Hack a day

As FDM printers keep getting faster, we are forced to deal with a range of bottlenecks, all of which conspire to hold us back from another Benchie world record. A major physical limitation is that of flowrate, as the hotend has to be able to melt the filament that enters the nozzle before it departs said nozzle. One attempt to make a high-flow nozzle involves splitting the ma...

A fun part of modifying something like a motorbike is that you sometimes have to come up with creative solutions to basic questions, like how you can still access the fuel tank’s cap after extending it forward. In the case of [KRTframework] this meant that the fuel cap was now underneath the bodywork, requiring a suitable way to access it. Of course, this meant

Remember those tiny little droids skittering around the pristine corridors of the Death Star in Star Wars? [heychaostheory] has put together something vaguely along the lines of those charming little mobile toasters. It’s an autonomous mouse droi...

There are plenty of ways to capture 3D images or simulations of such if you know what you’re doing with camera hardware and fancy mathematics. However, a little more unusual is the idea of capturing a 3D image while using no lens at all — and yet, [okooptics] has achieved just th...

Nifty little AMOLED screens are easy to get nowadays, and [Sophie D] demonstrates they are both thin and light enough to be worn with OpenChoker, a design for a choker necklace that was a hit at DEF CON.

The choker consists of an AMOLED touchscreen flanked by short RGB L...