Collaborate Disseminate
Sine-wave speech can be thought of as a sort of auditory illusion, a sensory edge case in which one’s experience has a clear “before” and “after” moment, like going through …read more Continue reading Sine-wave Speech Demonstrates an Auditory One-way Door
A common hacker upgrade to an espresso machine is to improve stability and performance with a better temperature controller, but [Schematix]’s Smart Coffee project doesn’t stop there. It entirely replaces …read more Continue reading Smart Coffee Replaces Espresso Machine Controller With Arduino, Sensors
Amazon has been using robots to manage and automate their warehouses for years. Here’s a short feature on their current robot, Hercules. This is absolutely Amazon tooting their own horn, …read more Continue reading How Warehouse Robots Actually Work, As Explained by Amazon
Saltwater is plentiful, but no good for drinking. Desalinization is the obvious solution, but a big problem isn’t taking the salt out, it’s where all that leftover salt goes. Excess …read more Continue reading Passive Desalination Discovers How To Avoid Salt-Clogging
With a simple firmware update, Kaluma puts a lightweight JavaScript runtime on the Raspberry Pi Pico (which uses the RP2040 microcontroller), providing handy modules for file systems, graphics, networking, and …read more Continue reading Kaluma Puts JavaScript on the RP2040
[Pete Lewis] from SparkFun takes audio and comfort seriously, and recently shared details on making a customized set of Super Headphones, granting quality sound and stereo ambient passthrough, while providing …read more Continue reading These DIY Super Headphones Take Sound Seriously
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a tiny, proof of concept robot that moves its four limbs by rapidly igniting a combination of methane and oxygen inside flexible joints. The …read more Continue reading Micro Robot Disregards Gears, Embraces Explosions
[John Earnest]’s passion project Decker is creative software with a classic MacOS look (it’s not limited to running on Macs, however) for easily making and sharing interactive documents with sound, …read more Continue reading Decker Is The Cozy Retro Creative Engine You Didn’t Know You Needed
Ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus worked to accurately catalog and record the coordinates of celestial objects. But while Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue is known to have existed, the document itself is lost …read more Continue reading Multispectral Imaging Shows Erased Evidence of Ancient Star Catalogue
Vacuum forming is a handy thing to be able to do, and [3DSage] demonstrates how to do a bare-bones system that can form anything smaller than a dinner plate with …read more Continue reading Bare Bones Vacuum Forming, Just Add Plastic Plates