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Adafruit Industries
Company blog · adafruit.com/bloghardwareprogramming
Adafruit Industries is the company blog at adafruit.com, writing about hardware and programming. Since 2008, 545 different Hacker News readers have linked it 810 times, most often “Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- /product/226419 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2016-08-08
- Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2013-01-03
- /product/46949 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-09-07
- /product/51286 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-11-15
- /product/33336 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-07-20
- /product/35385 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-12-28
- Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-09-28
- /product/36864 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-11-18
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-06-25
- /product/58354 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-03
What Hacker News says?
I meant to show a simple example of how a vendor offers the same product for the same price on their own website and on Amazon. I was going to argue that they should mark it up on Amazon to encourage traffic through their own site. So I just grabbed a random item on Amazon to illustrate this: https://www.amazon.com/Adafruit-2769-Circuit-Playground-Educ... $99.99 "Adafruit 2769 Circuit Playground Express Educator's P…
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on “A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing”Submitted Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available as a story · 369 points
HN discussionhttps://www.adafruit.com/ is an amazing resource. The tutorials are excellent and the products and video presentations of them are really great. Basically every single product has accompanying videos. It's very easy to spend some $$$ there.
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on “I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner”Submitted Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool as a story · 222 points
HN discussionI don't think Bunnie is looking to develop products that redistribute video. If you've seen his previous NeTV project[1] he's looking to inject video overlays into the HDCP stream and let you do things like he described in his letter. His method of getting into the HDCP stream[2] via a MITM attack is probably what's running afoul of the government. [1] https://www.adafruit.com/products/609 [2] http://www.bunniestudi…
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on “Why I’m Suing the US Government”Submitted Alan Turing Documentary as a story · 128 points
HN discussionI have a Pi connected to a BME280 breakout board that I got from Adafruit ( https://www.adafruit.com/product/2652 ). It's also connected to a Dallas 18B20 temperature sensor. The sensors are outdoors in a small actively-ventilated enclosure I made. The Pi is indoors, and the wires run through the wall. Why 2 temperature sensors? Turns out the BME280 runs about 2°F hot, and the 18B20 is right on, so I end up using th…
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on “Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?”Submitted Reverse engineering the Mac ‘breathing’ LED as a story · 94 points
HN discussionFor temperature only I prefer the 18B20 sensor. They’re very easy to interface with and they can be at the end of very long wires. Adafruit has a bunch of sensors that work over the i2c bus; they’ve included python code for accessing the data as well, which makes it easy to get started. There are sensors out there for everything. Absolutely everything. https://www.adafruit.com/product/1782
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on “Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?”Submitted Tired of Apple's rules? Build your own touchscreen handheld as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSo many things! 1. Home Assistant for tying together all the various brands of smart home devices https://www.home-assistant.io/ 2. OctoPrint for managing a 3D printer (also has a home assistant integration) https://octoprint.org/ 3. Magic Mirror that shows me news, weather, commute time estimate, etc https://magicmirror.builders/ 4. PiHole for blocking all ads on my home network https://pi-hole.net/ 5. The brains o…
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on “Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?”Submitted Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer as a story · 65 points
HN discussionStepper motor control - I use the Adafruit DC & Stepper HAT https://www.adafruit.com/product/2348 Pretty easy to use, so far I like it.
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on “Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?”Submitted Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 as a story · 58 points
HN discussionAdafruit is a brilliant starting point: https://www.adafruit.com/category/117 a kit or two will give you the basics of _building_ and has the advantage that its wonderfully explained.
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on “Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?”Submitted 83 year-old woman got 3D printed mandible as a story · 50 points
HN discussionHave you seen https://arcade.makecode.com ? It's a free, open source, web-based editor for making games, and you can download games to a number of hardware boards, or play on your phone or any web browser. The cheapest hardware right now is $25 from Adafruit [0], but more hardware is coming out all the time. Also this audience might be interested to know that soon there'll be Python support in MakeCode. More details…
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on “Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System”Submitted Microsoft now says it’s “inspired’ by community finding new uses for Kinect as a story · 46 points
HN discussion@ryukoposting - i am the founder of hackaday, but do not run the site now, and i am also the managing director of adafruit and editor of the adafruit blog. the adafruit does not use generative text, etc. unless clearly indicated https://www.adafruit.com/editorialstandards ... appreciate a correction to your post, hard to combat misinformation with ai, but you can email and i can prove i am human if ya want... pt at…
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on “Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives”Submitted How Don Knuth's computer skills helped his college basketball team as a story · 46 points
HN discussionThese cheap 8x8 sensors may be useful[0]. [0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3538
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on “Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact”Submitted Heathkit – The Electronic History Mystery as a story · 45 points
HN discussionIt's possible to connect HDMI display to GPIO pins[1]. Maybe similar technique is also possible with CSI camera connector? [1] http://www.adafruit.com/product/2453
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on “Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer”Submitted How Model Ts were made… as a story · 39 points
HN discussionBlown away with this. As a youngster cutting my teeth on Cambridge based computers, great to see a Welsh machine. Currently using RPis for most of my development, I'm working on a design for a RP laptop. Not hard, but I did want to thrown in multiple boards. This looks to be one way to achieve this. Technical details (cant seem to find any power requirements) and tour here from adafruit: - https://learn.adafruit.com…
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on “Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer”Submitted Seedbombs as a story · 38 points
HN discussionAdafruit has a variety of them. https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=solar%20panel
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on “This website has 81% battery power remaining”Submitted Announcing Adafruit Gemma – Miniature wearable electronic platform as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThanks. Any suggestions for a purchasable low-cost, low-power, low-medium resolution, largish screen? EDIT: Self-suggestion : https://www.adafruit.com/products/1287... . and the linked to tutorial has some suggestions.
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on “Show HN: Make a programmable mirror”Submitted Google [briefly] suspends Limor Fried's ("Ladyada") Google+ profile as a story · 34 points
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