Whenever the staff at GamePro Magazine received artwork or screenshots from a game publisher, they backed it up on a CD and organized it in a set of binders for future reference. The Video Game History Foundation has been given the collection for preservation. As part of our preservation mission, we’ve been digitizing the GamePro […]

Obsessed with your Circuit Playground Board like we are? Well, why don’t you wear it? Create your own Circuit Playground Wearable using 3D Printing and flexible material to make a bumper and 2-piece strap. Check out our full guide here: https://learn.adafruit.com/circuit-playground-wearable

Ian Scott, vintage computing enthusiast and maker of the Raspberry Pi Pico-powered PicoGUS soundcard and CD drive emulator for classic computers, has teased a new creation designed to add easily-controllable storage to IDE-based systems: the PicoIDE. Disk images — .ISO and .BIN & .CUE for CD-ROMs, .IMG, .HDA, .VHD, and .HDF for hard drives — […]

Today we celebrate Dr. Karletta Chief, a Diné hydrologist, best known for her work to address environmental pollution on the Navajo Nation and increase the participation of Native Americans in STEM. You can find a video on Dr. Chief’s work from Science Friday. From a profile on the University News of University of Missouri-Kansas City Karletta […]

This project is a no-code habit tracker built with the Adafruit MagTag, designed to help you monitor three daily habits and keep streaks alive…all without writing a single line of code. Using Adafruit IO Wippersnapper and IO Actions, you’ll set up a fully functional system that tracks progress, displays streaks, and lets you check off […]

Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, TODAY! Check out the livestream right here inside this product page you won’t want to miss it because there will be a HUGE DISCOUNT during the show! Tune in […]

Itiner-e created the first digital map of ancient Roman roadways. Throughout Europe and beyond traces of the intricate highway system still exist. Explore for yourself, there is a host of features with tutorials on how to use the various tools The roads of the Roman Empire restructured mobility in the Mediterranean area. This animation movie […]

Design beautiful customizable luminary lanterns for your home or garden. Cut them out on a vinyl cutter or laser cutter, and fill them with light using a Circuit Playground Bluefruit Express and Adafruit’s NeoPixel rings. Add custom color animations and control the lanterns with Adafruit’s BlueFruit app. Check out the guide from Erin St. Blaine […]

No sillies, it’s not Don Johnson OR Sonny Crockett. It’s John Park with this week’s product pick, the SPA06-003 Temperature + Pressure Sensor. Click play to learn more about this sensor and how to use it Want more JP’s Product Pick of the Week?! Tune in every Tuesday at 4pm ET and 1pm PT on […]

In this video from Jamie’s Brick Jams, you’ll see how Jamie makes an engine that can withstand the temperatures of steam and work!

Ellis Clayton designed a fully revertible modification for a Vornado 633DC fan to control it remotely over WiFi. The final result is concealed entirely within the fan’s housing, leaving no visible modification. The process was conceived in wanting to adjust the fan remotely. Due to the fan’s design, speed was regulated via a simple potentiometer. […]

Hardware hacker Vimpo takes a generic lightbulb purchased off the Chinese site AliExpress and cuts in to find a 192 BL602 MHz RISC-V core microcontroller with 276KB of RAM and 128KN of ROM. Soldering some wires to the microcontroller provides access to the Linux operating system installed on the board. Does one put Doom on […]

For decades, Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) has been both a blessing and a curse. It’s the reason Python is simple, predictable, and approachable, but also the reason it’s struggled with true multithreading. Developers have cursed it, optimized around it, and even built entire architectures to dodge it. Now, with the upcoming changes in Python 3.13 […]

Over on Mastodon, Rob Ricci posts: While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing Unix V4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973. Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum. Unix V4 was the first version in which the kernel was […]

Adafruit GFX graphics core Arduino library, this is the 'core' class that all our other graphics libraries derive from - adafruit/Adafruit-GFX-Library

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 […]

He Chunhui has created the Tiny386 emulator, which turns a ESP32-S3 microcontroller board into a 386-powered desktop PC. Tiny386 is a x86 PC emulator written in C99. The highlight of the project is its portability. It now boots Windows 9x/NT on a microcontroller such as ESP32-S3. The core of the project is a built-from-scratch, simple […]

The TR-909 has given funky rhythm to tracks like Technotronic’s Pump Up The Jam, Madonna’s Vogue, Aphex Twinn’s Heliosphan, and Daft Punk’s Revolution 909. Captain Pikant uses these and many more tracks to tell the tale of the Roland 909. Here’s more on the documentary from Captain Pikant: The Roland TR-909 has shaped the sound […]

Three drones work in tandem to maneuver through a tight obstacle. via TU Delft on YouTube   A single drone is pretty limited in its carrying capacity. Researchers at Netherlands’ TU Delft have developed a new algorithm that lets multiple drones work together on a single load. On the surface it sounds somewhat mundane but […]

via MIT MIT researchers are utilizing AI and classic computer vision to help robots create real-time sub-maps of their environment, which it stitches together to reconstruct a full 3D map in relation to its position. The research can help robots navigate real-world search-and-rescue situations. A robot searching for workers trapped in a partially collapsed mine […]

Alexandra Bastet Stehr built a groovy project with a Raspberry Pi Pico to emulate classic ’70s computers like the Apple I. The 70’s Board contains a Pico along with an SD card interface and two RS232 serial ports, most common on computers of the era. Display and keyboard? One must use a terminal connected via […]