Printing organs with a 3D printer

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[Jordan Miller], [Christopher Chen], and a whole bunch of other researchers at the department of bioengineering at U Penn have figured out a way to print 3D tissues using a 3D printer. In this case, a RepRap modified to print sugar. Traditional means of constructing living 3D tissues face a problem - in a living body, there's a whole bunch of vasculature sending Oxygen and nutrients to the … [Read more...]

Getting a console and Quake II running on a Raspberry Pi

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Those Raspberry Pi boards are flying into the mailboxes of tinkerers all around the globe, so our tip line is currently awash in a deluge of Raspi hacks. Here's two that came in over the weekend: First up is [reefab]'s port of Quake II for the Raspberry Pi. The build is based of Yamagi Quake II and is mostly playable. The Quake III port for the Raspberry Pi is old hat, but we're happy to … [Read more...]

Open source synth sounds awesome

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A little bird sent in a tip about a really cool MIDI synth. It's called the Ambika, and it seems like just the thing to introduce a synth head to the world of soldering. Compared to an entry-level synthesizer like the microKorg or its ilk, the Ambika is packed full of really cool features that just happen to sound awesome. In addition to the basic saw, square, and sine waves, there is also FM, … [Read more...]