Collaborate Disseminate
[Nicholas LaBonte] shows off a Cyberdeck Handheld that demonstrates just how good something can look when care and attention goes into the design and fabrication. He wanted to make something …read more Continue reading A Precisely Elegant Cyberdeck Handheld
Holography is about capturing 3D data from a scene, and being able to reconstruct that scene — preferably in high fidelity. Holography is not a new idea, but engaging in …read more Continue reading New Camera Does Realtime Holographic Capture, No Coherent Light Required
What does one do when frustrated at the lack of affordable, open source portable trackers? If you’re [OG-star-tech], you design your own and give it modular features that rival commercial offerings …read more Continue reading DIY Open-Source Star Tracker Gets You Those Great Night Shots
[Martin] of [Wintergatan] is on a quest to create the ultimate human-powered, modern marble music machine. His fearless mechanical exploration and engineering work, combined with considerable musical talent, has been …read more Continue reading Taking Cues From a Gramophone To Make a Better Marble Music Machine
[JanTec Engineering] was fascinated by the idea of using a 3D printer’s hot end to inject voids and channels in the infill with molten plastic, leading to stronger prints without …read more Continue reading Infill Injection Experiment Makes Stronger Parts
[James Sharman] designed and built his own 8-bit computer from scratch using TTL logic chips, including a VGA adapter, and you can watch it run a glorious rotating cube demo …read more Continue reading Homebrew CPU Gets a Beautiful Rotating Cube Demo
One can 3D print with conductive filament, and therefore plausibly create passive components like resistors. But what about active components, which typically require semiconductors? Researchers at MIT demonstrate working concepts …read more Continue reading MIT Demonstrates Fully 3D Printed, Active Electronic Components
OpenSCAD has a lot of fans around these parts — if you’re unaware, it’s essentially a code-based way of designing 3D models. Instead of drawing them up in a CAD …read more Continue reading Belfry OpenSCAD Library (BOSL2) Brings Useful Parts and Tools Aplenty
What would it be like to have to design and build a ventilator, suitable for clinical use, in ten days? One that could be built entirely from locally-sourced parts, and …read more Continue reading New Documentary Details Ventilator Development Efforts During COVID
Disk space is allocated in clusters of a certain size. When a file is written to disk and the file size is smaller than the cluster(s) allocated for it, there …read more Continue reading Make a Secret File Stash In The Slack Space