After making your first PCB, you’re immediately faced with your next challenge – drilling the holes. It’s a doable task with a small drill press, but a lot of makers already have a small CNC mill or router, but how to make that work the first time? [Alessio] has you covered with a technique that uses […]
FRITZ’S, fast FOOD WITH A ROBOTIC SLANTFRITZ’S, fast FOOD WITH A ROBOTIC SLANT
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While at maker Faire K.C. this year, I was sure to take my family to a spot we tend to visit whenever we are near: Fritz’s. Fritz’s is a restaurant with an interesting food delivery method. The food itself is your standard faire of burgers and fries, however the railroad theme comes into play when […]
3D printed MARBLE music maker LOOKING good already3D printed MARBLE music maker LOOKING good already
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inspired by the massive marble music machines from the staggeringly talented [Wintergatan] and the marble run builds by [Daniel de Bruin], [Ivan Miranda] has been busy again building a mainly 3D printed contraption to test his ideas around building his own marble music maker from scratch. (Video, embedded below.) Leveraging his recent experiences with resin […]
WHERE THE RUBBER satisfies THE computerWHERE THE RUBBER satisfies THE computer
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If you ever get a possibility to go to Leiden, take it. It is a gorgeous bit city that hides some high-power university research. It likewise boasts the world’s very first rubber computer. You won’t be running Crysis on it anytime soon, though. The fledgling computer has memory as well as can count to two […]
LINUX FU: DON’T SHARE WELL WITH OTHERSLINUX FU: DON’T SHARE WELL WITH OTHERS
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In kindergarten, you learn that you ought to share. but for computer security, sharing is typically a bad thing. The Linux kernel introduced the concept of namespaces starting with version 2.6.24. That’s been a few years ago, but namespaces are not used by numerous even though the tools exist to manipulate them. Granted, you don’t […]
SMART SUTURES ended up being smartSMART SUTURES ended up being smart
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A team at the Wireless Bioelectronics lab at the national university of Singapore led by [Dr John Ho] revealed the results of their new Wireless Sensing (WiSe) wise sutures program last month. Their system consists of a specially prepared patch of polymer gel (the sensor) which is stitched into the wound utilizing a silk suture coated […]
AN open source DETECTOR FOR identifying PLASTICSAN open source DETECTOR FOR identifying PLASTICS
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one of the challenges involved in recycling plastic is determining the specific type of plastic a given item is actually made of. To keep up with demand, large scale recycling centers rely on various automated systems to separate different types of plastic from a stream of incoming material. but in less technologically advanced parts of […]
LINUX FU: BASH STRINGSLINUX FU: BASH STRINGS
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If you are a standard programmer, utilizing bash for scripting may seem limiting sometimes, however for specific tasks, bash can be extremely productive. It turns out, a few of the limits of bash are truly limits of older shells as well as people code to that to be compatible. Still other perceived problems are since […]
BRINGING THE QUAKE FLICKER TO LIFE WITH A HACKED LIGHTBRINGING THE QUAKE FLICKER TO LIFE WITH A HACKED LIGHT
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If you ever feel a pang of shame because you’ve been reusing the same snippets of code in your projects for years, don’t. even the big names do it, as evidenced by the fact that code written to govern flickering lights back in 1996 for Quake is still being used in AAA titles like 2020’s […]
AMAZING HEMISPHERICAL OMNIDIRECTIONAL GIMBALED WHEEL ROBOTAMAZING HEMISPHERICAL OMNIDIRECTIONAL GIMBALED WHEEL ROBOT
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Bradley university grad student [Curtis Boirum] has built a robot which uses quite a special drive system, one we’re guessing you have never seen before. The robot uses a single motor to drive its hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled wheel, propelling it across the floor at fantastic speeds with uncanny agility. The robot uses a basic two […]