There’s a brand new addition to the Adafruit household, and it’s not a microcontroller board as you’d anticipate – nonetheless, we are going to nonetheless discover lots to study from. On the Adafruit weblog, [Phillip Torrone] shares a set of high-contrast photos with us; the concept for such photos is that they’re extra interesting for a kid through the first few months of its life, and never simply that – they’ll help a child’s growth, too. The thought behind high-contrast photos is twofold. Through the first few months of life, a child’s visible programs are solely taking form, and are nowhere close to being superior – so, sources of simply discernible and assorted visible enter may help it develop, in addition to, maybe, assist in holding consideration.

The second half is – they give the impression of being good in their very own approach, and one would hope {that a} child can admire them in the identical approach mother and father do. The pictures are fairly assorted, with some being considerably electronics-themed (together with an Adafruit brand, after all) and lots of being pretty impartial, which needs to be an upside for us hackers in terms of the partner acceptance issue. For any of us , there are downloadable PDFs and

In a approach, these are identical to AprilTags – aiming to be useful in growth of visible algorithms. With such a household, we are able to’t wait to see what comes subsequent – pc engineering books? Child displays with machine studying? Sleep-data-driven knit blankets? It doesn’t matter what’s in retailer for us, we hope that for the Adafruit household, this journey can be clean crusing.