суббота, 23 мая 2026 г.

Superhero Power Plant Inspired by Iron Man’s Arc Reactor

Planning an epic Iron Man costume for Halloween or Comic Con, or looking for that iconic piece that turns a plain t-shirt into Tony Stark? Look no further, for in this guide we’ll show you how to make your own electronic glowing reactor with a cool pulsing effect.

You can even customize it once complete, go for red, purple, green, pink: Whatever color will power you up! Or change the pulse rate or effects to add a special touch.

Check out the full guide!

Laser files available on Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:157296





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LeFrak theater: Alvaro Keding/© AMNH Stadium: Csaba Peterdi/Adobe Stock

 

AMNH is celebrating World Cup 2026 with a series celebrating “the science, culture, and shared experience of athletic competition“. On May 28 3 drop-in activities start, allowing visitors to explore: the science of sport materials & geometry of sports, the cultural influence of sports around the world for ages 4-12 and activities about human biomechanics for ages 8+ . Read more about the full series here.



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пятница, 22 мая 2026 г.

Although Mahjong dates back to 19th century China, the tile game has since become popular across the world.

Learn Mahjong with the Green Tile Social Club this Tuesday, May 26th. Check out the event page for details.

Hong Kong mahjong, taught the gtsc way 🤝
The night will begin with a dedicated 1.5 hour mahjong lesson taught in groups of six. your gtsc teacher will run you through the complete basics — terminology, role recognition, core game constructs — before real-time instructing you thru an open hand game

Once you’ve graduated to closed hand, stay and enjoy your new playing chops till we get kicked out at 10 🫡



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четверг, 21 мая 2026 г.


IndieMakerX shares:

A rugged snap-fit Pi Zero 2WH case built for Waveshare 2.13″ e-Paper HAT+ and Geekworm X306 V1.3 UPS module (18650 battery). Includes a snap-in power button and multiple lid styles. Perfect for portable Zero builds

download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1561820-raspberry-pi-zero-2w-pwnagotchi-case



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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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NoycePrints shares:

A multi-system handheld cartridge storage chest with interchangeable cartridge trays, a latching front door, stackable design, and optional logo variants. Compatible with Game Boy, GBC, GBA, DS, and 3DS cartridges

download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/718289-ultimate-game-cartridge-storage-chest



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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!

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:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

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

Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil



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среда, 20 мая 2026 г.


Jimbob shares:

A handheld cyberdeck-style ESP32 controller designed for radio-controlled projects. Compact, portable, and customizable — great inspiration for makers building custom RC interfaces or portable ESP32 tools

download the files on: https://www.printables.com/model/332425-esparto-cyberdeck-an-esp32-based-remote-control-fo



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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!

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:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

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

Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil



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The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! Right now! 5/20/2026 at 7:30pm Eastern. – video.

Hosted this week by Liz Clark



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Transform your regular sunglasses into smart ones with the single-board computer you wear on your face
Paul Stefaan Mooij’s PMSG opens source smart glasses work with the QT Py!

PMSG (P.M. Smart Glasses) is a compact wearable electronics platform designed for small development boards such as Adafruit QT Py and Seeed Studio XIAO.

More from GitHub, PMSG.online, and Hackster.io


Flora breadboard is 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!



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3D Hangouts – Prop Game, Compass and Flexi Raptor
https://youtube.com/live/evHG1X0T5Lo

This week @adafruit we’re checking out Noe’s prototype of his new handheld game design using PropMaker Feather. Pero is working on a new compass project. This week’s timelapse features a velociraptor flexi dino.

Feather RP2040 Propmaker:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5768

Alpanumeric LED Display
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2158

Timelapse Tuesday

Velociraptor Flexi Dino By PAB3D
https://makerworld.com/en/models/2787956-articulated-velociraptor-flexi-dinosaur
https://youtu.be/uJdUpADkyms

Community Makes

https://www.printables.com/make/3426296?comment_id=3426296




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Temuri Takalandze on abgeo.dev looks at a smart doorbell bought on Temu.

Recently I bought a smart doorbell off Temu, the Chinese marketplace that has been gaining popularity worldwide over the past couple of years. I wanted to know how secure the cheap connected hardware sold on that platform actually is. The unit ships under the name “Smart Doorbell X3” and pairs through a mobile app called “X Smart Home”. Camera, microphone, two-way audio, sub-GHz indoor receiver. The kind of gear that has quietly shown up on a lot of front doors.

By the end of a few weekends with one I could:

  • silently steal any of these doorbells off its owner’s account
  • impersonate the device on a live call, with attacker-chosen video on the owner’s phone
  • lift the home WiFi password through a debug port behind a screwdriver

$12 on the front. Whole-network compromise on the back. The first of those takes a free account on the platform, and redirects every real call from the door to my phone instead of the owner’s. The second takes nothing at all, and invents new calls into the owner’s phone with whatever video I want. The real doorbell stays online either way and never knows. You are basically paying $12 to let anyone on the internet ring your doorbell.

See all the details in the post here.



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While there are only 11 days left in the month, NYPL has 30 remaining planned events celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Scroll through them all here!



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вторник, 19 мая 2026 г.

Zane St. John plugged in a $35 projector from AliExpress and pointed it at a bedroom wall. Within minutes of connecting it to WiFi, the home Pi-hole security portal lit up due to issues.

When I powered it on, the experience was more professional than expected. Android 11 (API 30), production build (not signed with test keys!), and not rooted out of the box. But the polished launcher couldn’t fully mask the sketchiness underneath—as my Pi-hole had already made clear.

Armed with adb and jadx, I started examining the pre-installed apps. The first red flag: a litany of com.htc. packages on a device that isn’t made by HTC. It’s made by a company called Hotack (sold under brand names like Magcubic). A thin disguise.

I’d been using Claude Code with mixed success (mostly positive) for software engineering work, and I suspected it could do more than just speed up the tedious parts of reverse engineering.

Working through each decompiled APK, Claude Code mapped a coordinated suite of vendor malware.

I expected adware. Maybe a tracking pixel. What Claude Code found was a multi-stage RAT with active C2 infrastructure, firmware-level persistence, a plugin system, and a direct pipeline into a commercial residential proxy network—all pre-installed at the factory on a device sold openly on major marketplaces.

See the details of what was found inside the software on the device and more in the article here and on GitHub.



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The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi).

This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPythonMicroPython, and Python information that you may have missed, all in one place!

You get a summary of all the software, events, projects, and the latest hardware worldwide once a week, no ads! You can cancel anytime.

It arrives about 11 am Monday (US Eastern time) with all the week’s happenings.

And please tell your friends, colleagues, students, etc.

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понедельник, 18 мая 2026 г.

Summer is quickly approaching. Don’t sweat in the subway, print a squeezable fan! Check out this cool design from GeorgeZSL shared via instructables

Let’s just admit it, all of the squeeze fans available are just toys. They are fun to play around for 5 minutes, but cannot really be used functionally. The wind is too little, the hand gets caught in the blades, and nowhere to grab. This is an upgraded larger version where you can actually use it to cool down!
I also narrowed down the tolerances of the original design to make the fan less wobbly, and the pins to fit more snug.

If spinning too fast, the cover may separate from the case since they are just held together by pins. Use superglue if necessary.
Please see the 2nd photo for instructions for putting together. There are 2 fan blades, choose whichever one you prefer. You may need to use a mallet to knock the pins into place.



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JesseZhang shares:

A highly modular, screw-free tool holder system with mix-and-match horizontal panels, side panels of varying heights, and dedicated modules for screwdrivers, screw bits, tweezers, and pens. Extendable to any bench width

download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2162523-fully-modular-tool-organizer-system-20mm-version



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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:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

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

Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil



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воскресенье, 17 мая 2026 г.

Use this guide to make a simple cyberpunk/Tronpunk fashion project!

The Larson scanner is named after Glen Larson, producer of Knight Rider and the original Battlestar Galactica television series, both of which prominently featured the effect as the “eyes” of KITT, his nemesis KARR, and the Cylon Centurions.

Larson scanners were traditionally red (or yellow in KARR’s case), but thanks to the magic of NeoPixels you can change the software to use any colors you like.

This is a soldering project, albeit a small one. You will need the common soldering paraphernalia of a soldering iron, solder, wire (20 to 26 gauge, either stranded or solid) and tools for cutting and stripping wire.

You’ll need some method of securing the electronics inside the glasses. Hot-melt glue (with a glue gun) works well for this. Watch your fingers! Packing tape could also be used.

Check out the full guide in the Adafruit Learn system!





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J.D. Hodges runs through the history of the ThinkPad. At one point, the ThinkPad was ubiquitous in office settings. The rugged laptop doesn’t get as much love as it used to, but it’s still going strong! Hodges makes great use of graphs, tables, and infographics!

 

ThinkPad has shipped continuously since October 1992 under two corporate owners (IBM 1992 to 2005, Lenovo 2005 to present), making it among the longest-running commercial laptop families on the market and unusually visually continuous from the 1992 700C to the 2026 P14s Gen 6. The 2005 IBM-to-Lenovo handoff did not rupture the brand the way skeptics expected: IBM’s ThinkPad engineering and design carried over largely intact, and Lenovo crossed 60 million ThinkPad units sold by 2010. The formula still has reasons to exist in 2026, when a 14-inch P14s Gen 6 AMD with 96 GB of DDR5 SODIMMs runs local 70-billion-parameter LLM workloads on a business chassis with a Copilot+ NPU and dedicated TrackPoint buttons.

Check it out!



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Exercising Ingenuity built a cyberdeck in an Altoids tin using a Raspberry Pi Zero and shared the process in this video on YouTube.

Ugh, now we’re feeling nostalgic for Minty Boost and MENTA. Chris Young made Printy Boost to scratch that itch.

As far as cyberdecks go, we’ve also got our CYBERDECK Bonnet and CYBERDECK HAT for Raspberry Pi 400 & 500.




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The United Nations has designated May 17th  World Telecommunication & Information Society Day:

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) 2026 calls on governments, industry, and communities to strengthen the digital lifelines that keep the world running. Join us in designing the networks and systems that can withstand shocks and recover quickly, ensuring that no one is cut off and left offline when it matters most.

Celebrated every year on 17 May, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) highlights the growing role of digital technologies in our lives and commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – the United Nations Agency for Digital Technologies.

The theme for 2026 is Digital Lifelines – Strengthening resilience in a connected world:

Resilience needs to be designed and included in every element of connectivity: submarine cables linking continents, terrestrial networks carrying data across cities, satellites supporting communication and navigation, and data centers powering digital services. When any part of this chain fails, essential systems, from finance and healthcare to transport and disaster response, are at risk.

Learn more!



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суббота, 16 мая 2026 г.

 

Learn how to turn your MACROPAD into the Hotkey wizard it was born to be; with Phillip Burgess on the Adafruit Learning System!

Press one of MACROPAD’s 12 keys to send a shortcut, function key or whole sequence of keystrokes to a connected computer. The OLED display provides a map, while LEDs under each key offer color-coded groups or themes. Turn the dial to select among different application sets.

This is one of those projects that you can simply find everyday use for as-is, or peer inside the code to see how CircuitPython makes this all pretty simple. Additionally, hotkey configuration files for different desktop applications are easily created, modified and shared.

See the full guide!



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image via Emmett Walter, Hackster.io

 

Hackster.io user Emmett Walter published a detailed showcase of their beautiful northern lights build.

Finding an API to pull data for this project from was extremely straightforward, the NOAA has a database that stores the values of the visibility of the northern lights at each set of latitude and longitude coordinates. The data given from this API was formatted as follows: [longitude, latitude, Probability of Visibility (out of 100%)].

Check out their code, query and more over on Hackster.io.



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пятница, 15 мая 2026 г.

From the GitHub release page:

This is CircuitPython 10.3.0-alpha.2, an alpha release for 10.3.0. Further features, changes, and bug fixes will be added before the final release of 10.3.0.

Highlights of this release

  • Fix crashes on certain boards with integral displays.
  • Adafruit MagTag 2025: improve display quality and support new display variant.
  • Add CIRCUITPY_SDCARD_USB to settings.toml to control visibility of a mounted SD card on USB.
  • Support float values in settings.toml.
  • Report USB MSC drives as removable media to the host.
  • Update ESP-IDF to v6.0.1.
  • Fix audiomixer.Mixer regressions on SAMx5x.
  • STM: support audio.AudioOut, using DAC.

Download from circuitpython.org

Firmware downloads are available from the downloads page on circuitpython.org. The site makes it easy to select the correct file and language for your board.

Installation

To install follow the instructions in the Welcome to CircuitPython! guide. To install the latest libraries, see this page in that guide.

Try code.circuitpython.org or the latest version of the Mu editor for creating and editing your CircuitPython programs and for easy access to the CircuitPython serial connection (the REPL).

Documentation

Documentation is available in readthedocs.io.

Port status

CircuitPython has a number of “ports” that are the core implementations for different microcontroller families. Stability varies on a per-port basis. As of this release, these ports are consider stable (but see Known Issues below):

  • atmel-samd: Microchip SAMD21, SAMx5x
  • cxd56: Sony Spresense
  • espressif: Espressif ESP32, ESP32-C2, ESP32-C3, ESP32-C6, ESP32-C61, ESP32-H2, ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3
  • nordic: Nordic nRF52840, nRF52833
  • raspberrypi: Raspberry Pi RP2040, RP2350
  • stm: ST STM32F4 chip family

These ports are considered alpha and will have bugs and missing functionality:

  • analog: Analog Devices MAX32690
  • broadcom: Raspberry Pi boards such as RPi 4, RPi Zero 2W
  • espressif: , ESP32-P4
  • litex: fomu
  • mimxrt10xx: NXP i.MX RT10xxx
  • renode: hardware simulator
  • silabs: Silicon Labs MG24 family
  • stm: ST non-STM32F4 chip families
  • zephyr: multiplatform RTOS, running on multiple chip families

Changes since 10.3.0-alpha.1

Fixes and enhancements

  • Adafruit MagTag 2025: improve display quality. #11003, #11001. Thanks @mikeysklar.
  • Update frozen libraries. #10998. Thanks @dhalbert.
  • Fix crashes on boards with FourWire displays with no reset pin. #10997, #10995. Thanks @dhalbert.
  • Add CIRCUITPY_SDCARD_USB to settings.toml to control SD card USB presentation. #10996. Thanks @dhalbert.
  • Add support for float values in settings.toml. #10975. Thanks @dhalbert.
  • Report USB MSC drives as removable media to the host. #10967. Thanks @mikeysklar.

Port and board-specific changes

Analog Devices

Broadcom

Espressif

  • Fix WiFi/BLE crashes after ESP-IDF v6.0.1 upgrade. #11004. Thanks @tannewt.
  • Preserve alarm.sleep_memory across software resets. #10989, #10899. Thanks @lzr
  • Support ESP32-P4 V1. #10986. Thanks @tannewt.
  • Update ESP-IDF to v6.0.1. #10922. Thanks @tannewt.

i.MX

Nordic

renode

RP2

SAMx

  • Fix audiomixer.Mixer regressions on SAMx5x. #10906. Thanks @relic-se.

SiLabs

Spresense

STM

  • Support audio.AudioOut, using DAC. #10976. Thanks @ChrisNourse.

Zephyr

Individual boards

  • Adafruit MagTag 2025: improve display quality, support new display variant. #11003, #10992, #10987. Thanks @mikeysklar.
  • Unexpected Maker S3 D series: add board.ANTENNA_SWITCH (board.IO41). #10984. Thanks @JonNelson.

Documentation changes

Build and infrastructure changes

Translation additions and improvements

  • Thanks for translations:
    • @cyphra (Spanish)

New boards

  • Adafruit P4GPIO. #10986. Thanks @tannewt.
  • Espressif ESP32-P4X-Function-EV. #11004. Thanks @tannewt.
  • NHB Systems JL401-S3. #10997, #10977. Thanks @NHBSystems.

Known issues

  • The CIRCUITPY drive is not working on at least some STM32 boards.
  • Native-code .mpy files are not working. This capability is currently enabled only on the winterbloom_sol board.
  • See https://ift.tt/24nxILq for other issues, including issues still to be addressed for:

Thanks

Thank you to all who used, tested, and contributed toward this release, including the contributors above, and many others on GitHub and Discord. Join us on the Discord chat to collaborate.



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четверг, 14 мая 2026 г.


rauks shares:

A small, compact ambient light powered by a USB-C ESP32 D1 Mini and a WS2812B LED ring running WLED. Designed to integrate cleanly with Home Assistant and any WLED automation setup

download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1950727-led-ambient-lamp-wled-esp32-d1-mini-usb-c



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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!

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:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

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

Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil



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antiphrasis shares:

A robust modular spool rack that builds horizontally or vertically, with optional drawer, shelf, and IKEA Skådis-compatible brace modules. Updated February 2026 with smoother drawer profiles and H2-series printer suppor

download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1099461-sturdy-modular-filament-spool-rack-fully-printable



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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!

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:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

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

Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil



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Shared by R4_Serhii on Maker World:

A cylindrical 3D-printed lamp powered by an ESP32 and 16×16 WS2812 matrix running WLED. Dynamic effects, smartphone/web control, and a sleek diffuser shell

Download the files and learn more


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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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среда, 13 мая 2026 г.

TechRadar lists the best free text-to-speech software, to make it simple and easy to choose a text reader with the features you need.

This is not simply useful for personal users, but has also become an important issue in business, where the need for effective communication tools has led to a surge in the popularity of text-to-speech (TTS) software.

See the details in the article here.



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вторник, 12 мая 2026 г.

From the GitHub release page:

This is CircuitPython 10.2.1, a bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release.

Highlights of this release

  • Fix crashes on certain boards with integral displays.
  • Adafruit MagTag 2025: improve display quality and support new display variant.

Download from circuitpython.org

Firmware downloads are available from the downloads page on circuitpython.org. The site makes it easy to select the correct file and language for your board.

Installation

To install follow the instructions in the Welcome to CircuitPython! guide. To install the latest libraries, see this page in that guide.

Try code.circuitpython.org or the latest version of the Mu editor for creating and editing your CircuitPython programs and for easy access to the CircuitPython serial connection (the REPL).

Documentation

Documentation is available in readthedocs.io.

Port status

CircuitPython has a number of “ports” that are the core implementations for different microcontroller families. Stability varies on a per-port basis. As of this release, these ports are consider stable (but see Known Issues below):

  • atmel-samd: Microchip SAMD21, SAMx5x
  • cxd56: Sony Spresense
  • espressif: Espressif ESP32, ESP32-C2, ESP32-C3, ESP32-C6, ESP32-C61, ESP32-H2, ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3
  • nordic: Nordic nRF52840, nRF52833
  • raspberrypi: Raspberry Pi RP2040, RP2350
  • stm: ST STM32F4 chip family

These ports are considered alpha and will have bugs and missing functionality:

  • analog: Analog Devices MAX32690
  • broadcom: Raspberry Pi boards such as RPi 4, RPi Zero 2W
  • espressif: , ESP32-P4
  • litex: fomu
  • mimxrt10xx: NXP i.MX RT10xxx
  • renode: hardware simulator
  • silabs: Silicon Labs MG24 family
  • stm: ST non-STM32F4 chip families
  • zephyr: multiplatform RTOS, running on multiple chip families

Changes since 10.2.0

Fixes and enhancements

  • Update frozen modules. #11001. Thanks @dhalbert.
  • Fix crashes on boards with FourWire displays with no reset pin. #10995. Thanks @dhalbert.

Port and board-specific changes

Analog Devices

Broadcom

Espressif

i.MX

Nordic

renode

RP2

SAMx

SiLabs

Spresense

STM

Zephyr

Individual boards

  • Adafruit MagTag 2025: improve display quality, support new display variant. #11002, #11000,. Thanks @mikeysklar.

Documentation changes

Build and infrastructure changes

Translation additions and improvements

New boards

  • NHB Systems JL401-S3. #10977. Thanks @NHBSystems.

Known issues

Thanks

Thank you to all who used, tested, and contributed toward this release, including the contributors above, and many others on GitHub and Discord. Join us on the Discord chat to collaborate.



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To conclude MIT’s working group on generative AI and the work of the future, the group has released a paper summarizing the findings from three years of research on companies’ experiments with generative AI.

Across the applications of generative AI addressing these challenges, there has been a shift in the core tasks that professional and technical workers are being asked to perform. Where generative AI tools are being deployed, workers are increasingly asked to perform supervisory control tasks as the “human in the loop” overseeing and analyzing a process rather than executing the process manually.

We draw six lessons for how to capture the benefits of these technologies:

  • Minimize drudgery
  • Promote learning
  • Preserve teamwork
  • Interface design
  • Domain expertise
  • Accountability

Here is the executive summary and here is the full paper.

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Shy Society is a kinetic installation by Studio Drift that transforms Venice’s Palazzo Balbi into a “breathing” building.

The Concept: It mimics nyctinasty—the natural process where flowers close at night. The robotic textile blooms descend and unfurl, then retract and close in a synchronized dance.

The Vibe: The movement is timed to a human resting heartbeat, designed to create a sense of calm and connection for people watching from the Grand Canal.

The Tech: Unlike their indoor works, these “blooms” use a specialized knitted nylon to withstand Venice’s wind and rain while maintaining a delicate, silk-like appearance.

Essentially, it’s a high-tech way to make rigid historic architecture feel soft, living, and responsive to nature.

See the video below and on Instagram. And read more from the studio.

 

 



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New Guide: PICO-8 Fruit Jam Reality Console

PICO-8 is a delightful “fantasy console” by Lexaloffle that simulates an imaginary retro system that never existed. It is intentionally constrained to 128×128 pixels with 16 colors, 4-channel chiptune audio, 8KB RAM, 32KB storage per ‘cartridge’, and a Lua-based programming language.

You can run wili8jam on Fruit Jam for a lovely, tiny computing/gaming experience. This port, by freewili, puts PICO-8 cartridge running, code editing, and a REPL right on your Fruit Jam, just add monitor, keyboard, and gamepad.

Read more at PICO-8 Fruit Jam Reality Console



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Many of us have been there: working with Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. and BOOM, the token allowance runs out and you have to wait a few hours for it to reset. All you want to do is finish your project.

Well, you are on your personal computer which can compute things. Perhaps your machine can even play some fairly recent games? If so, you have free compute right at your fingertips.

– This guide walks readers through running a local LLM on a personal computer, covering how to assess your hardware, pick compatible models (using canirun.ai), install a model interface like LM Studio, and tune settings (context length, GPU offload, CPU threads) for best performance.
– It also explains choosing models by capability and license, how to download and run models in LM Studio, and how to add tool plugins (e.g., Beledarian tools) to enable the model to interact with local files and the web.

Read more at Setting Up a LLM Model on Your Own Computer


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Adafruit Playground is a safe place to share with the wonderful Adafruit community of makers and doers. Click here to learn more about Adafruit Playground and how to get started.



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Today we look at Chinese American Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu

The Wu experiment surprised the physics community by showing that parity was not conserved at the nuclear level; symmetry was not maintained and nature did distinguish between left and right. Chien-Shiung Wu also worked on the Manhattan Project and helped develop foundational methods for separating uranium isotopes.

She acquired many praising monikers through her career “First Lady of Physics,” Queen of Nuclear Research,” and in the recent children’s book “Queen of Physics”

Explore more with your kids:

Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom Written by Teresa Robeson, Illustrated by Rebecca Huang

When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, most girls did not attend school; no one considered them as smart as boys. But her parents felt differently. Giving her a name meaning “Courageous Hero,” they encouraged her love of learning and science. This engaging biography follows Wu Chien Shiung as she battles sexism and racism to become what

See more and pick up a copy today!



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In 1752, Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous kite experiment, as depicted in this c. 1816 painting by Benjamin West. This experiment established the connection between lightning and electricity. Public Domain. via Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine explores the causes of lightning and why they’re so mysterious to begin with.

Thunderstorms have captivated humanity for millennia, and yet their inner workings remain deeply mysterious. Storm clouds are opaque. They’re dangerous to approach. And they’re too big to fit in a lab. Inquisitive researchers have been sending kites, balloons, and rockets up into them for nearly three centuries, and they’ve learned a lot. But every time lightning lovers get closer to the action, they discover major gaps in their understanding. For the past 50 years, researchers have focused on one particular gap: How does the jagged channel of white-hot air we call a lightning bolt get started?



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