Collaborate Disseminate
Useless robots (or useless machines) are devices that, when switched on, exist only to turn themselves back off. They are fun and fairly simple builds that are easy to personify, …read more Continue reading Useless Robot Gets Cute, Has Personality
Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce extremely human-like communication, but their inner workings are something of a mystery. Not a mystery in the sense that we don’t know how an …read more Continue reading Peering Into The Black Box of Large Language Models
[mircemk] shows how to create a simple non-contact proximity sensor using little more than an Arduino Nano board, and a convenient software library intended to measure the value of capacitors. …read more Continue reading A DIY Proximity Sensor, Using Just Scrap Parts and Software
Bug reporting doesn’t usually have a lot of visuals. Not so with the visionOS bug [Ryan Pickren] found, which fills a user’s area with screeching bats after visiting a malicious …read more Continue reading Bats Can No Longer Haunt Apple VR Headsets Via Web Exploit
One of the great things about new tech tools is just having fun with them, like embracing your inner trickster god to mess with ‘Milton’, an AI trapped in an …read more Continue reading Torment Poor Milton With Your Best Pixel Art
Most one-handed keyboards rely on modifier keys or chording (pressing multiple keys in patterns) to stretch the functionality of a single hand’s worth of buttons. [Dylan Turner]’s PS-OHK takes an …read more Continue reading One-handed PS-OHK Keyboard Doesn’t Need Chording or Modifier Keys
[Ben Krasnow] of the Applied Science channel recently released a video demonstrating his process for getting copper-plated traces reliably embedded into sintered nylon powder (SLS) 3D printed parts, and shows …read more Continue reading Watch SLS 3D Printed Parts Become Printed Circuits
The Frame AR glasses by Brilliant Labs, which contain a small display, are an entirely different approach to hacker-accessible and affordable AR glasses. [Karl Guttag] has shared his thoughts and …read more Continue reading A Closer Peek at the Frame AR Glasses
[Benjie Holson] is an experienced roboticist and wrote an interesting article published on IEEE Spectrum about how the idea most people have of non-roboticists is a myth, and efforts to …read more Continue reading Programming Robots is Hard, Figuring out How to Make it Easier is Harder
The Guinness brewery has a long history of innovation, but did you know that it was the birthplace of the t-test? A t-test is usually what underpins a declaration of …read more Continue reading The Guinness Brewery Invented One of Science’s Most Important Statistical Tools