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LiteWing Blockly Software Interface with ESP32 Drone LiteWing Blockly Brings Drag-and-Drop Programming to the LiteWing ESP32 Drone

SemiconLab has introduced LiteWing Blockly, a visual programming application that lets users create autonomous LiteWing drone programs with drag-…

Person Wearing Haptic Headband With Vibration Motors This Arduino UNO Q Headband Uses 13 Vibration Motors for Screen-Free Awareness Through Haptic Feedback

Maker pasquale887 has developed HaloSense V1, a wearable haptic headband that helps users sense the direction of people and objects through…

3D Printed Mechanical Calculator Gears Hand Crank Using Over 130 3D-Printed Parts, This Six-Digit Calculator Lets Gears and a Hand Crank Handle the Logic

A maker has built a calculator out of some 3D-Printed parts that can perform up to six-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division…

Open Source DIY Drone This Open-Source DIY Drone Uses FMCW Radar and RTK GPS for High-Resolution SAR Imaging and Ground Mapping

This DIY drone is doing something much more than taking aerial photos. It uses a custom FMCW radar to create detailed images of the ground from…

ESP32-S3 Running Metal Gear Solid on Custom ESP32-S3 Runs a 1998 PlayStation Game With Game Files Loaded From a MicroSD Card on Demand

David Montero Crespo, creator of Velxio.dev, has managed to run the classic 1998 PlayStation game Metal Gear Solid on the tiny, low-cost…

Autonomous Submarine Navigating Underwater Using DVL Sound This Autonomous Submarine Uses DVL Sound Waves for GPS-Free Underwater Navigation and Exploration

CPSdrone is building a DIY autonomous submarine to explore shipwrecks without needing GPS while underwater. Since GPS signals cannot reach the…

Portable Digital Compass With Round Color Display ESP32-S3-Based Compass Uses a 3-Axis Magnetometer for Real-Time heading and Direction Readouts

LazyDays Creation built a compact, portable digital compass based on an ESP32-S3 Super Mini and a three-axis magnetometer. He chooses an ESP32-S3…

MirrorBallBot Balancing a Ball on a Platform Ball-Balancing Robot Uses a Mirror to Stay Compact; Pi Handles Vision, Leaves Motor Step Timing to 3 RP2040 Chips

MirrorBallBot, an open-source ball-balancing robot from a maker using the GitHub handle AndreaFavero71, looks at its platform through a mirror…

Mechanical Flip-Dot Fluid Simulator With Joystick Control This STM32 Turns 3,000 Mechanical Pixels Into a Real-Time Fluid Simulator With Joystick-Controlled Gravity

Maker Tim Alex Jacobs has turned nearly 3,000 old electromechanical flip dots into an unusual real-time fluid simulation display. Instead of using…

Maker Builds an Offline Wikipedia Using Maker Builds an Offline Wikipedia Using an ESP32 Board and Its Built-In microSD Card Slot to Store Data

Alun Morris’s Offline-Wikipedia using ESP32 is an open-source project that turns the inexpensive ESP32-2432S028, commonly called the “Cheap Yellow…