Collaborate Disseminate
We’ve seen plenty of first-person view (FPV) robots built using the Raspberry Pi Zero, but this one from [Shane] has an interesting twist: rather than directly driving the wheels from …read more Continue reading Pi Zero FPV Robot Uses Tiny Motor & Gears
MIT student [Anhad Sawhney] built an interesting decoration for his dorm room corridor called The Eyes of the Basilisk. Named after the mythical creature with a deadly gaze, the project …read more Continue reading The Eyes of the Basilisk are Watching You
Hit something with a hammer, and it makes a sound. If you’re lucky, it might even make a pleasant sound, which is the idea behind the Great Stalacpipe Organ in …read more Continue reading Virginia Cave is the Largest Musical Instrument In The World
Most of us will have at some point have bought a long power cable to charge the bike on the deck, but [Slava G. Turyshev] has a slightly more ambitious …read more Continue reading Using Gravitational Lensing To Transmit Power And Detect Aliens
This wall clock built by [Alf Müller] is lovely, using two NeoPixel rings to mark the time by casting light onto a 3D-printed ring. The blue shows the minutes, made …read more Continue reading 3D-Printed LED Wall Clock Does Lots With Little
A new BeagleBoard is on the way, full of FPGA hotness: the BeagleV-Fire has been announced. The new $150 Single-Board Computer (SBC) from the pioneering open source BeagleBoard company is …read more Continue reading BeagleV Catches Fire With The BeagleV-Fire
Have you ever looked at a guitar and thought “Nah, that’s way too easy to play.”[Mattias Kranz] seems to have done, so he built the 360 Guitar, a new instrument …read more Continue reading Rotating Necked Guitar Looks Difficult To Play
There’s still time to enter Octojam 10, a competition to write a new program for a rather old (and virtual) machine: the CHIP-8. This interpreted language on a virtual machine …read more Continue reading Retro Computing Coding Competition Still Open
Adobe research scientist [Christine Dierk] showed off an interesting new project at the Adobe Max conference: Project Primrose, a dress covered with a series of liquid crystal panels that could …read more Continue reading Adobe Scientist Cuts A Dash With LCD Shifting Dress
Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of …read more Continue reading Debugging A 1950s Computer Sounds Like A Pain