#3DPrint protective cases for 5.25” + 3.5” Floppy Drives! Guide: learn.adafruit.com/floppy-case youtu.be/lkSPbMg1TSY

The Department of War Just Put Scouting America on Notice Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of War has put Scouting America on a six-month clock.

3D Print an enclosure to fit the ItsyBitsy ESP32 with a wFL antenna! learn.adafruit.com/itsybitsy-es... #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/5xx4hZpBE1c

The sky is screaming, and now we can hear it better 🔭 800,000 alerts on night one... seven million per night by year's end. The universe is trying to tell us something. blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/26/t...

Animatronic wings using #Adafruit Feather! #3Dprinted parts and motorized wings that can be customized to fit your costume! Learn Guide: learn.adafruit.com/animatronic-... youtu.be/fKU9h3Ha3t4

Wegmans Rewrites Its Face-Scanning Statement Trying to find-and-replaced "biometric" out of their facial recognition statement, and removed the store locations from "communities that exhibit an elevated risk" . blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/25/w... @wegmansofficial.bsky.social

this week on adafruit.com/3dhangouts 517 Shoji Lamp, Display frame and Dragon Eggs learn.adafruit.com/led-shoji-lamp #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/SGZSfHgnZsA

Build a 3D printed desktop sized lamp using Circuit Playground Express. IR remote controls the brightness and colors of the LEDs #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/SGZSfHgnZsA

gm, make the thing, document the thing, repeat, ship the thing before the thing ships you. school is back in session.

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This week: Twisty Fidget Dragon Egg By ASTAR makerworld.com/en/models/2334779-twisty-fidget-dragon-egg #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/YLZT1tUAOxk

Desk of Ladyada – uBlox Drivers, Struct Wizardry & L5 GPS – The Future is Overhead! youtu.be/692cmaCb-K0 OpenClaw wrote our 475-page uBlox GNSS library overnight. Opus suggested packed structs over byte parsing... smart. Also found new L1+L5 GPS modules on DigiKey: ~2x accuracy for $2-3 more.

Colorado Wants Your Operating System to Card You step 1: type any birthday you want. step 2: app decides you're lying based on "vibes". step 3: the app's guess is now legally binding. this is the actual plan 🪪🎂 blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/23/c...

gm about 2 feet of snow in brooklyn, backyard covered... sidewalks? we SHOVELED TONS! hot chocolate time.

WipperSnapper has support for NeoPixel + DotStar LEDs for glowy IoT projects! Make LEDs reactive, time based or even a scheduled event with Sensor and more! youtu.be/bHWwuWMmaQc www.thingiverse.com/thing:5869428

The universe doesn’t care about your feelings Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions (2022) by Sabine Hossenfelder opens with a warning that it might damage your mental health...

Built a MIDI controller! It Features six capacitive touch pads that trigger MIDI notes. Read the full guide on: learn.adafruit.com/bluetooth-le... #CNC #Adafruit #3DPrinting youtu.be/X1cI5xkjVC8

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 saving $. blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/21/b...

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. blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/20/o...

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. blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/20/s...

Build Obsidian’s Sword from Steven Universe learn.adafruit.com/obsidain-sword-steven-universe #stevenuniverse #adafruit youtu.be/aZGqZ9dl0nU

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"... blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/20/t...

The book so dangerous the CIA stole it: Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light A fake Buddha invents real religion, God of Death switches sides, the CIA steals the screenplay... and somehow it's also about recommendation algorithms, and AI, from 1967 🤖📿🔥 blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/19/t...

MicroPython Now Requires AI Disclosure on Every Pull Request 🤖🧠 Somewhere between 'ban it all' and 'let the robots run free' there's a checkbox to help the team at MicroPython. blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/19/m...

California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves Your 3D printer needs to be on a DOJ-approved list or it can't be sold in California. Disabling the surveillance software? That's a misdemeanor. 🐻 blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/19/c...

Show & Tell highlight: Erin built tilt-activated LED antlers with a Prop Maker Feather RP2040! 🦌

Build and assemble a mini replica of the PET commodore. Full guide on: learn.adafruit.com/mini-commodo... #3DPrinting #Adafruit

OpenClaw vs. a 475-page datasheet: let the robot do the transcribing 🦞🤖 youtu.be/fdidNp5IHHI

WE ARE LIVE in BROOKLYN! SHOW AND TELL! youtu.be/Sbc-kmwewpQ

this week on adafruit.com/3dhangouts 516 Lamps, Frames and Fidgets learn.adafruit.com/stained-glass-lamp #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/pmcELECJo5E

SHOW-AND-TELL! Tonight! Feb 18th, 2026 at 7:30pm ET come on by and show & share your projects, art, electronics, open-source, ai + hardware, and more! All are welcome - youtu.be/Sbc-kmwewpQ

Humans and Machines, a Phase Transition... The Ice Is Deciding What to Become blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/18/h...

Build a stained glass inspired lamp with tap and Bluetooth controls Guide: learn.adafruit.com/stained-glas... #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/pmcELECJo5E

New XIAO / QT Py Terminal Block Breakout BFF With Benefits Over on the Adafruit forums (forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.ph...) someone asked us to make a QT Py / XIAO board terminal breakout.

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This week: Cross-Axis Triple Helical Gear Fidget Spinner By AbyssalCactus makerworld.com/en/models/22... #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/6HcD7erKACo

YALLMAHWD - A New Breakout for the VCNL4030 YALLMAHWD? Yep, it's time for Yet Another LLM Assisted Hardware Design.

Desk of Ladyada – LLMs Make EagleCAD Footprints, Daycare Edition 🍼🦀 Clade Code generated a VCNL4030 footprint from the datasheet in under 5 minutes, needed a look from us, then was good to go, baby bouncer... bouncing the whole time. youtu.be/ZsReTBDdyHI

No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part. blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/n...

Make a large switch for playing back audio clips using Circuit Playground Express and #CircuitPython ! Full guide on: learn.adafruit.com/circuitpytho... #diy #electronics #Adafruit #3DPrinting www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt9n...

Easily monitor ambient carbon dioxide levels with MatrixPortal and the SCD-30 CO2 sensor learn.adafruit.com/matrix-porta... #adafruit #3dprinting youtu.be/cDeol3qiV-0

Here's Our First Gemini Deep Think LLM-Assisted Hardware Design We've been using LLMs for software and firmware for years... now we're trying hardware.

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. blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...

Look Ma, No CAD... We fed datasheets to Gemini Deep Think and it spit out production-ready EAGLE .lbr files... paste mask segmentation and all. ESP32-P4, MAX44009, LT3652, ES8311.

WIP: Working on my 3rd screensaver for the @adafruit.com #FruitJam and #FruitJamOS. This one takes an image and converts it into a 15 puzzle display, generating random moves & undoing moves. It was actually pretty easy to split the image into tiles in @circuitpython.org using the TileGrid library.

Create a lovely NeoPixel LED badge using Adafruit's QTPY dev board! #adafruit learn.adafruit.com/qtpy-heart-pcb youtu.be/RaDe7YhBq14

3D Printing D20 Molds, fun way to make custom bath bombs for that special Hallmark holiday #adafruit #3dprinting learn.adafruit.com/3d-printed-d20-molds

a lot of this today ....

New baby, new code: using Claude Code to connect a SNOO bassinet to sleep tracking Tech CEOs & billionaires talk about population collapse, meanwhile a mom of 4 one-shotted a Python service connecting her SNOO to Huckleberry... while breastfeeding at 3am 🍼 blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/12/n...

Prop up your Feather ESP32-S2 Reverse TFT with a 3D printed stand! Guide: learn.adafruit.com/stand-for-feather-esp32-with-reverse-tft #adafruit #3dprinting youtu.be/GLrySwYEgkA

this week on adafruit.com/3dhangouts 515 Multi-color Suncatchers, Lithophanes and Heart Fidget #adafruit #3dprinting

Adafruit TMF8806 VCSEL dToF Breakout Coming soon... Time of flight that goes the distance. 10 meters of range, I2C, STEMMA QT, eye-safe laser, ultra-low power. Robots, drones, presence detection — it's all in range now 🔭 blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/11/a...