Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: September 15th to September 21st, Celebrating the Adafruit Discord Community, National Hispanic Heritage Month, All the Internet of Things – Ep. 5 and more!
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
BLOG
14,000 THANK YOUs! Celebrating 14,000 members in the Adafruit Discord Community!
Together as a community, we reached over 14,000+ humans thank you! We share projects, coordinate events, make new friends, build open-source together like CircuitPython, we’ve worked really hard to make this a special place for everyone to share their projects, code, and things they make.
Join today! https://adafru.it/discord
Check out the full post here!
More BLOG:
Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:
- All the Internet of Things – Episode 5 – The S in IoT is for Security is on YouTube!
- National Hispanic Heritage Month has begun!
- Hey, folks in and near Virginia – go see Bob Ross’ Happy Little Paintings!
- Teddy talks BuzzFeed’s list of Amazon owned businesses
- Kelly wants you to know how to ferment (almost) everything
- Scott announced CircuitPython 5.0.0 Alpha 4
- Becca summarized some key takeaways from the Artificial Intelligence Panel earlier this week
- HackSpace Magazine Issue 23 is Halloween Builds 👻
Learn
Magical Cardboard Craft Obsidian Sword
This guide takes you through the process of creating your own fantasy weapon that begins to glow as soon as you pick it up.
The design for this sword is taken from the Cartoon Network animated series ‘Steven Universe’.
See the full guide here!
More LEARN:
- AdaBox 013
- Adafruit Circuit Playground Bluefruit
- Glowing Interactive Crystal Staff
- Monster M4SK Antenna Eyes
- Keep your CircuitPython libraries on Devices easily updated with CircUp
- Candy Bucket GIF Player Eyes
- Basic TensorFlow Object Recognition on any Computer or iOS device with Google Colab
Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!