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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.

Submission + - Makerbot and Adafruit team up for a special limited edition MakerBot (adafruit.com)

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coop0030
coop0030 writes: "MakerBot and Adafruit have joined together to bring the latest technology to electronic and 3D printing enthusiasts with a partnership offering a Limited Edition MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer with special Adafruit kits inside. It 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."

Submission + - Wearable open-source VU meter LED tie (adafruit.com)

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coop0030
coop0030 writes: "Becky Stern, of Adafruit Industries, has created a necktie that lights up like a VU meter. A Volume Unit (VU) meter or Standard Volume Indicator (SVI) is a device displaying a representation of the signal level in audio equipment. The project that uses an Electret Microphone Amplifier to trigger 16 Flora NeoPixels sewn with conductive thread along the length of a tie. The NeoPixels are controlled by a Flora running an Atmega32u4 chip."

Submission + - Hardware Hacker Ladyada to talk with the President today at 4:50pm EST (adafruit.com)

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coop0030
coop0030 writes: "Open source hardware hacker, Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, was selected to join President Obama in a Fireside Hangout this Thursday 2/14 at 4:50pm EST on Google+. Limor will be talking to the President live about manufacturing and education. You can submit your questions to youtube.com/whitehouse and the President will answer questions that are voted to the top."

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