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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 […]

Chicago95 is an XFCE / Xubuntu Windows 95 total conversion. grassmunk on GitHub writes: I was unhappy with the various XFCE/GTK2/GTK3 Windows 95 based themes and decided to make one that was more consistent across the board for theming. Included in this theme: Icons to complete the icon theme started with Classic95 GTK2 and GTK3 […]

The longest caves in the world all sit in areas where soluble rock dissolves under flowing groundwater. The highest concentrations show up in southern Kentucky, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The list keeps growing as exploration teams add new passages. Mammoth Cave alone has gone from 144 miles when the system was first connected in 1972 […]

the Ollee circuit board upgrade, RGB back light, and start up of Ollee greeting with hello, images via Cam Shand on YouTube     There is a growing push against the barrage of “tech” shoved on us daily. This informal movement is less anti-technology and more anti-thoughtless technology. We are seeing it with wired headphones and […]

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 5/12/26 is our MAX44009 Wide-range Lux Light Sensor. Want more JP’s Product Pick of the Week?! Tune in every Tuesday at 4pm ET and 1pm PT on Youtube LIVE, Twitch, Periscope (Twitter) and Facebook. LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat! Catch previous editions on YouTube […]

NEW PRODUCT – 128×64 RGB LED Matrix Panel – 2mm Pitch Wintertime can be rough in the city. The sky is gray. The weather is unpredictable. So slough off those seasonal blues with some Times Square razzle dazzle from this sweet, ultra-high-density 128×64 RGB LED Matrix. These panels are typically used to make video walls. Here in New […]

Arty Bishop’s Look4Sat is a radio satellite tracker and pass predictor for Android, inspired by Gpredict. Thanks to Celestrak and SatNOGS you have access to over 9000 active satellites. You can search the entire database by NORAD Catalog Number or the satellite’s name. Orbital positions and passes are calculated relative to your location. To get reliable data make […]

Matt Robenolt’s appify turns TUI apps into real macOS applications. On Linux, terminal apps are just… apps. They get their own windows, their own Alt+Tab entries, their own launcher icons. On macOS, they’re second-class citizens—buried in terminal tabs, invisible to Cmd+Tab, forgotten by Spotlight. appify fixes that. Generate native .app bundles from any TUI. Your btop becomes a proper System […]

If you’re looking for an easy, fun, and glowing Halloween costume this year (its never too early to start getting started), read on to learn how to make an animal mask with EL wire on a bike helmet. Plain wire supports the glowing design and because the helmet straps securely to your head, you have […]

Researchers have uncovered an unusual new form of aluminium that challenges long-held assumptions about how this common metal behaves. Researchers at King’s College London have identified an unusual new form of aluminum, one of the most abundant metals in Earth’s crust. The discovery points to a much less expensive and more sustainable substitute for rare […]

Kati writes about making a Linux cyberdeck computer using a children’s toy, a VTech Lern und Musik Laptop, as a computer case. Every time I saw someone with one of those unnecessarily cute mini-laptops, I got extremely jealous. But most of them are a bit too expensive for something I’d only use to flex. I […]

This project is for all of the vintage audio fans out there. Check it out, from South African maker JGJ Matt: I have an obsession with vintage audio and unfortunately with my newest acquisition, a cabinet style Edison gramophone I’ve come to a realization that they take up a LOT of space for something that […]

Although there are a bunch of ways to run Linux applications on a Windows PC, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is by far the more efficient option – both from the convenience and performance standpoints. Ayush Pande has been using it instead of dual-booting or running GUI-heavy virtual machines on my everyday systems and dev […]

3D Hangouts – BLE NeoPixels, Prop Game and Cooler Can https://youtube.com/live/L0tEFVg-mwA?feature=share This week @adafruit we’re showcasing Pedro’s BLE NeoPixel projects using CLUE. Noe is working on a new handheld game design using PropMaker Feather. This week’s timelapse features a cooler can holder. Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/ble-beacon-neopixels YouTube Video https://youtu.be/OveiOuSnRPM Adafruit CLUE: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4500 QT Py ESP32-S3 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5426 […]

ice458 on GitHub has made an extremely useful tool for folks using PIO on Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350 microcontrollers. This tool is a simulator that allows you to execute and verify the programmable I/O (PIO) assembly code for the RP2040 ( found in the Raspberry Pi Pico) and the RP2350 (found in the Raspberry Pi Pico 2) directly in a […]

image via Avyukt Chhabra, Hackster.io   Hackster.io user Avyukt Chhabra made a color changing lamp to suit their mood with a NeoPixel Ring. A small circular lamp that emits light of the color of your choice, configured using a dashboard on your phone. It uses BlynkIOT & ESP32. Check out the build on Hackster.io and […]

The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is hosting a series of programs celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander heritage all month long.

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 […]

On TikTok, young women are going viral for crafting whimsical homemade computers inside purses. (A) TikTok creator, whose real name is Annike Tan, unveiled her very first build in March with a video partially captioned “fuck it. cunty cyberdeck.” In that TikTok, she puts the hardware together and shows off the frilly details, like a custom […]

thanishurs31 on Instructables has developed a Pi Pico and CircuitPython solution to scan an entire keyboard ribbon cable matrix. The old way to tackle this is the continuity-meter dance — you probe every possible pin pair, draw a grid, cross things out, wonder if that reading was real or just a ghost, and eventually end […]