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hi everyone, its me 'ladyada. we're very much looking forward to telling our story, i have reached out to the founder of flux.ai (Matthias Wagner - Founder & CEO at Flux), in hopes…

You may be able to use one of these http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/bud-industries/USB-... it looks rather cute! see: https://blog.adafruit.com/2011/03/04/part-finder-frid…

http://imgur.com/a/Z1hyd has a few parts labeled theres a main processor which is way overpowered (the big TQFP part) which is covered by a plug-in 2G GSM/GPRS modem. You can 'snif…

still finishing the final board layout (it's not out yet!) https://plus.google.com/112526208786662512291/posts/2qmVHpkn... :)

eInk is very slow refresh, about a second...not fun for a laptop. Pixel Qi displays work better: have TFT-speed refresh with sun-light readability. Indoors its a color display. Out…

liked this? want more? you might want to also read my kinect reverse-engineering how-to article at http://learn.adafruit.com/hacking-the-kinect

I assure you that just because two adapters look the same do not have any relation to the insides. (After all, counterfeit Apple adapters look the same as genuine ones, but you wou…

Hi Rhizome, adafruit does not distribute the specific USB charger we carry at Frys - sorry to hear you had a bad experience with them but it was certainly not the same one from the…

Good question! I test all the products in the adafruit shop for quality and functionality :) I tried out half a dozen 5v/1a adapters and this one was the winner - best performance …

for what my word is worth, please let me put in a vote for LiFe - i know they're not as energy dense but you may not need as much armoring on the pack. you can say its good for 2ce…

Hi! Did you choose to go with LiFe or LiCo's?

ah, you are conflating two things. the hacker scene is full of assholes, but they are not the batshit crazy people. so all the fucked up people you're thinking of? no, i'm saying t…

""I have friends who happen to be both notoriously successful in the tech field and female. They are all extremely touchy about this subject. They are touchy because crazy shit lik…

2) the open kinect libraries do not in any way modify the kinect hardware, firmware or otherwise. there is no 'jailbreaking' involved here. its a -usb driver-!

good god, i wrote this nearly -five- years ago please do not take it seriously at this point, its completely outdated

hiring processes depend a lot on luck, way more than maybe we'd like to think, mostly based on who you know and whether the person across the table 'likes' you or not, and what pos…

see also: pachube.com

then you will be thrilled to learn that the "spoon fed development environment" is C/C++ with avr-glibc!

1. the BS was also revolutionary, and obviously the arduino references it, but the BS did not evolve in the last 10 years. 2. you could say the same thing about computers, crystal …

why are you disagreeing when the middle of the article is all about the great community. its easy to say 'community!' the point of the article is that community isnt something that…

things don't have to last 20 years to be revolutionary. arduino has set the bar very high. basic stamp was good for a few years but it was closed, weak, proprietary and expensive. …

i seriously doubt BDmicro was even seen by Arduino its Yet Another Dev Board. and avrfreaks is (if you read the article) the anti-hero. you missed the most important one which is P…

capacitive touch screens are not available on the hobby market also, most people just think capacitive touch screens are better because apple told them. they are not significantly …

Meanwhile, the electrical engineers have been waiting for Art of Electronics v3 for a decade... "its coming out real soon, its being edited right now!"

the driver is 'user land' libusb