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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. 💙

#makers #making #show and tell #Youtube

Family trip - got a JAŸ-Z30 library card today for the kiddo!

Celebrating 30 years of Reasonable Doubt and JAŸ-Z's upcoming concerts at Yankee Stadium

#jayz #bk #brooklyn

NEW YORK

#ny #knicks

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 even the answers to an interview with a startup that makes lots of questionable claims.–Ladyada, pt - Adafruit, June 9, 2026

electronics, open source hardware, hacking and more...

#flux #ai #fenwick

ladyada & pt @ Adafruit posting an update at 5pm ET

electronics, open source hardware, hacking and more...

#flux #fenwick #adafruit

Adafruit Receives Demand Letter From Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Defy Gravity, Inc. Flux.AI (“Flux”)

"Adafruit received at 10:38 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026 a letter from former FBI chief of staff, Jonathan F. Lenzner, and partner at Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Flux, demanding, among other things, that Adafruit refrain from publishing an article addressing what the letter characterizes as false and potentially defamatory claims about Flux, including statements about Flux’s intellectual property, commercial traction and user base.

The letter further asserts claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Adafruit accessed only information that Flux’s own systems made publicly available through a server misconfiguration. Adafruit’s reporting concerns a matter of public security interest and was conducted in the ordinary course of responsible disclosure.

Although Adafruit vigorously rejects the assertions made in Flux’s May 22, 2026 demand letter, we have temporarily stopped publishing on the Adafruit blog while we consider our response and next steps.

We will update the community as appropriate."

The Adafruit press contact is: [email protected]

-ladyada & pt

https://adafruit.com/flux

#adafruit #flux #flux.ai #fenwick #lenzner #cfaa

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

#tindie

guess the adafruit board running these circuitpython demos !

#vape

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/

#asimov #scifi #robots

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/

#apple #ai #llm

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/

#code #ai

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 reason just on its own to carry!

#adafruit #osram

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. Only thing that is kinda annoying is ams-OSRAM keeps having "two" part numbers for their sensors, like the datasheet references TSL2585 but when you buy it you get TSL25853. Other than that, we're looking forward to getting this out the door before summer!

#adafruit #uv

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 #open source

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

#setec astronomy #no more secrets #sneakers

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/

#routers #fcc #tp-link

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/

#usps

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