Collaborate Disseminate
CRT monitors: there’s nothing quite like ’em. But did you know that video projectors used to use CRTs? A trio of monochrome CRTs, in fact: one for each color; red, …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive into The Coolness That Was CRT Projectors
Unitree have a number of robotic offerings, and are one of the first manufacturers offering humanoid robotic platforms. It seems they are also the subject of UniPwn, one of the …read more Continue reading Unitree Humanoid Robot Exploit Looks Like a Bad One
In the original Animal Crossing from 2001, players are able to interact with a huge cast of quirky characters, all with different interests and personalities. But after you’ve played the …read more Continue reading LLM Dialogue In Animal Crossing Actually Works Very Well
[Simone]’s AI assistant, dubbed Max Headbox, is a wakeword-triggered local AI agent capable of following instructions and doing simple tasks. It’s an experiment in many ways, but also a great …read more Continue reading Fully-Local AI Agent Runs on Raspberry Pi, With a Little Patience
Occasionally a design requires capacitors that are much closer to being identical in value to one another than the usual tolerance ranges afford. Precision matching of components from parts on …read more Continue reading Play Capacitor Cupid With The Matchmaker
[Ancient] has a video showing off a fascinating piece of work: a lip-syncing robot whose animated electro-mechanical mouth works like an IBM Selectric typewriter. The mouth rapidly flips between different …read more Continue reading A Closer Look Inside a Robot’s Typewriter-Inspired Mouth
[darrenburns]’ Rich Pixels is a library for sending colorful images to a terminal. Give it an image, and it’ll dump it to your terminal in full color. While it also …read more Continue reading Send Images to Your Terminal With Rich Pixels
Barrier-grid animations (also called scanimations) are a thing most people would recognize on sight, even if they didn’t know what they were called. Move a set of opaque strips over …read more Continue reading Design Scanimations In a Snap With The Right Math
[VWestlife] ended up with an obscure piece of 80s satellite TV technology, shown above. The Micro-Scan is a fairly plan metal box with a single “Tune” knob on the front. …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering Mystery TV Equipment: The Micro-Scan
[BPS.space] takes model rocketry seriously, and their rockets tend to get bigger and bigger. If there’s one thing that comes with the territory in DIY rocketry, it’s the constant need …read more Continue reading Applying Thermal Lining to Rocket Tubes Requires a Monstrous DIY Spin-caster