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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… |
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A Desk Clock That Uses Marbles to Tell Time A neatly designed electromechanical clock shared on YouTube is drawing interest from hobbyists and electronics enthusiasts alike. The project is inspired by the marble clock concept originally created by Ivan Miranda, but the creator redesigned it into a smaller version that can easily fit on a desk. Instead of simply copying the original build, the maker simplified the structure while keeping… |
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Reticulum : A Decentralized Networking Stack A recent project showcases Reticulum, a cryptography-based networking stack designed to build a decentralized, infrastructure-independent communication network. Unlike traditional mesh systems that depend on specific radios sharing the same frequency, Reticulum abstracts hardware into interchangeable “interfaces.” Whether the link is LoRa, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, or packet radio, the protocol… |
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Build an Arduino Robotic Arm with 6 DOF A robotic arm is one of the most popular projects that almost every electronics enthusiast tries to build at least once in their life. Robotic arms are fascinating projects because they can be built for many practical applications, such as pick-and-place operations, component assembly, repetitive tasks, and even creating intelligent systems like the robotic arm “… |
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AI-Powered RC Car Explores Winter Wilderness Autonomously YouTuber Coding with Lewis recently demonstrated how an AI model can be given a physical body by converting an RC car into a fully autonomous wilderness explorer. Using Claude 3.5 Opus as the decision-making engine and a Raspberry Pi 5 as the onboard controller, the project bridges digital intelligence with real-world robotics, allowing the vehicle to navigate snowy forest terrain completely… |
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Deskimon The Interactive 3D Printed Desk Robot with ESP32 S3 Nowadays, many people enjoy keeping a small desk robot in their workspace. These little companions not only add a playful touch to the desk but also help bring out the inner child and provide a brief escape from daily stress. Among the latest additions to this trend is the Deskimon, a compact and creative 3D-printed desk robot. Unlike other desk robots that require separate components for the… |
