The “Enchanted Cottage” is a project by Andy Clark with the aim of upgrading a traditional german “wetter haus” with a new mechanism and electronics running on Arduino Yún: The mechanics were replaced with a servo and 3D printed parts designed to make the movement linear rather than arcing as in the traditional approach. The figures…
We add to Raspberry Pi a TFT touch screen to display the system console, movies and favorite photos or control a relay board … at your fingertips, literally! To avoid using an HDMI monitor the cost well above that of Raspberry Pi, in previous articles we have always gone the way of connecting remotely to the…
During the last Maker Faire Bay Area held in San Francisco on May, 15th-17th, we had the incredible chance to meet Mr. Massimo Banzi in flesh and bones. Our CEO Arsenio Spadoni seized the opportunity and interview him, giving Massimo a further chance to explain the complex situation Arduino.cc is facing in the legal dispute…
Look at this beautiful teardown project on adafruit of the amazing Ringly BT wearable device. Ringly is a bluetooth notification device build into a metal and stone cocktail ring. The light on the side flashes different colors when you get texts, emails, etc. and it buzzes to get your attention. via Inside Ringly | Ringly Teardown…
Interesting news from Adafruit Today is “open source Nest” day it seems! We are considering doing an open source Nest based on the Raspberry Pi if there’s enough interest – designed by Adafruit & Mike Doell. Here are the renderings Mike is working on. via Should Adafruit build an open source Raspberry Pi based “Nest”…
Today we introduce a great LCD expansion shield for Raspberry Pi that allows you to create an interface to control applications without the need to constantly keep a monitor, keyboard and mouse connected. Cool! Isn’t it? The enhanced value of a micro PC as Raspberry Pi with respect to a classic microcontroller is to…
Improve your visibility with a glowing bike helmet! Becky Stern mods up a Carrera folding helmet with LED strip in the grooves that helps navigate you to the nearest Citi Bike station with a FLORA GPS. Full tutorial: http://learn.adafruit.com/citi-bike-helmet/ via Citi Bike “Smart” Helmet Navigates to the Nearest Station – YouTube.
Limor Fried aka Ladyada is the founder of the Adafruit Industries. Besides having been featured on Wired’s cover she is a continue inspiration for hackers and entrepreneurs worldwide. We had the chance to interview her on a quite long bunch of topics and she was so awesome to find time to answer. —————————————————————————————————————————- (CC…
Check out these inspiring Arduino pin-out diagrams from “pighixxx” member of our community in the Adafruit Forums, the MEGA (above) and Leonardo (below) An incredible Pinout diagram from the Adafruit community. There’s also the Leonardo, check out the link! via Arduino MEGA and Leonardo Pinout Diagrams « adafruit industries blog.
Adafruit launches a new platform for the development of wearable devices: Gemma is a tiny wearable platform board with a lot of might in a 1″ diameter package. Powered by a Attiny85 and programmable with an Arduino IDE over USB, you’ll be able to realize any wearable project! via Adafruit: Gemma – Miniature wearable…
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