Collaborate Disseminate
Cyberdecks are great projects, and [Salim Benbouziyane]’s scratch-built CM Deck is a fantastic specimen. It’s a clamshell-style cyberdeck with custom split keyboard, trackpad, optional external WiFi antenna, and some slick …read more Continue reading Custom Clamshell Cyberdeck Shows Off Underlighting
Water wells are simple things, but that doesn’t mean they are maintenance-free. It can be important to monitor water levels in a well, and that gets complicated when the well …read more Continue reading Making Effective, Affordable Water Level Monitors
[Teddy Warner]’s GPenT (Generative Pen-trained Transformer) project is a wall-mounted polargraph that makes plotter art, but there’s a whole lot more going on than one might think. This project was …read more Continue reading DIY Wall-Plotter Does Generative Art, But Not As We Know It
[Jer Schmidt] needed a way to put a lot of M8 bolts into a piece of square steel tubing, but just drilling and tapping threads into the thin steel wouldn’t …read more Continue reading Welding Nuts Inside Metal Tubes, Painlessly
Have you ever dreamed of making a bash script that assembles Intel 8080 machine code? [Chris Smith] did exactly that when he created xa.sh, a cross-assembler written entirely in Bourne …read more Continue reading Full-Blown Cross-Assembler…in a Bash Script
[GizmoThrill] shows off a design for an absolutely gorgeous, high-fidelity replica of the main character’s helmet from the video game Satisfactory. But the best part is the technique used to …read more Continue reading Gimmick Sunglasses Become Easy Custom Helmet Visor
Helium is inert, which makes it useful in a lot of different industries. But helium’s colorless and odorless non-reactivity also means traditional gas sensing methods don’t work. Specialized detectors exist, …read more Continue reading Detecting Helium Leaks with Sound in a Physics-Based Sensor
[XYZAiden]’s concept for a flexible robotic gripper might be a few years old, but if anything it’s even more accessible now than when he first prototyped it. It uses only …read more Continue reading Print-in-Place Gripper Does It With a Single Motor
Need a plastic mesh in a custom pattern? 3D print it, no problem. But what if one needs a curved plastic mesh? That’s considerably harder to 3D print, but [Uncle Jessy]’s …read more Continue reading Need a Curved Plastic Mesh? Print Flat, Curve Later
What filament is strongest? The real answer is “it depends”, but sometimes you have a simple question and you just want a simple answer. Like, which material makes the best …read more Continue reading Do Expensive Filaments Make 3D Printed Wrenches Better?