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With few exceptions, every field has a pretty modest set of tools that would be considered the minimum for getting most jobs done. A carpenter can make do with tools …read more

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How do you approach your robot designs? Maybe, you do it from a ‘oh, I have these cool parts’ position, or from a ‘I want to make a platform on …read more

Methane-Tracking Satellites Hunt For Nasty Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Much of the reporting around climate change focuses on carbon dioxide. It’s public enemy number one when it comes to gases that warm the atmosphere, as a primary byproduct of …read more

All Your Robots Are Belong To Us: You Just Rent Them

Monthly bills. Everyone has them. Except if you go far enough back, not everyone had them. After all, you might live in a home your family has owned for generations. …read more

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Join us on Wednesday, May 31 at noon Pacific for the Open-Source AR Hack Chat with Raj Nakaraja! We may live in a soup of electromagnetic waves that range in …read more

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By Elliot Williams | June 3, 2023

We were talking about [Christopher Barnatt]’s very insightful analysis of what the future holds for the Raspberry Pi single board computers on the Podcast. On the one hand, they’re becoming …read more
Zelda Guardian Sculpture Tracks Humans And Pets Via Camera

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By Lewin Day | June 3, 2023

In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Guardians are a primitive form of sentry turret that tracks the player with a watchful eye. Inspired by this, [npentrel] decided …read more
A Fresnel Lens Without The Pain

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By Jenny List | June 3, 2023

Making a traditional glass lens requires a lot of experience, skill, and patience grinding a piece of glass to the required shape, and is not for the casual experimenter. Making …read more
C64 Gets ChatGPT Access Via BBS

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By Lewin Day | June 2, 2023

ChatGPT, powered by GPT 3.5 and GPT 4, has become one of the most popular Large Language Models (LLM), due to its ability to hold passable conversations and generate large …read more
Perovskite Sensor Array Emulates Human Retina For Panchromatic Imaging

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By Maya Posch | June 2, 2023

The mammalian retina is a complex system consisting out of cones (for color) and rods (for peripheral monochrome) that provide the raw image data which is then processed into successive …read more
SMA Connector Footprint Design For Open Source RF Projects

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By Dave Rowntree | June 2, 2023

When you first start out in the PCB layout game and know just enough to be dangerous, you simply plop down a connector, run a trace or two, and call …read more
What Makes Wedge Coils Better Than Round For PCB Motors?

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By Lewin Day | June 2, 2023

PCB motors are useful things. With coils printed right on the board, you don’t need to worry about fussy winding jobs, and it’s possible to make very compact, self contained …read more

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