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It’s unfortunate, but a lot of trash ends up in our rivers and, eventually, our oceans. Cleaning efforts can be costly and require a lot of human power. One of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Hydrocleaner Nips Pollution In the Bud
In the Star Wars universe, pit droids are little foldable robots that perform automated repairs on spacecraft and the like. They were introduced in 1999’s The Phantom Menace, and beyond …read more Continue reading Star Wars Pit Droid has a Jetson Brain
NVIDIA’s Jetson line of single-board computers are doing something different in a vast sea of relatively similar Linux SBCs. Designed for edge computing applications, such as a robot that needs …read more Continue reading Hands-On: NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit
You may have missed this month’s issue of Oriental Insects, in which a project by [Ildar Rakhmatulin] Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh caught our attention. [Ildar] led a team of researchers …read more Continue reading Laser Zaps Cockroaches Over One Meter
Suppose you were looking for all the essential elements to make a great Halloween-themed shooting game. Zombies? Check. Giant “lasers”? Check. Crossbows shooting forks? We’ve got you covered. Check out …read more Continue reading Halloween Game Lets You Shoot Zombies With a Laser-Powered Crossbow
Drones have become the standard for moving aerial camera platforms, but another option that sees use in the professional world are cable cameras. As an exercise in integrating mechanics, electronics, …read more Continue reading Cablecam Is An Exercise In System Integration
There was a time when making a machine to identify objects in a camera was difficult, even without trying to do it in real time. But now, you can do …read more Continue reading Real Time Object Detection for $59
[Stevej52] likes to build things you can’t buy, and this Jetson Nano robot falls well within that category. Reading the project details, you might think [Stevej52] drinks too much coffee. But we think he is just excited to have successfully pulled off the Herculean task of integrating over a dozen …read more
NVIDIA kicked off their line of GPU-accelerated single board computers back in 2014 with the Jetson TK1, a $200 USD development system for those looking to get involved with the burgeoning world of so-called “edge computing”. It was designed to put high performance computing in a small and energy efficient …read more
Continue reading NVIDIA Announces $59 Jetson Nano 2GB, a Single Board Computer with Makers in Mind
It’s common knowledge that bats navigate and search for their prey using echolocation, but did you know that the ultrasonic chips made by different species of bats are distinct enough that they can be used for identification? [Tegwyn☠Twmffat] did, which is why he came up with this impressive device capable …read more
Continue reading Identifying Creatures that go Chirp in the Night