I'm really hoping for Fediverse help here.

I have a 14 year old niece. She's incredibly smart and extremely motivated when it comes to engineering things.

I want to get her some electronics stuff, like an Arduino kit, but maybe something with wearables, etc. to make it more relevant to her than just a breadboard.

She'll also need some books on electronics, since she doesn't have the background in that.

Sadly, some limitations:

- I can't help her. Her mother won't let my wife or I talk to her. This gift itself will have to be given through a third party.

- She has a learning disability around reading- likely dyslexia, and so we need material that's easy to read

- Her English is not amazing, especially because of the learning disability.

So I'm looking for a kit with a ton of instructional material. Programming, electronics, breadboard, the whole kit and kaboodle.

If you have ideas, please share, and boost!

#Maker #Arduino #Wearables #FediHelp #Electronics

What would be a good board to build a DIY usb midi CC controller with 4 - 8 faders?

I’d love to have something neat like the original korg nano control, the new one seems kinda weird to me.

#music #electronic #diy #midi #arduino #teensy #bela

Everyone with an Arduino project has, starting as of NOW, six months to look for a replacement.

If you don't start right away, I can point out someone who will be in a lot of pain in a few months.

Believe me...

qualcomm.com/news/releases/202…

I know this will play merry hell with the 3d printer and mechanical keyboard scene. Innumerable hardware will die from this takeover.

#arduino #qualcomm

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI | Qualcomm

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⚠️ Qualcomm just bought Arduino, holy f*ck.

Huge loss for everyone, including Qualcomm, there's no way they'll recover their money once we ran away.

phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Acq…

#arduino #qualcomm #opensource

Qualcomm Acquires Arduino, Announces Arduino UNO Q Built On Dragonwing

Qualcomm announced today that they are acquiring Arduino, the popular open-source hardware/electronics prototyping platform for single-board micro-controllers.

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serial2midi v1.1.1

Turn your serial port into a virtual midi device

🚀 Finding tty device should now be faster
🌱 Overhauled the sysex request
🥸 Better parsing of midi bytes to not read invalid midi messages from tty
⏰ Added --timeout flag to cli
🧹 Moved crates into own subfolder (./crates)
🧹 Updated dependencies

codeberg.org/obsoleszenz/seria…

#foss #midi #linux #audio #musicproduction #arduino

I thought i should re-share a picture of the Red Tin since I moved servers. This is my dj ing system built into a red metal toolbox.
It has an intel NUC dual booting Windows and Ubuntu at its core and midi controller powered by an Arduino. Here it is running Mixxx. It also runs Traktor

#mixxx #arduino #NUC #DJ #Traktor​ #RedTin

Before and after I made the door system at the #makerspace ✨different✨.

The RFID reader ended up dying on us, and replacement readers weren't getting along with the ancient custom-built door system. Thankfully, we had an extra #Arduino Uno laying around to bypass the legacy control circuitry (we lost the original source ages ago).

It just needs to last until the lease expires in 5 months, then it can catch fire. For the time being though, this Arduino is load-bearing infrastructure