Collaborate Disseminate
[Ben Katz] designed the original MIT Mini Cheetah robot, which easily captured attention and imagination with its decidedly un-robotic movements and backflips. Not long after [Ben]’s masters thesis went online, …read more Continue reading Mini Cheetah Clone Teardown, By None Other Than Original Designer
[Carson Katri] has a fantastic solution to easily add textures to 3D scenes in Blender: have an image-generating AI create the texture on demand, and do it for you. As …read more Continue reading Image-Generating AI Can Texture An Entire 3D Scene In Blender
[Harry]’s newest robot, the MotherLoader V2, looks fantastic but was ultimately more of a learning experience and test bed for some experimental features. Luckily for us, [Harry] created a lengthy …read more Continue reading Antweight Combat Robot Tips, Shared From Experience
[Raymond Ma] has a penchant for browsing Aliexpress and purchasing curious pieces of hardware that are as high on promises as they are low on cost. This is a process …read more Continue reading What’s Inside a Super-Cheap Projector? Not a Lot!
Sometimes, with patience and luck, one can score a sweet deal on machinery. But for tools that weigh many hundreds of pounds? Buying it is only the beginning of the …read more Continue reading See What You’re In For When Buying And Moving A Lathe
Hackers frequently find themselves reverse-engineering or interfacing to existing hardware and devices, and when that interface needs to be a physical one, it really pays to be able to take …read more Continue reading DIY Comparatron Helps Trace Tiny, Complex Objects
[Zak]’s two-floor apartment has a typical door entry control system, but the setup is less than ideally convenient. The wall-mounted telephone-like intercom is downstairs, but [Zak] is usually upstairs. What’s …read more Continue reading Fixing (And Improving!) an Annoying Apartment Entry System
Stingrays have an elegant, undulating swimming motion that can be hypnotic. [Vimal Patel] re-created this harmony with his fantastic mechanical mechanical stingray using LEGO pieces and a LEGO Technics Power …read more Continue reading Gaze Upon The Swimming Mechanical Stingray, Made With LEGO
Video effects and mixing are done digitally today, but it wasn’t always so. When analog ruled the video world, a big switch panel was key to effective results. Devices like …read more Continue reading Old-School Video Switching Levels Up With Modern USB Control
[Mikhail] released a handy GUI editor/generator tool for the Flipper Zero multipurpose hacker tool, making layouts and UI elements much easier and more intuitive to craft up. Those who decide …read more Continue reading Flipper Zero Hacker Tool Gets UI Editor For Custom Apps