3D printing
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Moody Mush: DIY Interactive Mushroom Robot That Follows Your Touch Moody Mush is an interactive, mushroom‑shaped robot built by SayaNIGHT. It has three modes of operation. In Mode 1, it functions as a desk lamp; the LEDs and cap (the head portion) are controlled with an IR remote. In Mode 2, the LED colors are adjustable with the same remote, but the robot also reacts to touch. Different movements and sounds occur depending on the type of touch (a short touch… |
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Repurposing a Wear OS Smartwatch as a Smart Gear Shift Display A DIY maker has repurposed an old smartwatch into a custom gear knob with an integrated display. Instead of letting the aging smartwatch collect dust, the project reuses its display, sensors, and processing hardware inside a 3D-printed gear shifter housing. The result is a unique modification that displays the vehicle's current gear position directly on the gear lever itself. What I… |
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Life-Sized Animatronic Goddard Robot Maker and YouTuber Kiara from Kiara's Workshop recently created an impressive, fully functional real-life version of Goddard, the iconic robot dog from the cartoon The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. The robot dog features moving parts, including corrugated tube-like legs that compress using four linear actuators mounted inside them, a cable-driven neck that can look up/down and turn… |
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Arduino Obstacle-Avoiding Robot Rebuilt 7 Times Larger A Youtube channel named UncleStem has taken DIY robotics to a completely new level by building a giant obstacle-avoiding robot powered by a fully functional oversized Arduino Uno. The project recreates a classic Arduino obstacle avoidance robot at seven times the original size while still maintaining real working electronics inside. From giant DC motors and oversized jumper wires to a massive… |
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Building Rocky From Project Hail Mary in Real Life Leviathan Engineering, a tech-focused YouTube channel, has recreated Rocky from Project Hail Mary as a real AI-powered robot by combining mechanical design, on-device speech recognition, and modern AI that responds in real time. The robot runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 (4GB RAM) and uses 10 MG996R servo motors for movement. A major part of what makes this build impressive is the software… |
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Conversational Baymax Robot with Animatronics and AI Integration Maker Brae Barnes is developing a conversational Baymax-style robot that combines animatronic motion with an AI-driven speech system. The current prototype focuses on the head assembly, featuring articulated neck movement, blinking eyelids, and the ability to respond to spoken input using a speech-processing pipeline. The goal is to create a robot that not only talks but also conveys… |
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Supercapacitor-Powered Electric Wind-Up Plane We have all seen old rubber band wind-up planes built by crazy makers. Tom Stanton, a youtuber, just turned one into a 21st century electric wind-up plane powered by a supercapacitor. He is an engineer and a maker who loves to mix physics, 3D printing and clean energy storage. Instead of winding up a rubber band, he used his hand crank generator to charge a supercapacitor. This stored energy… |
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What If Robots Had Muscles Instead of Motors? MIT’s Fiber Actuators The field of soft robotics has taken a significant leap forward with the development of electrofluidic fiber muscles by researchers at the MIT Media Lab. Traditional robotic actuators depends on bulky external reservoirs, heavy compressors, or noisy pneumatic systems, which limit their mobility and integrations. These new fiber muscles solve this by utilizing thin McKibben actuators driven by… |
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Modular LEGO-Style Sim Racing Dash Box Built with ESP32-S3 Creator Xshift has designed a fully custom, modular sim racing dash box inspired by LEGO-style expandability. The idea is to create a button box where components like switches, encoders, and displays can be easily added or rearranged using magnetic mounts.. The enclosure was 3D printed and post-processed to achieve a clean finish, while the front panel was laser-cut from acrylic and… |
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Pocket - Raspberry Pi-Based AI Assistant This is Pocket, an AI assistant built by Naz Louis. The goal of this project is to run AI models completely on a Raspberry Pi 5. Since Pi 5 comes with limited resources, what he did is instead of running a large model directly on Pi 5, he made a collection of light weight models and made them work together. He designed and deployed a routing setup that routes different tasks to the right… |
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The ESP32 Smart Water Bottle That Does Way Too Much The maker, Alex from Hobby Built, created a really interesting smart bottle that goes far beyond just holding water. This bottle can play your favorite songs, charge your phone wirelessly, display customizable LED lighting, and even indicate the water level inside in real time. What makes it even more impressive is how thoughtfully the entire structure is designed. The outer body is built… |
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Raspberry Pi-Based 5” Portable Homelab Michael Klements built this 5-inch Raspberry Pi based lab rack by scaling down his actual lab rack by 50%, making it eight times smaller while preserving full rack-mount functionality. 3D printed using just 220g of filament with precision M3 brass inserts and screws, this portable homelab fits in your backpack yet powers a complete network stack. The setup includes an OpenWrt router running on… |
