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Although billed as a balancing robot, [Aaed Musa’s] robot doesn’t balance itself. It balances a ball on a platform. You might recognize this as something called a Stewart platform, and …read more Continue reading Stewart Platform Keeps Its Eye on the Ball
If you visit the Copenhagen City Hall, you’ll see an ornate mechanical clock. By itself, this is unremarkable, of course. There are plenty of ornate clocks in city halls around …read more Continue reading Something’s Rotating in the State of Denmark: A Clock
We don’t see too many wooden projects around these parts, but when [olikraus] turned a few pieces of scrap lumber into a functional SMD vise, how could we not take …read more Continue reading A Homebrew SMD Vise Built from Scrap Wood
[Learnelectronics] purchased some near-field EMI probes for his tiny spectrum analyzer for about $5 on sale. Could they be any good at that price? Watch the video below and find …read more Continue reading Near Field EMI Probes: Any Good?
Issac Asimov foresaw 3D virtual meetings but gave them the awkward name “tridimensional personification.” While you could almost do this now with VR headsets and 3D cameras, it would be …read more Continue reading Holographic Cellphones Coming Thanks to AI
Historically, one of the nice things about Unix and Linux is that everything is a file, and files are just sequences of characters. Of course, modern practice is that everything …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Miller the Killer Makes CSV No Pest
By now, you’ve surely seen the AI tools that can chat with you or draw pictures from prompts. OpenAI now has Point-E, which takes text or an image and produces …read more Continue reading 3D Modelling in English with AI
Virtualizing computers is nothing new. However, Apple devices always present challenges. Just ask anyone who has built a Hackintosh. At least computer hardware is usually exposed, but on phones, the …read more Continue reading Virtualizing iPhoneOS 1.0
What’s better? Harmonic or cycloidal drive? We aren’t sure, but we know who to ask. [How To Mechatronics] 3D printed both kinds of gearboxes and ran them through several tests. You …read more Continue reading Harmonic vs Cycloidal Show Down
With Christmas and other end-of-year celebrations, there are gifts. The problem is that your loved ones don’t really know what to get you. Who can blame them? Do you want …read more Continue reading Your Own Santa? Thermal Camera Roundup