When it comes to building robot assistants, Thomas Burns at Workshop Nation points out that we have incredible and amazing technology, but it’s lacking in visual personality. Just look at your Alexa or Google home device. They are pretty incredible in terms of technology but they are lacking in aesthetics. OK, some of you may […]
What does any self respecting electronics wiz do when they have a house full of baby toys and the knowledge to build custom circuitry? Obviously you customize stuff to play better music. Adafruit has just shown some prototypes of their new “Toy Hacker” board. It has an esp32-s2 as it’s brain, which means it has […]
When Ryder set his mind to creating a massive dot matrix printer, he also decided that it would be awesome to drive it. Now he has a truck that can write on the road as it drives. The idea here is relatively simple. A bit of water on the road creates a dark spot. If […]
Products like the Arduino UNO and Raspberry Pi have proven nothing short of revolutionary in the maker community by taking something which already existed in various forms and just doing it that much better that it changed the world. DFRobot may be hoping to spark a similar revolution with their unique new single-board computer (SBC), […]
Most people will agree that the biggest and most common problem with a good story, is that it ends. This project, put together by Erin St. Blaine for Adafruit address that with the unending capabilities of ChatGPT and a Raspberry Pi. Erin takes you though the whole process of how to properly hollow out a […]
I’m a fan of orreries. These little models of our planetary bodies and orbits are truly fascinating and have captured my mind ever since I saw the big mechanical one featured in the movie The Dark Crystal. Give me any orrery and I’m happy. Big mechanical ones, tiny electronic ones, I don’t care. The Illusionmanager […]
The idea came to me while I was listening to a great Seattle fingerpicking guitarist, the late Klaus Lendzian, at a favorite local restaurant. I’d been hearing him play at various venues around town since the 1980s. As I watched him play, I thought, “He’s really good. Lyrical, a great sense of timing. Wow, I […]
