Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: CAD Design Tips, Discord, Cleveland Museum of Art PyPortal Frame 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
A Poster of CAD Design Tips for #3DPrinting #CAD @BillieRubenMake
“Maker of many kinds, serial skill-collector, and STEM-student,” Billie Ruben, has created this very useful little poster of do’s, don’ts, and other design considerations for creating CAD files for 3D printing.
You can download a large version of the poster, along with two other 3DP tips posters she’s created here. While on the Imgur link, don’t forget to check out Billie’s other two posters with more tips on what modeling programs to use for different types of 3DP and the ins and outs of 3D printer bed leveling. Read more!
More BLOG:
- Dark Horse Discord – How a gaming chat platform is secretly connecting the internet, and defining the future of work
- Star Trek’s Del Arco Reveals Tragic Story Behind Hugh the Borg
- Use Haskell to program Arduino microcontrollers #Haskell #Arduino #Programming
- Converting a Car Alternator into a Motor for an Electric #GoKart #motors
LEARN
Cleveland Museum of Art PyPortal Frame
Use your PyPortal to display works of art from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Museums today are expanding public access to their art collections, not just inside the walls of the museum but also outside. Digital initiatives are bringing artwork, once relegated within the confines of the museum, to a 21st century global audience. These modern museums have essentially become the new content providers. Much like the modern companies Netflix and Pandora that provide video and music content, museums are becoming their own content providers with their collection of paintings, photographs, jewelry and other media. Digitizing these collections and making it publicly available brings this material to a global audience.
One such museum that is at the forefront of this endeavor is the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This project accesses the CMA API using CircuitPython running on the PyPortal. It uses the API to pick a random item from the collection. It converts and resizes the JPEG image from the collection to a BMP image sized to the PyPortal using Adafruit IO image conversion service. Finally, the converted image is downloaded to the PyPortal for display. A new feature of the PyPortal allows the correct scaling of portrait images, which is a great feature for this project.
Learn more!
More LEARN
- Adafruit MLX90640 IR Thermal Camera
- PyPortal Titano Weather Station
- Machine Learning with Marshmallows and Tiny Sorter
- Raspberry Pi + Teachable Machine = Teachable Pi
Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!