Psychoacoustics is different from the detection of beeps and tones.
True but then how can I have my Psychoacoustics tested?
If you cannot plainly hear the gal in ptillisch's video saying "ay dah" then there's a problem.
Sure her American ascent is too thick for a UK ear. Just like Americans can't understand many of the regional accents in the UK.
There's something "thick" here alright - and it's not her 'ascent'.
My Dad had lots of explanations like this, too.
Then they took away his driver license.
Do you know anything about life outside the U.S.?
If you think that film portrayed how real Londoners speak, you probably think Dick-Van-Dyke nailed a London accent. Breaking news - he didn't.
I am talking about UK accents outside London, ones that I know you wouldn't stand a hope in hell of understanding.
Lets hope they don't come for your license, or that you never get to leave your country.
As I said my UK friend thinks she pronounces it that way so we are all going mad in the U.K. Especially if you look at our politicians. But looking at your two joke politicians then we know we have a long way to go on our decent into darkness to reach your level.
What a stupid thing to have generated as many comment as it has...
I think Adafruit does a better job of serving the "artist" and "hobbyist" communities, while perhaps Sparkfun does more to address the "techie" community. Adafruit will be "Here's a new product that lets you do X! With an Arduino Library, a 10 page tutorial, a 10 minute video, and supported by CircuitPython!" Sparkfun is more "We found a neat chip and here it is on a board, with links to the datasheets and such."
But I'd say both f them are better than Arduino itself. I've spent considerably more at Adafruit, most of it on non-Adafruit products (some RPi stuff, a Nordic Power Profiler, a USB protocol analyzer...)
The amount of media that Adafruit produces (written and video) is pretty amazing.
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I quite agree.
None of them are available in stores in Brazil. Sparkfun even classifies the country as "restricted" to sell to (what a pitty, since I would like to see their mini ESP32 C6 thingy working). And I don´t know the reason for the restriction. We don´t have atomic bombs, only have solid fuel rockets, no spaceships, no other dimension portals... etc... etc...
I was able to buy a Nano 33 IoT and a Nano Every from Arduino in US though.
In any case, prices become outrageous after adding taxes and import fees. 
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That may be why Sparkfun doesn't want to do business there - they don't see it worth the hassle for the sales they would get. It has been years since I worked for a company that did business in Brazil, but I remember it was a major pain. I suspect it hasn't gotten any better.
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I can see your point here. Bureaucracy in Brazil can be discouraging for some ventures and the situation is not always stable economically speaking.
ITOH, here I don´t...
I´m not talking about Sparkfun opening a branch here, just simply exporting their products. It makes no difference to them, because the final consumer pays the taxes and fees. For them it is simply about selling and getting paid for it.
Yes.
I thought it a humorous adjunct.
My Dad lost his sense of humor that way, too.
Your 'special powers' have left you wanting once again.
It's too early for the former. As for the latter - got you beat again.
I always buy Adafruit products from Digi-Key, but that's because we're in the same state and it normally arrives the next day via USPS cheap shipping.
Yeah, Mouser is just up the road from me and I do the same.
Same, I can't really understand why SparkFun would put a heat emitting component right next to a heat sensing one.
(Also wow, 32 replies in 24 hours.)
I agree too, spark fun seems to be leaning towards something else now, with it's clocks and GPSs.
Sadly it isn't that simple for someone to send goods into the country. There are lots of forms and hoops to jump through, like certificates to produce and the like. The potential of the market in Brazil is huge but the protectionism of the market is holding the country back.
The last project I worked on, before I retired, we were considering opening a factory in the north of the country.
Colleagues who had been to the country previously, describe how they were regularly stopped by police and their money "confiscated" for no reason. So I was not very happy at the prospect of being sent there.
In the end the company decided against it, as we would not risk opening a factory without an order, and the customer in Brazil could not place an order without us having a factory.
It is sad to see how Brazil is isolating itself.
I don't know about Limor Fried, but this guy pronounces it "add-a-fruit" to my ears
But I guess Ada is not a common US name, and native speakers adopt typical rules when pronouncing it. In some cases, the US pronunciation is closer to the original English around the 17th and 18th centuries, which in the UK has since changed.
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Adafruit Neopixels(R) are one of the things that bug me. They are just addressable pixels which everyone uses. People have had ebay and Amazon listings pulled by Adafruit because they mentioned Neopixel(R).
They did a similar thing with Circuitpython(R), it's a trademarked version of the open source Micropython. They have numerous other trademarks to protect their versions of common Arduino boards. To be fair, they also develop a lot of new stuff, which is also trademarked.
I don't know where Adafruit gets their addressable pixels from, but they are many times more expensive than similar generic ones. That is obviously Adafruit's business model, take open source stuff, add their own trademarked name to it, then resell at a high premium. They learned the lesson from Arduino, trademarks can be effectively used to deter cloners.
I guess if you value Adafruit's ecosystem it might be worth paying a price premium and accepting the commercial capture of public domain and Open Source stuff, but it is not worth it for me.
- NeoPixel(R) and CircuitPython(R) are registered trademarks of Adafruit Industries, LLC.