Northwestern University engineers have unveiled Phantom Twist, a groundbreaking low-visibility UAV that exploits human visual perception to hide in plain sight. The drone spins its entire body at up to 25 rotations per second using a single motor and counter-rotating propeller system. Unlike traditional quadcopters with stationary bodies, Phantom Twist has no fixed…
Pune, India — July 2026. EWskills, the Industry focused skill-building platform for electronics and embedded engineers, has announced the launch of EWsim.io, a browser-based mixed-signal circuit simulator that executes microcontroller firmware. The tool is free to use, requires no installation, and is aimed at Engineers, students, educators, hobbyists, and Makers.Developed by the team behind…
Winding electromagnetic coils by hand is a slow and challenging process, especially when you're trying to achieve neat, consistent turns for motors or actuators. To solve this problem, creator BubsBuilds designed an open-source automated coil winding machine that can produce custom coils based on specific project requirements. Originally built to support the…
Researchers from the Pennsylvania State University have developed a paintable on-skin dry electrode that sticks comfortably to the skin and reads biological signals with impressive stability. Because the sensor starts as a liquid paint, it flows into the microscopic lines, wrinkles, and pores of your skin before it dries. This creates a perfect, seamless bond that…
Ashok Tinkering Labs, based in Ahmedabad, India, is preparing to launch Soan Papdi, an FPGA development board aimed at beginners, on the crowdfunding platform Crowd Supply. According to the company, the board comes with onboard LEDs, switches, and GPIO headers, and is designed so users can begin digital design work without additional hardware setup. The listing states the project is currently…
Long before today's advanced motion capture systems became commonplace, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) developed an ingenious hardware solution known as the Dinosaur Input Device (DID) for Jurassic Park. Instead of animating dinosaurs frame by frame with a mouse, animators manipulated a physical dinosaur puppet embedded with magnetic rotary encoders at every…
We've seen drones that fly and underwater robots that swim, but combining both into a single machine has remained a major engineering challenge. Researchers at MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering have now developed a bio-inspired robotic bird capable of flying through the air, diving into water, swimming beneath the surface, and taking off again. Inspired by…
With football fever reaching its peak, DHK DUDE from youtube built this pocket-sized, real-time World Cup score gadget for his desk. Powered by a Wemos D1 Mini microcontroller, this custom IoT gadget utilizes built-in Wi-Fi to seamlessly connect to the internet, fetching live match telemetry, group fixtures, and team data directly through web APIs. Like every maker…
A Hot Wheels car has been transformed into a fully functional FPV RC drift platform by YouTuber Pro Know, proving that serious embedded engineering can exist even at a 1:64 scale. The project replaces the toy’s original internals with an ESP-based microcontroller running custom firmware, paired with a purpose-built PCB that integrates control logic, power…
Imagine a display where every single pixel has its own brain. That's the ambitious idea creator bitluni set out to bring to life in a six-month engineering project. Instead of relying on a central GPU, the display turns every pixel into an independent computing node. The ultimate goal is a 65,536-core QVGA display, while the first working prototype already features 8,192 RISC-V…
This should be the easiest and cheapest way to build a flight tracker system. Maker from the Youtube Channel - Tech Talkies recently built this incredible DIY flight radar that runs entirely on an ESP32-S3 Zero, a round GC9A01 display and a rotary encoder. All the parts assembled onto a custom made 3D printed enclosure. Instead of capturing radio waves locally, it…
A YouTube channel named CPSDrone has developed a fully autonomous robotic fish capable of operating without direct human control. The project, which took nearly three months to design and build, demonstrates how bio-inspired robotics can replicate the movement and behavior of aquatic life while integrating advanced robotic capabilities. Unlike traditional remote-…
