These Insanely Ornate Suits are Made for Tripping Out to Sound @ Wired Design.

Nick Cave doesn’t create art just so you can stare at it. The Chicago-based artist’s work is meant to be explored, experienced and, in some cases, even worn. In Sojourn, the newly opened exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, Cave has created a weird and wonderful fantasyland filled with sculptures built from flea market objects, button-adorned walls, and his wearable, noise-making Soundsuits. “I’ve made the decision to take you on a journey,” Cave explained to Wired. “To create a exhibition that will take you back to this sort of dream state.”

Check out TechnoWiz2Cubed by TechnoWiz2Cubed a short 6 second film for the Adafruit #adafruit6secs electronic film festival (Youtube playlist here for all the entries on YouTube).

Is $75 Million in Venture Capital an Advantage? @ NYTimes.com.

Steve Blank retired from serial entrepreneurship after working with eight start-ups, including E.piphany, a software company that he helped found and sold in 2005 for $329 million. Today he’s an associate professor in management science and engineering at Stanford University and co-author of “The Startup Owner’s Manual.” Mr. Blank is credited with helping to create the lean start-up movement, which holds that start-ups can be successful without large amounts of cash. As we considered the example posed in our just-published articlecontrasting the financing experiences of two data companies that went after roughly the same market at roughly the same time, GoodData (venture-backed) and RJMetrics (mostly self-financed), we asked Mr. Blank for his views on an age-old question.

In New York, our new Citi Bike bikeshare program is really taking off. We were inspired to create a helmet that navigates you to the nearest Citi Bike docking station with LED strip inside. We found this nifty Carrera foldable helmet with spaces that just begged to be illuminated (without compromising the smooth outer safety surface). Check out the video on YouTube (please subscribe!) and Vimeo, and build your own Citi Bike Helmet with our step-by-step on the Adafruit Learning System. Customize the code for bikeshare in your city!

This project was created in collaboration with Tyler Cooper & Justin Cooper, with major video help from Risa Rose and JM Imbrescia.

Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!

We rarely post Kickstarters, but Chris Walker is a friend of Adafruit’s and he recently stopped by to give us a demo, it’s great – we hope to one day stock them!. AGENT: The World’s Smartest Watch by Secret Labs + House of Horology @ Kickstarter.

New news!

• 2 days until the end of the campaign
• 925%+ funded already, closing in on $1 million
• extra funding being used to hold hackathons, upgrade watchstraps from silicone to leather (optional), licensing international fonts and premium weather data streams, building app store, etc.

General highlights:

• sdk and emulator, .NET Micro Framework
• dual-processor, built-in power metering
• 7 days battery runtime (typical), up to 30 days battery runtime (watchface-only mode)
• watch app store — and you can side-load apps (run *anyapp, no walled garden)
• we are open sourcing our .NET Micro Framework port for the new SAM4S microcontrollers.

AVR Programmer Built From a USB Keyboard

Recently, my keyboard became louder and louder while typing, so I decided to buy a new one. But what to do with the old one? Ever since I saw the AVR programmer that uses a USB hub, I thought of abusing a USB keyboard for that.

Theory

Most keyboards have at least three indicator LEDs (Num-, Caps- and Scroll-Lock), which can be controlled from the host using a HID Set_Report request, and thus can be used as general purpose outputs. The inputs are a bit more tricky, since the keyboard uses a scan matrix divided in rows and columns. Most keyboards also do some debouncing and detect rows that are ‘stuck’, which means that we need to simulate the keypress of a single key. If a key has been pressed, the keyboard triggers an interrupt transfer with 8 bytes of data, containing the current state of all keys. The first byte reflects the state of the modifier keys (shift, ctrl, alt, etc.) which I’ll be using as inputs. Additionally, the keys can be polled using a Get_Report request to the control endpoint, but the interrupt transfers need to be handled either way, since my keyboard just locked up after the first keypress when I didn’t handle them first.

“Virtual gaming headset Oculus Rift raises $16 million from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners:“

Fresh off the heels of a buzzy turn at gaming conference E3, Oculus Rift has raised its first round of funding, according to several people familiar with the situation.

The Southern California company, which makes virtual reality headsets for gaming, raised $16 million in its first round of outside capital co-led by Spark Capital and Matrix Partners co-led the deal. The round has a $30 million pre-money valuation, people familiar with the matter said. Oculus Rift did not provide a comment for this story. Spark Capital did not return emails.

Oculus Rift first caught attention in September 2012 with its Kickstarter campaign seeking $250,000; it wound up raising $2.4 million. Similar to the company’s crowdfunding campaign, Oculus started raising venture capital with a target of just $5.5 million; the round was oversubscribed and eventually expanded to $16 million.

Gaming industry insiders called the company the “the belle of the ball” at E3 this year. That’s on the back of a nomination for “best hardware of the year” last year. Its product is not yet commercially available and no official release date has been set for the $300 consumer units in sight. The company recently upgraded to HD, and shipped 7,500 to developers looking to build for the platform. Thus far, Team Fortress 2, Museum of the Microstar, Half-Life 2 and Tuscany Razer Hydra are available to play on the headset with a few dozen more titles in development.

CuteCircuit & Bloody Beetroots: The Mask:

CuteCircuit has designed a brand new spectacular Mask for dj Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo, aka the Bloody Beetroots.

Respecting the original Mask shape, the new high tech Mask lights up adding more adrenaline to the show and even more strength to the music.

 The Mask features the latest advances in wearable technology design; the new skintight and ultrathin Mask’s fabric includes LEDs Eyes able to glow in multiple patterns matching the electro house dance punk dj eclectic performance.

The new Mask was inspired by the need of the Bloody Beetroots to interact with their audience in a more direct way.

The Mask is controlled wirelessly using CuteCircuit’s Q Software.

The Mask features hundreds of LEDs that flash and sparkle following the rhythm of the music in a futuristic live performance that is captivating fans all around the world.

Don’t miss the chance to watch the making of videos of the CuteCircuit’s Mask “ SBCR presents… Bloody Beetroots Mask Reveal” on youtube.

Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!

Gloria Sin @ Digital Trends writes:

With every tech company from Apple to Google reportedly working on a wearable computer to compete with the Pebble and the Sony smart watch, smart watches are definitely a hot topic on the gadget frontier. We can now add Microsoft to the list as the United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published a patent from Microsoft that sounds a lot like a wearable computer.

To be clear, this Microsoft invention isn’t your average smart watch with different time-telling faces. In fact, the application makes no mention of the device’s ability to tell time at all. The technology, as outlined in its application, is all about making data transferring – from using a credit card, logging into your account, to accessing a building or car – as secure and difficult to hack as possible.

What Microsoft described in its paperwork is an “electrical device” that you can wear on your body (like on your wrist). Alternatively, it can be part of the surface of a mobile device, a wallet, or even jewelery. It then uses the wearer’s body part, like your arm or finger, as a “transmission channel” to transfer data through direct physical contact with another device like a computer, smartphone, or even a game console and controller. The idea is that your body part acts as a conduit for the data to travel through, rather than beaming the information wirelessly, which makes it prone to hacking.

Syuzi @ Fashioning Technology writes:

A synthetic material which mimics the brightest and most vivid colours in nature, and changes colour when twisted or stretched, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, and could have important applications in the security, textile and sensing industries. The Polymer Opal films change to green and blue when stretched, and to red when compressed.

Medtech-Innovation through industrial cooperation: “Wristband revolutionises blood pressure measurement:“

The consequences of high blood pressure are one of the most common causes of death worldwide. Despite this, according to the World Health Organization WHO, fewer than one in two of those affected measures their blood pressure regularly. The main reason for this is that regular measurements are costly. An innovative wrist sensor should now change that.

Vlad Cazan writes about his experience making fabric buttons!

Check out phone charger by Lisa Earley a short 6 second film for the Adafruit #adafruit6secs electronic film festival (Youtube playlist here for all the entries on YouTube).

Featured Adafruit Products

MintyBoost Kit – v3.0 – Make your own iPod/iPhone/GPS/etc… battery-pack and recharger!
This project includes all the electronic parts necessary to build your own MintyBoost: a small & simple (but very powerful) USB charger for your iPod (or other mp3 player), camera, cell phone, and any other gadget you can plug into a USB port to charge. If you have a Nintendo DS/GBA or a PSP you can buy charger cables from us, too. (read more)

Onion Pi Pack w/Small Antenna – Make a Raspberry Pi Tor Proxy. Feel like someone is snooping on you? Browse anonymously anywhere you go with the Onion Pi Tor proxy. Using this pack of parts and a free weekend you can build a project that uses a Raspberry Pi, a USB WiFi adapter and Ethernet cable to create a small, low-power and portable privacy Pi.

After it’s built, using it is easy-as-pie. First, plug the Ethernet cable into any Internet provider in your home, work, hotel or conference/event. Next, power up the Pi with the micro USB cable to your laptop or to the wall adapter. The Pi will boot up and create a new secure wireless access point called Onion Pi. Connecting to that access point will automatically route any web browsing from your computer through the anonymizing Tor network.

This pack comes with everything you need, $100 of parts for $90 and we’ll donate a portion of each sale to the Tor foundation!

Each order comes with:

• Raspberry Pi Model B – has an Ethernet port, two USB ports and 512 MB of RAM
• Adafruit Pi Case – Keeps your Pi cozy and safe
• Mini WiFi adapter – Good range, and a compact design, this will be how you connect to the Pi proxy
• 10 foot Ethernet cable – connect this from your Pi to a router with Internet service
• MicroUSB cable – 3 feet long, great for powering your Pi
• 5V 1A power adapter – specially designed for the Pi
• USB console cable – good for debugging and setting up your Pi when running it without a monitor/keyboard
• 4 GB SD Card with Wheezy – a 4GB card with Raspbian 7 already installed.

The Onion Pi logo shown above for display only, it’s not a sticker or included.

You’ll still need to set up the access point and Tor software according to our tutorial. This project is best used by people with a little bit of command-line, linux or Raspberry Pi experience. If you’ve set up a Raspberry Pi and configured it before, this project will be a fun experience. We have tons of tutorials for exploring Raspberry Pi in the Adafruit Learning System

Please note! This is a new project and there may be updates and improvements over time!

In stock and shipping!

Hunting for an E.T. Castoff in a Most Terrestrial Place @ NYTimes.com.

You are the world’s greatest video game maker, but suddenly you find yourself stuck with millions of cartridges of a game nobody wants. What do you do?

You load the cartridges into trucks and bury them in the New Mexico desert.

Atari did just that almost 30 years ago, or so the story goes. The truth lies beneath packed dirt and poured concrete in a sleeping landfill by the railroad tracks behind a McDonald’s here, where this city of about 32,000, home to an Air Force base and the state’s Museum of Space History, dumped its garbage many years ago.

A spray-painted sign, bright orange against a white background, warns visitors: “Keep Out.”

The place may be the final resting place for the video game E.T., recalled by some as one of the worst video games ever made.

Adafruit COO Molly Thorkelson spoke on a panel today at the CityAge Global Metropolis conference called “the startup metropolis:how to catelyze the next generation of companies.”

McMaster-Carr app via EMSL.

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for everything in your plant. Order over 510,000 products from the palm of your hand.

Switch Science – Japan.

TechShare – Japan.

These are just 2 of our distributors in the Asia region, make sure to visit the Adafruit distributor page to view all! We will be spotlighting Adafruit resellers from around the world on a regular basis!

We recently updated our distributor, reseller and hackerspace pricing! Now, 1 quantity has UP TO a 30% discount off many items, this is allows you to get a great discount by just ordering 1 of something. Great for folks who just want to try 1 item of each of something out in their store, etc. As always, once you order 50+ or more of something the discount goes UP TO 40% off many items as well. Note! *Not ALL items have reseller pricing, reseller pricing is for items we can discount for our resellers. We are adding more all the time! Remember, the minimum order is $250 per order, not including shipping.

We have a very easy reseller program and would love to have more great people & companies as a distributors/resellers/hackerspaces. Our products are high-quality and we think they’re the best engineered & designed in the market. How can you be a distributor? Just fill our form here, keep in mind the following questions!

1. Are you an online store, a physical store or a hackerspace that would like to distribute our products? Please include a link.
2. Can you place orders $250 and over (Not including shipping) each time?
3. Can you pay via paypal or credit card? For international large orders, can you pay via wire transfer?
4. Do you have a UPS account? (This is not required, but helpful).

We’ll be adding more features for resellers in 2013 enjoy! To become a distributor, click here.

1943 – Bus Helicopters Proposed

On June 14, 1943 Greyhound Bus first proposed launching helicopter buses for commercial use in an application filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). Designers Raymond Loewy and Igor Sikorsky created the concept design for a 14 seat craft. Though scale models of the buses and terminals were built, no actual helicopter bus was ever built. The proposed venture was publicized in the New York Times on September 9, 1945, but because seemed impossible to make profitable, the airbus helicopter project was eventually abandoned. A publicity article by Sikorsky campaigning for the use of helicopters can be found in this article in the Atlantic.

1928 – First Female Solo Flight

It has been eighty-five years today since Amelia Earhart completed the first female piloted solo trip across the Atlantic.

1884 – Telecomunications Go Underground

New York the day after the blizzard of 1888 blew out power across the city
One hundred twenty nine years ago last Friday, New York became the first state to enact legislation requiring that all cities with a population larger than 500,000 bury “all telegraph, telephonic and electric light wires and cables wires,” ensuring that our city streets don’t look like this the view above.   The law was simply ignored by most electricity and telephone companies, who privately owned the wires and poles supporting them, until the Blizzard of 1888 took out power to the city and government began enforcing the law.  For more information, read here.

What happens when large quantities of snow fall on wires.

Architecture, like electronics, is dominated by metal. Steel (and concrete) have been the defacto way to make tall buildings stand up since the skyscraper came around some one hundred years ago. But now Scandinavian firm C. F. Møller is proposing the first timber-frame skyscraper in the world, to be built in Stockholm, Sweden. via dezeen.

According to the project architect Ola Jonsson,

“The main reason it hasn’t been done before is that concrete and steel have a big part of the market,” C. F. Møller architect Ola Jonsson told Dezeen. “But now the building industry has started taking responsibity for the environment.”
He continued: “Construction accounts for around 30-40 percent of CO2 produced in the world globally and if you look at the CO2 released in the production of wood it is a lot better than steel or concrete.”

…Making the bioluminescence image.

…The final product.

Check out 8×8 LED Matrix Pong by Ubi Yubix a short 6 second film for the Adafruit #adafruit6secs electronic film festival (Youtube playlist here for all the entries on YouTube).

Inspired by Georg Simmel’s notion of the Blasé (an indifference towards the difference between things), I set out to explore the relationship between sensing technology and the routines of everyday life. I feel the city is all too commonly represented by abstract systems and maps, a tendency driven by a reductionist pursuit of efficiency, and one which ignores the idiosyncrasies occurring on street level. This is the noise:

Data visualization

The Chime performs “I Can’t Tell If You’re Coming Or Going” between Lakeshore Blvd. and Lake Ontario in the Morning in Dm from Marc De Pape on Vimeo.

NASA’s new astronauts: Will these men and women fly to Mars? @ latimes.com.

It’s been two years since NASA’s space shuttle program came to an end, but thousands of Americans still dream of becoming astronauts. Eight of them – four men and four women – were introduced Monday as NASA’s astronaut candidate class for 2013.

More than 6,300 people applied to become astronauts-in-training, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a video announcement. That is the second-most applications the space agency has ever received, according to a NASA statement.

The bios of the eight people selected will probably make you feel like a bit of a slacker. Two of them have PhDs and one is a physician training in sports medicine. Four have experience as test pilots for the Navy or Air Force. One person is working at the Pentagon on ways to defeat the homemade bombs that have plagued troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of them is the station chief for theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s research outpost in American Samoa.

The driver for the Adafruit BMP085 Pressure Sensor has been updated to include more accurate altitude calculations, with user defined mean sea level pressure values and a better conversion formula.  We’ve also updated the learning guide to show you how to use the new API and drivers.  Adding altitude measurements to your project has never been easier, and now it’s a bit more reliable as well!

Every year since 1963, the President of the United States has issued a proclamation announcing National Small Business Week, which recognizes the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners.

More than half of Americans either own or work for a small business, and they create about two out of every three new jobs in the U.S. each year.

As part of National Small Business Week, the U.S. Small Business Administration takes the opportunity to highlight the impact of outstanding entrepreneurs, small business owners, and others from all 50 states and U.S. territories.  Every day, they’re working to grow small businesses, create 21st century jobs, drive innovation, and increase America’s global competitiveness.

Thanks to the design of its legs, which faithfully mimic feline morphology, EPFL’s four-legged “cheetah-cub robot” shares the advantages of its biological model: it is small, light and runs very fast. In the long term, this type of machine, which is still in an experimental stage, could be used in search and rescue missions or for exploration.

NeoDen TM-240A Automatic Pick and Place Machine @ Rayshobby.

Yes, there have been lots of new updates recently. Among them is a new toy I received in the mail today: a NeoDen TM-240A automatic desktop pick and place machine! I’ve kept my eyes on this baby for a quite a while, and finally decided to make a purchase last week. The shipping was very fast: DHL from China, a total of 4 days from shipping to delivery. The package is quite heavy: 65kg with the box, and 45kg just the machine itself. The DHL courier and I moved it together to my workshop.

AT&T to Introduce Solar-Powered Charging Stations @ NYTimes.com.

Starting Tuesday, 25 solar-powered charging stations will sprout in parks, beaches and other outdoor spaces in the five boroughs, part of a pilot project from the wireless provider in partnership with the city. The stations — 12.5-foot steel poles with three petal-shaped solar panels fanning out on top — can accommodate up to six devices at a time regardless of wireless carrier, with dedicated ports for iPhones, Androids, BlackBerrys and standard USB charging cables.

Read more.

The summer of solar is arriving, this summer we’re going to be showcasing and celebrating amazing solar project from YOU. We’ll have example, tutorials and more to get you going, so get ready, the summer of solar is coming!

USB / DC / Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer charger – v2, NEW AND UPDATED! Make your projects to go green this summer with our specialized USB/Solar Lithium Ion Polymer Battery charger! This charger is a very unique design, perfect for outdoor projects, or DIY iPod chargers. We’ve spent over a year testing and tinkering with this charger to come up with a plug and play solution to charging batteries with the sun and we’re really pleased with what we ended up with.

On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World @ NYTimes.com.

What he did then, and what he does now, are all part of the same crusade, he said. “There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering,” he said — “for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.”

He stopped, realizing that sounded grandiose, or at least corny.

“I’m not kidding,” he said.

DIY templates and tutorials for the geometric paper torso via Colossal

In Cloud Light and many more stainless steel kinetic sculptures by Anthony Howe via Colossal

CNC router in progress

Eunoia by Lisa Park via Cool Hunting

“Eunoia” is a performance that uses my brainwaves — collected via EEG sensor– to manipulate the motions of water. It derives from the Greek word “ey” (well) + “nous” (mind) meaning “beautiful thinking”. EEG is a brainwave detecting sensor. It measures frequencies of my brain activity (Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, Theta) relating to my state of consciousness while wearing it. The data collected from EEG is translated in realtime to modulate vibrations of sound with using software programs. EEG sends the information of my brain activity to Processing, which is linked with Max/MSP to receive data and generate sound from Reaktor.

Garth Johnson used his Eggbot to engrave greenware pottery with stunning results!

The Original Egg-Bot! – Deluxe Kit! – The Eggbot is an open-source art robot that can draw on spherical or egg-shaped objects from the size of a ping pong ball to that of a small grapefruit– roughly 1.25 to 4.25 inches in diameter (3 – 10 cm).

The Eggbot is super adjustable, and is designed to draw on all kinds of things that are normally “impossible” to print on. Not just eggs but ping pong balls, light bulbs, mini pumpkins, and even things like wine glasses– with a bit of work. See the photos above for some examples of personalized golf balls, christmas ornaments, light bulbs, and (yes) eggs.

New Products 6/15/2013 (video)

• Bare Conductive Greeting Card Kit – Classroom pack (0:04)
• Nixie Seven-Segment Art Scratch-Off Card (1:57) 
• Pixel Art Scratch-Off Card (1:57) 
• My Little Geek by Andrew & Sarah Spear (3:28) 
• USB DIY Connector Shell – Type Mini-B Plug (4:59) 
• USB DIY Connector Shell – Type A Socket (4:59) 
• FLORA Budget Pack (6:30) 
• Inductive Charging Set – 5V @ 500mA max (9:19) 
• Onion Pi Pack – Make a Raspberry Pi Tor Proxy (11:50) 

Here’s a handy DIY Crimp Tool Holder brings more mechanical advantage to your inexpensive off-the-shelf handheld crimp tool — great for short production runs and interactive artwork installs that begin to get a little bit wire happy. Or if you were to break the arms off your crimpers! Via Oomlout:

We were getting frustrated with slow crimping. While not doing enough volume to warrant an automatic machine we augmented our hand crimps to make the job a little bit easier.

Simply grab a cheap pair of of the shelf hand crimps (we used these) cut the bits out and bolt together. You’ll be effortlessly crimping in no time.

Want to Make Your Own:

• On Thingiverse (html)
• Mechanical Reference (pdf)
• Parts Outline (dxf)
• Parts Outline (svg)
• Additional Files and Formats

Read More.

Ask an Engineer 6/15/2013 (video)

Every Saturday night at 10pm ET join us for our weekly live video & chatroom! Visit http://adafruit.com/ask for more info. You can ask anything about electronics, kits at Adafruit or just stop in to meet other makers who are building cool things! At the end of the chat we give away a kit from Adafruit to the winner of our trivia question!

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How FPGAs work, and why you’ll buy one.

Today, pretty much everyone has a CPU, a DSP and a GPU, buried somewhere in their PC, phone, car, etc. Most don’t know or care that they bought any of these, but they did.

Will everyone, at some future point, also buy an FPGA? The market size of FPGAs today is about 1% of the annual global semiconductor sales (~$3B vs ~$300B). Will FPGA eventually become a must-have, or will its volume remain relatively low?

We’ll try to answer this question below. In order to see how popular FPGAs could become, we’ll need to discuss what FPGAs are. FPGAs are a programmable platform, but one designed by EEs for EEs rather than for programmers. So for many programmers, FPGAs are exciting yet mysterious; I hope our discussion will help demystify them.

We’ll start with a common explanation of FPGAs’ relatively low popularity. We’ll see why that explanation is wrong – and why, if we take a closer look, we actually come to expect FPGAs to blow the competition out of the water!

This will conclude today’s installment, “Why you’ll buy an FPGA”. A sequel is in the making, titled “Why you won’t buy an FPGA”. There, we’ll see some of the major obstacles standing between FPGAs and world domination.

Check out 6 second electronics hippynurd a short 6 second film for the Adafruit #adafruit6secs electronic film festival (Youtube playlist here for all the entries on YouTube).

The Periodic Table of the Muppets by Mike BaBoon Design.

A comprehensive depiction of many memorable Muppet characters from throughout the years (and some not-so-memorable ones as well).

Each square represents a different character and indicates the primary Muppeteer(s) for that character, as well as the year and production in which the character made its debut. Borders align with hair/hat colour, background aligns with skin/fur colour, and colour of the abbreviated name represents nose colour (for characters with noses that is).

RH Electronics – Israel.

Singapore Robotic – Singapore.

These are just 2 of our distributors in the Asia region, make sure to visit the Adafruit distributor page to view all! We will be spotlighting Adafruit resellers from around the world on a regular basis!

We recently updated our distributor, reseller and hackerspace pricing! Now, 1 quantity has UP TO a 30% discount off many items, this is allows you to get a great discount by just ordering 1 of something. Great for folks who just want to try 1 item of each of something out in their store, etc. As always, once you order 50+ or more of something the discount goes UP TO 40% off many items as well. Note! *Not ALL items have reseller pricing, reseller pricing is for items we can discount for our resellers. We are adding more all the time! Remember, the minimum order is $250 per order, not including shipping.

We have a very easy reseller program and would love to have more great people & companies as a distributors/resellers/hackerspaces. Our products are high-quality and we think they’re the best engineered & designed in the market. How can you be a distributor? Just fill our form here, keep in mind the following questions!

1. Are you an online store, a physical store or a hackerspace that would like to distribute our products? Please include a link.
2. Can you place orders $250 and over (Not including shipping) each time?
3. Can you pay via paypal or credit card? For international large orders, can you pay via wire transfer?
4. Do you have a UPS account? (This is not required, but helpful).

We’ll be adding more features for resellers in 2013 enjoy! To become a distributor, click here.

This Technology Has Been Disconnected by Dave Bledsoe.

Underneath the elevated West Side Highway at 135th and 12th Avenue I found this telephone graveyard. At least a one hundred old, battered pay phones were locked behind a fence near the Park’s Department building. I almost took these on my iPhone, but my irony levels are dangerously low these days.

Check out ARDUINO ROBOT by william foster a short 6 second film for the Adafruit #adafruit6secs electronic film festival (Youtube playlist here for all the entries on YouTube).

Ladyada is working on some LCD interfacing today, and thought maybe some people would find my super-lucky FPC adapter handy so she is going to get some of them manufactured for the shop. When using this adapter board we guarantee you will roll 7′s and select the right SPI mode the first time! Coming soon!

Want to use Adafruit’s NFC Breakout with the Pi?  We’ve made it easier than ever with our updated tutorial: Adafruit NFC/RFID on Raspberry Pi.  It’s been updated to take into account some of the API changes in the latest version (1.7.0-rc7), which now includes some support for the Pi out of the box, and general improvements in performance!

is this good? were invited to create an interactive installation at Nuits Sonores, an electronic music and art festival in Lyon, France, in May 2013.

We worked alongside Lyon-based Architects lookingforarchitecture.com to create a huge interactive pyramid.

A matrix of 6 Kinect cameras tracked people as they moved across the pyramid, triggering DMX lighting in the structure and generative graphics on the screens above.

Special thanks to Pierre-Marie Oullion and Alexis Bergeron from Nuits Sonores, and to Robin Accard from Partizan for making it happen