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Cat Collar Fits Two AI Models' Runtime Memory Into 48KB of Its 256KB RAM by Never Running Them Together An open source project called Meowtion packs two on device AI models onto a single microcontroller with only 256KB of RAM, using a scheduling… |
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MIT Built Logic Circuits From Bacteria, Using Living Cells as Transistors and Relays to Perform Digital Logic MIT researchers have built working logic circuits using engineered bacteria, creating biological versions of components that electronics engineers… |
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This YouTuber Overclocked a 30-Year-Old Nintendo 64, Added Wireless Controls, and Upgraded It With HDMI Output YouTube creator Zac Builds has modified a Nintendo 64 by combining several hardware upgrades aimed at making the nearly 30-year-old console more… |
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Students Built a Submarine to Map Ice Thickness Across Frozen Lakes and Somehow Made GPS Work Underwater A team of engineering students from ETH Zürich has developed POLARIS, an autonomous underwater robot designed to measure and map the thickness of… |
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A Drone That Tracks Its Leader Using Four Microphones and an ESP32, No GPS or Camera Needed Researchers at Duke University's General Robotics Lab have built a system that lets one drone follow another using nothing but the sound of its… |
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He Built a Robot Actuator From Scratch and Found That More Copper Windings Don't Mean More Torque A Sweden-based creator who posts under the name Food For Robots has hand-wound and machined a custom electric actuator from scratch for a bipedal… |
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Gerber to PCB in 30 Minutes at Your Desk: PewCB One Pairs a Laser With Vias-Ready Double-Sided Blanks A new desktop machine called PewCB One wants to bring PCB fabrication into the same room as the engineer designing it. Instead of exporting a… |
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DigiKey and Engineering Influencer Shawn Hymel to Host Webinar and Video Series on Reinforcement Learning with Balance Bots THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., USA — DigiKey, the global distribution leader of electronic components and automation products, is hosting a webinar… |
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Someone Turned 4 Trashed Laptops Into a Private ChatGPT That Got Faster With One Laptop Removed Maker Joe C-J has repurposed four discarded Lenovo ThinkPad L380 laptops into a working, self-hosted AI computing cluster, capable of… |
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Engineer Turns Mini Fridge Into a SLAM-Guided Tank Robot You'd Have to Chase for a Cold Drink Engineer Dorian Todd has built a self-driving mini fridge on tank treads that can autonomously chase or flee a person and reward them with a cold… |
