Collaborate Disseminate
I know people who have 3D printers that are little more than appliances. They buy it, they print with it, and they don’t change much of anything. That doesn’t describe …read more Continue reading 3D Printering: Managing Multiple Printing Profiles
Science fiction is full of things you don’t want to think too hard about. Why do starships with transporters have brigs with forcefields? Why not just beam a prisoner into …read more Continue reading In Our Own Image: Do We Need Humanoid Robots?
It has been a while since we’ve seen a 86Duino, but [TheRasteri] reminded us about it, with his video showing how to use one to run classic MS-DOS games. To …read more Continue reading Classic DOS Games on an Arduino?
[Ondřej Šraitr] has several videos, including the one you can watch below, about his PETamentor2 — a machine for turning PET bottles into printable filament. You can grab the files …read more Continue reading PETamentor2 Is Latest To Turn Bottles Into Filament
Computers are, after all, frighteningly complex state machines. Quite of bit of the software we write can be modeled as a state machine, too. A great technological achievement by humans? …read more Continue reading Fourteen-Legged Cell Carries Nature’s Tiny Computer
You know you aren’t supposed to watch your laser while it is cutting or engraving. But [Alex] hosted Wired in his studio and showed them how lasers engrave metal with …read more Continue reading Laser Engraving, Up Close
Who do you think of when you think of ancient civilizations? Romans? Greeks? Chinese? India? Egyptians? What about the Scythians, the Muisca, Gana, or the Kerma? You might not recognize …read more Continue reading Publish or Perish: Data Storage and Civilization
We were impressed with [moononournation’s] tiny thin client project. It claims to use an Arduino, but as you might guess it is using the Arduino software along with a network-enabled …read more Continue reading Tiny Thin Client is Small But Compatible
It is the time of year when a lot of people in certain parts of the world carve pumpkins. [Gonkee] is carving a watermelon, which we assume is similar. He …read more Continue reading Watermelon CNC Uses Lazy Susan
The ARM processor is popping up everywhere. From Raspberry Pis, to phones, to Blue Pill Arduino-like boards, you don’t have to go far to find an ARM processor these days. …read more Continue reading ARM Programming by Example