Collaborate Disseminate
Fully understanding the planet’s complex ecosystem takes data, and lots of it. Unfortunately, the ability to collect detailed environmental data on a large scale with any sort of accuracy has traditionally been something that only the government or well-funded institutions have been capable of. Building and deploying the sensors necessary …read more
Continue reading An Open Source Toolbox for Studying the Earth
[John Lauer] has been hard at work re-thinking robot arms. His project to create modular, open source actuators that can be connected to one another to form an arm is inspiring, and boasts an impressively low parts cost as well. The actuators are each self-contained, with an ESP32 and a …read more
Continue reading Robot Joints Go Modular With This Actuator Project
High volume commodity products are a foundation of hacking, we’ve built many projects around popular form factors like NEMA 17 stepper motors, 608 bearings, and 280 DC motors. Their high volume led to lower cost, which further increased popularity, and the cycle repeats. A similar thing happened to a style …read more
Continue reading A Modular Ecosystem That Evolved Around A Simple Diesel Engine
The newest member of the Hymer family, Germany’s Crosscamp seeks to extend city dwellers’ footprints into surrounding mountains, beaches and forests. And we’re betting its sporty, compact camper van of the same name will be successful at doin… Continue reading Modular Toyota camper van brilliantly bridges city life and outdoor adventure
A Tel Aviv-based company is making a push to revolutionize the architecture of future automobiles. REE has developed a massively modular platform that squeezes the entire motor, transmission, steering, suspension, brakes and more into the whe… Continue reading REE re-invents the wheel, and plans a complete disruption of the auto industry
Guitar players can amass quite a collection of instruments, each one offering something that the others don’t. Modular systems like those from Somnium and others let guitarists switch components in and out as they please, but most are still m… Continue reading Modular plastic guitar offers up to 50 different combinations
Since 2018, Samsung has been grabbing eyeballs at various conferences around the world with its massive modular display dubbed The Wall. Starting out with a 146-inch model at CES last year, Samsung upped its game at CES this year with a 219-i… Continue reading Samsung goes big and goes home with massive 292-inch The Wall Luxury TV
Serving as the foundation of electric vehicles launched by everyone from startups to massive global automakers, the skateboard chassis has become a staple of the auto industry. But Swedish commercial vehicle and transport brand Scania is exploring something that’s much more of a hoverboard chassis. Its NXT autonomous electric vehicle concept uses independently detachable front and rear axles as the basis of a modular vehicle system that can quickly go from dropping kids at school to dropping garbage at the dump.
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Continue Reading Scania’s hoverboard-like modular electric axles transport people by day, garbage by night
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While regular multicopter drones are highly stable and maneuverable, their vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) counterparts are faster and more energy-efficient when in forward flight. Germany’s Quantum Systems has set out to combine the bes… Continue reading Vector VTOL drone transforms into Scorpion tricopter
IKEA has revealed its innovative Rognan robotic furniture, designed to minimize the compromises of small space living. Developed in collaboration with Ori, a Boston-based furniture start-up that grew out of a collaboration between MIT Media L… Continue reading IKEA teams with Ori on robotic furniture that expands possibilities for small homes