3D Printed Paper Airplane Launching Gun
One nutty tinkerer built a gun that folds and fires paper airplanes.
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Engineer designs a cyberpunk themed VFD wristwatch
Engineer designs a cyberpunk themed wristwatch using a VFD display tube powered by a single AA battery.
Unfortunately, it only runs for a few hours.
Running Easel On Raspberry Pi
Sacha De’Angeli uses the Raspberry Pi loaded with Easel to power a Shapeoko CNC mill, essentially turning it into a CAD workstation.
An Arduino-Based Computer
While most of us think of Arduino boards as something to be programmed by a computer, there’s really nothing that says you can’t use an Arduino-style microcontroller as one. It could be argued that the Arduino is already a computer, but in the case of the DemUino, a small display is embedded into an old […]
“Dottie” the Flip Dot Clock
Most of us have probably seen clocks or numerical displays that flip sequential boards to display the next number in a sequence. If you wanted to take that a step further, you could make a replica of “Dottie,” which flips small dots as pixels. As the great video below says, it makes a “pleasant mechanical […]
Spark Introduces the Photon, A Wi-fi Microcontroller for $19
Spark has improved and expanded their product line with the Photon wi-fi development board and a pair of new wireless modules for custom circuit boards. The Photon improves on the popular Spark Core microcontroller by adding 802.11n wi-fi connectivity, SoftAP for provisioning, more memory, and a faster ARM Cortex M3 processor. Like the Core, it […]
Gizmo Gets an Update
The folks at Gizmosphere have launched the latest version of their open source, x86-based single board computer, the Gizmo 2. Priced at $199, the Gizmo 2 is aimed at professional embedded developers and advanced makers who need more compute power for their projects. The new board improves on the first Gizmo with 60% more processing […]