ARDUINO DRIVES synthetic SPIROGRAPH
The holidays always remind us of our favorite toys from when we were kids. Johnny Astro, an Erector set, and — of course — a Spirograph. [CraftDiaries] has an Arduino machine that isn’t rather a Spirograph, but it sure reminds us of one. The Arduino drives two stepper motors that connect to a pen that …
LIVESCRIBE SHUTS DOWN developer PROGRAM
[Kelly] sent in a tip saying that Livescribe, the company behind a remarkable smartpen able to record handwriting, was shuttering the developer program by taking down their dev forums and removing the SDK, taking away the ability to write custom apps. [Kelly] posted about this on her blog. Livescribe has a thriving community around it …
USING fishing wire TO HOLD IN PIN HEADERS IS A NIFTY trick
working on a breadboard, one can get used to the benefits of being able to readily plug and unplug jumper wires to reconfigure a project. One could only dream of doing so with PCBs, right? Wrong! [Stewart Russell] recently shared a tip on Twitter on how to do just that, with the help of a …
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FROM 50S PERCEPTRONS TO THE FREAKY stuff WE’RE DOING TODAY
things have gotten freaky. A few years ago, Google showed us that neural networks’ dreams are the stuff of nightmares, but much more just recently we’ve seen them utilized for providing game character motions that are indistinguishable from that of humans, for producing photorealistic pictures provided only textual descriptions, for offering vision for self-driving cars, and for …
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PAPER CRAFT CLAW
get hold of some stiff paper and get to work building your own paper claw. [Dombeef] posted the instructions to recreate the claw above because he was unsatisfied with his previous design which was flimsy and unable to pick up just about anything. This version is a bit larger and it internalizes all of the …
FPGAS FOR THE PI as well as ‘BONE
We’ve seen FPGA dev boards out the wazoo—even some complying with the present pattern of putting an FPGA as well as an ARM processor on a single board. Take one great concept as well as mix it in with a few million Linux/ARM boards already stacking up on workbenches the world over as well as …
JUST IN TIME FOR SUMMER: A REMOTE managed SNOWBLOWER
It’s May, as well as you understand what that means: we’re unwinding from a around the world event of the worker, pollen is everywhere, Hackaday visitors in the southern hemisphere are somehow offended, as well as somewhere, somebody is completing up a remote-controlled snow blower build. In this nine-part, two-hour-long video series, [Dave] covers the …
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RETROTECHTACULAR: CATHODE RAY TUBE (CRT) manufacturing
this week we return to the grainy and un-color-corrected goodness that is synonymous with ancient video reels. [CNK] sent in a tip to a set of videos showing how Cathode Ray Tubes are manufactured on a enormous scale. You’ll want to watch the pair of clips embedded below which total about 18 minutes. but there’s …
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BUILDING A LIGHTSABER and scoring A world RECORD, too
As we all know, the lightsaber is an sophisticated weapon, for a a lot more civilized age. [Alex Burkan] is doing what he can to bring that technology to fruition, and even secured a Guinness world record in the process. Melty melty. The build counts on an electrolyzer, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen gas …
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BRING A MINITEL terminal BACK TO LIFE WITH AN ESP32
most of us who are old sufficient are likely to have had our very first experience of an on the internet service a long time in the 1990s, either with the likes of Compuserve or via an ISP. For our French visitors the on the internet experience will have come much earlier, as a forward-thinking …
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