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CheerLights
Twitter connected Neopixel lights
by Marc de Vinck
Have some fun with the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH and the CheerLight project. Originally created by Hans Scharler, CheerLights allows people’s lights all over the world to synchronize to one color set by a specific Twitter feed. In this interpretation, Marc de Vinck creates a WiFi enable CheerLight using the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH, Neopixels, and some clever code.
Adafruit Feather 32u4 Basic Proto
Thin and light, just like a...
by lady ada
Feather is the new development board from Adafruit, and like it's namesake it is thin, light, and lets you fly! We designed Feather to be a new standard for portable microcontroller cores.
Raspberry Gear
Upgrade your Sega Game Gear with a Raspberry Pi and 3.5 inch TFT display!
by Phil Herlihy
In this project, we give the beloved Game Gear a much needed upgrade. With the Raspberry Pi and RetroPie, we're giving new life to our battery-life deficient little friend.
A DigitalOcean droplet in 10 minutes
A quick and easy path to a virtual machine running GNU/Linux in the cloud.
by Brennen Bearnes
DigitalOcean is a friendly way to get a small, remotely-hosted Linux VM up and running for $5-10 a month. This walkthrough explains how, step by step, and provides some guidance on basic configuration for your new system.
Introducing the Adafruit Bluefruit LE Sniffer
Have a peak under the hood of BLE, sniffing and visualising traffic down to the packet level
by Kevin Townsend
The Bluefruit LE Sniffer allows you to sniff traffic between two Bluetooth Low Energy devices in a passive manner (meaning it isn't involved directly in the connection itself). This mini guide will show you how!
Moto 360 Teardown
Smartwatch opened up
by Becky Stern
We took apart the Moto 360 smartwatch to find out more about the engineering of this Android Wear device.
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Embedded Linux Board Comparison
Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone Black, Arduino Yun, and Intel Galileo--which one is right for you?
by Tony DiCola
Comparison of the hardware, performance, power usage, and development environment for popular Linux-based development boards.
KTOWN's Guide to Readable C Code
PLZ RITE GOOD KOD3!
by Kevin Townsend
Internal guidelines on writing readable, maintainable and understandable code in C and C++.
Chumby Hacker Board
All the joy of Chumby, with extra chewy breakouts!
by lady ada
A collection of mini-tutorials on doing stuff with the Chumby Hacker Board. The CHB is a cool single board Linux computer that has much of the same hardware as the famous Chumby One. It's great for people who are experienced with Linux and want to have the power of a microcomputer with audio and video output while at the same time getting all the peripherals of a microcontroller such as analog-to-digital conversion, PWM outputs, sensors, bit twiddling, and broken-out GPIOs!