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The MintyPi was a popular project that put a Raspberry Pi inside an Altoids tin to make a pocketable gaming handheld. Unfortunately, it’s not the easiest build to replicate anymore, …read more Continue reading A Cute Handheld Gaming Device That You Can Build In An Altoids Tin
Kombucha! It’s a delicious fermented beverage that is kind to your digestive system and often sold in glass bottles. You don’t just have to use those bottles for healthy drinks, …read more Continue reading Turning a Kombucha Bottle Into a Plasma Tube
Pong was one of the first video games to really enter the public consciousness. While it hasn’t had the staying power of franchises like Zelda or Call of Duty, it nonetheless still resonates …read more Continue reading Building a Handheld Pong Game
You’re cutting yourself a single slice of cake. You grab a butter knife out of the drawer, hack off a moist wedge, and munch away to your mouth’s delight. The …read more Continue reading High Frequency Food: Better Cutting With Ultrasonics
[Mikey Sklar] had a problem—namely, running low on the brass material typically used for making PCB stencils. Thankfully, a replacement material was not hard to find. It turns out you …read more Continue reading Aluminum Business Cards Make Viable PCB Stencils
Glasses for the blind might sound like an odd idea, given the traditional purpose of glasses and the issue of vision impairment. However, eighth-grade student [Akhil Nagori] built these glasses …read more Continue reading “Glasses” That Transcribe Text To Audio
Here’s the thing about coding. When you’re working on embedded projects, it’s quite easy to run into hardware limitations, and quite suddenly, too. You find yourself desperately trying to find …read more Continue reading Speeding Up Your Projects With Direct Memory Access
It’s 2025, and you’re still probably pressing modifier keys on your keyboard like a… regular person. But it doesn’t have to be this way! You could use foot pedals instead, …read more Continue reading A Foot Pedal To Supplement Your Keyboard
There’s something that kills coding speed—iteration time. If you can smash a function key and run your code, then watch it break, tweak, and smash it again—you’re working fast. But …read more Continue reading Simulating Embedded Development To Reduce Iteration Time
There are all kinds of expensive beauty treatments on the market — various creams, zappy lasers, and fine mists of heavily-refined chemicals. For [Ruth Amos], a $78,000 LED bed had …read more Continue reading DIY Your Own Red Light Therapy Gear