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Playable Real-World Mario Level With Treadmill A Playable IRL Mario Level Built Around a Raspberry Pi Where Enemies Have Sensors That Trigger Shocks

A maker from Electo Youtube channel has transformed Super Mario Bros. into a playable real-world electronics project that combines…

Compact STM32 GPS Device Displaying Planets Above This STM32 GPS Device Shows Which Planets Are Above You Offline, Fitting 5 Years of Orbits in 64KB

What if a tiny electronic device could look at the sky without a camera or telescope and tell you which planets are currently above the horizon?…

Small Quadruped Robot Playing Soccer On Field Maker Built His Quadruped Robots a Soccer Field Where Ball Tracking Improved With Less Accurate Camera Data

A maker built a miniature soccer environment for Sesame, a small quadruped robot, and demonstrated the system at the 2026 Open Sauce maker event.…

MicroDuck Robot Picking Up Object With Beak This MicroDuck Robot Based on an RK3566 Has No Arms but Picks Things Up Using AI and Reinforcement Learning

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics just launched a tiny robot that could change how people learn robotics at home. Called Microduck, this 25cm tall…

Steampunk Computer Powered By Stirling Engine He Built a Computer That Runs on Fire Using a Stirling Engine and ESP32 C3 to Run Games and Custom Programs

A maker from the Youtube channel PickentCode has built a working steampunk computer powered entirely by a Stirling engine, combining a 19th-…

Candle Flame Heats Thermoelectric Generator Charging Smartphone A Candle's Wasted Heat Can Actually Charge Your Phone, This Thermoelectric Generator Shows How

A simple candle flame can be used as a small thermal power source when combined with a thermoelectric generator (TEG), a solid-state device that…

Suitcase Car Unfolds Into Fully Functional Vehicle This Ordinary Looking Suitcase Unfolds Into a Fully Functional DIY Car That Hits 33 km/h on the Road

In 1991, Mazda built one of the strangest vehicles ever made, a car that could fold into a suitcase. Only three promotional prototypes were…

POV Display Stick Creating Images This Maker Turned a Simple Stick Into a POV Display Using a Teensy 4.1, ESP32 and Fast APA102 LEDs

YouTuber Zachary McCune from Corridor Crew has turned a simple fire spinning hobby into an ambitious engineering project that can create images in…

Naz Louis's Open-Source Robot Pixel With Gemini He Gave His Open-Source Robot Pixel a Gemini-Powered Brain That Perceives Depth Without a 3D Sensor

Naz Louis has upgraded his open-source robot Pixel, giving the walking desk robot a new AI system that can see, remember, and reason about its…

TICKEY Clip-On Badge With E-Ink Display TICKEY Is a Small Clip-On Badge With an E-Ink Display That Can Show 48 Colors, Built on an ESP32

TICKEY is a compact clip-on gadget that combines a 3.7-inch, 720 × 480 color e-paper display with an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth…