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Clotty Is a Uterus-Shaped RP2040 Board Built to Track Periods Offline, and It Already Runs DOOM Maker Kati (missmolerat) has designed Clotty, a palm-sized RP2040 board cut in the shape of a uterus. It's meant to be an offline, privacy-first period tracker that plays like a Tamagotchi, and it passed the hacker world's oldest test early: it runs DOOM. The two ovaries are capacitive touchpads, the screen sits in the middle, and the USB-C port is exactly where you'd guess. Kati says the… |
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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 rather than from above. The camera sits to the side and points at a mirror inclined at 27 degrees beneath the platform. The author says that, for the same camera and robot height, this widens the field of view by 58%, which allows a larger platform… |
