Collaborate Disseminate
Selecting a random sample from a set is simple. But what about selecting a fair random sample from a set of unknown or indeterminate size? That’s where reservoir sampling comes …read more Continue reading Reservoir Sampling, or How to Sample Sets of Unknown Size
There was a time when print-in-place moving parts were a curiosity, but [Tomek] shows that things are now at a point where a hand-cranked turbine blower with integrated planetary gears …read more Continue reading Turbine Blower 3D Prints Every Part, Including Triple Planetary Gears
Can a 3D Minecraft implementation be done entirely in CSS and HTML, without a single line of JavaScript in sight? The answer is yes! True, this small clone is limited …read more Continue reading Minecraft Clone Manages With Nothing But HTML + CSS
[Anton Gaia]’s SPIRAL sculpture resembles an organizer or modern shelving unit, but what’s really interesting is how it goes together. It’s made entirely from assembling copies of a single component …read more Continue reading Spiral Connector Makes Fastener-Free Assemblies
It’s sometimes useful for a system to not just have a flat 2D camera view of things, but to have an understanding of the depth of a scene. Dual RGB …read more Continue reading Dual RGB Cameras Get Depth Sensing Powerup
The Humane AI Pin was ambitious, expensive, and failed to captivate people between its launch and shutdown shortly after. While the units do contain some interesting elements like the embedded …read more Continue reading Flopped Humane “AI Pin” Gets an Experimental SDK
[Tommy] has a great write-up about designing and building a minimalistic handheld electronic game called “Higher Lower”. It’s an audio-driven game in which the unit plays two tones and asks …read more Continue reading Tune In to “Higher Lower”, the Minimal Handheld Electronic Game
Adding textures is a great way to experiment with giving 3D prints a different look, and [PandaN] shows off a method of adding a wood grain effect in a way …read more Continue reading Add Wood Grain Texture to 3D Prints – With a Model of a Log
[It’s on my MIND] designed a clever BB blaster featuring a four-bar linkage that prints in a single piece and requires no additional hardware. The interesting part is how it …read more Continue reading This BB Shooter Has a Spring, But Not For What You Think
[Boylei] shows that those little LED filament strips make great freeze-frame blaster shots in a space battle diorama. That’s neat and all, but what we really want to highlight is …read more Continue reading A Simple Tip for Gluing Those LED Filaments