Collaborate Disseminate
We love Blender. It brings you 3D modeling, but not in a CAD way — instead, people commonly use it to create animations, movies, games, and even things like VR …read more Continue reading From KiCad to Blender for a Stunning Render
One of the first things everyone does when they get a video camera is to point it at the screen displaying the image, creating video feedback. It’s a fascinating process …read more Continue reading Video Feedback Machine Creates Analog Fractals
[Jason Winfield] shared with us a video describing a project with a lot of personality: a mounted, lit, and quivering Alien facehugger triggered by motion. The end result is a …read more Continue reading Quivering Facehugger is All Geared Up
The LucidDreamer project ties a variety of functions into a pipeline that can take a source image (or generate one from a text prompt) and “lift” its content into 3D, …read more Continue reading Generating 3D Scenes From Just One Image
DreamWire is a system for generating multi-view wire art using machine learning techniques to help generate the patterns required. What’s wire art? It’s a three-dimensional twisted mass of lines which, …read more Continue reading Multi-View Wire Art Meets Generative AI
The end of the year brings with it festive cheer, and a look forward into the new year to come. For those with an interest in intellectual property and the …read more Continue reading Mickey Shall Be Free!
Pianos use little hammers striking taut strings to make tones. The Mellotron used lots of individual tape mechanisms. Meanwhile, the Trans-Harmonium from [Emily Francisco] uses an altogether more curious method …read more Continue reading The Trans-Harmonium is a Strange Kind of Radio-Musical Instrument
There is no shortage of companies on the Internet willing to sell you expensive glowing things to stick on your walls. Many hackers prefer to make their own however, and …read more Continue reading LED Art Project Is Geometrically Beautiful
It is one thing to make an artistic steampunk display. But [CapeGeek] added an Arduino to make the display come alive. The display has plenty of tubes and wires. The …read more Continue reading SteamPunk Factory Comes to Life with an Arduino
Stringing is when a 3D printer’s hot end moves through open air and drags a wisp of melted plastic along with it. This is normally undesirable, but has in the …read more Continue reading Intentional Filament Stringing Helps Santa Soar