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Submission + - Adafruit now accepts Bitcoin for purchases (adafruit.com)

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Adafruit, an open source hardware company, now accepts Bitcoin. They successfully soft-launched over the weekend and are now using BitPay as a payment processor. BitPay is an electronic payment processing system for the bitcoin currency. BitPay enables online merchants to accept bitcoins, as a form of payment like payments from Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Google Wallet and Paypal.

Submission + - Hardware is now open (sourced) for business (cnbc.com)

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: An article out of CNBC discusses the state of open source hardware based businesses. "Few hardware companies would dream of giving up their design secrets, but for a growing niche of entrepreneurs, doing just that is a pillar of their business. The open-source hardware movement is migrating from the garage to the marketplace. Companies that follow an open-source philosophy make their physical designs and software code available to the public. By doing so, these companies engage a wave of makers, hobbyists and designers who don't just want to buy products, but have a hand in developing them."

Submission + - Announcing Hangout for Make the World: Prosthetics – Friday 10/4/2013 8pm (adafruit.com)

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Make The World: Prosthetics is a one month program on Google+ aimed at crowdsourcing the manufacturing and delivery of the Robohand prosthetic to people in need. The program will be hosted by Adafruit’s Limor Fried, Matt Griffin and Phillip Torrone. Key partners on the program include Robohand, MakerBot, The Open Hand Project, Anthromod, Prosthetics for Prosperity, eNABLE, The Lucky Fin Project and Hands for Africa.

Submission + - DIY Open Source LED GPS Watch Project (adafruit.com)

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Make your own open source LED timepiece! Use an Adafruit FLORA and its GPS module to tell time with a ring of pixels. A leather cuff holds the circuit and hides the battery. The watch is chunky but still looks and feels great on tiny wrists! The circuit sandwich becomes the face of the watch, and you'll use a tactile switch to make a mode selector. The watch has timekeeping (one LED for hours and one for minutes), GPS navigation (customize your waypoint in the provided Arduino sketch), and compass modes.

Submission + - Raspberry Pi as an Ad Blocking Access Point (adafruit.com)

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Adafruit has a new tutorial that will show you how to use your Raspberry Pi as a WiFi access point that blocks ads by default for any devices using it. This is really neat in that it would work for your Android or iOS device, your Xbox 360, TiVo, laptop, and more without needing to customize any of those devices other than to use your Raspberry Pi as the access point for WiFi. Using an ad-blocker can be useful for conserving bandwidth, helping out low-power devices, or for keeping your sanity while browsing the web!

Submission + - Google Glass talks to Raspberry Pi with XMPP (adafruit.com)

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Adafruit has a guide up on how to enable Google Glass to communicate to a hardware platform, raspberry Pi, with Mirror API and XMPP protocol. Now users can access physical objects with their Google Glass via voice commands. If you have a webcam you can connect it to a Raspberry Pi and let it to take pictures for your Glass as well.

Submission + - Citi Bike "Smart" Helmet Navigates to the Nearest Station by Adafruit (adafruit.com)

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Add GPS, compass navigation & visibility with LEDs to a helmet that helps you find your way to the closest Citi Bike station in New York City. Powered by Adafruit's FLORA, a wearable electronics platform. With a detailed tutorial, you can build the helmet, and customize it to work in most cities with a bike share as well.

Submission + - How To Start A Hackerspace: The Essential Hackerspace Checklist (adafruit.com)

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Eric Michaud, co-founder of PSOne and HacDC has created “The List” – it is the direct result of the overwhelming interest in starting Hackerspaces that hit his inbox. When so many people asked for help with the very basics of starting and running a successful Hackerspace, he compiled this list to make it as easy as possible for potential Hackerspace founders to hit the ground running (and not forget anything important). Since then, “the list” has been distributed and shared within Hackerspace culture. It has helped with structuring the success of many Hackerspaces – and hopefully with this update and public release, it will serve as a handy go-to checklist for your awesome Hackerspace-to-be.

Comment GPIO to USB library as well (Score 2) 106

by coop0030 (#43917135) Attached to: Retro Gaming With Raspberry Pi
Not mentioned in the summary is a useful open source library to convert GPIO button presses to USB keyboard commands for the emulators. It uses minimal system resources, which is always good when working with the Raspberry Pi. You should be able to easily modify it to support more than the joystick and two buttons. https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame

Submission + - Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi (adafruit.com)

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Thanks to the affordable Raspberry Pi and some clever software, anyone can re-create the classic arcade experience at home. Adafruit brings the genuine “clicky” arcade controls, you bring the game files and a little crafting skill to build it. Classic game emulation used to require a well-specced PC and specialized adapters for the controls, so it’s exciting to see this trickle down to a $40 system. Also, a video of the game system is on youtube.

Submission + - Glowing Chuck Taylor All Star Sneakers

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Becky Stern, at Adafruit, has created a tutorial on how to modify a pair of Chuck Taylor All Star Sneakers to make them glow. All you need is EL panel and an inverter tucked into the tongue of your shoe to get the stars in your Chuck Taylors glowing. Two styles! Watch the video on YouTube (please subscribe!), and catch the complete tutorial on the Adafruit Learning System.

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