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  Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴 Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice. https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/meta-wants-to-scan-every-face-you-walk-past/

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  spooky season is nigh, and we will commune with the ghosts and spirits of LEDs and projects past

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  Adafruit Fruit Jam runs the 1978 Creative Computing BASIC listing on a modern RP2350, with Adabot giving a historic tour as it plays. 💜 #OregonTrail https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197805

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  coming soon: port authority 🚌 the best usb hub for engineers and their smart tools. 100% open source, stackable, and designed for getting real hardware into your automated test loop.

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  Tindie is back online… and now owned by EETree LLC, a Suzhou FPGA tutor https://adafruit.com/tindie

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  Adafruit Receives Demand Letter From Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Defy Gravity, Inc. Flux. AI (“Flux”) https://adafruit.com/flux

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  Update: Jun 3, 2026 - Before issuing any public response, and before involving the press - Limor wrote directly to Flux’s founder, Matthias Wagner. Not through lawyers. Founder to founder. She proposed: a podcast of his choosing, open questions and answers ... https://adafruit.com/flux

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  ladyada & pt @ Adafruit posting an update at 5pm ET https://adafruit.com/flux

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  the sign we needed today 🌈 #doublerainbow

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  Family trip - got a JAŸ-Z30 library card today for the kiddo! https://www.bklynlibrary.org/jayz-library-card

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  Chris Young (cyborg5) is retiring after 14 years and 55+ Show and Tell appearances. He built open assistive tech and documented all of it. Thank you, Chris. 💙 https://youtu.be/QaqcGCMO2rM

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  On Responsible Security Disclosures and Free Speech Adafruit has worked with our longtime employment firm and team to make sure there is indemnification for all employees and contractors reporting responsible security disclosures at Adafruit. This is not any different... it only makes it more clear that the bad actors and companies that try to use responsible disclosure as a way to chill free speech will not stop us from publishing facts, or the answers to an interview. baby girls' name is...

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  Asimov’s three laws of robotics survived 82 years, we broke them in 30 minutes, costs 80 cents, and then remade them 🎭🤖 from a 1920 Czech play about robot uprisings to... now. https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/04/05/asimovs-three-laws-of-robotics-survived-82-years-we-broke-them-in-30-minutes-costs-80-cents-and-then-remade-them/

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  guess the adafruit board running these circuitpython demos !

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  Ka-BOOM! AS3935 lightning sensor can detect storms before they hit We designed this breakout in 2013 and it's finally seeing daylight... just in time for thunderstorm season ⛈️💻 https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/18/ka-boom-as3935-lightning-sensor-can-detect-storms-before-they-hit/

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  Want to Fix a Bug in Arduino? First, Agree to Qualcomm's 6,000-Word Privacy Policy 🫠 https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/18/want-to-fix-a-bug-in-arduino-first-agree-to-qualcomms-6000-word-privacy-policy/ @arduino @qualcomm

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  Prusa’s “Open Community License” is neither open nor for the community... a lawyer explains why https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/19/prusas-open-community-license-is-neither-open-nor-for-the-community-a-lawyer-explains-why/

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  Dead letters: US Postal Service will run out of cash in less than a year Losses are $9.5B in FY2024 and $9B in FY2025, with Q1 FY2026 already looking like s $1.3B loss, this year could be even worse 📉📬 Here is one nice thing... Ground Advantage revenue up 26.9%. https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/19/dead-letters-us-postal-service-will-run-out-of-cash-in-less-than-a-year/

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  FCC just banned the import of all new foreign-made routers... here’s what you can do about it 📡🚫 https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/24/fcc-just-banned-the-import-of-all-new-foreign-made-routers-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it/

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  Martin Bishop: [re-arranging Scrabble letters] SETEC ASTRONOMY... TOO MANY SECRETS.

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  STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL: The 2025 Arduino Open Source Report Qualcomm's first full year owning Arduino and every metric went down, but at least they remembered to leave "STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL" in the PDF... 🔍📉 https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/29/strictly-confidential-the-2025-arduino-open-source-report/ @arduino

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  TSL2585(3) is a light sensor that can also handle IR and UVA The TSL2585 is a light sensor that can also handle IR and UVA. We're pretty close to wrapping up all the prototypes for ams-OSRAM light sensors of interest... this one is a light sensor that also has UVA reading, so it's handy for outdoor sensing where you may want to know how much UV light is being emitted for skin health.

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  The latest spectral sensor from ams-OSRAM... TCS3448 (or TCS34488) We just wrapped up the AS7343 breakout from ams-OSRAM, with 14-channel spectral sensing, and we saw that their webpage recommended a new version of this sensor called the TCS3448. It's software compatible with the AS7343, so that's nice to not have to write a new driver! We'll figure out what the differences are, but for starters it's a little less expensive at Digi-Key so that's a good r...

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  When AI becomes Pierre Menard, author of your code The model refuses to reproduce a paragraph from a textbook (0.15% overlap). But it'll autocomplete entire source files (53% overlap) 📖🔓 https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/04/03/when-ai-becomes-pierre-menard-author-of-your-code/

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  We Interviewed Apple’s On-Device LLM The model ships with the entire GPL v3 and will output that the Pledge of Allegiance is offensive. It can teach you SQL injection, but will not recite Churchill. It refused Bohemian Rhapsody, Imagine, AND Hotel California. you can check out any time you like but you can never recite 🎸 https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/04/04/i-interviewed-apples-on-device-llm/

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  The open source world can write its own rules for AI... and nobody has to ask permission "Tell us what you used, and actually understand the code you're submitting"... you can't stop people from using AI tools, but you can make them own it. LLM-Assisted contribution policies from the EFF, and MicroPython. 🧠🔓 https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/20/the-open-source-world-can-write-its-own-rules-for-ai-and-nobody-has-to-ask-permission/

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  Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs 6-3: The President Cannot Tax Imports By Declaring an Emergency ⚖️🔨 Article I, Section 8 still means what it says... Congress taxes imports, not emergencies. https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/20/supreme-court-strikes-down-ieepa-tariffs-6-3-the-president-cannot-tax-imports-by-declaring-an-emergency/

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  The local AI stack just got its long-term home 🤗❤️ Open-source + AI: ggml joins Hugging Face, llama.cpp stays open... the people closest to the tools are governing the tools. No cloud required, no API keys, no terms that change on you overnight. https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/20/open-source-ai-ggml-joins-hugging-face-llama-cpp-stays-open-local-ais-long-term-home/

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  Brooklyn Bagel Shop Is Using Plug-In Batteries to Lower Its Electric Bill 🔋🥯 Demand energy charges are like an everything tax on everything bagels... Black Seed Bagels in Bushwick is using plug-in batteries from David Energy to reduce peak grid draw and save 4 across its locations. https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/21/brooklyn-bagel-shop-is-using-plug-in-batteries-to-lower-its-electric-bill/