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Back in 2011, we first heard about an MIT-developed system that essentially allowed robots to “see” through their fingertips. Now, the technology is being used to let them finely manipulate electrical cables.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, Technolo… Continue reading GelSight tech helps robots keep cables in hand
Those who prefer cabled rather than wireless headphones or earphones will likely be very familiar with a little control box positioned somewhere along the audio cord that’s used to control playback or take calls. Google researchers have now come up wit… Continue reading Google researchers control music playback by tapping a braided cable
Liquid cooling is a popular way to get a bit of extra performance out of your computer. Usually this is done in desktops, where a special heat sink with copper tubing is glued to the CPU, and the copper tubes are plumbed to a radiator. If you want dive deeper into the world of liquid cooling, you can alternatively submerge your entire computer in a bath of mineral oil like [Timm] has done.
The computer in question here is a Raspberry Pi, and it’s being housed in a purpose-built laser cut acrylic case full of mineral oil. As a SoC, …read more
The FCC’s efforts here may prove to be a decidedly uphill battle. Continue reading FCC Demands Amazon, eBay Crack Down On Kodi-Based Pirate TV Boxes
Competing with Netflix and YouTube is turning out to be harder than cable companies thought. Continue reading Cable Industry Slowly Realizes More Ads and Higher Prices Aren’t the Solution to Cord Cutting
A while back, [Marius] was faced with a problem. A friend of his lives in the middle of a rainforest, and a microphone was attacked by a dirty, greasy rat. The cable was gnawed in half, and with it went a vital means of communication with the outside world. The usual way of fixing a five- or six-conductor cable is with heat shrink, lineman’s splices, insulating tape, and luck. [Marius] needed something better than that, so he turned to his 3D printer and crafted his own wire splice enclosure.
The microphone in question is a fancy Jenal jobbie with a …read more
Continue reading Repairs You Can Print: Better Cable Splicing With 3D Printed Parts
What’s worse than powering up your latest build for the first time only to have absolutely nothing happen? OK, maybe it’s not as bad as releasing the Magic Smoke, but it’s still pretty bewildering to have none of your blinky lights blink like they’re supposed to.
What you do at that point is largely a matter of your troubleshooting style, and when [Scott M. Baker]’s Raspberry Pi jukebox build failed to chooch, he returned to first principles and checked the power cable. That turned out to be the culprit, but instead of giving up there, he did a thorough series …read more
We’ve all been there: faced with a tedious job that could be knocked out manually with a modest investment of time, we choose instead to overcomplicate the task and build something to do it for us. Such was the impetus behind this automated wire cutter, but in this case the ends justify the means.
That [Edward Carlson] managed to stretch a twenty-minute session with wire cutters and a tape measure into four days of building and tweaking this machine is pretty impressive. The build process was jump-started by modifying an off-the-shelf wire measuring machine, of the kind one finds in …read more
Continue reading Cable Cutting Machine Makes Fast Work of a Tedious Job
The ‘Regional sports fee’ and ‘broadcast TV fee’ have made your cable bill bloated. Continue reading Comcast’s Sneaky Cable Fees Have Jumped 241% in the Last Three Years
There’s talk of robots and AIs taking on jobs in many different industries. Depending on how much stock you place in that, it might still be fair to say the more creative fields will remain firmly in the hands of humans, right?
Well, we may have some bad news for you. Robots are now painting our murals.
Estonian inventor [Mihkel Joala] — also working at SprayPainter — successfully tested his prototype by painting a 30m tall mural on a smokestack in Tartu, Estonia. The creative procedure for this mural is a little odd if you are used to the ordinary …read more
