-haves of every serious high school calculus cowboy in America. Where it came from I have no idea.
As far as I can tell, he hasn’t unsheathed the thing once, has not glimpsed the pixelated screen or the intimidating array of 50 keys below. Until recently, the TI calculators marked the pinnacle of humans’ quest to master computation. (You could play games like Astrosmash, too.) Yet in the digital age, they are becoming relics.
Read the full review here in the NYTimes. And buy the book from bookshop here!
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In response to the exponentially growing demand for accessible machine learning (ML) tools on embedded systems, researchers have introduced an innovative solution designed to empower developers working with Raspberry Pi single-board computers. The new framework, MediaPipe for Raspberry Pi, offers a Python-based software development kit (SDK) tailored to facilitate various ML tasks. This development is a significant advancement in the realm of on-device ML, addressing the need for simplified and efficient tools.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Arnosje shares:
I am proud to present you the ultimate Rietveld fusion. If you perform a fusion on a chair and a wheelbarrow you get a birdhouse!
I have printed my Rietveld Birdhouse 54 in white so it will combine with my other birdhouses. You might want to paint it in the typical Rietveld colors.
download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6178295
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xanatos451 shared this project on Thingiverse!
Wasn’t particularly thrilled with most of the LED diffuser channel corners out there, so decided to create my own. These were designed to be as close to an exact fit as the end-caps that come with the channel, and as minimalistic as possible while still being sturdy enough to print. These are not meant to be load bearing or torqued, so the diffuser channel will still need to be braced or mounted sufficiently across all lengths. These are thin enough to allow some light to pass through if printed in clear/white/natural filament as well.
I printed mine in PETG (as pictured), but they should print equally well in your filament of choice. They were placed on the bed, flat side down and with normal supports, and while I found mine easily removed and minimal post processing before installing, your results will of course depend on how well you’ve tuned your printing configuration for your setup.
Please feel free to let me know if there’s other common angles out there needed and I’ll see if I can’t add those as well.
Download files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6109872
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!
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In recent years it feels like the promise of wearable augmented reality glasses has taken a back burner. These new glasses rom TCL show that AR certainly hasn’t gone away.
TCL is better known [by me] for their line of affordable tv’s. The RayNeo X2 boast the capability to instantly translate text and speech. More from Mashable:
These glasses are the first in the world of Augmented Reality. The TCL RayNeo X2 glasses use AR to display assistant features. With the use of MicroLEDs in both lenses of the glasses the RayNeo X2 displays information right in front of your eyes. Smart GPS navigation can be used to locate a desired location. Auto translation text can be displayed to understand a foreign language or text. Take phone calls, listen to music, and capture photos and video change the way you look at the world with the RayNeo X2.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
Increase your R-value with a coat of paint designed at Stanford. Via Stanford:
The newly invented paints have two layers applied separately: an infrared reflective bottom layer using aluminum flakes and an ultrathin, infrared transparent upper layer using inorganic nanoparticles that comes in a wide range of colors. The infrared spectrum of sunlight causes 49 percent of natural heating of the planet when it is absorbed by surfaces.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!Metropolis is one of the greatest films of all time. As a pioneering science fiction story, a fierce attack on class structure, and an astonishing display of early special effects, it’s one of those movies that must be seen to be believed. Now a duo has brought the rich depth of analog synthesizers to bring something new to the score. Here’s more from Tomer Baruch & Alex Brajkovic:
One of the most significant themes in the dystopian feature is the blurred-to-nonexistent line separating man and machine; Human-like machines, Mechanical-humans, real-life android deepfakes, and above all the city of Metropolis, an enormous machine and within it men, slaved to maintain its operation. The theme that was disturbing in the beginning of the 20th century is as relevant as ever with the latest developments in AI, forcing us to rethink again what makes us human.
In analogy to that the soundtrack is based on archive recordings of early 20th century machinery, on top of which Tomer Baruch and Alex Brajkovic play analog synthesizers and drums. They interface with the machines and embody a relentlessly repetitive mechanical motion, one which is usually sequenced or programmed. By creating music which is in itself blurring the line between man and machine, by subjecting themselves to machine-like patterns, the musicians become a part of Metropolis, creating a disillusioned, intensified and darker than ever soundtrack for the film.
Neat video from Queen City Minis. Definitely the coolest use of glue sticks we’ve seen in a while!
Learn how to make miniature “glass” jars with simple everyday items. I used hot glue sticks, paper fasteners, colored pencils, buttons, paper, and string. Decorating the jars was a lot of fun.
I have known about (and even used) machinist blue marking fluid over the years. But until this Adam Savage video, I did not actually know what it was comprised of (blue lacquer) and what its specifically designed to do (reflect scribe markings better than black or other colors and to be the only thing that’s scratched through — not the work piece itself).
Expand your mind and understanding of wavelengths from Be Smart on YouTube:
Over 200 years ago, scientists were looking at sunlight through a prism when they noticed that part of the rainbow was missing. There were dark lines where there should have been colors.
Fun video from Weird History that covers some US cities that changed their names. Some reasons for renaming aren’t quite as prosaic as you’d imagine. For example, one story even involves a game show!
Some US cities and towns were named after a founder, a nearby geological feature, or a place the settlers had come from, but others had very unusual names.
Jimmy DiResta is insane. In this video, he finds a log that looks kind of like a treasure chest and turns it into just that. He follows none of the rules, forges his own way, and the results are amazing.
The chest was made for his friend Derick’s daughter’s wedding.
On Monday, through a partnership between Roc Nation and Brooklyn Public Library, The Black Album special-edition library cards were released at Central Library. Don’t miss the full release schedule and branch info to get your hands on one of these limited-edition cards that will give you access to:
millions of free books and media; vinyl records and musical instruments; free passes to cultural organizations; and programming, classes, social services and resources for every stage of life.
Apply for a free Brooklyn Public Library card here – anyone who lives, works, pays property taxes or goes to school in New York state is eligible!
In this recent video, This House deep dives into the details behind NYC’s Gilded Age mansions. Many of these opulent and extravagant houses didn’t last long. The houses were (unsurprisingly) expensive to maintain, often families sold them to developers who then converted them into apartment buildings. Some are still standing today, like the Otto H. Kahn house on the UES, which become an all-girls Catholic school in 1934.
In today’s episode of “Does it run DOOM?” we have keycap. Shared by TheKeebProject, this keycap runs off a custom pcb with a RP2040 chip and a modded Raspberry Pi DOOM Port. Picked up by PCGames:
If you want to try this out for yourself, Bob has made his project open source, so anyone can give it a go. The RP2040 Doom source code is available on GitHub, if you’re up for the challenge, or want to play through the entirety of Doom on the smallest screen possible.
Read more and see the GitHub page
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Want to give your boxes the luxurious look of a clawfoot tub? This neat print will help you do just that. via Gear_Clinkz on Thingiverse
I looked everywhere for something like this but found nothing so I remixed Finger Cat Paw by alice3021 and turned it into an ornamental set of box feet along with a matching corner protector.
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!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!
cassidyjamesblaede shares:
Cover your light switches from pesky kids—or in-laws who forget you have smart lights!
Modified light switch cover/protector to add countersunk screw holes and either slightly rounded corners or completely rounded ends.
download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6108696
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!
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TheOpponent shares:
This is a 24mm conversion of the current 30mm Swerry model. It includes the cylinder, non-O-ring plunger, and normal height nut from the original publication. Each piece was reduced in size to 83% except the joints and switch holes.
download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6092707
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!
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If the DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future was going 88 miles per hour, but drifting, just where in time would it end up. Can you even drift that fast? We want to know. Here’s more, via SlashGear
Drifting is a sport that lots of people are into. It requires a high degree of car control to keep the vehicle sliding sideways while maintaining control. Anyone who has tried drifting knows it’s not as easy as it looks. Researchers at Dynamic Design Lab created an autonomous car that uses tech to drift itself around a controlled course.
The team built the autonomous drift car out of a classic DeLorean dubbed MARTY. To pilot the course, the researchers programmed in GPS coordinates and algorithms on the laptop of one of the scientists to handle the actual driving. MARTY was able to navigate the entire course outlined with orange cones without hitting a single one, on its first attempt.
Professor John Gallaugher has a superb learning resource for CircuitPython. He has shared this playlist on YouTube that he also uses for his undergrad students. Check it out!
August is Back to School Month here at Adafruit! Each week we’ll be bringing you #BackToSchool content! Stay tuned for product and gift guides, tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System, and inspiration from around the web! Get started by checking out Adafruit’s educational resources, such as our kits and project packs, suggested products for young engineers, blog posts for educators and an extensive selection of books to help you learn!
Mark W Kiehl was looking to build a project monitoring six thermocouples on an aircraft. The requirements:
The circuit was designed using an Adafruit M0 Basic Feather along with:
As for the build:
The custom FeatherWing mounts to the 2.9″ Grayscale eInk / ePaper Display FeatherWing or the 2.9″ tri-color eInk display and accepts the mounting of up to 8x of the Adafruit Analog Output K-Type Thermocouple Amplifier – AD8495 Breakout.
Analog input connections A0 to A5 are routed to each of the thermocouple amplifiers, but each one has a pair of tabs with a thin trace that can be cut if the analog input assignments needs to be changed.
12 VDC input to the screw terminals provides 1A of 5V power to the Feather Vbus connection. The PCB overall dimensions are 80 x 65 mm. This PCB will mount directly behind the 2.9″ eInk display (centered), with the height of the PCB larger than the display in order to accommodate mounting of the thermocouple breakouts on the top and bottom.
See the details in the post here.
A pioneer in her field, Hong Seung-hye has been creating art for almost 40 years. Utilizing computer graphic design tools, she’s expanded her work to include flat and 3D artwork, sound pieces, architecture, and more. via Artsy
Hong was a pioneer in using computer tools for abstract painting. In these works, abstract images freely multiply, highlighting both their similarities and differences; she incorporates this imagery into her performances. And though her practice has evolved over the course of the past four decades, she’s consistently explored the concept of time.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
A new guide added to the Adafruit Learning System: Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM95
This is the Adafruit Feather RP2040 RF95 LoRa Radio. We call these RadioFruits, our take on a microcontroller with a “Long Range (LoRa)” packet radio transceiver with built-in USB and battery charging. It’s an Adafruit Feather RP2040 with a 900MHz radio module cooked in! Great for making wireless networks that are more flexible than Bluetooth LE and without the high power requirements of WiFi.
In this fascinating, eye-opening piece, video game essayist, Adam Srayi, takes a deep dive into all of the advertisements found in Cyberpunk 2077. He looks at how these ads contribute to the worldbuilding of the game, what they say about Night City circa 2077, and then you dollies back to take a wider look at advertising in the real world and its corrosive effects on the public commons and our psyches.
David Wise is a master of his craft, he superbly makes “something that sounds like a doorbell at best sound like a piece of music” [in his own words]. Donkey Kong Country came out nearly 3 decades ago and the music still resonates; few scores so thoroughly describe a game as well as this one.
This piece from IGN goes through the history of Wise’s career and the making of the DKC soundtrack. The focal point is the water level [Aquatic Ambience], but they are all nearly perfect.
30 years after its creation, Donkey Kong Country’s Aquatic Ambience unexpectedly became a cult classic, worshipped by Childish Gambino, Trent Reznor and an adoring generation. So how did an underwater theme in a SNES platformer become so popular? We spoke to the Donkey Kong Composer, David Wise to find out.
