Memorial day is 05/27/2013 – Adafruit will be open and taking orders online, free shipping to any military base as always… Orders will ship out on May 28th. There will not be any deliveries or shipping on Monday.

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 27 in 2013). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War), it was expanded after World War I.

Why did we want to be part of the Google Trusted Store program? The Google Trusted Stores badge is only awarded to stores with a proven track record of reliable, on-time shipping and excellent customer service. There are lots of places to shop online, this is a way to identify online stores that deliver a great experience like Adafruit. This was a very tough program to be accepted in to, but we knew our team, service and support could do it. When you’re looking to spend your money and time with a company, this is one of the things that can help make your decision easier. We’d like to thank our team here led by Daigo, along with the Google team (Jade, Eugene, Alex, Melissa and more for all their help) – Thank you from Ladyada and the Adafruit team!

If you won, we’ll be contacting you shortly! Congratulations to everyone… BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Because we’re so thrilled with ALL the entries, if you did not win but entered before the deadline (6pm ET, 5/6/13) email adafruit6secs@adafruit.com with a link to your entry that you tagged/posted and we will send you $6 off in the Adafruit store! Just give us a few days to get through all the emails! It’s just per person, so if you entered multiple times it’s still $6.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

“Circuit Playground Intro” by Declan Bullock – Grand prize $600 in the Adafruit store!

WINNER

Poladroid Robot by Aleator777 – $60 in the Adafruit store!

WINNER

Robolamp by Rick – $60 in the Adafruit store!

WINNER

Pumpkin Tetris by Nathan Pryor – $60 in the Adafruit store!

WINNER

Typomatic by EchelonForce – $60 in the Adafruit store!

WINNER

“My first robot” by Marcelo Maziero – $60 in the Adafruit store!

WINNER

Electric Monsters by rossatkin – $60 in the Adafruit store!

ADAFRUIT STAFF WINNER

Tyler, lead creative engineer was pick as our in-house winner. He did not win a prize other than our continued admiration and amazement of his talents.

REMEMBER – If you won, we’ll be contacting you shortly! Congratulations to everyone… BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Because we’re so thrilled with ALL the entries, if you did not win but entered before the deadline (6pm ET, 5/6/13) email adafruit6secs@adafruit.com with a link to your entry that you tagged/posted and we will send you $6 off in the Adafruit store! Just give us a few days to get through all the emails! It’s just per person, so if you entered multiple times it’s still $6.

ASK AN ENGINEER with special guest Mike Doell! 10PM ET! SATURDAY 5/11/2013! Mike Doell. A Toronto based industrial designer that makes stuff up and actually gets paid for it. Mike designed many of the popular products, enclosures and more at Adafruit!

What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer your engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-to here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

And don’t forget, 30 minutes before the show we’re doing our weekly show-and-tell. If you are on Google+ and want to join, just add/follow +Adafruit’s page and post a comment so you can be added to the show and tell circle. At 9:30pm ET you will see a link to the hang out. Just keep your mics muted until we call on you and have your project ready.

For those who just want to watch, you’ll be able to watch it live on Ustream here and we usually have a recorded version posted later.

ASK AN ENGINEER with special guest Mike Doell! 10PM ET! SATURDAY 5/11/2013! Mike Doell. A Toronto based industrial designer that makes stuff up and actually gets paid for it. Mike designed many of the popular products, enclosures and more at Adafruit!

What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer your engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-to here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

And don’t forget, 30 minutes before the show we’re doing our weekly show-and-tell. If you are on Google+ and want to join, just add/follow +Adafruit’s page and post a comment so you can be added to the show and tell circle. At 9:30pm ET you will see a link to the hang out. Just keep your mics muted until we call on you and have your project ready.

For those who just want to watch, you’ll be able to watch it live on Ustream here and we usually have a recorded version posted later.

Our kid’s show “A is for Ampere” – Circuit Playground Episode 1″ is now featured on youtube.com/edu. Next episode is coming out soon, B IS FOR BATTERY!

YouTube EDU brings learners and educators together in a global video classroom. On YouTube EDU, you have access to a broad set of educational videos that range from academic lectures to inspirational speeches and everything in between.

Come here for quick lessons from top teachers around the world, course lectures from top-tier universities, or inspiring videos to spark your imagination.

Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 12th. Make your mom an awesome & original LED lit card with the Bare Conductive Card Kit.

For the mom on the go, we suggest the Minty Boost  so she always stays charged.

Get you mom into wearable electronics with the Flora GPS starter pack, she will never loose track of you again.

Use the Adafruit Beginner LED Sewing Kit to light up some homemade origami or embroidery.

Wrap your mothers vase or bouquet with Litex White LEDs on white fabric ribbon to brighten her day.

If your mom is a fan of the legendary Transistor Man diagram from Horowitz & Hill’s “The Art of Electronics,” get her the Transistor Man Shirt

If your Mom hasn’t touched a soldering iron, we have some things we think she’ll love, like the the iNecklace.

Order ASAP for your gift to arrive on time!

THIS IS IT! Call For Entries: Announcing The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival! Share your cool project in 6 seconds of video and win up to $600 at the Adafruit store, with six runners up winning $60 store credit each.In a 6 second video, we want you to share the best project you’ve made.  Be sure not to use any copyrighted music, video, etc.  This should be all your project, all by you. The Adafruit team will be looking on Twitter, G+/youtube and beyond for Vines, 6 second videos and more tagged with #adafruit6secs. The deadline is 6pm ET, 5/6/13. The Adafruit team of judges will pick their favorites and announce the winner on May, 12th at 6pm ET.

tl;dr – Post a 6 second video of your electronic project(s) using Vine on Twitter and tag it #adafruit6secs !

Keep reading for all the details!

STEP ONE: MAKE A 6 SECOND VIDEO, PLEASE USE VINE!

The easiest way to make a 6 second video for The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival is to use Vine. If you don’t have an iOS device, no big deal – most everything can take 6 second videos and upload. With Vine and looping a 6 second video you can make cool videos that repeat what you’ve made that’s blinking, moving or making noise – get creative, and enter as often as you’d like. Make sure you do not use any copyrighted music, video, etc. This should be your cool project you are sharing, in 6 seconds.

STEP TWO: TAG THE VIDEO with #adafruit6secs

The most important thing is to tag the video with #adafruit6secs . We’ll be mostly using Twitter to find most of these, you can also send a link to your video via the contact form (do not email us video files!).

STEP THREE: POST TO TWITTER, G+, YOUTUBE, ETC.

Post your tagged 6 second video from Vine or on Youtube, Google+, Flickr, Twitter (Vine can post to Twitter) just make sure it’s easily searchable on those services by tagging it with #adafruit6secs .

STEP FOUR: THERE IS NO STEP 4!

That’s it!

PRIZES: $600 GRAND PRIZE, SIX $60 PRIZES (ADAFRUIT STORE)

The team of Adafruit judges will pick our favorites. Grand prize is a $600 gift certificate in the Adafruit store and six runners-up will receive $60 in store credit each. THE DEADLINE IS 6:00 PM ON MONDAY 5/6/13!

Make sure to tag & upload by 6pm ET, Monday, May 6th, 2013, that’s the deadline.

WINNERS ANNOUNCED LIVE ON ASK AN ENGINEER: 5/12/13!

We will play the videos on ASK AN ENGINEER Saturday night 10pm ET on May 12th, 2013. The judges from Adafruit John De Cristofaro, Becky Stern, Matt Griffin, Molly Rae Thorkelson & Ladyada. Adafruit staff & partners may make entries but cannot win

THIS IS IT! Call For Entries: Announcing The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival! Share your cool project in 6 seconds of video and win up to $600 at the Adafruit store, with six runners up winning $60 store credit each.In a 6 second video, we want you to share the best project you’ve made.  Be sure not to use any copyrighted music, video, etc.  This should be all your project, all by you. The Adafruit team will be looking on Twitter, G+/youtube and beyond for Vines, 6 second videos and more tagged with #adafruit6secs. The deadline is 6pm ET, 5/6/13. The Adafruit team of judges will pick their favorites and announce the winner on May, 12th at 6pm ET.

tl;dr – Post a 6 second video of your electronic project(s) using Vine on Twitter and tag it #adafruit6secs !

Keep reading for all the details!

STEP ONE: MAKE A 6 SECOND VIDEO, PLEASE USE VINE!

The easiest way to make a 6 second video for The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival is to use Vine. If you don’t have an iOS device, no big deal – most everything can take 6 second videos and upload. With Vine and looping a 6 second video you can make cool videos that repeat what you’ve made that’s blinking, moving or making noise – get creative, and enter as often as you’d like. Make sure you do not use any copyrighted music, video, etc. This should be your cool project you are sharing, in 6 seconds.

STEP TWO: TAG THE VIDEO with #adafruit6secs

The most important thing is to tag the video with #adafruit6secs . We’ll be mostly using Twitter to find most of these, you can also send a link to your video via the contact form (do not email us video files!).

STEP THREE: POST TO TWITTER, G+, YOUTUBE, ETC.

Post your tagged 6 second video from Vine or on Youtube, Google+, Flickr, Twitter (Vine can post to Twitter) just make sure it’s easily searchable on those services by tagging it with #adafruit6secs .

STEP FOUR: THERE IS NO STEP 4!

That’s it!

PRIZES: $600 GRAND PRIZE, SIX $60 PRIZES (ADAFRUIT STORE)

The team of Adafruit judges will pick our favorites. Grand prize is a $600 gift certificate in the Adafruit store and six runners-up will receive $60 in store credit each. THE DEADLINE IS 6:00 PM ON MONDAY 5/6/13!

Make sure to tag & upload by 6pm ET, Monday, May 6th, 2013, that’s the deadline.

WINNERS ANNOUNCED LIVE ON ASK AN ENGINEER: 5/12/13!

We will play the videos on ASK AN ENGINEER Saturday night 10pm ET on May 12th, 2013. The judges from Adafruit John De Cristofaro, Becky Stern, Matt Griffin, Molly Rae Thorkelson & Ladyada. Adafruit staff & partners may make entries but cannot win

4 days left! Call For Entries: Announcing The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival! Share your cool project in 6 seconds of video and win up to $600 at the Adafruit store, with six runners up winning $60 store credit each.In a 6 second video, we want you to share the best project you’ve made.  Be sure not to use any copyrighted music, video, etc.  This should be all your project, all by you. The Adafruit team will be looking on Twitter, G+/youtube and beyond for Vines, 6 second videos and more tagged with #adafruit6secs. The deadline is 6pm ET, 5/6/13. The Adafruit team of judges will pick their favorites and announce the winner on May, 12th at 6pm ET.

tl;dr – Post a 6 second video of your electronic project(s) using Vine on Twitter and tag it #adafruit6secs !

Keep reading for all the details!

STEP ONE: MAKE A 6 SECOND VIDEO, PLEASE USE VINE!

The easiest way to make a 6 second video for The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival is to use Vine. If you don’t have an iOS device, no big deal – most everything can take 6 second videos and upload. With Vine and looping a 6 second video you can make cool videos that repeat what you’ve made that’s blinking, moving or making noise – get creative, and enter as often as you’d like. Make sure you do not use any copyrighted music, video, etc. This should be your cool project you are sharing, in 6 seconds.

STEP TWO: TAG THE VIDEO with #adafruit6secs

The most important thing is to tag the video with #adafruit6secs . We’ll be mostly using Twitter to find most of these, you can also send a link to your video via the contact form (do not email us video files!).

STEP THREE: POST TO TWITTER, G+, YOUTUBE, ETC.

Post your tagged 6 second video from Vine or on Youtube, Google+, Flickr, Twitter (Vine can post to Twitter) just make sure it’s easily searchable on those services by tagging it with #adafruit6secs .

STEP FOUR: THERE IS NO STEP 4!

That’s it!

PRIZES: $600 GRAND PRIZE, SIX $60 PRIZES (ADAFRUIT STORE)

The team of Adafruit judges will pick our favorites. Grand prize is a $600 gift certificate in the Adafruit store and six runners-up will receive $60 in store credit each. THE DEADLINE IS 6:00 PM ON MONDAY 5/6/13!

Make sure to tag & upload by 6pm ET, Monday, May 6th, 2013, that’s the deadline.

WINNERS ANNOUNCED LIVE ON ASK AN ENGINEER: 5/12/13!

We will play the videos on ASK AN ENGINEER Saturday night 10pm ET on May 12th, 2013. The judges from Adafruit John De Cristofaro, Becky Stern, Matt Griffin, Molly Rae Thorkelson & Ladyada. Adafruit staff & partners may make entries but cannot win

NEW PRODUCT – BeagleBone Black in stock and shipping! We have them here and these ship immediately while they are in stock. If you liked the BeagleBone, you will love the next gen BeagleBone Black! With a blistering 1GHz processor, 512MB onboard DDR3 RAM, built in 2GB storage with pre-installed Linux operating system (no microSD card required!), and best of all, the addition of a MicroHDMI connector for audio/video output. This is a ultra-powered embedded computer that can fit in a mint tin.

Comes with a mini B cable for powering it up ASAP. No microSD card is included as the BBB now has onboard flash storage.

We’ll be filling in with more information on supported accessories as we test them for compatibility. For now we suggest picking up a 5V 2A power supply and a micro-HDMI cable. If you want to use it ‘head-less’, a USB console cable is suggested as the ‘Black does not have an onboard USB-to-Serial converter like the original BeagleBone.

• Processor: Sitara AM3359AZCZ100 1GHz, 2000 MIPS
• Graphics Engine: SGX530 3D, 20M Polygons/S
• SDRAM Memory: 512MB DDR3L 606MHZ
• Onboard Flash: 2GB, 8bit Embedded MMC
• PMIC: TPS65217C PMIC regulator and one additional LDO.
• Debug Support: Optional Onboard 20-pin CTI JTAG, Serial Header
• Power Source: miniUSB USB or DC Jack, 5VDC External Via Expansion Header
• PCB 3.4” x 2.1” 6 layers
• Indicators 1-Power, 2-Ethernet, 4-User Controllable LEDs
• HiSpeed USB 2.0 Client Port: Access to USB0, Client mode via miniUSB
• HiSpeed USB 2.0 Host Port Access to USB1, Type A Socket, 500mA LS/FS/HS
• Serial Port UART0 access via 6 pin 3.3V TTL Header. Header is populated
• Ethernet 10/100, RJ45
• SD/MMC Connector microSD , 3.3V
• User Input: Reset Button, Boot Button, Power Button
• Video Out: 16b HDMI, 1280×1024 (MAX), 1024×768,1280×720,1440×900
  w/EDID Support

• Audio Via HDMI Interface, Stereo
• Expansion Connectors:
  • Power 5V, 3.3V , VDD_ADC(1.8V)
  • 3.3V I/O on all signals
  • McASP0, SPI1, I2C, GPIO(65), LCD, GPMC, MMC1, MMC2, 7
    AIN(1.8V MAX), 4 Timers, 3 Serial Ports, CAN0,
    EHRPWM(0,2),XDMA Interrupt, Power button, Expansion Board ID
    (Up to 4 can be stacked)
• Weight 1.4 oz (39.68 grams)

In stock and shipping now!

Call For Entries: Announcing The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival! Share your cool project in 6 seconds of video and win up to $600 at the Adafruit store, with six runners up winning $60 store credit each.In a 6 second video, we want you to share the best project you’ve made.  Be sure not to use any copyrighted music, video, etc.  This should be all your project, all by you. The Adafruit team will be looking on Twitter, G+/youtube and beyond for Vines, 6 second videos and more tagged with #adafruit6secs. The deadline is 6pm ET, 5/6/13. The Adafruit team of judges will pick their favorites and announce the winner on May, 12th at 6pm ET.

tl;dr – Post a 6 second video of your electronic project(s) using Vine on Twitter and tag it #adafruit6secs !

Keep reading for all the details!

STEP ONE: MAKE A 6 SECOND VIDEO, PLEASE USE VINE!

The easiest way to make a 6 second video for The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival is to use Vine. If you don’t have an iOS device, no big deal – most everything can take 6 second videos and upload. With Vine and looping a 6 second video you can make cool videos that repeat what you’ve made that’s blinking, moving or making noise – get creative, and enter as often as you’d like. Make sure you do not use any copyrighted music, video, etc. This should be your cool project you are sharing, in 6 seconds.

STEP TWO: TAG THE VIDEO with #adafruit6secs

The most important thing is to tag the video with #adafruit6secs . We’ll be mostly using Twitter to find most of these, you can also send a link to your video via the contact form (do not email us video files!).

STEP THREE: POST TO TWITTER, G+, YOUTUBE, ETC.

Post your tagged 6 second video from Vine or on Youtube, Google+, Flickr, Twitter (Vine can post to Twitter) just make sure it’s easily searchable on those services by tagging it with #adafruit6secs .

STEP FOUR: THERE IS NO STEP 4!

That’s it!

PRIZES: $600 GRAND PRIZE, SIX $60 PRIZES (ADAFRUIT STORE)

The team of Adafruit judges will pick our favorites. Grand prize is a $600 gift certificate in the Adafruit store and six runners-up will receive $60 in store credit each. THE DEADLINE IS 6:00 PM ON MONDAY 5/6/13!

Make sure to tag & upload by 6pm ET, Monday, May 6th, 2013, that’s the deadline.

WINNERS ANNOUNCED LIVE ON ASK AN ENGINEER: 5/12/13!

We will play the videos on ASK AN ENGINEER Saturday night 10pm ET on May 12th, 2013. The judges from Adafruit John De Cristofaro, Becky Stern, Matt Griffin, Molly Rae Thorkelson & Ladyada. Adafruit staff & partners may make entries but cannot win

Vine below!

#manufacturing The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival! adafruit.com/6secs #adafruit6secs vine.co/v/bUUQVPYawV3

— adafruit industries (@adafruit) April 21, 2013

Adafruit’s new kid’s show is here! Circuit Playground “A is for Ampere” – Episode 1, learn all about electronics with Ladyada, ADABOT and special guests! Ampere describes the number of electrons that flow through a circuit in one second. It is named after Andre-Marie Ampere – http://adafruit.com/coloringbook/

Credits:

• Ladyada – Limor Fried
• Andre-Marie Ampere – Collin Cunningham
• ADABOT – Collin Cunningham & Phil Torrone, Puppet by Anney Fresh, design by Bruce Yan
• Music: Tom White & Collin Cunningham
• Intro animation – Bruce Yan
• Written, filmed, edited, directed and produced by – Collin Cunningham, Limor Fried, Phil Torrone and the Adafruit team

With the X-1, Cygnus has finally put the ‘mass’ into mass storage technology!  This high-capacity storage device provides the ultimate in secure storage for all your sensitive data.

The X-1′s advanced quantum-gravitational compression algorithms and ultra-high density storage technology provide virtually unlimited storage capacity in a very compact package. With no vulnerable passwords or encryption keys to crack, the patented write-only technology guarantees that whatever is stored in Cygnus X-1 will stay in Cygnus X-1.

USB Cable included.

Note: Due to gravitational redshift, we do not recommend this device for storing photographs.

In stock and shipping now!

The HPC Shield consists of 16 Arduino Unos connected together in a 4-dimensional “HyperCube” topology. Interprocessor communications are accomplished via high-speed hardware SPI.

Programming the HPC Shield is supported through a new version of the standard Arduino IDE that was specially developed using the open-source ParallelProcessing language.

The memory of each individual Uno is shared across the entire Shield through Adafruit’s new “Parallel Arduino Synchronous Shared Global Address Space” (PASSGAS) technology.  This revolutionary technology breaks the Arduino memory barrier, and gives the HPC Shield programmer full access to a whopping 32K of  combined SRAM!

Adafruit’s testing shows that a single HPC Shield can achieve an astounding throughput of 17.8MBops (millions of LED blink operations per second) using standard Arduino benchmarks.  For truly mind-blowing performance, up to 128 HPC Shields can be connected in a variety of topologies via I2C.

In a prepared statement, Adafruit Founder ladyada notes that “the already modular nature of the Arduino platform made it surprisingly easy for us to bring this project together. The only real problem we had was getting the Adafruit_Hadoop library installed in the right place”.

The HPC Shield is sold as a kit, including all necessary cables. A nifty laser-cut clear acrylic case is available separately.

The Adafruit HPC Shield is now available for order directly through the Adafruit Store at a retail price of $379.95, and is scheduled to begin shipping April 1*.

*A Special Overnight shipping rate is available to anywhere in the Continental US for an additional $21.18.

TC Makers: A Walk Through Adafruit Industries With Limor Fried @ TechCrunch.

Since we started Makers I’ve made it a priority to try to visit Adafruit Industries, the amazing Manhattan-based electronics shop run by Limor Fried. Fried started her company out of her dorm room at MIT, building cool electronics kits for her friends. She slowly expanded into other hobbyist realms including Arduino add-ons, how-to books, and cases. Now her store is bustling with 1,302 items for sale with about 600 orders per day…

We had the unique opportunity to tour her brand new Manhattan warehouse/design center/factory in Soho where she and her team create amazing gizmos and gadgets. They are also working on student outreach via their superfun Circuit Playground in order to convince kids that STEM is actually cool.
This visit we saw Adafruit’s mini-fabrication line, their amazing, home-grown CRM system, and, most important, Adabot, the company’s robotic mascot.

Ladyada on Google Science Fair 2013 Hangout On Air today at 12pm ET (noon) !.

Limor Fried is one of the world’s best-known “Makers.” She has created one of the largest collections of free electronics tutorials, open-source hardware and software in the world. And she founded +Adafruit Industries to create products for makers of all ages & skill levels. Post your questions on the hangout page. Then come to this Field Trip Friday Hangout On Air to see the cool stuff at Adafruit, and find out how you can become a maker too!

NEW PRODUCT! MakerBot Adafruit Edition.

MakerBot® Partners with Adafruit
Limited Edition MakerBot® Replicator® 2 Desktop 3D Printer Offers Custom Build-Plate and three Adafruit Kits – Available Through Adafruit.com and Adafruit kits at the MakerBot Store

Brooklyn, N.Y., March 7, 2013 – MakerBot and Adafruit have joined together to bring the latest technology to electronic and 3D printing enthusiasts throughout the United States with a unique partnership offering a Limited Edition MakerBot® Replicator® 2 Desktop 3D Printer with special Adafruit kits inside. The Limited Edition MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer will come with three of Adafruit’s most popular kits – the Timesquare DIY Watch Kit, the MintyBoost® Kit, and Adafruit’s most popular Raspberry Pi®. The Limited Edition Adafruit MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer will be available beginning March 14, 2013, online at Adafruit.com and the MakerBot Store in New York City will offer the three Adafruit kits as companion accessories.

“Adafruit has always been a company that offers creative and engaging products and we are excited to be able to partner with them to offer the Limited Edition MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer,” noted Bre Pettis, CEO of MakerBot. “To be able to create this very cool offer with some of Adafruit’s most popular products, is so cool for me. It’s like coming full circle, as I’ve been a big fan of Adafruit products for a long time, but this makes it even more awesome than I could have originally imagined.”

“Adafruit is thrilled to be able to partner with MakerBot and 3D printing with this Limited Edition offering,” said Limor “Ladyada” Fried, Adafruit Industries founder. “We were one of the first early adopters of 3D printing and it’s exciting to now be able to partner with a growing company like MakerBot and provide both of our customers a product they can explore, build, print, and have fun with.”

The Limited Edition MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer will be sold on Adafruit.com and will come with a custom Adafruit MakerBot build-plate and three of Adafruit’s most popular kits including: Tiimesquare DIY Watch Kit ($29.95); MintyBoost® Kit ($19.50); and the Raspberry Pi ($39.95). These three kits are perfect companions to the MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer, as they all require custom items to hold the electronics, which can all be 3D printed on a MakerBot. The price for the special Limited Edition Adafruit MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer will be $2,296.00.

“You can design and 3D print your own cool watch band or watch face holder for the Timesquare Watch; 3D print a cool case for the MintyBoost phone charger; and 3D print a really fun and personalized holder for the Raspberry Pi single-board computer,” noted Pettis.

About MakerBot
Founded in 2009, Brooklyn-based MakerBot has grown to be a global leader in desktop 3D printing. MakerBot had 16 percent market share of all 3D printers (industrial and personal) made from 2009 to the end of 2011. In 2011, MakerBot had 21.6 percent market share. In 2012, MakerBot estimates that it now has a 25 percent market share of the 3D printer market. There are more than 15,000 MakerBot Desktop 3D Printers in use by engineers, designers, researchers, and people who just like to make things. The MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer has been named Popular Mechanics “Overall Winner” for best 3D printer and was honored as one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2012. In addition, MakerBot was named “Best Emerging Tech” at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, won Popular Mechanics Editor’s Choice Award, the Popular Science Product of the Year, and recently was awarded the Fast Company 2012 Innovation by Design Award as well as being named by Fast Company as “One of the World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Consumer Electronics.” And MakerBot was recently awarded a TechCrunch Crunchies Award for best hardware start-up. The company has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Wired, The Colbert Report, Fast Company, Engadget, Make: Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time.com, IEEE Spectrum, CNN, Financial Times, NPR, Vogue Italia and many others.

About Adafruit
Adafruit was founded in 2005 by MIT engineer, Limor “Ladyada” Fried. Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best-designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels. During the past 6 years Adafruit has grown to more than 45 employees in the heart of NYC. Adafruit has expanded offerings to include tools, equipment and electronics that Limor personally selects, tests and approves before going in to the Adafruit store. Limor was the first female engineer on the cover of WIRED magazine and was recently awarded Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur of the year.

In stock and shipping!

Hi all, my name is Mary Jungman and I am thrilled to be joining Adafruit as Director of Manufacturing and Procurement. While white smoke and crowds did not mark the occasion for me, I could not have received a warmer welcome from the team.

A few years ago, my boss at chumby industries, bunnie Huang, introduced me to the world of DIY electronics, the maker movement, hacking, open source hardware/software and to Adafruit, who became a chumby customer. Prior to chumby, I worked in contract manufacturing, building circuit cards for San Diego customers, from the time when SMT was a new technology and 1206 components were considered tiny. At chumby I was a hardware girl living in a software world.

After chumby and for the last 15 months I was back in a hardware-centric world, working at littleBits Electronics, where I have been inspired by Ayah Bdeir, and become passionate about bringing change to our failing education system.

I believe all roads have led me to Adafruit where I will have the opportunity to help make products that will get kids excited about science and technology.

When I am not buying parts or building boards, I am hanging out with my family. With an engi-nerd for a husband, four boys (9, 10, 11 & 12 yrs), and two dogs (2 years and a 4 month old puppy), there is never a dull moment.

Kupcake – my Havanese puppy

NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit IoT Pi Printer Project Pack – Includes Raspberry Pi. Think this would be fun to build? Sign up to get notified when we have these kits in stock! Build an “Internet of Things” connected mini printer that will do your bidding! This is a fun weekend project that comes with a beautiful laser cut case. Once assembled, the little printer connects wirelessly to get Internet data for printing onto 2 1/4″ wide receipt paper. Based on a Raspberry Pi computer, this is a powerful mini Linux machine. We have example python code for a few different printouts including a daily weather forecast report, sudoku puzzles, image printer and a tweeter printer that connects Twitter’s search API and retrieve and print tweets according to your requests: you can have it print out tweets from a person, a hashtag, mentioning a word, etc! All the code is open source so its easy to adapt and write your own custom printer software

The project is based on Raspberry Pi, and while its not a very complex project soldering-wise it does require some soldering and assembly work. It is also recommended that the user has some Linux experience or help: we have a lot of tutorials to help you through the process but we don’t have any specific Linux tutorials so knowing how to move around directories, ssh, and create and save text files is a good idea!

Contains:

• Raspberry Pi Model B
• Mini Receipt Printer
• 50 foot long receipt paper. BPA-free.
• 5V 10A power adapter
• 2.1mm Panel Jack
• Waterproof metal button with blue LED
• 4GB SD card with Raspbian
• Mini WiFi Adapter
• USB TTL Console Cable
• T-cobbler PCB + 2×13 female header
• Laser cut enclosure + hardware

Sign up! We’re making these and will be shipping them soon!

Hi everybody! This is Mike Stone. Please feel free to call me Mike in the forums.

I’m a geek of diverse history: I trained as a draftsman just before CAD made that trade obsolete, learned CAD, then became a computer programmer, actor, dancer, street mime, and stagehand, with occasional gigs working in machine shops. I’ve run industrial CNC machinery, written back-end software for web-based businesses, run spotlights for KISS and Les Miserables, run roller coasters, and robbed trains.

On the electronics side, I think microcontrollers are way cool, but my true love is for analog circuits. It’s an area where individual Makers have significant advantages over corporations that crank products out by the thousand. Closely related to that is my fascination with construction techniques. It’s amazing how many options are available when you stop thinking fully-routed PCBs are the ‘right’ way to do it.

Stop in the forums and say hi to Mike!

Washington’s Birthday (Presidents Day) 2013 – Adafruit is open, all orders start to ship on Tuesday, February 19, 2013..

Washington’s Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and concurrent with Presidents’ Day. Washington’s Birthday is commonly referred to as Presidents’ Day (sometimes spelled President’s Day). Presidents’ Day was started by President Nixon, to honor all past presidents of the United States, and set on the day when Washington’s Birthday was celebrated. Both Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays are in February.

1. Education – National effort to make learning a computer programming language a requirement for high schoolers.
2. Patent reform – Stopping patent trolls, specifically software patents and limiting software patents to 5 years.
3. For the “get to know the prez question” She asked if the President’s daughters have thought about a career in science / engineering.

Thank you everyone for the support and kind words for our Ladyada. We’re all exhausted here and are going to take the night off, what a fantastic Valentine’s day Once the video is posted we’ll post it up here and on the Adafruit Industries blog. It should be on the Whitehouse YouTube video page shortly.

This is big news! Our Ladyada, Limor Fried, was selected to join President Obama in a Fireside Hangout this Thursday 2/14 at 4:50pm EST on Google+! We’ll discuss issues that are top of mind for citizens, and we’d love you all to help shape this conversation. Submit your questions to youtube.com/whitehouse and the President will answer questions that are voted to the top.

Limor will be talking to the President LIVE about manufacturing and education!

Don’t forget to RSVP here for a reminder to tune in on Thursday- http://goo.gl/7pxfM.

Chinese New Year – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally ran from Chinese New Year’s Day itself, the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. Because theChinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the “Lunar New Year”.

Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. Often, the evening preceding Chinese New Year’s Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annualreunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “good fortune” or “happiness”, “wealth”, and “longevity.” Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.

More here & here.

Updated Friday, February 8, 2013

UPS is closely monitoring Winter Storm Nemo as it approaches the Northeast, with blizzard warnings in effect from Northern New Jersey to Coastal Maine. We have contingency plans in place to ensure the safety of our employees and to minimize the storm’s impact on pickups and deliveries.

No pickups, deliveries, or On-Call Pickup® service are available in the ZIP Codes listed below.

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Gemma is still wrapping up development, sign up to get first crack when Gemma is released.

• Powered by the ATtiny85 with 3 available I/O pins, one of which is also an analog input and two which can do PWM output
• Progammable over the micro USB connection
• Onboard 3.3v Regulator and power LED
• Reset button
• Works with our Flora NeoPixels (can drive about a dozen – not much RAM!)
• Super tiny design, only 1″ (25mm) diameter & 4mm thick

Sign up now!

Raspberry Pi Model B 512MB — These are IN STOCK and shipping now!

The Raspberry Pi® is a single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. The design is based around a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC, which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 128 or 256 Megabytes of RAM. The design does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, instead relying on an SD card for booting and long-term storage. This board is intended to run Linux kernel based operating systems.

This is the Raspberry Pi Model B 512MB RAM model with two USB ports and a 10/100 Ethernet controller. Please note some boards are made in the UK, some in China. WE DO NOT KNOW IN ADVANCE WHICH ONES YOU MAY RECEIVE!

As typical of modern computers, generic USB keyboards and mice are compatible with the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi use Linux-kernel based operating systems. The Raspberry Pi does not come with a real-time clock, so an OS must use a network time server, or ask the user for time information at boot time to get access to time and date info for file time and date stamping. However a real time clock (such as the DS1307) with battery backup can be easily added via the I2C interface.

Raspberry Pi® is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Adafruit is a proud donor to the Raspberry Pi Foundation!

We have a limit of 10 per customer, but if you buy 9 you’ll get one free since we’re still keeping our FREE Pi for orders over $350 special.The $350 does not include shipping and this is just for online customers (not resellers/distributors/hackerspaces or purchase orders).

This is while supplies last! GO GO GO!

Buy now.

Here are the Circuit Playground plushies, we have a lot of things planned with the cute components, from teaching “props” to special projects to puppet versions for our upcoming kid’s show. Most of all we know it’s hard to figure exactly what will spark a young mind on to the journey towards science, technology, engineering, art, math and more – we wish we had these when were young We’re waiting on the blue LED ones to arrive in a week or so (Billie) she’s always late, but shows up dressed to glow

CAPPY THE CAPACITOR
HANS THE 555 TIMER CHIP
MHO THE RESISTOR
CONNIE THE TRANSISTOR
RUBY THE RED LED
GUS THE GREEN LED

Tons of photos after the jump!

1. Great Scott! DeLorean-Inspired Time Circuit Clock with Adafruit gear!

2. Raspberry Pi case preview.

3. Announcing the FLORA, Adafruit’s wearable electronics platform and accessories.

4. How we built a Super Nintendo out of a wireless keyboard @Sifteo by M. Elizabeth Scott.

5. Choosing a microscope.

6. HOW TO – Make a solar MintyBoost, a solar power charger for your gadgets!

7. HOW-TO – Wifi Wireless Internet on Raspberry Pi.

8. How To Start A Hackerspace by Eric Michaud.

9. Map made from computer components.

10. 83 year-old woman got 3D printed mandible.

For 2012 the Adafruit site clocked in over 55 million page views and over 16 million visitors. An interesting note, 2 million of the page views already came from our new learning system http://learn.adafruit.com !

The magazine’s Entrepreneur of 2012, Limor Fried, founded Adafruit Industries in 2005 and through it, is educating and inspiring the next generation of engineers and scientists. The open-source hardware and electronics company not only designs a catalog full of cool tech products that clients can order–it gives away the step-by-step instructions and tutorials for them to learn how to do so themselves. Fried’s new badging system also makes learning exciting for kids, by rewarding them for mastering new tech-savvy skills, and furthers the educational mission of Adafruit Industries.

From the article…

• FAVE QUOTE: “We are what we celebrate.” —entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen
• WORDS OF WISDOM: “Be the change. If you want to live in a world that looks a certain way, don’t wait around for someone else to do it.” —business partner Phil Torrone
• REQUIRED READING: Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
• ENTREPRENEURIAL IDOL: Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, publisher of countless maker-friendly magazines and books
• BIGGEST MOTIVATOR: Feedback that Adafruit is inspiring the next generation of engineers
• DESIGN INSPIRATION: New York City

Previous profile here, and here’s a preview of the article January 2013: Feature: Entrepreneur of the Year here. And an interview “Magazine names hacker Limor Fried ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’” on CNET here.

With this award comes great expectations and responsibilities for all of us at Adafruit to keep doing a good for our community, customers and for our team. Thank you everyone for all the support.

NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Weatherproof Strip 60 LEDs – 1 meter. You thought it couldn’t get better than our world-famous 32-LED-per-meter Digital LED strip but we will prove you wrong! You wanted twice the LEDs? We got it (well, its 1.875 times as many but that’s within a margin of error). You wanted thinner strips? Now only 12.5 mm wide, 10 mm if you remove the strip from the casing. You wanted less noticeable strip color – this strip has white-colored flex PCB, which will be less visible against white-painted walls.

All your dreams answered, yet there are a few things to watch for.

• First up, the higher density means much higher power usage over a certain distance – 18 Watts max (~3.5 Amps @ 5V) per meter instead of 9.6 Watts max (~2 Amps @ 5V). The max rating is assuming all the LEDs are on full white, usually the actual current for colorful design is about 1/3 to 1/2 the max current. A good power supply such as our 5V 10A supply is key!
• Second, to get high density, the controller chip is inside the LED, which is kind of cool, but also means that the chip only uses a single pin for input and a single pin for output. The protocol used is very very timing-specific and can only be controlled by microcontrollers with highly repeatable 100nS timing precision. We have example code for using with the Arduino Uno/Mega microcontroller at 8MHz and 16MHz, but it will not work with the Raspberry Pi, Basic Stamp, NETduino, any other interpreted/virtual machine microprocessor or any processor slower than 8 MHz. For those processors, check our 32 LED/meter digital LED strip which has SPI-like input/output and works well with Pi, NETduino, and other processors.
• Third, just because you have all those pixels doesn’t mean you have the RAM for it – the entire strip must be buffered in memory, and we’ve found many Arduino UNO projects only have about 400bytes of RAM available after all the extras are included – enough for about 135 LED pixels. If you want to drive the entire strip and have some other libraries included, use a Mega.

These LED strips are even more fun and glowy. There are 60 RGB LEDs per meter, and you can control each LED individually! Yes, that’s right, this is the digitally-addressable type of LED strip. You can set the color of each LED’s red, green and blue component with 8-bit PWM precision (so 24-bit color per pixel). The LEDs are controlled by shift-registers that are chained up down the strip so you can shorten or lengthen the strip. Only 1 digital output pin are required to send data down. The PWM is built into each LED-chip so once you set the color you can stop talking to the strip and it will continue to PWM all the LEDs for you

The strip is made of flexible PCB material, and comes with a weatherproof sheathing.
You can cut this stuff pretty easily with wire cutters, there are cut-lines every 0.65″/1.7cm (1 LED each). Solder to the 0.1″ copper pads and you’re good to go. Of course, you can also connect strips together to make them longer, just watch how much current you need! We have a 5V/2A supply that should be able to drive 1 meter (depending on use) and a 5V/10A supply that can drive up to 4 meters (depending on use) You must use a 5V DC power supply to power these strips, do not use higher than 6V or you can destroy the entire strip

They come in 4 meter reels with a 2-pin JST SM connector on each end and separated power/ground wires. These strips are sold by the meter! If you buy 4 meters at a time, you’ll get full reels with two connectors. If you buy less than 4m, you’ll get a single strip, but it will be a cut piece from a reel which may or may not have a connector on it.

To wire up these strips we suggest picking up some JST SM plug and receptacle cables.

If you want to connect to the input of a 4 meter cable (to wire it to power and a microcontroller) please get a receptacle connector. If you want to connect to the output, get a plug cable. If you are getting a less-than-4 meter strip, you’ll probably want one of each to make it easy to connect and disconnect. You will also probably want a 2.1mm DC jack to wire in so you can connect one of our wall adapters to power it.

At this time, we do not have a detailed usage tutorial or datasheet (still working on it!) However we do have ready-to-go library code for both the Arduino UNO/Duemilanove/Diecimila and Mega/ADK (all versions)

In stock and shipping now.

We’re going to debut some photos of the Raspberry Pi model A tonight on our new Google+ community page. It’s called Makers, hackers, artists & engineers – a place for learning and sharing. Join the community now and the moment the photos are posted you’ll see them!

Hello – my name is Collin.

If you’ve used Circuit Playground or seen any of my Make videos, then you’re familiar with my work. If you’re familiar with my work then it’s kind of like you know me – so no introductions necessary. btw – Great to see ya, howya been?

Adafruit’s kits & tutorials played a big part in my introduction to the world of creative electronics and subsequent technological adventure-journey which I continue on today. I’m proud to tell you that I’ll now be helping Adafruit do the same for many others.

As Creative Engineer here at Adafruit, I’ll be wearing a few different hats – including a classy software development bowler as well as a sweet video production helmet (ooh – note to self – make video helmet). Also a magnifying visor for soldering. because they’re awesome.

In any case, we have much good things to come – so expect to see me popping up quite a bit around these parts.

Talk soon!

C

Hi, I’m johngineer, and this is my 971st blog post (!) here on Adafruit. I’ve been doing this blog thing for quite some time, but this post marks a new milestone — it’s my first post as a full-time employee.

Specifically, I’m the new Director of Imaging, which means I’ll be working on all the photography that we share with the world to make it the best that it can be. I’ll be shooting behind-the-scenes photos and videos too, new product images, and all kinds of other stuff.

I’m also on the technical staff, so I’ll be working on new hardware designs with LadyAda, continuing my work on the Fritzing library, making cool projects, and generally doing fun technical work that (hopefully) wins hearts and minds.

[John will be on Ask an Engineer this weekend too!]

In this lesson, you will be start of using the Serial Monitor to display analog readings, and then extend the project using eight LEDs from lesson 4, so that you can control the number of LEDs that are lit by turning the knob on a variable resistor.

Learn more!

Previous lessons:
Arduino Lesson 7. Make an RGB LED Fader
Arduino Lesson 6. Digital Inputs
Arduino Lesson 5. The Serial Monitor
Arduino Lesson 4. Eight LEDs and a Shift Register
Arduino Lesson 3. RGB LEDs
Arduino Lesson 2. LEDs
Arduino Lesson 1. Blink

I’m coming at Adafruit from a building angle, so I’m here learning the basics along with a lot of you.  I’m a building systems nerd, and HVAC systems are a little harder to generate from my teeny-tiny Brooklyn apartment.   Besides buildings, I’m a night photography enthusiast.  Here’s a 30-second exposure shot I took from when lower Manhattan was shot into the dark ages.  It looks deceptively light…actually the only sources are from passing cars on the Bowery and candlelight from the restaurant to the left.  The hurricane and blackout makes me especially excited (and grateful) to work at Adafruit where we have cell phone charge and internet come hell or high water (of course, if the entire grid collapses there will be trouble even for us…)

I also love open ocean swimming, so if any of you can come with a sonographic, waterproof compass that alerts me when I’m swimming off course, I would greatly appreciate it!  Here’s me after hiking up an active volcano in the temperate rainforests of South America (near Pucon, Chile, to be specific):

I will be managing a lot of operations and behind-the-scenes stuff at Adafruit but expect to see me popping in and out of the blog from time to time!

We’re pleased to announce we are updating all our Arduino tutorials with a new series! Arduino Lessons by Simon Monk & Ladyada in the Adafruit Learning system (learn.adafruit.com)! Simon is one of the best educational writers in the world and we also stock his fantastic book(s) here in the Adafruit store! Check back each day for a NEW lesson!

Today’s first lesson is, Arduino Lesson 1. Blink. In this lesson, you will learn how program your Arduino to make the Arduino’s built-in LED blink.

Learn more.

Today is a big milestone for Adafruit, we just passed our 200,000th order (2012-11-25 05:17:12). Stephan from Germany is the 200,000th order – We’ve given him his order for free and a $200 gift certificate. This was his first order at Adafruit for some Raspberry Pi related products, he was pleasantly surprised by the news

Thank you everyone for supporting Adafruit all these years, we’re looking forward to serving you for the next 200,000 orders and beyond.

I’m really happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and yes you can name me in your blog
Regards from Flintbek.
Stephan

We hit our 100,000th order August 15, 2011.

REMINDER! Adafruit shipping deadline this week – No shipping after 11am ET on Wednesday 11/22 through Sunday 11/25. Any order placed after 11am ET on Wednesday 11/22 will not ship out until Monday 11/26!

Announcing the first-ever Adafruit Hack Friday sale! 10% off all Adafruit products in the shop (in stock) until Sunday November 18th 2012 11:59pm Eastern time.

Use the code HACKFRIDAY on check out.

Most retailers put their stuff on sale the day after Thanksgiving, but we thought it’d be way more fun to give you a sale before Thanksgiving. That way you have something to build the day after.

The day after Thanksgiving, known in retail as “Black Friday”, has become bittersweet. The endless quest for $10 waffle irons and $75 TVs has gotten so ridiculous that people are spending the wee hours camping out in parking lots. Personally, I’m much more inclined to make something rather than go out and buy something on that day. I think a lot of other people feel the same way, so we’ve come up with a way to help you do just that. It’s called Hack Friday.

What is Hack Friday?
Hack Friday is an alternative to Black Friday that celebrates personal initiative and creativity. Instead of mobbing the local box store at 4am, you sleep in, stay home, and work on your own projects with the people you love. A Hack Friday project can be anything you like, from gardening to programming to woodwork and beyond — the point is to encourage active making instead of passive consuming. It’s sort of like an unofficial, nationwide 24-hour hackathon.

We’re starting our sale today, a week before Turkey Day + 1, so that you can stock up on kits and components and be ready to go on Black Hack Friday.

The day of (11/23), we’ll be featuring a running showcase of projects from around the web. Tag your projects with #hackfriday on G+ and/or Twitter, and we’ll post them on the blog.

Hack Friday — “There Are No Lines at the Work Bench”

IT IS HERE! NEW PRODUCT – FLORA Starter Pack. Please note, we are just getting back to full production mode after Hurricane Sandy. We have the FLORA packs for now for sale, we’ll have each item available individually shortly!

Get started with the fabulous Adafruit FLORA platform with this lovely starter kit. Included are plenty of parts to make a few different fun projects! There’s a Flora motherboard, a GPS module that can also perform location datalogging, eight ultra-bright chainable RGB pixels, a battery holder and batteries, two types of our high quality stainless steel thread, alligator clips to help you test out your parts, a USB cable for reprogramming the Flora, and some parts to make a wearable remote control (or TV-B-Gone!): NPN transistors, long range IR LEDs, and matching resistors. Over $120 worth of goodies, for under $100.

• FLORA main board
• Flora Wearable Ultimate GPS module
• Eight Flora RGB Smart Pixels
• 3xAAA Battery holder with JST connector and on/off switch
• Stainless Thin Conductive Thread – 2 ply – 25 meter/85 ft
• Stainless Medium Conductive Thread – 3 ply – 18 meter/60 ft
• Small Alligator Clip Test Lead (set of 12)
• USB cable – A/MiniB – 3ft
• 4x Alkaline AAA batteries
• 2x NPN Bipolar Transistors (PN2222)
• 2x Super-bright 5mm IR LEDs
• 2x 100-ohm resistors

And since it’s from Adafruit we have great tutorials on our learn.adafruit.com Learning system to help you get started!

Tutorials:

• Getting Started with FLORA
• FLORA RGB Smart Pixels
• FLORA Wearable GPS

Becky Stern, our Director of Wearable electronics will be adding tutorials, videos and more each week!

We guarantee lots of safe sewing fun!

In stock and shipping now! If we’re out of stock sign up, we’re putting them in as we make them!

Wohoo! Here is the official press release for the new Arduino Micro in collaboration with Adafruit.

New Arduino Micro in collaboration with Adafruit

Arduino announces the release of the new Arduino Micro board. Based on the technology behind the Leonardo board, its main feature is the very small size.

The Arduino Micro packs all of the power of the Arduino Leonardo in a 48mm x 18mm module (1.9″ x 0.7″).

It makes it easier for makers to embed the Arduino technology inside their projects by providing a small and convenient module that can be either used on a breadboard or soldered to a custom designed PCB.

The Micro has been developed in collaboration with Adafruit Industries, one of the leaders of the Maker movement. Adafruit is already developing a series of accessories for the new board that will complement its power and simplicity.

Throughout the month of November the product is available exclusively from Adafruit online and Radio Shack in retail stores.

Main features of Arduino Micro:

• The Arduino Micro is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega32u4.
• Like its brother the Leonardo board, the Arduino Micro has one microcontroller with built-in USB. Using the ATmega32U4 as its sole microcontroller allows it to be cheaper and simpler. Also, because the 32U4 is handling the USB directly, code libraries are available which allow the board to emulate a computer keyboard, mouse, and more using the USB-HID protocol.
• It has 20 digital input/output pins (of which 7 can be used as PWM outputs and 12 as analog inputs), a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a micro USB connection, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a micro USB cable to get started.
• This allows the Micro to appear to a connected computer as a mouse and keyboard, in addition to a virtual (CDC) serial / COM port.

Technical specifications:

• Microcontroller: ATmega32u4
• Operating Voltage: 5V
• Input Voltage (recommended): 7-12V
• Input Voltage (limits): 6-20V
• Digital I/O Pins: 20
• PWM Channels: 7
• Analog Input Channels: 12
• DC Current per I/O Pin: 40 mA
• DC Current for 3.3V Pin: 50 mA
• Flash Memory: 32 KB (ATmega32u4) of which 4 KB used by bootloader
• SRAM: 2.5 KB (ATmega32u4)
• EEPROM: 1 KB (ATmega32u4)
• Clock Speed: 16 MHz

About Arduino
Arduino, the first widespread Open Source Hardware platform, was launched in 2005 to simplify the process of electronic prototyping. It enables everyday people with little or no technical background to build interactive products.
The Arduino ecosystem is a combination of three different elements:

• A small electronic board manufactured in Italy that makes it easy and affordable to learn to program a microcontroller, a type of tiny computer found inside millions of everyday objects.
• A free software application used to program the board.
• A vibrant community, true expression of the enthusiasm powering the project. Every day on the www.arduino.cc website thousands of people connect with other users, ask for help, engage and contribute to the project.

About Adafruit Industries
Adafruit was founded in 2005 by MIT engineer, Limor “Ladyada” Fried. Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels. Since then Adafruit has grown to over 25 employees in the heart of NYC. Adafruit has expanded their offerings to include tools and equipment that Limor personally selects, tests and approves. Adafruit has one of the largest collections of free electronics tutorials, open-source hardware and software to help educate and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Press office:
press@arduino.cc

In stock and shipping!

NEW PRODUCT – Arduino Micro with Headers – 5V 16MHz – (ATmega32u4 – assembled). Squee! It’s the cutest, tiniest little Arduino yet! The Arduino Micro packs all of the power of the Arduino Leonardo in a 1.9″ x 0.7″ (48mm x 18mm) size. Although it may look like a stick of gum, its actually a USB-native 8-bit microcontroller, with 32K of flash, and 2.5K of RAM. You can program it directly via the USB micro connector on one end (or for the advanced users, the 6-pin ISP header). The Arduino Micro is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega32u4 (datasheet), developed in conjunction with Arduino.cc and Adafruit.

Onboard is the processor, crystal, USB connection with fuse, Reset button, ISP low-level reprogramming header, ON LED, TX and RX LEDs, a extra user pin #13 LED, and a 3.3V regulator.

You can use it for basic Arduino sketches as well as USB client projects like making it appear as a mouse or keyboard to your computer!
Although it is not shield compatible – it does have all the same pins as a Leonardo. Its best for when you want to shrink your project down or use it on a breadboard.

This version of the Micro comes with headers pre-soldered on and runs at 5V logic with a 16MHz crystal.

For more technical details and starting guides, check out the Arduino website

• Dimensions: 1.9″ x 0.7″ / 48mm x 18mm
• Weight: 6.5g
• Microcontroller: ATmega32u4
• Operating Voltage: 5V
• Input Voltage (recommended): 7-12V
• Input Voltage (limits): 6-20V
• Digital I/O Pins: 20
• PWM Channels: 7
• Analog Input Channels: 12
• DC Current per I/O Pin: 40 mA
• DC Current for 3.3V Pin: 50 mA
• Flash Memory: 32 KB (ATmega32u4) of which 4 KB used by bootloader
• SRAM: 2.5 KB (ATmega32u4)
• EEPROM: 1 KB (ATmega32u4)
• Clock Speed: 16 MHz

In stock and shipping now!

On a more tasty note – One of the hardest hit types of business around here in NYC were the restaurants, we’re trying to see which ones could use a boost as we work some late hours and get delivery or stop in. We’ll try and see who needs some business in our area and post about them here too.

More updates coming soon.

-Ladyada and Adafruit team

Dear community and customers,

Power is out at both Adafruit locations in New York City (10038 & 10013). The buildings are secure and locked down, but without power, there’s no net, no elevators, no access, no lights, no nothing. UPS and USPS have contacted us, they are not doing pickups or deliveries in our area. We expect shipping to resume this weekend or early next week.

This is a disaster, they were not kidding. Like millions others, we are dealing with the aftermath of Sandy.

I live in the area affected so we’re heading uptown to find power and internet to keep customers updated. The Adafruit staff is staying home until our factory location has power.

We will work overtime and around the clock once the power is back on to fulfill your orders.

-Ladyada & Adafruit team

Hurricane Sandy : Public Advisory (updated). There is a massive storm that is about to hit the East Coast of the USA. It’s expected to be one of the biggest storms / Hurricanes ever. There may be transportation shut downs, we are doing everything we can in preparation and planning for Hurricane Sandy. We’ll keep you updated via the Adafruit blog, Twitter, Google+ and more – our #1 mission is to make sure our Adafruit staff stays safe and of course provide you with the best customer service.

PLEASE NOTE: There is a severe weather system tropical storm / destructive “superstorm” now called hurricane Sandy in east coast region, USA. Orders are delayed and shipping services are impacted by the weather.

*************ORDERS ARE NOT SHIPPING on 10/29/2012 or 10/30/2012 or 10/31/2012 **The postal service *AND* UPS have canceled pick up and delivery in the region. Your order will ship once the services resume!*****************

http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy

Here’s a note directly from UPS.

Hurricane Sandy Causing Delays Along Eastern Seaboard

As Hurricane Sandy barrels ashore, UPS remains committed to the safety of our employees and the protection and delivery of your shipments. We are moving shipments to their final destinations as quickly as possible and making every effort to deliver to all areas where conditions permit.

Severe weather has already impacted service in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

We’re working to redirect shipments and secure facilities, equipment, vehicles, and aircraft, and UPS meteorologists continue to monitor the storm.

We will continue to give you the most up-to-date information on ups.com, so check frequently for new developments and tracking statuses.

The UPS package guarantee does not apply when transportation networks are disrupted due to causes beyond UPS’s control.