This week on the Adafruit Learning System, we updated the editor to avoid disasters, we got a few new MacroPad guides that you are gonna love, learn how to build a naughty cat detector, and more!

Behind The Scenes: Local Cache

You might not know this, but the Adafruit Learning System is a content management system designed and developed right here at Adafruit. We are constantly adding new features to make the front end better for our readers, but we also constantly add new features to the editor to make it easier for authors to make more amazing guides.

Today we just deployed a new local cache feature. If a save fails, or an author accidentally refreshes a page while working on a guide (or the many other ways things can go wrong), the next time the author reloads the guide all of their work will be saved.

Favorite New Guide

This weeks favorite new guide teaches you how to make a Naughty Cat Detector using Lobe

Do you have cats that love to jump up on counters and you don’t want to have to constantly monitor to make sure your cats are behaving? With Microsoft Lobe and machine learning, you can easily set up a Raspberry Pi to monitor things for you and make sure your counters are free of kitty paw prints.

This project will train your cats to stay off the counter by detecting a cat on the counter using Machine Learning and activating a servo to jingle some keys and scare your cat away. This complete project includes a 3D printable stand that holds everything together to make it really convenient.

By using machine learning, you will no longer need to be on high alert every time you leave some meat on the counter or anything else enticing to the average cat.