Plywood is an interesting material: made up of many layers of thin wood plys, it can be built up into elegantly curved shapes.
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A First Glimpse of the Starlink User Ternimal
Starlink is a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet service provided by SpaceX. Users connect to near-Earth orbit satellites through a user terminal, which then connects to the internet via ground gateways.
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Smart Terrarium Run By ESP32
A terrarium is a little piece of the living world captured in a small enclosure you can pop on your desk or coffee table at home. If you want to keep it as alive as possible, though, you might like to implement some controls. That’s precisely what [yotitote] did with their smart terrarium build.
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Accelerating Innovation with 3D Printing
The rise of low-cost 3D printers has enabled fabrication and rapid prototyping of all sorts of structures that once required either great skill and lots of time, or a large budget and access to industrial equipment, to produce.
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Design for 3D-Printing
Over the past years, I have gotten deeper and deeper into 3d-printing. One thing that fascinates me a lot is how different it is from other manufacturing methods. And how this, in turn, means a completely different design philosophy is needed to create good designs for 3d-printing.
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A Delay Line Memory Demo Board
Delay line memory is a technology from yesteryear, but it’s not been entirely forgotten. [P-Lab] has developed a demo board for delay-line memory, which shows how it worked in a very obvious way with lots of visual aids.
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Reviving Minitel with Arduino
Before the internet, people were already trying to connect to share information and data with one another via technologies like bulletin board services. The idea was more or less the same, but the infrastructure for a global network had not been built yet.
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Creating An Electronic Board For Catan-Compatible Shenanigans
[Sean Boyce] has been busy building board games. Specifically, an electronic strategy boardgame that is miraculously also compatible with Settlers of Catan. [Sean’s] game is called Calculus. It’s about mining asteroids and bartering.
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Track Your Circuits: A Locomotive PCB Badge
This fun PCB from [Nick Brown] features a miniature railroad implemented with 0805-sized LEDs. With an eye towards designing his own fun interactive PCB badge, the Light-Rail began its journey.
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3D Print (and Play!) The Super Mario Tune As A Fidget Toy
[kida] has a highly innovative set of 3D-printable, musical fidget toys that play classic video game tunes. Of course there’s the classic Super Mario ditty, but there’s loads more. How they work is pretty nifty, and makes great use of a 3D printer’s strengths.
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