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Arnaud Carré writes on Leonard’s Blog for who love the technical and historical aspects of chiptune music, as well as enthusiasts of the Amiga PAULA and Atari YM2149 audio chips. I had the idea of playing Atari music on the Amiga during my future dot record attempt. To do that, I needed to emulate the […]

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 CircuitPython, MicroPython, 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 […]

NEW PRODUCT – Through Hole Inline Pogo Pin Target Header – 9-Pin 0.1″ Spacing This strip of gold-plated target pads is used when you want to have a solid pogo-pin connection point on your PCB. Note that these are not springy – that would be the pogo half you provide. Instead, this is what the pogo touches […]

In 2003 the National Recording Registry began collecting various “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.” Any recorded content is up for preservervation and inductees range from whole albums to singles, to podcast and radio broadcasts. 2026 inducts the Doom […]

An exhibit celebrating Chinese-American illustrator Ed Young is on view now at The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), which is located at 215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013. The exhibit titled Ed Young’s Bright Worlds: Gesture and Feeling in 60 Years of Picture Books for Children is open now through September. Lon Po […]

Gyroflow is an application that can stabilize your video by using motion data from a gyroscope and optionally an accelerometer. Modern cameras record that data internally (GoPro, Sony, Insta360 etc), and this application stabilizes the captured footage precisely by using them. It can also use gyro data from an external source (eg. from Betaflight blackbox). […]

Bumbershoot Software writes about a nice lazy afternoon with PICO-8 making a port of Simulated Evolution. The first challenge, of course, was that I had to write the simulation itself. My earlier implementations were all in C or assembly language, and PICO-8 needs to be programmed in its own dialect of Lua. Happily, Lua is, itself, pretty comfy, […]

On the lcamtuf’s thing blog, they take a design for a metered clock and update it with a modern look. As the name implies, these clocks use analog panel voltmeters instead of traditional clock faces to display time. I didn’t come up with the idea, so I never really blogged about the design; I just […]

The Old Vintage Computing Research blog looks at the Tomy Tutor from 1983: The Tomy Tutor was my first computer, in late 1983. I was seven and we got it at Federated. I’ve acquired several more since then, but this is the actual one I used and it still works perfectly. Using a design modeled on the […]

ThroatyMumbo on GitHub posts Windows CE 2.11 on the Nintendo 64. Stock Microsoft Windows CE 2.11 running on a real Nintendo 64. A custom HAL drops the unmodified nk.lib kernel onto VR4300, brings up the CE 2.11 GWES desktop and shell, mounts the EverDrive-64 X7’s SD card under \SDCard, treats the N64 controller as a […]

Fred Lambert on Electrek writes how Fisker Ocean SUV owners organized, reverse-engineered their vehicles’ proprietary software, hacked into CAN bus networks, built open-source tools on GitHub, and effectively stood up a volunteer-run open-sourced car company from the ashes of Fisker. From $70,000 SUVs to orphans overnight The speed of Fisker’s collapse was staggering. The company, […]

image via Giuseppe Sollazzo   Giuseppe Sollazzo organized each of the 1,795 songs performed by lyrical content: love, peace & unity, freedom, nostalgia & memory, fantasy & dream, empowerment & resilience, joy & celebration, music & meta-song, identity & homeland, rebellion & war, via flowingdata. Scroll down and the chart will rearrange itself to tell […]

plaslinger shares: A precisely 3D-printed 200×100×100mm desk organizer with two spacious drawers wrapped in futuristic paneling. Keeps your bench tidy while looking like it belongs in a spaceship download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/540542-futuristic-sci-fi-drawer-organizer Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital […]

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 Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for […]

ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP 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. Adafruit Graduation Gift Guide! Maker […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]