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Air hockey is one of those sports that’s both incredibly fun, but also incredibly frustrating as playing it by yourself is a rather lonely and unfulfilling experience. This is where …read more Continue reading Building a Robot Partner to Play Air Hockey With
Old-school diving helmets are deceivingly simple, even if they are – as [Hyperspace Pirate] puts it in a recent video – essentially the equivalent of an upside-down bucket with an …read more Continue reading Printing an Underwater Diving Helmet With Floating Air Supply
Cycloidal drives are a type of speed reducer that are significantly more compact than gearboxes, but they still come with a fair number of components. In comparison, the harmonic pin-ring …read more Continue reading 3D Printing a Harmonic Pin-Ring Gearing Drive
Most people love arcade games, but putting a full-sized arcade cabinet in the living room can lead to certain unpleasant complications. Ergo the market for fun-sized cabinets has exploded alongside …read more Continue reading Mini Multi-Arcade Game Cabinets with an ESP32 and Galagino
At this point in time it can be safely stated that the question ‘Does it run Doom?’ defaults to a resounding ‘Yes’. This raises the question of what next games should …read more Continue reading Running Ocarina of Time on the Apple Watch
Debugging an application crash can oftentimes feel like you’re an intrepid detective in a grimy noir detective story, tasked with figuring out the sordid details behind an ugly crime. Slogging …read more Continue reading Turning a GDB Coredump Debug Session Into a Murder Mystery
There have been many questions about what direction Arduino would take after being bought by Qualcomm. Now it would seem that we’re getting a clearer picture. Perhaps unsurprisingly the answer …read more Continue reading Arduino’s New AI-Centric Board is the VENTUNO Q
Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the …read more Continue reading Diagnosing a Mysterious Fault with a Commodore 1541 Disk Drive
Most people see that garden shed as little more than a place to store some gardening tools in, but if you’re like [Dr. Semiconductor], then what you see is a …read more Continue reading Building a Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside a Shed
It’s hard to deny that label printers have become more accessible than ever, but an annoying aspect of many of these cheap units is that their only user interface is …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the Bluetooth Fichero Thermal Label Printer Protocol