Inkscapes by Adrià Navarro and DI Shin:

An interactive drawing performance designed for the 120 by 11 feet video wall at the InterActive Corps (IAC) building in New York. Three artists draw on their iPads to create new content every time the piece runs. The narrative is guided through the dialog between performers and the giant screen, which evolves and transforms the drawings over time.

BB Tech Screen Cleaning Throw via Geekologie

NEW PRODUCT – Crayola ColorStudio HD+ – An animated world of color and discovery on your iPad!™ iMarker is the key to unlock limitless discovery and play on your iPad. It’s a digital marker, crayon, pencil and paint brush that interacts with the Crayola ColorStudio HD™ app to create all your favorite Crayola colors on the iPad’s Multi-Touch display. As you color, animated characters, music, sound and visual effects bring scenes to life, and surprises await on every page.

App Features for ColorStudio HD

Animated Coloring Pages

More than 30 pages of fun, friendly scenes that move as you color them, with surprises to discover on every page.

Make a Coloring Page

Use built-in animations, clip art, music and more to create your own Coloring Pages. Then color them using Crayola crayons, markers, paint, and more!

Free Draw

Doodle, sketch and write on your own sketch pad.

Sharing

Save and share creations on Facebook, via email or by printing.

There are dozens of coloring and painting apps for iPad. But there’s only one that’s amazing enough to be called “Crayola.”

The iMarker™ digital stylus is the key. Like a marker, crayon, pen and paintbrush in one, iMarker creates favorite Crayola colors within the ColorStudio HD app. iMarker looks like a Crayola marker, but is safe to use with the Multi-Touch display of your iPad. The ColorStudio HD app automatically differentiates between iMarker and your child’s finger taps and swipes, allowing intuitive, creative play without having to toggle between modes. Your child enjoys the accuracy and ease of a stylus without giving up direct manipulation of the creative space.

Pictures, animations, sound effects, music — ColorStudio HD always has something new to discover and color. And new pictures are available through ongoing updates automatically when you sync your iPad.

Parents can share the work their children have created by printing it (requires iOS 4.2 or later) or through email and Facebook.

Put it all together and you get the most amazing coloring book ever, with all your favorite Crayola crayons, paints, pencils, markers and more in a convenient no-ink, no-mess, kid-safe package.

With Crayola ColorStudio HD, Griffin and Crayola are creating new ways for children to color, draw, and discover in the digital age.

In stock and shipping now!

The iPad Octopart App is here! Find your favorite parts and look up datasheets and technical specifications on a new and convenient interface.

In the iTunes App Store.

Adafruit’s Circuit Playground! (video with ADABOT!). Circuit Playground simplifies electronics reference & calculation so you can have more fun hacking, making, & building your projects! This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad – available in the app store.

Sesame best practices guide for children’s app development @ The Sesame Workshop Blog.

Touch screen technology is revolutionizing interactive digital experiences for children. No longer do our little ones need to wait to learn to navigate a mouse or press keyboard keys in order to access a host of interactive content designed for them. Instead, we see toddlers and preschoolers confidently navigating their parents’ iPhones, iPads, and other touch screen devices with astonishing agility and purpose. The explosion of apps for young children is not surprising; there is high demand and high appeal.

Read more.

REWORK_ (Philip Glass Remixed) is an interactive tour through the amazing new REWORK_ album, produced by Beck that remixes Philip Glass’ music. The app includes eleven interactive visualizations corresponding to eleven of the remix songs, along with an interactive “Glass Machine” that lets people create their own music inspired by Philip Glass’ early music.

The idea for the REWORK_ album came together during a conversation between Philip Glass and his friend and new collaborator Beck. The pair recruited producer Hector Castillo (David Bowie, Björk, Lou Reed) to help assemble a collection of remixes of Glass’ works by a list of critically acclaimed artists including Beck himself, Tyondai Braxton, Amon Tobin, Cornelius, Dan Deacon, Johann Johannsson, Nosaj Thing, Memory Tapes, Silver Alert, Pantha du Prince, My Great Ghost and Peter Broderick.

To complement the album, app developer Snibbe Studio (creator of Björk’s Biophilia app) created the REWORK_ app to give fans an interactive musical experience.

What a gorgeous app.

Aluminum iPhone 4S 0.8mm 5-Point Star/Pentalobe Screwdriver - We tried half a dozen different 5-point star/”pentalobe” screwdriver tools to find the one we liked the most The body is made from a single piece of aluminum and has nice knurled grips. The end-cap rotates so you can keep the body steady while rotating. The tip is nicely machined and is magnetic so it holds the miniscule screws in place while inserting/removing them.  Get the iPhone 4 version here.

Clear No-Logo iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4S - Turn your iPhone 4S invisible! OK well maybe not invisible, but with this clear back you can gaze deeply into the inner works of the iPhone – great for when you want a geeky cyber-look or want to place a visible RFID tag inside the phone. This kit comes with a clear plastic back and two basic screwdrivers (one pentalobe, one phillips – use whichever your phone has) to remove the back and replace it. Get the iPhone 4 version here.

iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino by Alasdair Allan - Turn your iPhone or iPad into the hub of a distributed sensor network with the help of an Arduino microcontroller. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to connect an external sensor to an iOS device and have them talk to each other through Arduino. You’ll also build an iOS application that will parse the sensor values it receives and plot the resulting measurements, all in real-time.

DIY Stitchable iPhone 4 & 4s Case – Individualize your iPhone 4 or 4s with this crafty, stitch-able protective case. The perforated cover (choose from black or white) allows you to cross stitch your own designs to create a one-of-a-kind fashion item. The kit includes 3 different colors of embroidery floss (you can get more colors from craft stores), a needle, and a few design ideas to get you started.

Redpark TTL Cable for iOS – The Redpark TTL Cable for iOS is the latest revision of the popular RedPark Serial Cable. The main difference between this and the original is that a RS-232 serial to TTL adapter is no longer required. This means you can connect it directly to an Arduino using only jumper wires. No soldering and no adapters required.

The RedPark cable is the first and only cable approved by Apple to allow hobbyists to connect their iOS devices to external microcontrollers and sensors! With this cable, you can open up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and let your imagination run wild! Use external sensors in your iOS apps! Talk to an Arduino with your iPhone! The possibilities are unlimited!

SHIPPING DEADLINES

Here are your 2012 shipping deadlines for ordering from Adafruit. Please review our shipping section if you have specific questions on how and where we ship worldwide for this holiday season.

UPS ground (USA orders): Place orders by Friday 11am ET – December 14, 2012 – Arrive by 12/24/2012 or sooner.

UPS 3-day (USA orders): Place orders by Wednesday 11am ET – December 19, 2012 – Arrive on 12/24/2012.

UPS 2-day (USA orders): Place orders by Thursday 11am ET – December 20, 2012 – Arrive on 12/24/2012.

UPS overnight (USA orders): Place orders by Friday 11am ET – December 21, 2012 – Arrive on 12/24/2012.

UPS International: Place orders by Monday 11am ET – December 17, 2012. Can take up extra time due to worldwide delays and customs. Should arrive by 12/24/2012 or sooner.

Please note: We do not offer Saturday service for UPS.
Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, Christmas, no UPS pickup or delivery service.
Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, New Year’s Day, no UPS pickup or delivery service.

United States Postal Service, First Class and Priority (USA orders): Place orders by Friday – December 14, 2012 – Arrive by 12/24/2012 or sooner.

USPS First class mail international (International orders): Place orders by Friday – November 23, 2012. Can take up to 30 days ore more with worldwide delays and customs. Should arrive by 12/24/2012 or sooner, but not a trackable service cannot be guaranteed to arrive by 12/24/12.

USPS Express mail international(International orders): Place orders by Friday – December 14, 2012. Can take up to 15 days or more with worldwide delays and customs. Should arrive by 12/24/2012 or sooner.

Gift Certificates are always available at any time.

When in doubt contact us!

Circuit Playground’s version 1.6.3 update adds a new feature and irons out a few more wrinkles in the app’s attire, namely:

LED Resistor Calculator now provides power rating
In addition to recommended resistance, this calculator now outputs the minimum resistor wattage.

Bugfix for Ohms Law Calculator sometimes truncating current value
Smaller current values will now be presented correctly

Bugfix for LED Resistor Calculator value saving on iPhone
iPhone users may have noticed this calc not saving values – all fixed now!

Please take a moment to update and then resume being awesome.

Foldify.

Draw, create, print and fold beautiful 3D figures with Foldify.

Circuit Playground’s version 1.6.2 update tidies up a few details in the app, namely:

Increased Show & Tell photo sizes on non-retina devices
All devices now submit photos at the standardized dimensions

Improved UI functionality in Show & Tell module
Buttons respond immediately, prior to camera/photo library appearing

Fix for incorrect scrolling height in Pinouts module
Bugfix for Pinouts list being unable to fully scroll to bottom in iPad landscape orientation.

Please commence updating – and creating!

Ever wanted to play drums on your iOS device — without actually destroying it? Check out this great Instructables project from aymans:

Multi-touch is a wonderful thing.  But sometimes, the act of creating is done with a tool, like a drumstick or a stylus. It turns out, it’s easy to make a set of drumsticks for a modern capacitive device (like an iPad). You just need a few special things.

The sticks work in any application since they send the same sort of signal your hand does.  I made a few iPad apps that are being submitted to the Apple store…till they become available, the Magic Piano is super fun with them.

Read more.

Instructables user XenonJohn writes:

This is an Arduino based iPod hackaudio project that allows you to select tracks for playback from an attached iPod Touch simply by placing cards on flat upper surface of the machine.

The cards can be placed in small plastic boxes with a picture of the album cover on one side to make small blocks more suitable for small hands to manipulate. Originally designed for disabled child. Since then people, teachers I know and so on, have been urging me to “do something with it” so this is an easier to set up and use quasi “tablet” version.

Membrane Matrix Keypad + extras – 3×4– Punch in your secret key into this numeric matrix keypad. This keypad has 12 buttons, arranged in a telephone-line 3×4 grid. It’s made of a thin, flexible membrane material with an adhesive backing (just remove the paper) so you can attach it to nearly anything. The keys are connected into a matrix, so you only need 7 microcontroller pins (3-columns and 4-rows) to scan through the pad.

We include a 7-pin extra-long header strip so you can plug this into a breadboard with ease.

Recently our friend in China sent us a kit for modding the iPhone– it lights up the Apple logo on the back! We can’t carry these in the store because the kit comes with a trademark-infringing replacement back, but it was certainly a fun project to try! However, we do carry replacement backs, screwdrivers, and other iDevice accessories. Watch the video on YouTube (please subscribe!) and Vimeo.

Hot on the heels of v1.6, Circuit Playground’s 1.6.1 update takes full advantage of the iPhone 5′s four inch display, adding newly optimized layouts throughout the app. This latest update also streamlines user interface elements for all iOS devices.

Plus – every calculator & converter now remembers your input values and mode selections, so you can always pick up where you left off from a previous session. And if need be, all input values can be reset via the Options menu. This feature was available for a few calcs previously, but now works throughout the app.

Be sure to grab the 1.6.1 update from the App Store if you haven’t already. And if you did – I deem you awesome!

Circuit Playground’s 1.6 update brings another heaping helping of electronics assistance to our highly nutritious iOS app. Be sure to grab it fresh from the App Store if you haven’t already. Let’s dig in to what’s new on the menu in 1.6 -

• Resistor Divider Calculator

Enter any three of the four values: Vin, Vout, R1, & R2 – and your voltage divider is ready for the breadboard.

• Heat Sink Calculator

Make sure that heat sink can keep your component (relatively) cool while in use – provide the top four values, then enter Power or Junction Temp to calculate the remaining. Temperature can be given in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

• Wavelength to Color Converter

It’s a little tough to visualize an LED’s color when you only have its light wavelength go by. Input that nanometer value into the Wavelength to Color Converter for a preview of the color + relevant RGB/Hex values. Alternatively – use the color slider to find a color’s wavelength.

• Trace Width Calculator

Ensure your PCB traces can handle your circuit’s current – calculate the required trace width by providing 4 values for your project. Includes unit options for temperature & length values.

• Quarter Wave Calculator

Find the antenna length you’ll need to use for a given frequency, or the corresponding frequency for a given length. Length can be specified in feet/inches or metric value.

• New Pinouts for connectors, ICs, & boards

We’ve added a bunch of useful pinout diagrams to the app including – Raspberry Pi GPIO, MAX232, LM386, 74HC595, USB (A&B), RS232 (DB-9), VGA (DB-15), Ethernet (RJ-45), 16×2 LCD, 78xx, & 78Lxx

• Show & Tell more!

Show & Tell now lets you share multiple pics & video with Adafruit. Choose up to 3 photos and/or 1 video clip to represent your project – tap a thumbnail image to review each piece of media or remove it from your submission. Of course you can also use your iPad/iPhone/iPod’s camera to grab new pics or video – each one will automatically be saved to your device’s photo library.

Also – Circuit Playground 1.6 also adds support for iOS 6 & requires iOS 4.3 or later. Changing calculator pages on iPad can now be done with a two-finger swipe across the main view.

Circuit Playground 1.6 is available now on the App Store and is a free update for existing users. Bon appetit!

Free pixel drawing app from Disney…

Experience the magic of PIXEL’D, an intuitive and absorbing drawing and animation app that allows you to create amazing, one of a kind pixel art. Create images straight from your imagination or use Disney character pixel stamps to complete your scenes. Hear each pixel ‘pop’ as you create your picture, and experience the joy of seeing your images come to life with an easy frame-by-frame animation system. Share your art with friends and family through a wide range of social networking options. With regular updates and in-app purchases, PIXEL’D is an inexhaustible source of entertainment for artists of all ages and abilities.

Your Body Double Could Be This Robot Some Call ‘FaceTime On Wheels’ @ Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ.

Though the first one hasn’t even come off the production line yet, the makers of a new “telepresence” robot called the “Double” attracted more than $1 million worth of preorders within three weeks.

“It’s a Segway for your iPad,” quipped David Cann, founder and chief executive of Miami-based Double Robotics, at Y Combinator’s Demo Day in August, where he showed off the robot’s capabilities to investors.

Hardware Hacking for iOS Programmers via Tom.

The arrival of the External Accessory Framework was seen, initially at least, as having the potential to open the iOS platform up to a host of external accessories and additional sensors. Sadly, little of the innovation people were expecting actually occurred, and while there are finally starting to be some interesting products arriving on the market, for the most part the External Accessory Framework is being used to support a fairly predictable range of audio and video accessories from big-name manufacturers.

The reason for this lack of innovation is usually laid at the feet of Apple’s Made for iPod (MFi) licensing program. To develop hardware accessories that connect to the iPod, iPhone, or iPad, you must be an MFi licensee.

Amazing designs and fantastic step-by-step for modding your iPhone back by Jake von Slatt… via Hackaday

Learn to replace the back plate on your iPhone 4 or 4S in this quick how-to video. Video on YouTube (please subscribe to our channel!) and Vimeo.

Black No-Logo, Clear No-Logo & Mirror iPhone Replacement Backings! Since we started carrying high quality iPhone 4/4S 5-point star/pentalobe and tiny Phillips screw driver tools, our customer have suggested we carry replacement backings for iPhones. We thought this could be fun since we laser etch these devices, mod them and also have some fun hacks we are working on. So! Here there are, these are only for iPhone 4/4s AT&T devices.

Check out all these and more in our “iDevices” section here.

Cellphone Cases Can Imitate Their Makers – Digital Domain @ NYTimes.com.

The more that designers of mobile devices avoid fusing parts together, the easier they are to repair. And the repairs most likely to be undertaken are those we can do ourselves.

Circuit Playground 1.5 update is by far our biggest update yet – and as you may have already guessed, it contains much newness and improvements!

Check out some of the new features below:

Op Amp Calculators


Eight Op Amp Circuits total – including such classics as: Inverting Amp, Non-inverting Amp, Summing Amp, Differentiator, Integrator, Differential Amp, Current Source, + a Buffer schematic thrown in for good measure.

Op Amp Pinouts


When you’re ready to build that operational amplifier circuit, swipe on over to the Op Amp Pinout Reference where you’ll find layouts for the most common single, dual, & quad op amp IC packages.

Show & Tell


Got a finished project you’d like to show off? We want to see it! Circuit Playground’s new Show & Tell section lets you easily snap a pic or choose one from your photo library, then send it to Adafruit along with your project description.

Touch schematic components to change values.



On any calculator that includes a schematic, you can now edit input values by tapping the relevant component symbol.

+ Additional improvements throughout


You’ll also notice a quite a few other tweaks and improvements added to make the app easier to use.

Version 1.5 is a free update for all current users – and as always, can be downloaded from the App Store. Thanks again to everyone who purchased Circuit Playground + all the helpful feedback & reviews – do stay tuned for more awesome!

More RFID cards inside iPhone backings… Jake writes in -

I did a very similar thing with the keycard to my workplace a while ago. It read fine even through the metal of the stock iPhone back. However, though the back seemed to close fine on the pieces of the keycard, it caused the glass to bow slightly and the glass eventually broke when the phone suffered a light impact. I’m going to try again with a custom wound antenna and Kapton tape.

Hacking contest for kids at DEFCON, sponsored by AT&T – CyFi’s Zero-Day Contest.

DEFCON Kids is a not-for-profit dedicated to teaching kids around the world how to love being white-hat hacker.  A white-hat hacker is someone who enjoys thinking of innovative new ways to make, break and use anything to create a better world.
 
DEFCON Kids 2 will be July 27-29, 2012 at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas as part ofDEFCON, the largest hacker gathering in the world.  Confirmed speakers include Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine;  Cory Doctorow, sci-fi author; Joe Grand, famous hardware hacker; and Marcia Hoffman, an EFF lawyer.  Partners include AllClear ID, the DoD, Hackid, AT&T, Max Kelly, EFF and the NSA.

One year ago at DEFCON Kids 1, CyFi released a new class of zero-day vulnerabilities called Time Traveler.  The Time Traveler bug exists across all major mobile platforms.  It is a mistake made by thousands of app developers.  At the same time, Time Traveler is a critical bug, allowing for exploit code to run on servers.  CyFi and AT&T responsibly notified app developers about the Time Traveler bug, but few have fixed the problem.

It is important that this bug be fixed and it is easy to do so.  App developers just need more awareness about the importance of security.  That is the point of this contest (and cuz it’s fun).  CyFi loves the mobile app world and wants it to survive.  If you do too, help her find more vulnerable apps and notify the developers.

After seeing Dhani Sutanto mod his Oyster Card (London transit pass) into a ring, I got excited to try something similar with an CharlieCard (Boston’s RFID transit pass). You can dissolve the card in acetone and then remove the RFID antenna and chip inside. Check out our more detailed guide to this process over on our tutorial site. The video below contains the RFID-modding section of our iPhone replacement backs video:

We found that when placed under one of our replacement iPhone backs, the tag didn’t read, so we fiddled with tape and paper until there was enough air space between the metallic bulk of the phone and the RFID antenna.

One post-it note and four layers of packing tape later, the tag scans just fine from within the back of the iPhone, even with 4G and wifi turned on.

Learn to replace the back plate on your iPhone 4 or 4S in this quick how-to video. Video on YouTube (please subscribe to our channel!) and Vimeo.

Black No-Logo, Clear No-Logo & Mirror iPhone Replacement Backings! Since we started carrying high quality iPhone 4/4S 5-point star/pentalobe and tiny Phillips screw driver tools, our customer have suggested we carry replacement backings for iPhones. We thought this could be fun since we laser etch these devices, mod them and also have some fun hacks we are working on. So! Here there are, these are only for iPhone 4/4s AT&T devices.

Black No-Logo iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4 & Black No-Logo iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4S. Turn your iPhone 4 into a black monolith – great for when you want a sleek minimal look. This kit comes with a shiny black plastic back and two basic screwdrivers (one pentalobe, one phillips – use whichever your phone has) to remove the back and replace it.

Clear No-Logo iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4 & Clear No-Logo iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4S. Turn your iPhone 4S invisible! OK well maybe not invisible, but with this clear back you can gaze deeply into the inner works of the iPhone – great for when you want a geeky cyber-look or want to place a visible RFID tag inside the phone.

Mirror iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4 & Mirror iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4S. Turn your iPhone 4S into a mirror – great for applying makeup, looking under your car, or signalling for help when trapped on a deserted island.

Check out all these and more in our “iDevices” section here.

NEW PRODUCTS – Black No-Logo, Clear No-Logo & Mirror iPhone Replacement Backings! Since we started carrying high quality iPhone 4/4S 5-point star/pentalobe and tiny Phillips screw driver tools, our customer have suggested we carry replacement backings for iPhones. We thought this could be fun since we laser etch these devices, mod them and also have some fun hacks we are working on. So! Here there are, these are only for iPhone 4/4s AT&T devices.

Next week we’ll have a fun project to share that uses the clear backing (and more!) so stay tuned!

Black No-Logo iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4 & Black No-Logo iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4S. Turn your iPhone 4 into a black monolith – great for when you want a sleek minimal look. This kit comes with a shiny black plastic back and two basic screwdrivers (one pentalobe, one phillips – use whichever your phone has) to remove the back and replace it.

Clear No-Logo iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4 & Clear No-Logo iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4S. Turn your iPhone 4S invisible! OK well maybe not invisible, but with this clear back you can gaze deeply into the inner works of the iPhone – great for when you want a geeky cyber-look or want to place a visible RFID tag inside the phone.

Mirror iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4 & Mirror iPhone Replacement Back – iPhone 4S. Turn your iPhone 4S into a mirror – great for applying makeup, looking under your car, or signalling for help when trapped on a deserted island.

Check out all these and more in our “iDevices” section here.