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BattCave shares:
Modern 4 drawer box is ready to hold your trinkets, jewelry or any other treasures you wish to store.
133mm Tall – 155mm Wide – 60mm Deep
TWO PROFILES – Main Base + Drawers
Prints great in PLA. Example printed in Bambu Lab Matte Charcoal, Bambu Lab Matte Bronze Metal
download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1694841-geometric-4-drawer-trinket-box-jewelry-etc

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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re:connect.realeye.io is a free webcam eye-tracking tool is designed for text entry and augmentative and alternative communication. Learn more!
Shared by Unamanic on Maker World:
My wife has two delightful vices: mildly sweetened lattes and stroopwafels, perfectly warmed to gooey perfection by resting them atop said lattes. We buy them in bulk from Costco, but their flimsy plastic packaging tears faster than you can say, “Please may I have another?” So we store them in a container.
Recently, she requested an autumn-themed one—so I sculpted this pumpkin-inspired design in Nomad Sculpt, then refined the lid and cavity in Fusion 360.
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!
Why do TV ads from the 80s go so hard? There was very little competition. Companies had no internet ad pathways, no big data to buy, so TV commercials were the only road to mindshare — and those commercials had to be epic. Here is a commercial for a GE Cassette Player that is so perfectly 80s it seems at first like a parody. It’s so real it’s almost fake. Which is about as 80s as you can get. Here’s more from CDM:
…while brands like Sharp, JVC, Panasonic, and Tecsonic owned General Electric in boomboxes, and Sony dominated handhelds, evidently, GE decided to strike back by making what looks like some of the most expensive cassette advertising imaginable. I don’t know how I missed this doing the blog rounds back in 2021, but I agree with Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder that it looks like Apple’s 1984 meets [La Strada producer] Dino De Laurentiis and [Barbarella director] Roger Vadim.
The real director here isn’t far off, either – it’s Howard Guard, producer of videos for Bauhaus and Roxy Music.
Over on YouTube, polymatt noticed this CRT was modded in the 80’s and decided to tear it down before building it back up. See more over on GitHub
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New Products 8/21/25 Feat. Adafruit BMP581 I2C / SPI Temp Humidity Pressure Sensor – STEMMA QT
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Video from the March 3-6 Texas Instruments T3IC 2025 show in Dallas demonstrates a TI-nspire CX II graphing calculator controlling a drone.
Robolink on August 21st announced a new collaboration with Texas Instruments (TI) Education Technology to bring future-ready learning to more classrooms across the country. This school year, students will be able to program Robolink’s CoDrone EDU using the Python-capable TI-Nspire
CX II graphing calculator. This work bridges physical computing, flight, and core math and science instruction—with tools students and teachers love.
Still images appear to show the device connected to a wheeled robotic chassis also.

See the video short below and read about CoDrone EDU on TI’s site here.
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Move over Switch 2. Steam Deck? Pshaw. This mod is for extreme mobile gaming. YouTuber Dammit Jeff upgraded a friend’s 2018 Ford Focus with a Gaming PC. Most of the work actually entailed adding a big screen and connecting the stereo. The rest involved streaming games either from a connected device or service.
Can I mod my car to run games like marvel rivals on it? God no I’m not risking that, so I did it on a friends car lol
NASA is continually working on solutions for recycling material waste on deep space missions. They’re currently entering Phase 2 of the LunaRecycle challenge.
The LunaRecycle Challenge is a $3 million, two track, two-phase competition focused on the design and development of recycling solutions that can reduce non-metabolic waste and improve the sustainability of longer-term lunar missions.
NASA is committed to sustainable space exploration. As we prepare for future human space missions, there will be a need to consider how various waste streams, including non-metabolic waste, can be minimized—as well as how recyclables can be stored, processed, and repurposed in a space environment so that little or no waste will need to be returned to Earth.
PBS shares some of the unsung artists who were part of the 60s Village scene.
Greenwich Village in the 1960s was home to a counterculture folk music scene that produced legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. A network of cafes and bars that doubled as music venues—including Gaslight Café, Kettle of Fish, Café Wha? and others—gave way to international stages, mainstream fame and an enduring legacy for a select few.
But there are many other musicians who passed through those New York City clubs whose names you might not be as familiar with. These are just a few of their stories.

BondRefusesCola shares:
This model does not require AMS If you do not want the circuit you can download the circuit-free print profile!
Battery powered Type-C charging convenient for portability and display no tangled wires
download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1677339-book-portal-jewelry-box-no-ams-led-optional

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!
LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord
Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit
Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting
3D Printing Projects Playlist:
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Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:
Timelapse Tuesday Playlist:
Connect with Noe and Pedro on Social Media:
Noe’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/ecken
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Woah, the cyber-future is here! Flexible E-Ink has been demo’d at high-tech events for years but now you can actually get your paws on it. This display is true E-Ink / E-Paper, once an image is displayed it will stay even once you remove all power. The image is also high contrast and very daylight readable. It really does look just like printed paper!
This flexible display sports a 2.13″ monochrome or 4-grayscale display. It has 212×104 ink pixels on a white-ish background. The ILI0373 chipset we now use does have some basic grayscale so you can have white, light gray, dark gray and black. The monochrome displays take only a couple of seconds to update.
Please note: this display is flexible but that doesn’t mean you can constantly flex it. The video above showing a hand twisting the display is a looped demo, not an instructional video.
Using our CircuitPython or Arduino libraries, you can create a ‘frame buffer’ with what pixels you want to have activated and then write that out to the display. The library we wrote does all the work for you, you can just interface with it as if it were an Adafruit_GFX compatible display.
Note: This is just the display. You’ll want your own eInk Breakout Friend too!

With the brand new lightweight KittenTTS model it’s possible synthesize text into speech on lower end CPU only hardware like the Raspberry Pi 5. This means you can add some decent sounding English speech to your project without having to deal with network connections, API keys, pay-per-use pricing models, or relying on cloud providers using power hungry GPUs.
This project illustrates how to get started with KittenTTS by making a basic app to read aloud weather forecasts which are pulled from the National Weather Service API. Once you learn the basics you can apply them to add speech output to whatever great project you’ve got in the works.
We’ve tested KittenTTS successfully on the Raspberry Pi 4, and Pi 5. As expected, the Pi 5 is able to generate audio faster than the Pi 4.
Read more at Speech Synthesis On Raspberry Pi w/ KittenTTS

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What is the history of Nigerian science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction? What role did the CIA play in the development of novels in Nigeria? How does Things Fall Apart fit in? Here’s a fascinating conversation with Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke, author of Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution (2025), from Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations:
First, a point of clarification: you use the term “speculative fiction” as your operative generic category. What is your definition? What does it encompass?
fantasy, horror, and science fiction have their unique aesthetics that differ from one another. For instance, I follow Carl Freedman’s definition in the monograph regarding the distinction between science fiction…. However, I read all of them together in the book as speculative fiction…many Nigerian writers, such as Akwaeke Emezi and Chigozie Obioma, are not happy to be called speculative writers, as they argue that their worldbuilding is not made up, unlike Tolkien’s in his books, but rather based on reality from the viewpoint of their own cosmology. What a defining speculative text from the lens of ontology helps me do is to respect the Igbo culture from which it is written. Yes, their texts are based on the reality of their culture, rather than being made up, like Tolkien’s world. However, as long as the explanation of reality in their texts extends beyond the current human episteme, it falls within the realm of metaphysical knowledge. Thus, that knowledge is ontological and therefore part of a speculative tradition.
This formulation is not just applicable to African literature, but also to Western fiction. For instance, those within Christian cosmology see the existence of a devil as a reality. Even though the devil is a reality to people within Christian cosmology, it is an ontological concept because it lies outside the current human episteme, which encompasses things that can be explained within the human intellect. To say that texts like Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018), which is based in Igbo cosmology, are ontological texts, like Tolkien’s, whose worldbuilding is made up, is not to equate both texts, but to map out their shared character as ontological texts.

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ESP-NOW transceiver demo in CircuitPython
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Using stem cells, UCLA researchers have successfully grown miniature lungs with functioning blood vessel networks.
The groundbreaking work, detailed in Cell, marks the first time scientists have created lung organoids with integrated vascular systems that closely mirror how lungs develop in the human body. The advance opens the door to potentially growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing unprecedented tools for studying diseases, testing drugs and developing personalized treatments.
“The earliest stages of human development are still a black box in many ways,” said senior author Dr. Mingxia Gu, a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. “This new method to vascularize lung organoids chips away at this black box by better recapitulating the natural organ development process.”
Looking for a new project? Maybe you want a unique dorm lamp? Make your own custom Minecraft-inspired Torch lamp from epoxy resin. Embed a strand of fairy lights inside and set it on top of a Circuit Playground Express. The onboard NeoPixel lights provide a lovely, flickery torch effect. This gorgeous lamp glows from the inside out. Check out the guide from Erin St. Blaine.
Shared by 3DPmom on MakerWorld:
These pumpkin fidgets are always a big hit at halloween
This upload is for the Small Layered Fidget Pumpkin but they come in three sizes: small, large and tall – and each size comes in 3 styles: with an embossed face, a cut-out face or no face.
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!
E-Ink/E-Paper displays make for great low-power displays that are daylight visible and keep their image even when depowered. For folks who want to DIY their own E-Ink setups, this is a 3.7″ diagonal Tri-Color (Red, Black, White) eInk / ePaper Bare Display with 416 x 240 pixels.
Chances are you’ve seen one of those new-fangled ‘e-readers’ like the Kindle or Nook. They have gigantic electronic paper ‘static’ displays – that means the image stays on the display even when power is completely disconnected. The image is also high contrast and very daylight readable. It really does look just like printed paper!
Please note: this is the bare display element. You need to plug it into a board with a ‘standard’ 24-pin FPC e-paper connector. We recommend checking out and picking up a matching driver board:
This is a 3.7″ tri-color display. It has 416×240 red or black ink pixels and a white-ish background. It uses the UC8253 chipset, so make sure whatever firmware code you are planning to use has support for it. The Arduino library we wrote does all the work for you; you can just interface with it as if it were an Adafruit_GFX compatible display.
Note that you cannot overlay/mix pixels: each point can be one of the three ‘colors’, but you can’t mix the red and black to make an orange. Instead, check out our guide on dithering!
3.7″ 416×240 Monochrome Black/White eInk / ePaper – Bare Display – UC8253 Chipset
E-Ink/E-Paper displays make for great low-power displays that are daylight visible and keep their image even when depowered. For folks who want to DIY their own E-Ink setups, this is a 3.7″ 416×240 Pixel Monochrome Black/White EPD – Bare Display.
Chances are you’ve seen one of those new-fangled ‘e-readers’ like the Kindle or Nook. They have gigantic electronic paper ‘static’ displays – that means the image stays on the display even when power is completely disconnected. The image is also high contrast and very daylight readable. It really does look just like printed paper!
Please note: this is the bare display element. You need to plug it into a board with a ‘standard’ 24-pin FPC e-paper connector. We recommend checking out and picking up a matching driver board:
This is a 3.7″ Monochrome Black/White display. It has 416×240 black ink pixels and a white-ish background. It uses the UC8253 chipset, so make sure whatever firmware code you are planning to use has support for it. The Arduino library we wrote does all the work for you; you can just interface with it as if it were an Adafruit_GFX compatible display.
Despite having only monochromatic pixels, it’s possible to get nice looking graphics on eInk displays: Check out our guide on dithering for how to get the best output from these panels.
STEM Learning.org has compiled a list of easy to access resources to support teaching about wearables. There are articles, links, lesson plans and more. One project included is has students design a personal heart monitoring system using micro:bit!
In this challenge, students are asked to consider the impact of people suffering from heart conditions, both to the individual and to wider society. They then generate ideas for using programmable systems to improve people’s health, and to monitor themselves. A video introduces the idea of a heart rate monitor, and a link is made to other Faraday resources that would work well with this one…
The Adafruit Learning System also has some helpful lessons for getting started with the micro:bit!
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!
MoltenArt shared this video on Youtube!
Azuma Makoto is a renowned Japanese floral artist known for his innovative, boundary-pushing creations that often blend nature with modern art. His work focuses on the transient beauty of flowers, capturing their fleeting existence in thought-provoking ways.
In his Iced Flowers exhibition, Makoto explored the contrast between fragility and preservation, encasing delicate blossoms in blocks of ice. This temporary suspension of life in a frozen form highlights the natural cycle of growth and decay, evoking a profound sense of impermanence and beauty. By allowing the ice to melt over time, Makoto emphasises the beauty of decay and the inevitability of change.
dountsorelse made this robot arm to huck candy at passersby. The inspiration was social awkwardness at conventions but the arm could also be called into action for parades, trick-or-treaters…doctors office(?). It uses a camera, Raspberry Pi 3, and a distance sensor to single out who does and does not get candy
Via Hackster.io:
Doing the Candy Throwing Thing
Now for the part that makes the project interesting. The goal was to throw candy, so my thinking was that I’d record all the movements as I walked the robot through the process. Then, I’d play them all back and we’d be all set. As hinted at, I had a couple points of confusion between the calibration and the threshold and tried quite a few iterations before simplifying things
