Reindeer Antlers #WearableWednesday #3DPrinting

dadhoc shared this print back in 2013 but it’s still so cute and festive. Happy printing and happy holidays!

Slide a bit of string or thin elastic through the holes in the bottom to add antlers to your head. I had to bribe my reindog to model these with treats. But they look better on kids and adults.

When they aren’t on your head, you can use them as a ring and necklace stand. But why would you want to take them off your head?

Happy Holidays.

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Using the Slamtec RPLIDAR on a Raspberry Pi

Map in all directions! Dave Astels shares how to use a 360 degree LIDAR system like the RPLIDAR from Slamtec with the Raspberry Pi

Instead of taking a step-and-read approach, the RPLIDAR drives the rotating scanner with a DC motor, continuously taking readings and making note of the scanner’s angle with each one. Because of this approach, a single revolution is not guaranteed to give a reading for each possible angle, but over several rotations a full scan can be assembled.

Learn more on the Adafruit Learning System!

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TheFlightWall shows flight information of planes going by your window

TheFlightWall is an LED wall by Aaren Stade which shows live information of flights going by your window.

This is an open source version (Apache License 2.0) with some basic guides to the panels, mounting them together, data services, and code. The professional versions are at theflightwall.com.

It uses an ESP32 microcontroller and 20 16×16 LED panels. Software is via platformio.

Read more on GitHub and see more on Instagram.

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ENCODED – Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing #ArtTuesday #ChangetheStory

Cass Gardiner in collaboration BirdxBird, “Skoden Warriors” (2025) over Jerome B. Thompson’s “The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain” (1858); If you don’t have time to visit you can use the Amplifier AR app and view some of the works on your desktop through your phone.

 

Tour the MET like never before. This is an unsanctioned AR intervention on the American Wing, created by 17 Indigenous artist commenting on 25 artworks. Encoded looks to retell the story of American Art with a broader lens. Definitely a reason to revisit the MET!

More from Hyperallergic:

Curated by filmmaker and curator Tracy Renée Rector and an anonymous Indigenous curator who funded the project, and developed collaboratively with design lab Amplifier, ENCODED: Change the Story, Change the Future questions who is uplifted and memorialized in American history — who is American, really? — and what might happen when Indigenous artists reclaim space for themselves.

Read more!

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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!

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MinuteEarth Presents All the Cats, Explained

Cats are great. We’re big fans. MinuteEarth breaks down the feline family in this video over on YouTube

And while we’re in cat mode, don’t miss this PBS Eons video on cat domestication

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1GB Raspberry Pi 5 released at $45 as memory-driven prices rise

To offset the recent unprecedented rise in the cost of LPDDR4 memory, Raspberry Pi is announcing price increases to some Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 products.

These largely mirror the increases that we announced in October for our Compute Module products, and will help us to secure memory supplies as we navigate an increasingly constrained market in 2026.

They are also announcing the immediate availability of a new 1GB version of Raspberry Pi 5. This brings the platform, with its quad-core 2.4GHz Arm Cortex-A76 processor, dual-band WiFi and PCI Express port, to a price of $45.

There are also price increases on existing Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 boards depending on memory, anywhere from a $5 to $25 increase.

See more in the Raspberry Pi release here.

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Blooming Mechanical Flower

Huy Vector’s blooming wire flowers are so delicate and lovely.

I shaped a few copper wires, micro LEDs, and a tiny controller into this ever-blooming mechanical flower — a glowing light sculpture that moves and breathes with color.
Soft, flowing animations make the petals look alive, turning simple materials into a calming piece of desk art.

See more here and here

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