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When designing anything with “hackable” in the punchline, scope creep is an integral part of the process. You end up trying to create something to potentially be an infinite number …read more Continue reading The Rollercoaster Of Developing The Ultimate Hackable Keyboard
Discarded hoverboards are a great source of free high torque motors for hacking. This can include crazy but fun projects like this hoverboard-driven IKEA sofa, as demonstrated by [Bitluni] and …read more Continue reading Hoverboard Powered Sofa Is Fun and a Bit Dangerous
There are various ways to measure plant health, and we’ve seen many projects creating open-source solutions. One we haven’t seen is a dendrometer, which involves measuring various physical dimensions of …read more Continue reading OpenDendrometer Can Measure How Your Tree Feels
One of the downsides to healthy outdoor activities is all the exercise. Who would want to do that if you can build something to do the hard work for you? …read more Continue reading Simple Propulsion For The Lazy Paddle Boarder
With high-altitude ballooning, you are at the mercy of the winds, which can move your payload hundreds of kilometers and deposit it in some inaccessible spot. To solve this [Yohan …read more Continue reading R2Home Is Ready To Bring Back Your High Altitude Payload
Bicycles need at least two wheels to be rideable, but [The Q] realized you don’t necessarily need the wheels to be in one piece. As long as you have at …read more Continue reading Trippy Bicycle Uses Multiple Partial Wheels
There is something inherently fascinating about tiny mechanical devices, especially when you’re used to seeing much larger versions. This is the case with [Penguin DIY]’s tiny centrifugal water pump built …read more Continue reading Turning a Pair of Syringes into a Tiny Water Pump
When you want to build a large format 3D printer, you can’t just scale up the design of a desktop machine. In an excellent four-part build series (videos after the …read more Continue reading Large Format 3D Printer is a Serious Engineering Challenge
[James Bruton] is on a quest to explore all the weird and wonderful methods of robot locomotion, and in his latest project created an omnidirectional walker that can move in …read more Continue reading Omnidirectional Walker With Wheeled Feet
Multicolor printing on FDM machines can be tricky to get working flawlessly, and purging hotends when changing colors can end up wasting a lot of filament and material. To solve …read more Continue reading Automated Hotend Swapping For Less Wasteful Multicolor Printing