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Join maker John Park in his workshop each week as he builds, demos, hacks, and mods projects live on air! “John Park’s Workshop — LIVE” is the place to see creative projects come to life, as John uses a wide variety of tools and techniques to make everything from mystery boxes to synthesizer controllers to drink robots, using digital fabrication, hand and power tools, microcontrollers, and more. Come on into the chat to participate in the fun! Every Thursday @ 4pm ET/1pm PT!
While you may already have your beer of choice sitting in the fridge (no shame, I keep a case ready for Knicks and Yankees games), artificial intelligence might have you rethinking your brew of choice. The Guardian shares how researchers in Belgium analysed the chemical makeup of 250 commercial Belgian beers.
A tasting panel of 16 participants sampled and scored each of the 250 beers for 50 different attributes, such as hop flavours, sweetness, and acidity – a process that took three years.
The researchers also collected 180,000 reviews of different beers from the online consumer review platform RateBeer, finding that while appreciation of the brews was biased by features such as price meaning they differed from the tasting panel’s ratings, the ratings and comments relating to other features – such as bitterness, sweetness, alcohol and malt aroma – these correlated well with those from the tasting panel.
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.
From the GitHub release page:
This is CircuitPython 9.0.0, the latest major revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release.
WARNING for nRF52 boards only: If your board has an nRF52 UF2 bootloader whose version is before 0.6.1, you will not be able to load CircuitPython 8.2.0 and later, due to increased size of the firmware. See these instructions for updating your bootloader.
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Hey Pete! shared this video on Youtube! His channel has lots of costume and prop making tips!
This video describes how to make big wigs for theatre. Years ago I directed the play “Tartuffe” by Moliere. This video is about the exaggerated wigs that were made to help bring this play concept to life.
See more and check out our some of our prop making learn guides in the Adafruit Learn system like the Prop-maker Lightsaber!
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!
From PLA_Pete_Jr via thingverse:
These are designed to work with 0.25 in, 1/4-24 UNS (ANSI Unified Screw Threads). These fit an older Harbor Freight drill press, but may work for newer versions or brands. The original knobs became brittle and cracked and these were designed as a replacement. These balls are 40mm in diameter.
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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Douglas Adams made science fiction fun. He also made philosophy, ethics, bureaucracy, and probability fun. He made Tom Baker’s Doctor Who even more fun, and Tom Baker’s Doctor Who was already pretty fun. He much made everything fun. How did he do that? Here’s more from Kirkus Reviews:
In 1977, Adams had fallen into a deep depression: his work was faltering, and others noted that “he was a talent without a niche,” according to Webb. In February, he met Simon Brett, a producer at the BBC, and the two had met for dinner. Adams brought three ideas with him, although neither man would remember years later what the first two were. One of the three did stick out: it was a science-fiction comedy called The Ends of the Earth, in which a “guy’s house [was] being demolished and then the Earth being demolished for the same reason”: a bypass was being built. Adams realized he needed an alien for context, and created Ford Prefect: “I needed to have someone from another planet around to tell the reader what was going on, to give the story the context it needed. So I had to work out who he was and what he was doing on Earth.” He remembered his night in the field several years earlier, and realized that the character was a researcher for the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, an intergalactic travel guide.
On March 1, the BBC approved a pilot episode for the radio, now titled The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. By April, Adams delivered the first script, and between then and August, they waited for approval from the BBC. The wait was agonizing, and Adams sent “the pilot script to the script editor of Doctor Who, to see if any money might be forthcoming from that direction,” according to Neil Gaiman in his book Don’t Panic: The Official Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Companion. However, on August 31, they reached a decision: the show was approved for six episodes.
On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made history by conducting the first successful telephone call. Bell initially suggested that the standard greeting when answering a telephone should be ‘ahoy’, but instead ‘hello’ (suggested by Thomas Edison) was adopted. Via history.com
Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847, was the son of Alexander Melville Bell, a leading authority in public speaking and speech correction. The young Bell was trained to take over the family business, and while still a teenager he became a voice teacher and began to experiment in sound. In 1870, his family moved to Ontario, Canada, and in 1871 Bell went to Boston to demonstrate his father’s method of teaching speech to the deaf. The next year, he opened his own school in Boston for training teachers of the deaf and in 1873 became professor of vocal physiology at Boston University.
In his free time, Bell experimented with sound waves and became convinced that it would be possible to transmit speech over a telegraph-like system. He enlisted the aid of a gifted mechanic, Thomas Watson, and together the two spent countless nights trying to convert Bell’s ideas into practical form. In 1875, while working on his multiple harmonic telegraph, Bell developed the basic ideas for the telephone. He designed a device to transmit speech vibrations electrically between two receivers and in June 1875 tested his invention. No intelligible words were transmitted, but sounds resembling human speech were heard at the receiving end.
On February 14, 1876, he filed a U.S. patent application for his telephone. Just a few hours later, another American inventor, Elisha Gray, filed a caveat with the U.S. Patent Office about his intent to seek a similar patent on a telephone transmitter and receiver. Bell filed first, so on March 7 he was awarded U.S. patent 174,465, which granted him ownership over both his telephone instruments and the concept of a telephone system.
Three days later, on March 10, Bell successfully tested his telephone for the first time in his Boston home. In May, he publicly demonstrated the invention before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, and in June at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. In October, he successfully tested his telephone over a two-mile distance between Boston and Cambridgeport.
Come on by for JP’s Product Picks of The Week! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, TODAY! With special guest demo artist Liz Clark!
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A new guide today in the Adafruit Learning System: OpenAI Image Descriptors with MEMENTO
In this project, you’ll upload the pictures you take with your MEMENTO camera to OpenAI to request a description of the image with various prompts. The MEMENTO is running CircuitPython code that lets you connect to WiFi, take a photo, send the photo to OpenAI with their API and then save the response as a text file. You can view the response after it is fetched on the MEMENTO display.
This guide will show you how to take photos with the MEMENTO and upload the images to OpenAI using their API.
Read more at OpenAI Image Descriptors with MEMENTO
Why does Jurassic Park look better than its sequels? According to Film&Stuff it all comes down to scale and framing! Films&Stuff shared their theory on Youtube!
Here I examine the stunning visuals in Jurassic Park that bring these extinct Dinosaurs to life, and why the visuals in it’s sequels just don’t compare.
Want to learn more about the original? Learn more about the dinosar sounds from the original Jurassic Park!
Who doesn’t love a little obscure clock history? This video from Primal Space on YouTube details Paris’ pneumatic clock system, which engineer Victor Popp developed and put in place in the late 19th century.
British engineer Douglas Self also has a nice overview of the system on his personal website:
In 1877 Carl Albert Mayrhofer set up a pneumatic clock network in Vienna; he was granted US patent 215,381 in May 1879, assigning it to the Austrian engineer Viktor Antoine Popp and his co-worker Resch. In 1879 Popp & Resch demonstrated the system of pneumatic clock synchronisation in the Austro-Hungarian section of the Universal Exposition. The Paris city council granted Popp’s Compagnie des Horloges Pneumatiques (CGHP) authorization to install a compressed air network to drive both public and private clocks. It was not a power distribution network but a time distribution network, which synchronised a large number public clocks, in particular those of railway stations, by sending a pulse of air every minute. The pipes ran through the sewers of the city, and the tunnels of the Metro and the RER. (The RER is a commuter rail network serving Paris and its suburbs) Each Popp clock contained a metal bellows which advanced a 60-tooth wheel by one tooth per minute. Operation began in 1880; it is interesting to note that this was a long time after the Paris pneumatic post had opened in 1866.
There are so many women to celebrate in the field of mathematics. The Science Museum shares five trailblazers.
Even those women who managed to make a name for themselves through their talent, determination and hard work, despite the obstacles of gender discrimination, have not been widely celebrated. Let’s find out about the lives of five remarkable women who from the 18th to 21st centuries produced original mathematical work and made a lasting impact on mathematical research and education around the world.
via Tom’s Hardware
Berlin-based James Mitchell has created Picamera2 Web UI Lite, a web interface for Picamera2 which provides us with a full suite of camera settings to tweak, along with an image gallery where we can view and download our images.
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!
