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Metro M7 with AirLift

Metro M7 with AirLift

The latest Adafruit Metro is the M7 with AirLift. The idea behind this board is to take a very powerful Arm Cortex-M7 microcontroller, put it in the Arduino Unoโ€™s form factor, and then squeeze in a Wi-Fi subsystem along the edge. Adafruit then adds all the extras found on their recent boards. Itโ€™s a very […]

Makingย Calculusย With LEGO

Makingย Calculusย With LEGO

Isaac Newton developed calculus back in the mid-1600s as a tool to explain physical phenomena, in particular the motions of planets. As it turned out, it was also a way to encode how things move and change more generally, from economies to populations of rabbits and foxes. When Newton did it, his reasoning was mostly geometrical, […]