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An RC VTOL aircraft always makes for a compelling project, but ensuring the transition between hover and forward flight can be quite challenging. In the video after the break, [Nicholas …read more Continue reading Control Tricks For Tailsitters
The cochlear is key to human hearing, and it plays an important role in our understanding of complex frequency content. The Visual Ear project aims to illustrate the cochlear mechanism as …read more Continue reading Visual Ear Demonstrates How The Cochlear Works
As an amateur astrophotographer will tell you, you just don’t get to capture the really interesting objects without spending a ton of money on some decent pieces of kit. Telescope …read more Continue reading A DIY Equatorial Mount Using Harmonic Drives
With cheap RC hardware, powerful motors, and high-capacity battery packs, getting something to fly has never been easier. It also helps that, whether you’re into fixed-wing craft or multirotors, there’s …read more Continue reading Foam F-35 Learns to Hover
There are only so many ways to make noise on standard instruments such as acoustic pianos. Their rigidity and inputs just don’t allow for a super-wide range of expression. On …read more Continue reading MIT’s Knitted Keyboard is Quite a Flexible MIDI Controller
The availability of cheap and powerful RC motors and electronics has made it possible for almost anyone to build an RC flying machine. Software is usually the bigger challenge, which has led to the development of open-source packages like BetaFlight …read more
Continue reading dRehmFlight: Customizable Flight Stabilisation For Your Weird Flying Contraptions
If you wear headphones around the house with any regularity, you’re probably missing out on a lot of audio cues like knocks at the door, people calling your name, or maybe even the smoke alarm. What if you had a visual indicator of sound that was smart enough to point …read more
Continue reading This Tabletop Lighthouse Will Get Your Attention
It was only last August that PJRC released Teensy 4.0. At that time, the 4.0 became the fastest microcontroller development board on the planet, a title it still holds as of this writing — or, well, not exactly. Today the Teensy 4.1 has been released, and using the same 600 …read more
Continue reading New Teensy 4.1 Arrives with 100 Mbps Ethernet, High-Speed USB, 8 MB Flash
Driving more than a handful of LEDs from a microcontroller is often a feat that takes tedious wiring, tricking the processor, or a lot of extra external hardware. Charlieplexing is perhaps the most notorious of these methods, and checks two of those three boxes. This library for the Teensy 4.0 …read more
CircuitPython reached a major milestone last week as it welcomed its 100th board into the fold: the wristwatch form factored badge designed for the 10th annual Open Source Hardware Summit, which takes place March 13th in New York City. Although CircuitPython — an open source derivative of MicroPython — was …read more
Continue reading CircuitPython Slithers Into 100th Board — the OHS 2020 Badge