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ESP32-Powered Self-Balancing Cube Jumps And Lands This ESP32-Powered Self-Balancing Cube Jumps With a Spring and Uses a Reaction Wheel to Land on Its Edge

A maker from The Tinkering Techie has done a compact self-balancing cube that can launch itself into the air, reorient during the jump, and land…

Maker's Boston Dynamics Gripper With 3D-Printed Fingers Maker Replicated the Boston Dynamics Gripper Using Daisy-Chained Servos and 3D-Printed Fingers

Maker built a Boston Dynamics–style gripper using daisy‑chained bus servos and 3D‑printed fingers. Inspired by the Electric Atlas Humanoid Robots…

Python Tool Helps Make Custom LED Displays Python Tool Turns Your Image Into a PCB Layout in KiCad With LEDs Placed to Help Make Your Own Display

Maker's Fun Duck has published a video that pairs a hands-on teardown of a commercial custom LED display with the release of an open-source Python…

ESP32-S3 Retro Gaming Console With Brass Tube ESP32-S3-Based Pocket-Sized Retro Gaming Console With Brass Wires for the Frame and Wiring

This is a pocket-sized retro gaming console built by HVT Lab. It's powered by an ESP32-S3 N16R8 microcontroller and…

Custom 5-in-1 Cyber Deck With ESP32 Maker Builds a 5-in-1 Cyber Deck Using an ESP32, 3.5-Inch Touchscreen Display, and Custom 3D-Printed Body

Maker from the youtube channel Hacktuber recently made a custom "5-in-1 Cyber Deck" using ESP32. He demonstrated the project using two different…

Custom TV Remote Handheld Raspberry Pi Computer Maker Turns a Normal IR TV Remote into a Functional Keyboard Using I2C for His Handheld PC

In his DIY electronics project, maker Mirza Makes transformed an ordinary TV remote into a fully functional keyboard…

DIY Twilight Photometer Circuit Board Measuring Ozone This DIY Twilight Photometer Uses an LED and ADA4530 to Measure the Ozone Layer’s Peak Height from the Ground

Forrest M. Mims III has built a DIY twilight photometer that estimates the height of the ozone layer by measuring changes in the brightness of the…

Maker's Linked Portal Illusion With Arduino Uno Maker Builds a Linked Portal Illusion Using Arduino Uno R4, Flywheel Launcher, and ToF Distance Sensors

A maker from the youtube channel James' Programming has recently built a linked portal illusion using Arduino, 3D‑printed parts, and a custom…

VolAnti ESP32-S3 Acoustic Drone Detector With Display VolAnti: An Open-Source ESP32-S3 Device That Detects Fibre-Optic Drones With No RF Control Link, Using Sound

A maker named Agam Rossen has created VolAnti, an open-source acoustic drone detector that identifies nearby multirotor drones by listening to the…

Wireless 3D Scanner With ESP32-S3 And Rotating Maker Builds a Wireless 3D Scanner Using ESP32-S3 and Rotating LiDAR That Streams Data to a Custom Android App

A maker has built a standalone 3D LiDAR scanner that turns an inexpensive rotating LiDAR module into a wireless spatial-mapping device. The…