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-…
Remote access devices like IP KVMs are usually built around powerful single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi. But what if the same job could be handled by a microcontroller instead? That's what creator Jonathan Rowny set out to explore by building a functional IP KVM using Espressif's ESP32-P4. The project aimed to remotely stream a computer's display…
What happens when you give Claude a real robot body and let it control everything.This article highlights Saras 2.0, an AI based robot, built by Tech with Anant. It’s an upgraded version of his previous Saras 1.0 He designed the Saras 2.0 hardware fully in Autodesk Fusion. Powered by a pi4, the bumper holds the TOF sensor and camera and front panel holds a 7inch hdmi…
The hobbyist Mishin Machine has developed the ROAR forearm, a compact, high-performance 3D-printed robotic forearm that integrates three fully custom-designed gearboxes. This advanced build features a smooth Wave Drive V2 with rolling elements for improved contact surface and reduced wear, a powerful Three-Ring Cycloidal Drive for high reduction ratios in a slim…
Assembling tiny SMD components by hand is one of the most challenging parts of PCB manufacturing. Some components, especially 0201-sized parts, are so small that accurately placing them with tweezers can quickly become a tedious and error-prone task. That's why factories rely on highly automated pick-and-place machines that can cost thousands, or even millions, of…
