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Many of us of a certain age will have had their first true, good 3D video game experience with Super Mario 64. Unlike previous 3D games, the camera was an …read more
There are several learn guides that have demonstrations of simulated sand particles. This makes a great demonstration with an accelerometer and LED matrix or small display. Until now, all of these demos required Arduino…
Turn your bike into a rolling light show with this Persistence of Vision Bike Wheel project from Erin St Blaine. This build uses six high-speed LED strips mounted across three spokes, with a Feather microcontroller…
Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators and their big mechanical computer brethren remain an absolute marvel of engineering. Using …read more
Henrik Forstén has posted a follow-up on hforsten.com to his homebuilt synthetic aperture radar drone, and it now does interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with the same cheap hardware. The key addition is RTK…
Derek Thompson reports new polling on how often Americans have people over. The group Data For Progress replicated the DDB Needham Life Style survey questions that Robert Putnam used in Bowling Alone, and shared the…
Edgar S built AIR PRO, an air quality monitor styled after a Fallout Pip-Boy, and documented it on Adafruit Playground. It uses a Qualia S3 driving a round display and a Sensirion SEN66 sensor module. The monitor reads…
Ananthu Ashok, writing for Open Source For You, reports on two open source projects running generative AI models directly on bare-metal microcontrollers, with no Linux, no GPU and no external accelerator. The first runs…
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Maya Posch, writing for Hackaday, covers a project by Tobi that gets a version of Super Mario 64 running on the Super Nintendo using the Super FX chip. The Super FX was the 3D graphics coprocessor built into cartridges…
Colin Toh at Headphonesty has put together a list of 50 tracks for testing speakers, sorted by what each one reveals. The point is that playing a favorite song tells you little. Speakers interact with the room, and…
InfoWorld reports that Manus has released Manus 2.0, a rebuilt version of its agentic AI platform, months after its merger with Meta fell apart. Meta announced plans to buy Manus in December 2025, China’s National…
In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes for prototypes available to hobbyists, there were several ways of making …read more
Lily, writing on the Seeed Studio blog, covers the Hypnotize Dress, a FashionTech prototype from Dutch designer and engineer Anouk Wipprecht built with neurotechnology company g.tec. Eight pairs of the Round Display for…
Ivan Franco writes at TechSpot that Firefox 157 brings Mozilla’s redesign to the Release channel, first offered to users on September 29, 2026. The changes came out of research into how people actually use the browser,…
This simple, craftable candy brain chamber was created by thomaschnuppelhase on Instructables. Every season they put a new twist on the office snack station. For the spooky months they went with a ghoulish brain…
The NASA STEM Team has announced a second season of NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology), a competition for university and college student teams, on nasa.gov. Registration for the…
sulfuroid posted on X about building a rack of Android smartphones. The post is short: the phones are mounted together as a cluster to experiment with, rather than used one at a time. A commenter asked what the goal is…
Phoebien Canete built a room monitoring system for the STM32 Blue Pill, running FreeRTOS and simulated in Wokwi. It reads temperature and humidity from a DHT22, light level from a photoresistor, and motion from a PIR…