Collaborate Disseminate
[Norbert Zare] has identified a problem many of us suffer from – chronically bad posture. Its very common to see computer users hunched forwards over a screen, which eventually will …read more Continue reading Quit Hunching Over Your Screen With A Little Robotic Help
The Quadrivium EnsembleBot project is a mashup between old school musical instruments and the modern MIDI controlled world. Built by a small team over several years, these hand crafted instruments …read more Continue reading The Quadrivium EnsembleBot Is A Labour Of Love
Some products just seem to be designed to be annoying. [hardmar] discovered the air filtration system installed in his son’s basement woodshop was orientated for the best airflow, but rather …read more Continue reading It’s A Hack: Air Scrubber Controlled Using The Room Lighting
Working with solder paste stencils can be a real faff, they rarely sit flat and move around when you so much as breath on them. [Unexpected Maker] airs his frustrations, …read more Continue reading Solder Paste Stencilling That Doesn’t Suck
The Interactive Media Lab at Dresden Technical University has been busy working on ideas for user interfaces with wearable electronics, and presents a nice project, that any of us could …read more Continue reading Bendable Colour ePaper Display Has Touch Input Too
Those of us tasked with developing firmware for embedded systems have a quite a few hurdles to jump through compared to those writing for the desktop or mobile platforms. Solved …read more Continue reading With Luos Rapid Embedded Deployment Is Simplified
The Rijke tube is a very simple device that demonstrates the principle of thermoacoustics quite clearly. Construction is quite straightforward, simply place a metal gauze at the bottom end of …read more Continue reading Demonstrating ThermoAcoustics With The Rijke Tube
What do you do when you stumble across a website posting real-time earthquake data? Well, if you’re [Craig Lindley] you write some code to format it nicely onto a display, …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Plots World Wide Earthquakes
The analog computer of decades-gone-by is something many of us younger engineers never got the chance to experience first hand. It’s pretty much a case of reading about them on …read more Continue reading Forget Digital Computing, You Need An Analog Computer
[Ben Krasnow] over at Applied Science was experimenting with cutting inexpensive ceramic sheets with his cheap CO2 laser cutter when he found that (just as expected) the thermal shock of …read more Continue reading Water is the Secret Ingredient When Laser Cutting Ceramics to Make Circuits