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Nope, no microcontroller here, just a full-blown cellphone utilized as the brains of this bit robot. The trick behind exactly how it works is in the seems the phone makes. The touch tones, understood as DTMF, are monitored by the circuit mounted on the front half of the chassis as well as are accountable for […]

music was produced by humans, however commonly we discover ourselves producing performances with machines. [Alana Balagot] as well as [Federico Tobon] did just that, building the stunning 4 Muses musical sculpture with their integrated talents. 4 Muses is made up of four private instruments, under the command of a single keyboard controller. The keyboard can […]

The twin difficulties of the pandemic as well as now the semiconductor shortage have been especially difficult on the designers of event badges, as events have been cancelled as well as uncertain supply problems render their task impossible. When an event goes virtual, exactly how do you even start to create a badge for it? Make […]

The Raspberry Pi now comes in a wide variety of versions. There are tiny little Zeros, and of course the mainstream-sized boards. Then, there’s the latest greatest Compute Module 4, ready to slot on to a carrier board to break out all its IO. The Seaberry is one such design, as demonstrated by [Jeff Geerling], […]

somewhere between the early tires forged by wheelwrights and the modern steel-belted radial, everyone’s horseless carriage rode atop bias-ply tires. This week’s film is a dizzying trip of the Brunswick Tire Company’s factory circa 1934, where tires were built and evaluated by hand under what appear to be fairly dangerous conditions. It opens on a scene that […]