Collaborate Disseminate
[Geyes30]’s Raspberry Pi project does one thing: it finds arbitrary text in the camera’s view and reads it out loud. Does it do so flawlessly? Not really. Was it at …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Reads What It Sees, Delights Children
Soil sensors are handy things, but while sensing moisture is what they do, how they handle that data is what makes them useful. Ensuring usefulness is what led [Maakbaas] to …read more Continue reading Soil Sensor Shows Flip-Dots Aren’t Just for Signs
The eyes are windows into the mind, and this research into what jumping spiders look at and why required a clever device that performs eye tracking, but for jumping spiders. …read more Continue reading Eye-Tracking Device is a Tiny Movie Theatre for Jumping Spiders
[Andy]’s robot is an autonomous RC car, and he shares the localization algorithm he developed to help the car keep track of itself while it zips crazily around an indoor …read more Continue reading Fast Indoor Robot Watches Ceiling Lights, Instead of the Road
The Oculus Go, Facebook’s first generation standalone VR headset, hit the market back in 2018 but it’s taken until now for owners to get an official unlocked OS build. The …read more Continue reading Oculus Go VR Headset Gets Root Access, No Jailbreak Needed
Got a retrocomputing itch? So does [David Given], and luckily for us all he indulged it by writing POLF: a first-person 3D game for the Commodore PET that uses only …read more Continue reading POLF: Retro 3D Game Uses Only a Character Display
The OAK-D is an open-source, full-color depth sensing camera with embedded AI capabilities, and there is now a crowdfunding campaign for a newer, lighter version called the OAK-D Lite. The …read more Continue reading OAK-D Depth Sensing AI Camera Gets Smaller and Lighter
Want to make a t-shirt with a custom design printed on it? It’s possible to use a 3D printer, and Prusa Research have a well-documented blog post and video detailing …read more Continue reading 3D Print a Custom T-Shirt Design, Step-by-Step
It’s not a jailbreak, but [basti564]’s Oculess software nevertheless allows one the option to remove telemetry and account dependencies from Facebook’s Oculus Quest VR headsets. It is not normally possible …read more Continue reading Software Removes the Facebook from Facebook’s VR Headset (Mostly)
There’s nothing quite like vintage hardware, and the way it looks and works is something that can be worth celebrating. [Old Tech. New Spec] did that with his loving modification …read more Continue reading Vintage Radio Gets Internet Upgrade