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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…

ESP32-P4 Powered Laptop-Free DJ System Setup This ESP32-P4 Turns a DJ Controller Into a Laptop-Free DJ System With Two Music Decks and Audio Mixing

A maker has built a standalone DJ system using the ESP32-P4, allowing a Pioneer DDJ-FLX4 DJ controller to work without a laptop running DJ…

Hand Interacting With ESP32 Running KryonOS Interface A Solo Dev Built an OS for ESP32 Boards and Gave Its JavaScript Engine Direct Access to the Hardware

An open-source project called KryonOS is a GUI operating system for ESP32 microcontroller boards, built for use with a touch display and an SD…

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…

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…

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…