Collaborate Disseminate
[Mark Dufour]’s TACO VR project is a sort of robotic platform that mimics an omnidirectional treadmill, and aims to provide a compact and easily transportable way to allow a user …read more Continue reading DIY Robotic Platform Aims to Solve Walking in VR
What’s a Scramblepad? It’s a type of number pad in which the numbers aren’t in fixed locations, and can only be seen from a narrow viewing angle. Every time the …read more Continue reading Scramblepad Teardown Reveals Complicated, Expensive Innards
Plugging in something like an antique radio to see if it works is a good way to have a bad time, because some old components don’t age well. For vintage …read more Continue reading Power Up Vintage Electronics Less Unsafely With a Dim-Bulb Tester
[Glen] might describe his project of opening his garage door by way of an RFID sticker on his bike helmet as simple, but some of the interfacing he needed to …read more Continue reading RFID Sticker on Bike Helmet Grants Garage Access
Casting parts in silicone is great, and 3D printing in resin is fantastic for making clean shapes, so it’s natural for an enterprising hacker to want to put the two …read more Continue reading Stop Silicone Cure Inhibition, No Fancy or Expensive Products Required
The Garmin HUD+ was a small Bluetooth device intended for the dashboard of a car, meant to be used as a GPS heads-up display for data from Garmin smartphone apps. …read more Continue reading Garmin HUD Got Discontinued, But Not Trashed
Arduino has a library for quickly and easily setting up a simple web server on an ESP8622-based board, and [Tomaž] found that power consumption on an ESP-01 can be reduced …read more Continue reading ESP8266 Web Server Saves 60% Power With a 1 ms Delay
[Jay Alammar] has put up an illustrated guide to how Stable Diffusion works, and the principles in it are perfectly applicable to understanding how similar systems like OpenAI’s Dall-E or …read more Continue reading How The Art-Generating AI of Stable Diffusion Works
Muse makes a variety of wearable devices aimed at measuring brain and body activity, and [Becky Stern] did a detailed teardown of the Muse S model, revealing what goes on …read more Continue reading Look Inside This “Meditation Headband” And Integrate It Into Your Own Projects
Heat-set inserts are a great way to embed mechanically-strong, threaded parts into a 3D print. For installation, all that is required is an economical soldering iron; something most of us …read more Continue reading DIY Heat-Set Insert Press Says Complicated = Comfort