Superbly Synchronized Servos Swaying Softly
LEDs and blinky projects are great, and will likely never fade from our favor. But would you look at this sweeping beauty? This mesmerizing display is …
What’s In A Name? Tales Of Python, Perl, And The GIMP
In the older days of open source software, major projects tended to have their Benevolent Dictators For Life who made all the final decisions, and some …
Arduino, Accelerometer, And TensorFlow Make You A Real-World Street Fighter
A question: if you’re controlling the classic video game Street Fighter with gestures, aren’t you just, you know, street fighting? That’s a question Charlie Gerard is …
Pizza Oven Build Exercises Forgotten Gym Ball
See, this is what happens when pizza lovers follow their dreams. It probably started innocently enough for phammy57—he got a pizza stone, then maybe one of …
Keeping Clocks On Time, The Swiss Way
Could there be a worse fate for a guy with a Swiss accent than to be subjected to a clock that’s seconds or even – horrors! …
Your Next Robot Needs Googly Eyes, And Other Lessons From Disney
There are so many important design decisions behind a robot: battery, means of locomotion, and position sensing, to name a few. But at a library in …
Glitching LED Display Proves Crowd Favorite
There’s something enchanting about the soft glow of a properly diffused LED, and this is only improved by greater numbers of LEDs. Manoj Nathwani was well …
3D Printed Spuds Are Begging To Be Fired
The ballistics of humble potato is a time-honoured research topic for everyone who likes things that go bang. The focus of such work is usually on …
A Curiously Strong Z80 In Your Pocket
Like many hackers, Tom Szolyga has soft spot for the venerable Z80. The number of instructions and registers made it relatively easy to program in ASM, …
Linux Fu: Shell Scripts In C, C++, And Others
At first glance, it might not seem to make sense to write shell scripts in C/C++. After all, the whole point to a shell script is …