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Digi-Key and Adafruit Together On Discord! - Updated
Digi-Key and Adafruit Together On Discord! - Updated
By Kevin Walseth

Digi-Key and Adafruit have teamed up to offer a live question and answer session on Discord.

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BoxBotics
By Sashi Ono

Cardboard+Robotics = BoxBotics

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8-Bit Capacitive Synth
By Bantam Tools

Can’t get enough 80s synth music? This project is for you! Our 8-Bit Capacitive Synth will have you rocking out to infectiously simple computerized tones with just the touch of a button.

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The Top 10 HATs and pHATs for Raspberry Pi
The Top 10 HATs and pHATs for Raspberry Pi
By Maker.io Staff

While Raspberry Pi computers are great for everyday tasks, including programming, word processing, internet browsing, and multimedia, they are also fantastic hardware controllers. Thanks to their GPIO headers, most Pi computers can connect to devices called HATs, which stands for Hardware Attached on Top. So, let’s see the top 10 HATs for the Pi!

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Fusion 360 Aluminum Rings
By Bantam Tools

This project walks you through customizing your own ring in Fusion 360, and then milling it out on your Bantam Tools Desktop PCB Milling Machine.

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AdaBox 007
By Adafruit Industries

Explore and use the contents of your AdaBox 007!

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IoT Weight Logging Scale
By Sparkfun Electronics

This tutorial shows how to hack a bathroom scale to post weight data to a custom website that you create! The principles involved can be adapted to work with any kind of sensor data chosen: insolation, temperature, weather data, or anything else to be tracked over time and get a visualization.

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How to Make a Raspberry Pi Voice-Activated Door Lock
By Maker.io Staff

This month, we looked a lot at the Raspberry Pi and how we can program it using Python. So, in this project, we will combine a simple external circuit with the Raspberry Pi to create a simple door-locking mechanism that takes advantage of the speech recognition library!

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Lulzbot TAZ 6 3D Printer | Maker Minute
Lulzbot TAZ 6 3D Printer | Maker Minute
By Maker.io Staff

Lulzbot offers their TAZ 6, which is a reliable and easy-to-use desktop 3D printer. This open source 3D printer includes the innovative features of self-leveling and self-cleaning, and comes with a modular tool head design for flexible and multi-material upgrades.

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6 Successful Raspberry Pi and Arduino Projects
6 Successful Raspberry Pi and Arduino Projects
By Maker.io Staff

Many millions of makers, hobbyists, and engineers use Raspberry Pi computers and Arduinos. And some of these individuals have taken the world by storm with their projects. In this quick blog post, we will explore some of these famous projects.

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The Gentleman Makers Colorboringizer
The Gentleman Makers Colorboringizer
By Maker.io Staff

The Colorboringizer is here to save your excitable wardrobe and replace it with some bland, comfortable colors. This handheld sensor lets you know if you're living a bit too wild or keeping it calm and collected.

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Wireless FPGA Debugger and System Monitor
By Digilent Inc.

Connect your FPGA project to a wireless network and get information about your system while on the network.

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