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Automate Resistor Identification and Sorting using Arduino UNO Q Automate Resistor Identification and Sorting using Arduino UNO Q

A maker shared an electronics project on Digikey that explains an automatic system for recognizing and organizing…

CinePi Frame8 DIY Camera A DIY Cinema Camera Built Around a Raspberry Pi

When it comes to filmmaking, cinema cameras are often one of the most expensive and unavoidable pieces of equipment.…

The compact desk buddy - a small ESP32-C3 powered robot with an OLED screen The Tiny Desk Robot Packed with Real-Time Information

This is an open-source desk robot built around the ESP32-C3 Mini and a small OLED display. The ESP32 provides Wi-Fi…

Simple Transistor-Based Self-Timing Electric Motor Built from Scratch Simple Self-Timing Electric Motor Built from Scratch

A maker recently demonstrated how to build a fully functional self timing electric motor using only basic electronic…

Homemade Sensors Give You Superhuman Reflexes This DIY Build Cuts Human Reaction Time by 10% - Touch of a Cyborg?

A split second can decide who wins and who loses and this DIY project proves that even milliseconds can be engineered. By building a compact…

ESP32-S3 microcontroller board connected via USB with AI assistant project Turn Your ESP32-S3 Into an AI Assistant With MimiClaw

A community project called MimiClaw has released software that lets an AI assistant run on ESP32-S3 microcontroller boards and respond to commands…

Custom RGB 14-Segment Display Built from Scratch Custom RGB 14-Segment Display Built from Scratch

YouTuber EastMakes set out to build something, a true RGB 14-segment display module. Wanting a retro alphanumeric display style for a large LED…

Picoclaw An OpenClaw Alternative Built to Run Within 10 MB of RAM

Open-source personal AI assistants such as OpenClaw have shown how task automation can be integrated with everyday chat platforms, but they…

Wrist-Mounted Grappling Hook Wrist-Mounted Grappling Hook Project: Spider-Man Web-Shooter IRL?

A YouTube channel named The Amazing PhD has presented an engineering project that showcases the development of a wrist-mounted grappling hook…

DIY 3D mapping with ToF sensor Maker Turned a ToF Sensor Into a 3D Scanner

What if a small sensor could understand space in three dimensions? A maker recently showed how a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor can be turned into a…