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Surprise! It’s the Barbie content you had no idea you needed. We absolutely love Max Vega’s build and the video results.

Bring more camera fun into your life with MEMENTO!

Sound healing combines therapeutic frequencies with tarot readings to balance energy, promote healing, and enhance intuition for mind, body, and spiritual wellness.

The Knight of Cups tarot card symbolizes romance, creativity, and intuition. Explore its meaning, emotional depth, and how it guides love, dreams, and inner growth.

Jonathan Gitlin, automotive editor at Ars Technica, on Tesla’s vaporware event last night:

Over time, Musk claimed the operating costs of his Cybercab would be 20 cents per mile, “and yes you’ll be able to buy one,” he told the crowd to excited shrieks. “We expect the cost to be below $30,000,” Musk said, before expounding on a business model where instead of the company owning and operating these allegedly revenue-generating assets itself, they are instead owned by private individuals who each give Tesla its regular cut. This week another four top executives left the company in advance of last night’s event, including “the global vehicle automation and safety policy lead.”

“It’s going to be a glorious future,” Musk said, albeit not one that applies to families or groups of three or more.

Musk claims that Tesla “expects to start” fully unsupervised FSD next year on public roads in California and Texas. A recent analysis by an independent testing firm found the current build requires human intervention about once every 13 miles, often on roads it has used before.

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Donald F. Trump, yesterday in Detroit:

“Do you like autonomous? Does anybody like an autonomous vehicle? Know what that is? Right? When you see a car driving along? Some people do, I don’t know. A little concerning to me, but the autonomous vehicles we’re going to stop from operating.”

This, on the very day Tesla was set to hold a high-profile event to promote autonomous vehicles. This, after Elon Musk dropped to his knees and begged for Trump’s approval — exactly as Trump predicted Musk would — at one of Trump’s Hitlerjugend rallies just last week.

It’s almost enough to make you think Trump is only in it for himself and will eventually betray and humiliate every single person who believes he’s on their side, and that his screws are now so loose that it only takes days, not weeks or months, for him to forget who his ostensible oligarchic allies are.

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PiMyLifeUp shares how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a Wi-Fi router using Pi-Fi.

PiFi is a distribution that makes setting up your Raspberry Pi as a speedy OpenWrt-based Wi-Fi router significantly easier. It is definitely a project you will want to consider using if you want a super portable travel router.

OpenWrt, for those who do not know, is an open-source operating system with a focus on network routing. It has become a popular choice for anyone wanting to set up their very own router. PiFi utilizes its own customized version with improvements to work better on the Raspberry Pi and be controllable through their app.

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Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!

With some sensors, servos and of course a Raspberry Pi, you can create some spooky effects. Hack into store bought props to induce the ultimate chills.

NetworkChuck set up a haunted house to scare his daughters. The power of the Pi lets you set the level of scares. He goes through 1,2,3….and 4!

This is my Raspberry Pi Haunted house. In this video, I’m going to show you how to program your Raspberry Pi in Python to scare EVERYONE for Halloween. For a solid basic scare, all you’ll need is a Raspberry Pi and some speakers. For more advanced users….you’re going to have some fun.

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Learn all about PIR Motion Sensor to create your own motion triggered props like Erin St Blaine’s Fog Machine with Motion Sensor and Adafruit IO

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Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, Discord, Instagram or Twitter [aka X]– (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). You can also send us a blog tip!

Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!

Solar Cycle 25 has been an exciting one for sure, with many X-level solar flares and a few excellent opportunities for those of us who live around 41 degrees latitude to see auroral activity.

This past week several notable flares corresponded with large Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) that were Earth effective. One of those flares impacted earth and produced a Major G4 Geomagnetic storm (in fact, it was just a tick below the level of Extreme G5). The CME impacted earth after 1500z Oct 10, causing the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF/Bz) to point south, creating perfect conditions for aurora.

Here in RI, last light was around 6:45 PM local time and by 7:15 we were in a remote area with good views to the North, East, and West.  The display was stunningly bright to the naked eye.  At one point the red/pink color in the sky was so intense that I noticed the ground was reflecting the color.  The photos below were taken between 23:20 and 23:30 UTC.

The Geomagnetic storm continued for almost 12 hours as shown in the Space Weather Prediction Center graph below.

As always two wonderful sources for Amateur Radio operators interested in solar condition are:

• https://solarham.com/
• https://www.spaceweather.com/

Space Weather Prediction Center record of K Index showing severe conditions around October 10

Photo by author taken around 23:25 UTC in Exeter Rhode Island

Photo by author taken around 23:20 UTC in Exeter RI

 

Adafruit is proud to once again run our Distributor Spotlight series, highlighting the invaluable role our distributor network plays in bringing our products to a global market. From retail brick-and-mortar stores to customers on every continent, our distributors ensure that Adafruit is able to reach diverse sectors and communities.

Today we are highlighting SAMM Market. Here is some info about them:

SAMM Market is a reliable supplier for electronic components, maker products and hobby projects in Turkey. As the official distributor of Adafruit in Turkey, we ensure quick access to the latest Adafruit products. We offer a wide range of products, including Raspberry Pi, Arduino, sensors, displays, and more, providing solutions for all your electronic and technology projects.

Here are some more links for SAMM Market if you’d like to learn more.

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For most a walkman is a hopelessly dated piece of personal musical equipment, fit for the technological cemetery. But makers no gadget is without its use-value or inspirational power. The WALKPi takes its inspiration from the dearly departed Walkman, re-made DIY-style for makers Here’s more from via instructables:

Similar to a traditional walkman, WalkPi is an audio player setup that plays audio files stored on an SD card by pairing a Raspberry Pi Pico with the DFMini Player. It has an SSD1306 OLED screen, an interactive menu with various buttons for selecting tracks, volume controls, and additional functions.

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The Raspberry Pi Pico, the project’s brain, is linked to the DF Mini Player, a compact, inexpensive MP3 module that has a simplified output directly to the speaker.

See project!

I was looking around the interwebs for the receiver I first bought for myself and I found it today. The Radio Shack Realistic Modulette 939 from the late 70s. It was something like $129 I believe, a chunck of change then. It could play a cassette tape inserted in the left side and tune AM/FM. Dual VU meters, stereo mic in, headphone out, input for a turntable (sold separately).

I used that stereo for a number of years including buying a turntable later. I must have sold it off or donated it in the 1980s.

Here Steve’s electronic Repair Shop gets one and shows how it was repaired in the video below.

Did you have a Realistic receiver? Let us know in the comments.

On the heels of #SepTandy, Adafruit is celebrating #ShackToberFest, a celebration of all things Radio Shack and Tandy. Tag your social media posts #ShackToberFest!

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Anyone who owned a Radio Shack Armatron robotic arm in the 80s likely has fond memories of it. I still have mine, with all of the accessories, and it still works!

In this 8-Bit Guy video, he restores one that he bought online for $20. During the restoration, he shares an invaluable tip. This thing is filled with gears. To keep them all straight for reassembly, he photographed each step of the disassembly. To reassemble, he just looked at the pics in reverse order.

Abhirup Roy and Akash Sriram, reporting for Reuters:

CEO Elon Musk showcased on Thursday a long-awaited robotaxi with two gull-wing doors and no steering wheel or pedals and surprised with robovan, betting on a shift in focus from low-priced mass-market cars to robotic vehicles. At a glitzy unveiling, Musk reached the stage in a “Cybercab” to be produced from 2026 — eventually in high volume — and priced under $30,000. He then introduced the robovan which can carry up to 20 people though offered few further details.

But Musk, who has a record of missing projections — and himself said he tended to be optimistic with time frames — did not say how quickly Tesla could ramp up robotaxi production, clear inevitable regulatory hurdles or implement a business plan to leapfrog robotaxi rivals such as Alphabet’s Waymo.

Even with the disclaimer of Musk’s “record of missing projections”, this is far too much credence. The availability dates, the prices — they’re all just made up. It’s a complete distraction from the fact that Tesla is way behind. Waymo is actually operating in four cities today. Somewhere in San Francisco or Austin, there’s probably a Daring Fireball reader reading this post while riding in a self-driving Waymo.

Wake me up when Tesla ships any of these vehicles. Until then, stop using the present tense about any of it. It’s all vaporware for now. (And the stock market isn’t buying it — on a day when markets are flat, Tesla is down 8 percent as I type. Update: It closed down close to 9 percent for the day.)

Also: How stupid is a two-seat taxi? “Well, there are three of us, so we better hail two rides...” It makes no sense.

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New Products 10/11/2024 Featuring Snap-on Enclosure for Adafruit Feather RP2040 USB Host! (Video)

• Adafruit I2S Stereo Decoder – UDA1334A Breakout (0:06)
• Protective Silicone Bumper for Raspberry Pi 5 (0:53)
• Official Raspberry Pi A2-Class microSD Card – 32GB Blank (1:07)
• Official Raspberry Pi A2-Class microSD Card – 64GB Blank (1:07)
• Digital Genuine Hakko FX888DX-010SV (936 upgrade) (1:55)
• Snap-on Enclosure for Adafruit Feather RP2040 USB Host (2:42)

Check out our Raspberry Pi Face Recognition Treasure Box learn guide in the adafruit learning system! Tony DiCola shared this video on Youtube!

Face recognition is an exciting field of computer vision with many possible applications to hardware and devices. Using embedded platforms like the Raspberry Pi and open source computer vision libraries like OpenCV, you can now add face recognition to your own maker projects! In this project I’ll show you how to build a treasure box which unlocks itself using face recognition running on a Raspberry Pi.

Check out the full guide!

Rumors abound about Satanism. Its adherents are often portrayed as evil, bloodthirsty deviants in popular culture. But that's a mischaracterization of the philosophy of Satanists.

To some, the thought of snakes flying through the air is the scariest thought imaginable, but, as we'll explain, flying snakes don't actually fly, they "fall with style."

somenice made this itty bitty slot machine with a QT Py and a NeoPixel Grid BFF add on and it is just the cutest lil thing!

Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython using the Adafruit 5×5 NeoBFF Led Matrix. A micro switch, or limit switch is used to ‘pull’ the slot machine arm. A Piezo buzzer bleeps and bloops familiar tones and may signal a win. Ding-ding-ding!

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Looking for more ways to use a QT Py or a NeoPixel Grid BFF? Look no further than the Adafruit Learning System:

• Adafruit QT Py Activity Timer and Hydration Reminder
• 3D Printed Frankenstein Monster with NeoPixel Eyes
• Adafruit QT Py and NeoPixel LEDs
• Programmable 12v Outdoor Cafe Lights
• Canary Nightlight
• NeoPixel Novelty Cufflinks with Scrolling Text
• NeoPixel Sprite Weather Display

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