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Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Performing Classical Indian Indian Team Trains Unitree G1 Humanoid for Classical Dance Using Motion Capture and Reinforcement Learning

A humanoid robot named “Maya” has attracted attention in India after appearing on India's Got Latent, where it danced, rapped and interacted with…

Flexible Robotic Tentacle Arm On Mobile Holonomic Open-Source 7-DOF Tentacle Arm Uses ROS 2 MoveIt for Inverse Kinematics and Features a Holonomic Base

James Bruton has built an open-source 7-DOF tentacle robotic arm that treats each joint as a 90° rotating stage, creating a highly flexible…

12-DOF Quadruped Robot Dog Walking On Ground Maker Builds a 12-DOF ROS 2 Quadruped Using Jetson Orin Nano for Vision and STM32 for Real-Time Control

Ashish Agrahari, a Mechatronics Engineering student at the University of Waterloo, has recently built Orion, a 12-DOF quadruped robot dog designed…

RP2350 Microcontroller Generating Human Face AI Image He Trained a 2.9M-Parameter AI Image Generation Model, Ran It on a $1 RP2350 Chip and Open-Sourced the Project

Generative AI image models usually require powerful processors and large amounts of memory, but a new project demonstrates that image generation…

LEGO RC Submarine With Arduino Nano ESP32 Built Around LEGO Parts and an Arduino Nano ESP32, This RC Submarine Uses a Moving Weight for Pitch Control

The Brick Experiment Youtube Channel has built RC Submarine 5.0, a LEGO-based remotely controlled submarine designed to improve on the previous…

ESP32 Module Displays Sick AI Pet ESP32-Based AI Pet Gets Sick If You Doomscroll, While Android Handles Local LLMs, STT, and TTS Offline

Maker and Youtuber, Brenpoly recently built an offline AI virtual pet that lives on an ESP32 and “gets sick” when you doomscroll too much, turning…

ESP32 S3 Pocket PC Running Tactility OS Maker Turns an ESP32 S3 Into a Pocket PC by Porting Open Source Tactility OS to a 2.4 Inch Touch Display

This project transforms a compact MaTouch Lite development board into a fully functional, portable touchscreen computer. The project uses an ESP32…

DEFCON 34 Badge With Transparent Open-Source Chip DEFCON 34's Badge Had a Hackable Open-Source Chip You Could Shine Infrared Through to Inspect Its Design

Every year, DEFCON’s electronic badge becomes one of the most talked-about pieces of hardware in the security community, and the DEFCON 34 badge…

Fennec Open Source Handheld Radio Decoding SSTV Fenix: An Open-Source SI4732 + ESP32S3 Radio That Decodes SSTV Images and Morse Code From Shortwave Signals

A small open-source handheld radio called Fennec is turning the ESP32-S3 into much more than a conventional AM/FM receiver. Built around the…

A 3D-Printed Bipedal Robot Named Stompy Walking Maker Builds a Fully 3D-Printed 6-DOF Bipedal Robot “Stompy” Using NVIDIA Jetson in Just 3 Days

In an impressive display of rapid prototyping and engineering grit, creator Kayden Knapik successfully designed, built, and programmed a fully 3D-…