Collaborate Disseminate
Everyone loves colourful 3D prints, but nobody loves prime towers, “printer poop” and all the plastic waste associated with most multi-material setups. Over the years, there’s been no shortage of …read more Continue reading SLM Co-extruding Hotend Makes Poopless Prints
Researchers call it “hallucination”; you might more accurately refer to it as confabulation, hornswaggle, hogwash, or just plain BS. Anyone who has used an LLM has encountered it; some people …read more Continue reading Your LLM Won’t Stop Lying Any Time Soon
Anyone who has ever snapped a chain or a crank knows how much torque a bicycle’s power train has to absorb on a daily basis; it’s really more than one …read more Continue reading PLA Gears Fail To Fail In 3D Printed Bicycle Drivetrain
The worst thing about a volume knob is that, having connected it to a computer, it might be wrong: if you’ve manually altered the volume settings somewhere else, the knob’s …read more Continue reading Motors Make the Best Knobs With SimpleFOC
The Component Abuse Challenge is dragging all sorts of old, half-forgotten hacks out of the woodwork, but this has got to be the most vintage: [KenS] started using a transformer …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Sweet Sound of a Choking Transformer
When you think anemometer, you probably don’t think “load cell” — but (statistically speaking) you probably don’t live in Hurricane Country, which is hard on wind-speed-measuring-whirligigs. When [BLANCHARD Jordan] got …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Load Cell Anemometer
Some kids dream about getting a pony, others dream about a small form factor violin-style MIDI controller. [Brady Y. Lin] was one of the latter, and now, with the skills …read more Continue reading A Childhood Dream, Created and Open Sourced
Some parts of the world still have ample 2G coverage; for those of in North America, 2G is long gone and 3G has either faded into dusk or beginning its …read more Continue reading 2G Gone? Bring It Back Yourself!
We’ve covered plenty of interesting human input devices over the years, but how about an instrument? No, not as a MIDI controller, but to interact with what’s going on-on screen. …read more Continue reading GuitarPie Uses Guitar as Interface, No Raspberries Needed
While not everyone agrees on the installation of wind turbines in their proverbial back yards, one thing not up for debate is that there is a drive to build them …read more Continue reading Giant Airplane Goes Long On Specialization