National Robotics Week 2025 #Roboweek @roboweek #NationalRoboticsWeek

Happy Monday of National Robotics Week! Roboweek kicked off this past weekend, running April 5-13, 2025. As we like to say “Make Robot Friend”

This week is a great time to explore, experiment, and educate with all things robotic. We’ll be sharing fun projects and stories all week on the Adafruit blog.

 

Peruse our guides on the Adafruit Learning System with Making Electronics Move, and checkout the store for the gear to get started! And don’t forget about our Creative Robotics add-on Crickit

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Strange Science Fiction Writers #SciFiSunday

Weird times call for weird writers. Luckily, there’s a whole genre of weird writers to choose from. Weird fiction is more than a centiury old at this point, but the tradition is alive and well. Here’s more from Jason Ockert on LitHub:

Millhauser’s stories almost always disorient right off the bat. The first story in We Others is called “The Slap.” The piece opens when a man, Walter Lasher, is approached by a stranger in a parking lot and is slapped hard in the face. The attack is, apparently, unprovoked and a random act of violence. From the onset, we have some questions: What did Walter do to deserve this? How is he going to respond to the attack? Who is the Slapper?

In these stories, aliens are landing, ghosts are narrating, the art of magic is alive, a knife thrower comes to town, and yes, characters are slapped in the face. Shocking a reader at the beginning of a story as a means of tricking them onto the page is not difficult. The hard part is to coax the reader along—sentence by sentence—and the greatness of Millhauser’s work is not in its disorientation but in the way that he re-orients you. “The Slap,” for example, is a pattern story. This style of story takes advantage of escalation—first Walter Lasher is slapped, then Robert Sutliff is slapped, then Charles Kraus is slapped!—until the strangeness of getting slapped feels familiar. In fact, a reader starts to wonder why more people aren’t getting slapped.

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Arab American Heritage Month at NYPL

See how The New York Public Library is celebrating Arab American Heritage Month through Islamic geometric art, Arabic calligraphy, reading lists, research guides, and more.

The New York Public Library celebrates Arab American Heritage Month throughout April with events and programs, recommended reading, research collection highlights, and a wide array of resources for all ages.

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Making a Steam Engine from a Tin Can

In this wonderful Dug North video, he turns a can of evaporated milk into a steam engine. The design is based on Hero of Alexandria’s Aeolipile and the scant instructions Dug used came from a 62-year-old issue of Mechanix Illustrated. Unlike Hero’s design, this version of the Aeolipile is vertically, rather than horizontally aligned.

Most of the build is straight-forward, using common tools. After Dug builds his engine, he struggles to troubleshoot and tune it properly, but with a number of tweaks, he finally gets it going, and man, does it go.

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Observing Space Tornadoes

An international team of scientists using a collection of 66 radio telescopes at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in the Atacama Desert observed the star-forming ring of gas and dust known as the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). SyFy Wire shares the details of their research.

The intensity of gravitational forces around a black hole sends gas, dust, and other material spinning violently around the event horizon, sending shockwaves through the morass. The CMZ is an area of intense interest, and these observations provided a view of the galactic center 100 times sharper than ever before. In their highly detailed observations, astronomers discovered previously unseen molecular filaments spinning out from the CMZ.

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New Products 4/02/25 Featuring Adafruit – Raspberry Pi Pico 2W with Header

We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here

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New Product 4/02/25 Feat. @Adafruit – Raspberry Pi Pico 2W with Header

This week we debuted 7 new products!

Visit www.adafruit.com/new for more info.

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9 strange lies Trump told during his 'Liberation Day' Rose Garden event

The problem is not just that Donald Trump lied while touting his tariffs. The problem is made worse by the apparent fact that he felt like he had to lie.

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