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[Teaching Tech] has been interested in adding a tool changer to his 3D printer. E3D offers a system that allows you to switch print heads or even change out a hot end for a laser or a (probably) light-duty CNC head. The price of the entire device, though, is about …read more
Continue reading XChange Promises Inexpensive Tool Changes for 3D Printers
The bottom of the crowdfunding barrel never seems to dry up. So once again, New Atlas pulls on its thickest gloves and boots and wades into that murky world of ideas and innovations that are somehow both half-baked and completely cooked at the same tim… Continue reading Bottom of the barrel: Worst crowdfunding campaigns of 2020
Like it did with its carabiner-packing Ivy Rec outdoor camera, Canon has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund production of a quirky handheld point-and-shoot camera called the PowerShot Zoom, though this time it’s limited to Japan only.Continue Rea… Continue reading Canon launches handy PowerShot Zoom monocular camera
Cameras are getting smarter and more capable than ever, able to run embedded machine vision algorithms and pull off tricks far beyond what something like a serial camera and microcontroller board would be capable of, and the upcoming Vizy aims to be even smarter and easier to use yet. Vizy …read more
Continue reading Vizy the AI Camera Aims to Ease Machine Vision
Laptops have been getting thinner, more powerful and increasingly difficult to customize. The Reform from Berlin’s MNT Research dares to be different with open software and open hardware that invites modders to get under the hood and go wild.Continue R… Continue reading Modular laptop is designed to be hacked, tweaked and customized
The National Videogame Museum in Sheffield, UK, houses a unique collection celebrating all decades of video games and their culture, and as the lockdown has brought with it a crisis threatening its very existence, has launched a crowdfunding campaign with a video we’ve placed below the break. As a relatively …read more
With so many capabilities for obstacle avoidance, the only natural progression for drones would be for them to be hand-controlled. For Turkish inventor [metehanemlik], even this wasn’t enough of a challenge, as he decided to create the ESP8266-Powered Mini Drone: ESPcopter, a programmable Arduino-compatible modular drone that is open to …read more
It’s probably one of the first lessons learned by new drivers: if you see a big, red fire truck parked by the side of the road, don’t run into it. Such a lesson appears not to have been in the Tesla Autopilot’s driver education curriculum, though – a Tesla Model …read more
We’ve been singing the praises of the Nintendo Switch since we first got our hands on it in 2017, but there are a couple of little things that could use some improvement. Now, a start-up called Human Things has unveiled a new accessory that f… Continue reading Portable adapter helps the Nintendo Switch plug into displays on the go
Join us on Wednesday, August 7th at noon Pacific for the Kickstarter Hack Chat with Beau Ambur and Clarissa Redwine!
For many of us, magic things happen on our benches. We mix a little of this, one of those, and a couple of the other things, and suddenly the world