Collaborate Disseminate
[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
ABS is a durable material that can be 3D printed, but requires a 100° C build surface. The print bed of [Pat]’s Bambu Lab A1 Mini is unable to get …read more Continue reading 3D Print ABS Without a Screaming Hot Bed
Want to turn a scaled vector graphic into a multicolor 3D print, like a sign? You’ll want to check out [erkannt]’s svg2solid, a web-based tool that reads an SVG and …read more Continue reading Tool Turns SVGs into Multicolor 3D Prints
Dutch research institute [AMOLF] shows off a small robot capable of walking, hopping, and swimming without any separate control system. The limbs synchronize thanks to the physical interplay between the …read more Continue reading Behold Self-Synchronizing, Air-Flopping Limbs That Hop and Swim
Want to give an AI the ability to do stuff in Blender? The BlenderMCP addon does exactly that, connecting open-source 3D modeling software Blender to Anthropic’s Claude AI via MCP …read more Continue reading MCP Blender Addon Lets AI Take the Wheel and Wield the Tools
A hefty portable power bank is a handy thing to DIY, but one needs to get their hands on a number of matching lithium-ion cells to make it happen. [Chris …read more Continue reading Save Cells from the Landfill, Get a Power Bank For Your Troubles
[Charmed Labs] are responsible for bringing numerous open-source hardware products to fruition over the years, and their latest device is an adorably small robotic camera platform called Goby, currently crowdfunding …read more Continue reading Tiny, Hackable Telepresence Robot for under $100? Meet Goby
[Geoffrey Litt] shows that getting an effective digital assistant that’s tailored to one’s own needs just needs a little DIY, and thanks to the kinds of tools that are available …read more Continue reading DIY AI Butler Is Simpler and More Useful Than Siri
With all the attention on LLMs (Large Language Models) and image generators lately, it’s nice to see some of the more niche and unusual applications of machine learning. GARF (Generalizeable 3D …read more Continue reading Software Project Pieces Broken Bits Back Together