Collaborate Disseminate
Most of us first spot them as children—the white lines in the blue sky that are the telltale sign of a flight overhead. Contrails are an instant visual reminder of …read more Continue reading Contrails Are A Hot Topic, But What Is To Be Done?
By and large, our clothes don’t actively move. They’re simple pieces of fabric assembled to sit nicely on our bodies, and little more. [anoukwipprecht] created something a little more technological and confronting, …read more Continue reading ‘Robotic’ Dress Uses Simple Techniques To Combine 3D Printed Parts With Fabric
It’s simple enough to wire up an LED matrix and have it display some pre-programmed routines. What can be more fun is when the LEDs are actually interactive in some …read more Continue reading Interactive LED Matrix Is A Great Way To Learn About Motion Controls
The Family BASIC keyboard was a peripheral that was built for programming on the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom. As [Linus Åkesson] demonstrates, though, it can do so much more. …read more Continue reading Family Bass Is Musical NES Magic
Back in the 1980s, a viable modem cost hundreds of dollars. Even in the 1990s, you were looking at spending a a Benjamin or two to get computer squawking down …read more Continue reading A Quarter and A Dime Will Get You A Commodore 64 Softmodem
There are a huge number of manufacturers building awesome radio-controlled cars these days. However, sometimes you just have to go your own way. That’s what [snamle] did with this awesome …read more Continue reading 3D-Printed RC Car Focuses on Performance Fundamentals
Once upon a time, lathes were big heavy machines driven by massive AC motors, hewn out of cast iron and sheer will. Today, we have machine tools of all shapes …read more Continue reading Modulathe Is CNC Ready And Will Machine What You Want
DOOM used to primarily run on x86 PCs. It later got ported to a bunch of consoles with middling success, and then everything under the sun, from random embedded systems …read more Continue reading You Can Now Play DOOM In Microsoft Word, But You Probably Shouldn’t
Hackers and makers have built just about every kind of clock under the sun. Digital, analog, seven-segment, mechanical seven-segment, binary, ternary, hexadecimal… you name it. It’s been done. You really …read more Continue reading Innovative Clock Uses Printed Caustic Lens
Touch screen head units are pretty much the norm these days. Many compromise with annoying on-screen volume controls or tiny buttons. If you find yourself with such a unit, you …read more Continue reading Android Head Unit Gets Volume Knob Upgrade