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Hey everyone, I wanted to share the first milestone of my DIY smart grow tent project. To give you some context: I started getting into these kinds of hardware/AI projects about 2-3 weeks ago in general, and this specific tent project is only about 1 week…

Anne Trafton at MIT News reports on a robotic enteroscope built by MIT engineers to travel through the small intestine. The organ runs more than 20 feet and is about an inch across, which makes it hard to reach.…

Repair Café International marked the first anniversary of its Linux Repair Café starter kit on repaircafe.org. The kit is a guide for running sessions where visitors bring an old laptop and leave with Linux Mint installed.…

Happy National Cat Day! All animal friends are great, but here at Adafruit we happen to have a particular fondness for felines who love electronics and engineering, like the cats you see here, from our Cats of Engineering page!…

Bonhams reports that the “Hatfield” Apple-1 sold for $1.15 million at its History of Science, Technology & Computing sale, which closed on October 14. Two bidders fought over it for 28 minutes.…

Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Twisty Stress-Relief Eyeball By MAX WORKSHOP crealitycloud.com/model-detail/stress-relief-eye-ball-toy Bambu X1C PolyMaker…

MIT Technology Review marks 50 years of EMACS, one of the first full-screen text editors and still in use today. It grew out of TECO, a text editor Dan Murphy wrote in 1962 for the PDP-1 at MIT, and Carl Mikkelsen’s Control-R add-on from 1971, which…

Build a holiday inspired wreath that lights up with animated NeoPixel LEDs! This project uses the Adafruit Sparkle Motion Mini, 12 NeoPixel JST breakouts and matching cables so there’s no soldering required.…

3D Hangouts – Holiday Wreath, DIY HomeView and Twisty Eyeball https://youtube.com/live/60gsCGmLxzw?feature=share This week @adafruit Noe is showcasing his guide for his lego brick inspired holiday wreath.…

yujixun shares: A protective case for ESP32-S3 development boards (44-pin layout, ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 and N16R8 variants). Supports both PINNED and PINLESS configurations with separate print profiles. Wi-Fi pattern on top for a tech-themed look.…

A free 3D-printable LED lamp driven by Arduino Uno + Adafruit NeoPixel ring. Electronics: NeoPixel ring with 24 LEDs, Arduino Uno (NeoPixel data on pin 2), uses the Adafruit NeoPixel library. Fire-effect light pattern flickers randomly.…

lynj shares: A ribbed pumpkin centered in an intertwined branch ring, with layered flowers, maple + oak leaves, wheat, acorns, and buds. Open center. Fall wall decor. Printed in Wood & Matte PLA (just as beautiful only in Matte).…

The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi).…

A case for a Raspberry Pi 5 with the official AI HAT installed, plus a camera mount on top — an ‘all-in-one setup to tinker with the AI Module.’ Great fit for Adafruit’s Pi + machine-learning audience exploring vision pipelines or on-device AI.…

It’s JOHN PARK’S WORKSHOP — LIVE! — Coming up at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Today! LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat! Projects: M-Vave FM-1 Firmware Flasher CircuitPython Parsec Learn Guides Gear Report Tool Tips CAD: Adafruit Circuit Designer…

woodquarter shares: A tiny seasonal collection: pumpkin, pinecone, ghost, mushroom, chestnut, apple, acorn, and maple leaf — each with its own face. Small autumn decorations, gifts, or party favors.…

Shared by Fleetwood on Maker World: These Christmas ornaments use twisted ribs to create a lightweight, flowing shape that changes depending on the viewing angle.…

Ananthu Ashok, writing at Open Source For You, covers Hermes, an open source push-to-talk voice assistant that pairs an ESP32 with a Windows PC.…

MAXXTANG published a project on Hackster.io that puts a USB-only Brother HL-1110 laser printer on a WiFi network using an ESP32-S3. The computer prepares the job with the normal Brother driver and sends it to TCP port 9100.…

Synthhead at Synthtopia looks at a run of recent announcements that let musicians replace or extend the software running on their hardware. The starting point is the M-Vave FM-1, a low-cost FM synthesizer that drew independent developers writing their own…