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Wooden Smartphone Sleeve Keeps You on Task

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A grey smartphone sits inside a sleeve made of light brown wood veneer and a black felt interior.

Smartphones are amazing tools, but sometimes they can be an equally amazing time suck. In an effort to minimize how much precious time goes down the drain, [Lance Pan and …read more Continue reading Wooden Smartphone Sleeve Keeps You on Task→

RetroArch on a LeapFrog Leapster GS

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A pink and white Leapster GS handheld console sits on a wooden table. It has a white D-pad and two large pink action buttons. A power cord extends from the bottom and a headphone cable comes out the top.

Retro games are a blast, and even more so when you can bring the fun on the go. [mac2612] has developed a custom retroarch-based firmware for the Leapster GS and …read more Continue reading RetroArch on a LeapFrog Leapster GS→

Ambient Display Tells You if Borealis is Coming to Town

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A wooden box sits on a darker wooden table. The box has a red, glowing number 8 on it.

For those times when you’d rather not get sucked down another internet rabbit hole when you really just wanted the weather, an ambient display can be great. [AlexanderK106] built a …read more Continue reading Ambient Display Tells You if Borealis is Coming to Town→

Toroidal Propellers Make Drones Less Annoying

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A black quadcopter sits on a grey surface. In place of traditional propellers are four figure eight propellers with sharp tips where the top and bottom of the eight would be.

Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller …read more Continue reading Toroidal Propellers Make Drones Less Annoying→

Tracking Humans with WiFi

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

Four images in one. Top left is an image of four individuals in a room with whiteboards and desks in the background along with various clutter on the floor. Over the people is a wireframe overlay of their poses. The image on the top right is just the wireframe people on a black background. Bottom left image is of a single individual standing in a room with the pose wireframe overlay. Bottom right image is the single pose wireframe on a black background.

In case you thought that cameras, LiDAR, infrared sensors, and the like weren’t enough for Big Brother to track you, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have found a way to …read more Continue reading Tracking Humans with WiFi→

Lanna Factory Makes You Work for Your Lampshade

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A woman sits at a wooden table with a set of pedals attached. A large frame sits on top of the table with a lampshade form spinning in it and five strings run through an apparatus to the frame. A shelving unit with finished lampshades sits behind the woman.

While you could 3D print a lampshade, there’s something to be said for having a more active role in the process of creating an object. [THINKK Studio] has made custom …read more Continue reading Lanna Factory Makes You Work for Your Lampshade→

Knitting Clock Makes You a Scarf for Next Year

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

Time got a little wibbly wobbly during these pandemic years. Perhaps we would’ve had a more tangible connection to it if [Siren Elise Wilhelmsen]’s knitting clock had been in our …read more Continue reading Knitting Clock Makes You a Scarf for Next Year→

Designing a Simpler Prosthetic Finger

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A four-fingered partial hand prosthesis in fuschia with black fingerpads is attached to a man's left hand (palm and thumb are original). He holds the left hand + prosthetic with his right hand and an aluminum hand prosthetic sits on the table to the left of his hands.

Prosthetic limb design is an area where desktop manufacturing has made huge strides, but there’s always room for improvement. For example, take a look at [Ian Davis] and his attempts …read more Continue reading Designing a Simpler Prosthetic Finger→

All Your Keys Are Belong to KeyDecoder

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

An illustration of a key sitting on an ID card. The key is light grey and the ID card is a darker grey gradient. The ID card says ID-1 Card 85.60 by 53.98 mm

Physical security is often considered simpler than digital security since safes are heavy and physical keys take more effort to duplicate than those of the digital persuasion. [Maxime Beasse and …read more Continue reading All Your Keys Are Belong to KeyDecoder→

Wormhole Coffee Table Takes Woodworking to Another Dimension

Posted on January 21, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A wooden table with walnut squares and a maple grid. The table has a large barrel-shaped curve on one end and the other is a representation of a wormhole with what look like two stretched cones connected through a narrow cylinder. The wooden grid looks stretch to follow the curvature of spacetime.

While some people are happy with a simple coffee table to hold their snacks while watching Star Trek reruns, others want their furniture to go where no furniture has gone …read more Continue reading Wormhole Coffee Table Takes Woodworking to Another Dimension→