Collaborate Disseminate
These days, controls in games are fairly standardized by genre. Most RTSs, FPSs, and RPGs all control more or less the same way. But one type of controller that has …read more Continue reading Build A DIY Spinner To Get Your Tempest Game Going
In the early days of the internet, online conversations were an event. The technology was novel, and it was suddenly possible to socialize with a whole bunch of friends at …read more Continue reading How Facebook Killed Online Chat
In the annals of ambitious engineering projects, few have captured the imagination and courted controversy quite like Gerald Bull’s Supergun. Bull, a Canadian artillery expert, envisioned a gun that could …read more Continue reading The Tragic Story Of The Ill-Fated Supergun
Have you ever wished for an automaton that can get the party started, raise the roof, and all that? You’ll want to meet [DJ Pfeif]’s Flippin Rhobot, then. He’s a …read more Continue reading Hype Robot Rocks Out With The Twitch Chat
Multi-filament printing can really open up possibilities for your prints, even more so the more filaments you have. Enter the 8-Track from [Armored_Turtle], which will swap between 8 filaments for …read more Continue reading Building An 8-Color Automated Filament Changer
Imagine a flat surface that has no buttons on it, until they raise up like bubbles of goo for you to touch them. The Future Interface Group at Carnegie-Mellon has …read more Continue reading Dynamic Buttons Are Weird Blobs You Can Press
Have you ever needed to hunt down a short circuit, but you’ve had no idea where it is or how it’s happening? As it turns out, there are tools to …read more Continue reading Locate Faults With the Leakseeker-89R
Now that we have decent VR goggles, the world is more desperate than ever for a decent haptic interface for interacting with computers. We might be seeing a new leap …read more Continue reading Lightweight Haptic Gloves With Electro-Osmotic Pump Arrays
Imagine you want to iterate on a shock-absorbing structure design in plastic. You might design something in CAD, print it, then test it on a rig. You’ll then note down …read more Continue reading Roboticized 3D Printer Has Been Developing Shock Absorbing Structures For Years
Did you know there is a Guinness World Record for the smallest humanoid robot? We didn’t either, but apparently this is a challenge attracting multiple competitors. [Lidor Shimoni] had a …read more Continue reading Almost Breaking The World Record For The Tiniest Humanoid Robot, But Not Quite