The inaugural Asheville Mini Maker Faire is coming up fast; it will be held on Saturday April 6th from 1-5 on the UNC Asheville campus. The response from he community has been incredible, and we are expecting to have over 30 exhibitors showing off some amazing projects. I guess that […]
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During the LIVE Microchip Livestream event on March 12, 2019 at 9am PT / 12pm ET US, which is almost right now if you’re just receiving this newsletter Tuesday on schedule. Microchip will be giving away 5 Adafruit PyPortals for IoT Design week! You may also register here for other prizes if you can’t tune in to the live show.
The CircuitPython 4.0.0 Beta 3 release is available here: https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpyth … 0.0-beta.3. This is a beta build of 4.0.0. Beta 3 includes many displayio improvements, bleio fixes, adds rotaryio support to nRF and adds frequencyio to SAMD. There are still issues to fix before a stable release and the new APIs may evolve a bit more, but it’s getting close! Please help test it.
Find the latest binaries for your board on the new website and check GitHub for the full details.
Like making websites and want to help with CircuitPython? We’ve just setup circuitpython.org and can use your help to make it better. PRs welcome here – GitHub.
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“Belay that! Invalid pin for port-side channel.” There are now pirate messages for CircuitPython – GitHub. Add yours, ye matey!
The latest MicroPython newsletter is here and it has updates as well as details on the upcoming pyboard-D series!
A lot of effort has been spent over the past months verifying the stability of the system and making sure it is suitable for robust embedded systems. The new pyboard uses a Cortex-M7 which is a high-performance CPU and we needed to understand the full implications of the advanced features of this CPU and their interaction with the rest of the microcontroller system. We did see some issues when using the external QSPI flash in memory-mapped mode which have now been resolved.
Scott is doing a CircuitPython mentored sprint for diverse beginners at PyCon. A mentored sprint is a newcomer’s introduction to contributing to an open source project. Here is how to contribute to CircuitPython. If you’re going to PyCon and either want to lead a mentored sprint or be part of one, sign up here.
This is pretty neat, a person did a PR and opened an issue for some MIDI control documentation and while they have been coding since 1982, they’re new to Python and GitHub. After reviewing our guides on “Collaborating with version control” and “Contributing to CircuitPython with git and GitHub” they were able to successfully get their PR merged – GitHub.
Meet RED! – Build + Code for a Tea Tin Robot made using Circuit Playground Express and CircuitPython, by Nick– YouTube& Google doc.
Adafruit PyPortal Wedge Box by atmakers – Thingiverse.
The latest Maker Update – Adafruit edition! Flipping switches, free boards for PyCon, shields, swords, robot music, purple rovers, LED legs, neon bikes, Lidar for dogs, and a look at PyPortal – YouTube.
Robo HAT MM1 – An open source robotics and automation controller for Raspberry Pi. Now on Hackaday.io
Making HIDAttacks cute again… PoC to compile DuckyScript to CircuitPython and embed it into a template. This makes it easy to configure it to the board or as way to trigger it, running on MiniSAM– Twitter.
Spicy button by Leon from Python Discord! – YouTube.
@eldritech is experimenting with PyGame Zero GUIs for MicroPython & CircuitPython devices/robots. Video shows responses to mouse activity – Twitter.
@Packratt1 replaced the Arduino controller on a Mystery Science Theater 3000 bot, with an Adafruit CircuitPython based CRICKIT board – Twitter.
Walk through communicating with cellular modems through UART with CircuitPython – GitHub.
Make: Magazine review: Adafruit HalloWing M0 Express – MakeZine.
SparkFun released a ESP32 WROOM board that is Adafruit FEATHER form-factor compatible. At the core of this module is the ESP32-D0WDQ6 chip which is designed to be both scalable and adaptive. To make the Thing Plus even easier to use, they moved a few pins around to make the board Feather compatible. Alasdair Allan on the hackster.io blog writes “With Arduino in the process of abandoning their “classic” form factor that has for some years now been the standard, in favour of something more modern, the community seems instead to be adopting Adafruit’s Feather as the next standard. Nothing suggests that more than the arrival of a SparkFun Feather board.”– hackster.io
Have a magical day, student animated artwork, made with CircuitPython – YouTube.
Joshua Vaughan, Mechanical Engineering Associate Prof. at UL Lafayette, posted up the latest notes and audio from the #MCHE201 lecture, continuing the journey through MicroPython with basic operations in the REPL and blinking LEDs – MCHE 201: Intro to Engineering Design.
Damien George presents his work-in-progress solution to loading native code from MicroPython modules – YouTube.
March 10 Linktastic MicroPython – melbournemicropythonmeetup.github.io
MicroPython board summary – GitHub.
A Logitech Extreme 3D Pro USB Joystick – LE3DPUSBH takes input from the Logitech joystick and outputs JSON on the Trinket M0 UART Tx pin at 921,600 bits/sec. This high speed is used because JSON is verbose – GitHub.
Google Coral Edge TPU: the Coral Dev Board is a single-board-computer that contains an Edge TPU coprocessor. It’s ideal for prototyping new projects that demand fast on-device inferencing for machine learning models. Adafruit has a few on order, we’ll get Blinka, CircuitPython on Linux, running on it – Coral.
Python code to perform basic remote operations with a Rohde and Schwarz RTO1044 Oscilloscope, including waveform capture, display, and FFT – Mind Chasers.
Text-based adventure games that print out in real time, with Quest Smith: the Raspberry Pi Zero W–driven handheld gaming device – YouTube& Raspberry Pi.
Make xkcd-style plots from Python – Hackaday.
Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills – GitHub.
Famous companies and the use of Python – futuremind.com
p2j – Python to Jupyter Notebook. Convert your Python source code to a Jupyter notebook with zero intervention – GitHub.
A collection of Python code snippets and cheatsheets (made for humans) – GitHub.
Discovering Hidden APIs with Python – YouTube& GitHub.
The fourth annual Open Source Yearbook looks back at 20 years of open source and rounds up hot new technologies and trends – opensource.com. The Open Source Yearbook has a lot of good Python related content: Open Source Cheat Sheets Python 3.7, Running a Python application on Kubernetes, is BDFl a death sentence? 10 Hello World programs for your Raspberry Pi, top 8 Python conferences to attend in 2019, and 40 top Linux and open source conferences in 2019.
Data Portability, not Open Source? Is it time for the GPL to die? – Medium.
Redesigning a Github repository page – Nikita.
‘cursewords’ is a “graphical” command line program for solving crossword puzzles in the terminal. It can be used to open files saved in the widely used AcrossLite ‘.puz’ format – GitHub.
Python: the most queried language on Stack Overflow – Global App Testing.
QR Code generator library. This project aims to be the best, clearest library for generating QR Codes – nayuki.io
The state of font rendering on Linux – PandaSauce.
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) suite of tools developed by NSA’s Research Directorate in support of the Cybersecurity mission – ghidra-sre.org, NSA, and GitHub. Screenshot via Trammell.
The two most important software development skills aren’t technical – Atomic Object.
Good quote from Asim, it’s true – Twitter.
#ICYDNCI What was the most popular, most clicked link, in last week’s newsletter?A Halo for Lucy – CircuitPython assistive tech for dogs.
CircuitPython Weekly March 11th, 2019 on YouTube and on diode.zone
PyDev of the Week: Maria Khalusova on Mouse vs Python
Don’t get them wet, don’t put them near light, especially sunlight, and do not feed them after midnight, no matter how much they beg. This seems like a simple set of rules for keeping a pet mogwai from turning into a green monster gremlin, yet, it seems to happen every single time.
“You do with Mogwai what your society has done with all of nature’s gifts! You do not understand! You are not ready”– Mr. Wing (Grandfather)
We’re ready now. With this IoT Wi-Fi alarm clock (video), the mogwais will not be able to sneak around and change the clock, it uses adafruit.io and a time server. The device gets online, gets the time and then has 2 alarms: midnight, lets you know DO NOT FEED, then at 8am, back to being able to feed the mogwai. Made with CircuitPython on the PyPortal – adafruit.com/pyportal
Working up a puppet family photo soon, including Blinka the friendly CircuitPython snake!
Workin’ on a future breakout – this one is an ESP32 breakout board for use with CircuitPython boards as a co-processor or maybe if you want something compact and no USB-serial converter. We are using a Teensy 3.6 with SD card to write the test firmware over serial using the ROM bootloader, run some tests, and then burn the final firmware. It’s slower than command line, but easier to run two at a time, so … we think this is going to work out! – YouTube.
CRICKIT Exhibit Demo Board from Dano Wall
PyPortal Twitter Follows Trophy from John Park
Circuit Playground Express Rocket Lamp from Archie Roques
You can use CircuitPython libraries on Raspberry Pi! We’re updating all of our CircuitPython guides to show how to wire up sensors to your Raspberry Pi, and load the necessary CircuitPython libraries to get going using them with Python. We’ll be including the updates here so you can easily keep track of which sensors are ready to go. Check it out!
Adafruit GPIO Expander Bonnet for Raspberry Pi
Adafruit 15×7 CharliePlex FeatherWing
IS31FL3731 16×9 Charlieplexed PWM LED Driver
CircuitPython support for hardware continues to grow. We are adding support for new sensors and breakouts all the time, as well as improving on the drivers we already have. As we add more libraries and update current ones, you can keep up with all the changes right here!
For the latest drivers, download the Adafruit CircuitPython Library Bundle.
If you’d like to contribute, CircuitPython libraries are a great place to start. Have an idea for a new driver? File an issue on CircuitPython! Interested in helping with current libraries? Check out this GitHub issue on CircuitPython for an overview of the State of the CircuitPython Libraries, updated each week. We’ve included open issues from the library issue lists, and details about repo-level issues that need to be addressed. We have a guide on contributing to CircuitPython with Git and Github if you need help getting started. You can also find us in the #circuitpython channel on the Adafruit Discord. Feel free to contact Kattni (@kattni) with any questions.
You can check out this list of all the CircuitPython libraries and drivers available.
The current number of CircuitPython libraries is 136!
Updated Libraries!
Here’s this week’s updated CircuitPython libraries:
PyPI Download Stats!
We’ve written a special library called Adafruit Blinka that makes it possible to use CircuitPython Libraries on Raspberry Pi and other compatible single-board computers. Adafruit Blinka and all the CircuitPython libraries have been deployed to PyPI for super simple installation on Linux! Here are the top 10 CircuitPython libraries downloaded from PyPI in the last week, including the total downloads for those libraries:
| Library | Last Week | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Adafruit-Blinka | 564 | 18943 |
| Adafruit_CircuitPython_BusDevice | 332 | 9347 |
| Adafruit_CircuitPython_Register | 186 | 2191 |
| Adafruit_CircuitPython_NeoPixel | 152 | 2835 |
| Adafruit_CircuitPython_MotorKit | 90 | 1158 |
| Adafruit_CircuitPython_ServoKit | 89 | 755 |
| Adafruit_CircuitPython_BME280 | 86 | 1199 |
| Adafruit_CircuitPython_PCA9685 | 80 | 1076 |
| Adafruit_CircuitPython_Motor | 77 | 1135 |
| Adafruit_CircuitPython_LIS3DH | 59 | 1014 |
KiCon is a KiCad user focused conference. Held for the first time ever, April 26th and 27th 2019 in Chicago IL. Adafruit is a sponsor – kicad-kicon.com
PyCon 2019 returns May 1–9, 2019 to Cleveland, OH – with talks, tutorials, sprints, and more!
Big news! Digi-Key and Adafruit have teamed up for PyCon 2019 so every attendee (about 4,000!) will receive a SPECIAL EDITION Circuit Playground Express, running … CircuitPython.
This effort is to get Python on hardware to the most folks out there, at the events that bring people together.
This is just one of many efforts we’re teaming up with Digi-Key to continue to fuel all the developers from beginners to pro, using Python on microcontrollers.
What else is happening? The CircuitPython team will be running several Open Spaces sessions (as they did last year), showing how to use CircuitPython on the Digi-Key / Adafruit PyCon special edition Circuit Playground Express. We’ll have extra addons to play with also: potentiometers, NeoPixel strips, and servos. The team will be running a CircuitPython Sprint for several days to work on CircuitPython libraries and CircuitPython core code. BYOMUSB “Bring your own Micro USB” cables, we’ll have some to borrow during the sprints/sessions, as well as some USB C adapters, good idea to bring one too!
The PyCon 2019 conference, which will take place in Cleveland, is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. It is produced and underwritten by the Python Software Foundation, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing and promoting Python. Through PyCon, the PSF advances its mission of growing the international community of Python programmers.
We will have a lot more updates, stay tuned to the Adafruit blog, Twitter, Discord, and more!
CircuitPython’s stable release is 3.1.2 and its unstable release is 4.0.0-beta.3. New to CircuitPython? Start with our Welcome to CircuitPython Guide.
20190311 is the latest CircuitPython library bundle.
v1.10 is the latest MicroPython release. Documentation for it is here.
3.7.2 is the latest Python release. The latest pre-release version is 3.8.0a2.
1076 Stars Like CircuitPython? Star it on GitHub!
We recently posted on the Adafruit blog about bringing CircuitPython messaging to other languages, one of the exciting features of CircuitPython 4.x is translated control and error messages. Native language messages will help non-native English speakers understand what is happening in CircuitPython even though the Python keywords and APIs will still be in English. If you would like to help, please post to the main issue on GitHub and join us on Discord.
We made this graphic with translated text, we could use your help with that to make sure we got the text right, please check out the text in the image – if there is anything we did not get correct, please let us know. Dan sent me this handy site too.
The Adafruit Discord community, where we do all our CircuitPython development in the open, reached over 11,057 humans, thank you! Join today! https://adafru.it/discord
On March 6, 2019, one of our PnP (pick and place) machines recorded over 4 million produced boards!
We reached:
And a lot of these are what you’d expect, CircuitPython running electronics! Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, Adafruit Feather M0 Express, Adafruit Feather M4 Express, Adafruit Feather nRF52840 Express, Adafruit GEMMA M0, Adafruit Grand Central M4 Express featuring the SAMD51, Adafruit HalloWing M0 Express, Adafruit ItsyBitsy M0, Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4, Adafruit METRO M0 Express, Adafruit Metro M4, Adafruit NeoTrellis M4, Adafruit Trinket M0, Adafruit PyPortal.
On March 8, 2019 @ 7:55 pm ET the 2,000,000 order was placed on adafruit.com for an Adafruit FONA 808 – Mini Cellular GSM + GPS Breakout, Adafruit Ultimate GPS FeatherWing, Mini GSM/Cellular Quad-Band Antenna – 2dBi SMA Plug, Adafruit Feather M0 with RFM95 LoRa Radio – 900MHz – RadioFruit, Adalogger FeatherWing – RTC + SD Add-on For All Feather Boards, and included the free items: Adafruit Perma-Proto Half-sized Breadboard PCB, Boomy the BoomBox – Limited Edition Enamel Pin. We emailed the 2,000,000th customer and here is what they had to say…
I love adafruit, and point out to my daughters that I order cool stuff from adafruit because it’s a woman owned business, and Limor demonstrably shows that its OK to be in tech, be yourself (and have cool hair), although I’m partial to mohawks. Lol. You guys are freakin’ awesome! I purchased items for my tortoise tracker (yes… really… he escaped and managed to scuttle a mile away or so, while I was like 3d printing, LoRa and GPS for the win!). The fact that I happened to be the lucky customer makes it just that much more awesome. Thank you so much, and thank you for being an amazing company and a true inspiration – Old dude with a mohawk.
On November 13, 2018 @ 3:18 pm ET the 1,900,000 order was placed for a Lock-sport Pick Set!. On July 23, 2018 at 1:55 pm ET the 1,500,000 order was placed for a Raspberry Pi Zero W. On January 27, 2016 @ 10:49:52am ET the 1,000,000th order was placed for a Mini-Theremin Kit from Gakken. On October 16th, 20015 @ 09:24:46am we hit 900,000 orders – Previously on June 2 2015 at 10:50am we hit 800,000 orders!On Feb, 6 2015 at 6:06am ET we hit our 700,000th order! On October 6th, 2014 we hit our 600,000th order. On May 14, 2014 we hit our 500,000th order. Before that in December of 2013 we hit 400,0000 orders and then previously in June of 2013 we hit our 300,000 orders. On November 25th, 2012 we hit 200,000 orders. In August of 2011 we hit 100,000 orders.
The first order since we started counting orders this way was placed on October 12th, 2005 for a x0xb0x. Thank you everyone in the community for all the support, everyone here at Adafruit is here because of our community, we do not have loans or venture capital, we are a 100% woman owned, open-source hardware company, manufacturing in NYC, Adafruit exists because of all you. Special thanks to Daigo today as well, good timing. It also happened on #InternationWomensDay. And it looks like our CFO Stella guessed what day we’d hit the milestone within 24 hours AGAIN. Thank you! Ladyada and the entire team at Adafruit.
The wonderful world of Python on hardware! This is the video-newsletter-podcast that we’ve started! All the news comes from the Python community, Discord, Adafruit communities and more. It’s part of the weekly newsletter, then we have a segment on ASK an ENGINEER and this is the video slice from that! The complete Python on Hardware weekly videocast playlist is here.
This video podcast is on iTunes, YouTube, IGTV (Instagram TV), and XML.
Weekly community chat on Adafruit Discord server CircuitPython channel – Audio / Podcast edition– Audio from the Discord chat space for CircuitPython, meetings are usually Mondays at 2pm ET, this is the audio version on iTunes, Pocket Casts, Spotify, and XML feed.
The CircuitPython Weekly Newsletter is a CircuitPython community-run newsletter emailed every Tuesday. The complete archives are here. It highlights the latest CircuitPython related news from around the web including Python and MicroPython developments. To contribute, edit next week’s draft on GitHub and submit a pull request with the changes. Join our Discord or post to the forum for any further questions.
Stephen B. Hirsch had some great security ideas back in 1980 to solve an issues with push button locks:
Hirsch developed a lock that solved most problems common with previous push button locks:
You start the combination entry process by pressing the Start button in the lower left. A scramble animation appears on the 10 positions shown in the picture below. Then the user enters a set combination of digits and presses the lower right blank key. If the combination is correct, the controller unlocks access and logs the access in a database. The use can be coupled with needing a card swipe card.
What were these things used for?
Both private and government installations used these types of control systems. This company describes using it in a nuclear facility for example. Given the cost, the facility would require a substantial security budget for installation and assess database maintenance.
Can I try this on the Internet?
Sure! Twitter user Matt Boldt coded this simulation in Javascript with available source code (MIT License). Thanks Matt!
Do you want your own?
You can find the keypads on eBay, but for a full system you need the 1, 2, or 8 position control units and programming software which is expensive. Hirsch systems are still sold commercially on security websites.
These devices are a lot less common now as they do not generally meet current federal standards for some types of use.
If you want to simulate this on your own device, you can look to use an LCD touchscreen with simulated buttons.
Thanks to a Twitter post by Cabel for sparking this look.
Are you interested in security systems? Let us know in the comments below.
The Adapt BB sneaker is Nike’s new self-lacing basketball shoe, Via Highsnobioty
The idea is that athletes need different fits for different situations, whether it be in-game, during practice, or during a timeout. To reach peak performance, you might want to lock down your foot and make sure the Adapt BB fits snug. If you’re resting, either on the bench or not playing as hard during practice, you might want to loosen the shoe to maximize blood flow.
Nike notes that an athlete’s foot changes during a game. Eric Avar, Nike VP creative direction of innovation says, “During a normal basketball game the athlete’s foot changes and the ability to quickly change your fit by loosening your shoe to increase blood flow and then tighten again for performance is a key element that we believe will improve the athlete’s experience.”
The real game-changer, though, is that different tensions can be saved as pre-sets on the app, meaning that a simple tap of the finger is enough to go from bench-mode to beast-mode. One potential pitfall to that feature is that if your phone runs out of battery, you’ll have to adjust the fit via the buttons on the side and won’t have access to your pre-set fits.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
From pydist.com comes an analysis of data on the growth in Python from 2005 to 2018.
One of the cool things about building a PyPI mirror is having so much data about the Python ecosystem at my fingertips. I decided to explore how the ecosystem has been evolving since PyPI was created in 2003. Most of my analysis starts at 2005, since that’s when PyPI added the
upload_timefield.
The Python ecosystem has been steadily growing throughout this period. After the first few years of hyper growth as PyPI gained near-full adoption in the Python community, the number of packages actively developed each year—meaning they had at least one release or new distribution uploaded—has increased 28% to 48% every year.
The most surprising result I stumbled upon came from looking at the number of releases per package. Some of these I was expecting based on my personal experience upgrading dependencies frequently, such as AWS’s botocore at #15. But the cryptocurrency trading library ccxt immediately stood out like a sore thumb. With 4659 releases at time of writing, it has more than 3 times as many releases as any other package—despite being less than 2 years old! Its libraries.io page usually times out after 30 seconds when I try to load it. I am not sure whether this is excellent or terrible maintainership, but it is certainly impressive.
Another interesting thing to look at is how practices around distributing Python packages are changing. The biggest change was of course the release of Python 3. Binary wheels, introduced in 2012 and codified in PEP 427, are generally accepted as the best way to distribute Python packages. But adoption among package authors has taken time. Python Wheels tracks the adoption of wheels among PyPI’s 360 most downloaded packages; at time of writing 82.5% of them include wheel distributions in their releases. The long tail of the other >60k packages is lagging a bit behind, but the percentage of all releases that include at least 1 wheel distribution is growing steadily and just crossed 50% in 2018.
Not a parent, but this project from Ish Ot Jr. on Hackster.io seems like it could be pretty helpful:
My wife and I recently had a baby, and often find that when we hand off responsibility for her to each other, we lack the necessary context possessed only by the previous caregiver, e.g. when she last ate, had her diaper changed, or how much/when she last slept. When I learned about NXP’s Rapid IoT Prototyping Kit it seemed like the ideal platform to prototype my idea – a robust wearable that users can keep on their wrists like a watch, so that they never have to wonder where they left it or fumble around for it while already trying to hold/feed/sooth a baby. In conjunction with the Atmosphere cloud-based IDE, I was able to quickly realize a sophisticated prototype of my planned functionality. 💭👶📟💡
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
Don’t throw out those odd Socks! Check out all the fantastic ideas in this collection of super cute Sock Animal Tutorials.
They are so cute that you’ll want to make every single one of them and they’re quick and easy even for a sewing novice!
We’ve included an assortment of the most adorable ideas. You are so going to love the Owls, Hedgehogs, Hippos, Crocs, Sheep, Monkeys and more. The only issue you will have is which one to make the first!
Be sure to scroll our page to the end to check out all the inspiration and don’t forget to Pin your favorites.
via Craft Passion
This Sock Lion has been very popular for the creator and it’s one of many great designs on the site.
You don’t need any skills whatsoever to whip up these super cute Bunnies and they are perfect as gifts for family and friends.
via Craft Passion
These Sock Monkeys are so cheeky and it’s hardly surprising that everyone has fallen in love with them.
via Craft Passion
Another super cute idea is this Unicorn Whale. Be sure to add him to your must make list.
via Craft Passion
Pandas are huge favorites in our community and who could resist these cuties? They are just so adorable!
via craft passion
Add an Owl to your collection or the whole family! These super cute Owls are an easy pattern you’ll love.
via Craft Passion
OMGee! A recent addition to the creator’s site are these fabulous Pug Dogs and they are easier than you think to make.
We found this super cute Sock Owl on Grace3636 there is no actual tutorial but you can see the very cute results. Such a great job and you can follow the steps outlined above.
Meeeow! These Sock Kittens are another easy project that comes with an excellent photo tutorial.
via Craft Passion
This Bunny is perfect for Easter or any time at all and the lop ears make it particularly appealing.
This adorable Pussycat is easy to make and looks great. You can follow along with the video tutorial.
Love these Sock Penguins and no roundup is complete without them. Where will you pop them in your home?
via Craft Passion
Don’t you love this Sock Elephant? We think they are incredibly adorable, particularly the baby.
via stranamasterov
You have to make these fabulous Sock Crabs and they look particularly striking with the striped socks.
We love Hello Kitty and if you do too, this is another must make on your list. You can get the translated version on the site.
via Etsy
While we’re still on the subject of Sock Dogs, there is an Etsy Store that sells these incredibly cute Mutts. Are they the sweetest ever?
Does it get any cuter than this Sock Hedgehog! The pom pom detail makes him very unique.
via Craft Passion
We love these Sock Sheep and their very cute outfits. We bet you make the whole family!
Nothing is quite as cute as a Kangaroo and now you can make a whole family of them including baby Joey’s.
via one creative mommy
Whilst not technically an animal, we couldn’t resist including this super easy Olaf Sock Craft. The kids will love to try him too.
via youtube
What roundup would be complete without featuring a Sock Hippo. This one caught our eye and with good reason.
via the keeper of the cheerios
Perfect for Easter, these adorable Sock friends include bunnies and chickens. They make great gifts too.
The Sock Bunny is perfect to make for Spring or Easter, in fact, any time at all. As you can see, this version is particularly easy.
via Craft Passion
Another popular sock animal is this Sock Dragon that is again from Craft Passion. The site is filled with the most amazing ideas so be sure to visit.
via grosgrain fab
Keep the drafts out with this Sock Snake that is the perfect project for all those mismatched socks that go missing in the wash.
Another version of the super cute Elephant, we adore this version with his striped hat.
via Craft Passion
No Sock Animal Collection is complete without the addition of a Sock Sloth and now thanks to Craft Passion, you can make one.
via sweet pea and me
This Daschund Dog would make a great door stop or you could pop him on your bed. He sure is cute!
Dear Summit Sponsor,
We wanted you to hear it from us, the 2019 Summit is being pushed out until Spring. There is a full blog post here but this is the summary.
At the end of the 2018 Summit OSHWA announced that it would be holding the 2019 Open Hardware Summit in Shenzhen, China. Many members of the OSHW community were also very excited for the opportunity to travel to a location that is so central to manufacturing innovation. Unfortunately, in 2017 China implemented a law governing the activities of non-Chinese NGOs operating in China. This law created a number of bureaucratic hurdles for organizations like OSHWA that were interested in holding events in China. OSHWA was unable to find a registered NGO who would host us and take on the amount of paperwork necessary to locate the Summit in Shenzhen.
Since a quarter of our planning period is over, and since we’ve heard from many people the fall is getting crowded with too many events, we have decided to push this year’s Summit to the Spring of 2020 in the US. We are hoping that makes your lives easier!
This guide covers some of the more common ways in which a Raspberry Pi can be damaged during use. It also provides some simple command line diagnostics you can run to help troubleshoot issues. If you are new to Raspberry Pi, or wondering why yours might be acting up, this is a good guide to read through. Also, it will grow with time, so check back every now and then to see if any new nuggets of knowledge have been added.
And, as always, have fun!
Click here to check out the guide.
A St Patty’s approved wearable project from the Elizabeth Hogan on YouTube:
DIY tutorial to make a Shamrock Jacket using wearable electronics
Thanks for sharing!
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
Solar panels + bilge pump = nonstop running water for boats, castles, and water fights!
The post Sun-Fueled Beach Hose appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers.
You won’t be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this Adafruit CharliePlex LED Matrix Display Bonnet. This 16×8 LED display can be placed atop any Raspberry Pi computer with a 2×20 connector, for a beautiful, bright grid of 128 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C.
We carry these Bonnets in a few vivid colors – this is the cool white LED matrix.
What is particularly nice about this Wing is the I2C LED driver chip has the ability to PWM each individual LED in a 16×8 grid so you can have beautiful LED lighting effects, without a lot of pin twiddling. Simply tell the chip which LED on the grid you want lit, and what brightness and it’s all taken care of for you. You get 8-bit (256 level) dimming for each individual LED.
The IS31FL3731 is a nice little chip – and it runs happily over 3.3V power. Inside is enough RAM for 8 separate frames of display memory so you can set up multiple frames of an animation and flip them to be displayed with a single command. Since it uses I2C, it takes up only the SDA/SCL pins on your Pi and can share those pins with other I2C devices and sensors.
Comes fully assembled, no soldering required, so you can plug it in immediately. To program it, you’ll use our CircuitPython library, which works with Linux computers like Raspberry Pi. After a pip install, run some of the examples to display simple graphics or text.
Next up, the Yellow LEDs!
You won’t be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this Adafruit CharliePlex LED Matrix Display Bonnet. This 16×8 LED display can be placed atop any Raspberry Pi computer with a 2×20 connector, for a beautiful, bright grid of 128 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C.
We carry these Bonnets in a few vivid colors – this is the yellow LED matrix.
What is particularly nice about this Wing is the I2C LED driver chip has the ability to PWM each individual LED in a 16×8 grid so you can have beautiful LED lighting effects, without a lot of pin twiddling. Simply tell the chip which LED on the grid you want lit, and what brightness and it’s all taken care of for you. You get 8-bit (256 level) dimming for each individual LED.
The IS31FL3731 is a nice little chip – and it runs happily over 3.3V power. Inside is enough RAM for 8 separate frames of display memory so you can set up multiple frames of an animation and flip them to be displayed with a single command. Since it uses I2C, it takes up only the SDA/SCL pins on your Pi and can share those pins with other I2C devices and sensors.
Comes fully assembled, no soldering required, so you can plug it in immediately. To program it, you’ll use our CircuitPython library, which works with Linux computers like Raspberry Pi. After a pip install, run some of the examples to display simple graphics or text.
JOHN PARK’S WORKSHOP — LIVE! Coming up at 4pm ET / 1pm PT this Thursday! LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat!
Plus, MakeCode Minute, Product of the Week, Tools & Techniques, and more.
The live video will be on Youtube LIVE, Twitch, Periscope (Twitter) and Facebook.
Join maker John Park in his workshop each week as he builds, demos, hacks, and mods projects live on air! “John Park’s Workshop — LIVE” is the place to see creative projects come to life, as John uses a wide variety of tools and techniques to make everything from mystery boxes to pinball controllers to drink robots, using digital fabrication, hand and power tools, microcontrollers, and more. Come on into the chat to participate in the fun! Every Thursday @ 4pm ET/1pm PT!
A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System – CRICKIT Exhibit Demonstration Board.
Easily create a demonstration board showing all the capabilities of the CRICKIT robotics controller. This version uses the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express microcontroller, the all-in-one learning board.
The project is programmed in CircuitPython in easy to understand steps. Just copy the code over like a flash drive and it runs!
See this new guide here and a demo video below.
Are you a CRICKIT and/or Circuit Playground Express fan? Let us know in the comments below.
There are 10’s of millions of people that are affected by Diabetes 2 and the number is gaining momentum every minute of every day.
The good news is that many health professionals are being vocal about how Diabetes 2 can be reversed. It may not be the message of the Pharmaceutical Companies but once you understand the condition and the cause, you can treat. Today we are sharing some information that you can digest and further research yourself.
This infographic outlines the difference between type 1 and type 2 Diabetes. The difference is that you have an excellent chance of changing the outcome with type 2 and it is to do with lifestyle.
Altering your food and moving towards a Mediterranean Diet and increasing your mobility and exercise can have profound effects resulting in reversing your condition according to many. 
This infographic from WebMd shows how Diabetes impairs major organs. Hearing, Eyesight, Kidneys and nerve damage are just some of the consequences.
Heart health and gum disease as well as skin infections also make the list. The consequences are worth addressing.
Here is a great infographic that shows you 8 foods to add to your diet. Almonds, dark chocolate, coffee, apple cider vinegar all make the list. We all know the benefits of Green Tea too. Be sure to pin.
Can a person be “cured” of Type 2 Diabetes? Dr. Sarah Hallberg provides compelling evidence you can.
She has consistently exceeded national benchmarks for weight loss and has been highly successful in reversing diabetes and other metabolic diseases. Click Play above to hear her thoughts ^
