The recently announced partnership between the acclaimed speaker manufacturer Bang & Olufsen and the digital audio company HiFiBerry will allow DIY audio enthusiasts to easily transform their vintage B&O speakers into wireless audio workhorses. The new open source project features a custom digital signal processing (DSP) board that works as a four-channel amplifier. The board…
Youtuber Bob Clagett is a huge fan of 80’s toys and movies. Inspired by Transformers he decided to realize his dream: build his own life-sized Optimus Prime ion blaster. Now, after hours of 3D printing and finishing, he finally has something worthy of that universe. Inside, sound and lighting effects are controlled by an Arduino, which…
This open source hardware project has been created by developers at Bioblue. The ESP1 is capable of allowing users to control anything with their mind and includes an open source suite of Arduino development tools. Thanks to a lot of sensors the new hardware is capable of helping users meditate as well as boost overall…
Raspberry Pi enthusiasts may be interested in a new mini robot created by Omkar Joglekar. A Raspberry Pi Zero has been used to create a tiny remote controlled truck. Omkar has used a wireless dongle to add connectivity to his RC truck because the Pi Zero doesn’t have embedded wireless capabilities. If you prefer, you can replace…
“I started programming when I was 13, thanks to Sensei when he created a robotics club. On the first day we were 12 students, the next week we were 3 – yep, you guessed it, the other two were Gabriel and Jonas. I fell in love with VR because of an anime called SAO, but…
A group of developers are attempting to revive the Zano drone – one of Kickstarter’s most notorious failures. The handheld quadcopter raised £2.3m from more than 12,000 backers on the crowdfunding platform before the project imploded in 2015. The person leading the effort is Vernon Kerswell, chief executive of Extreme Fliers, a London-based micro drone…
“Plenty of DIY PCB UV exposure tool building posts are available on the internet with total different approaches. I also designed my own, to fulfill my needs: it should be relative small and portable and the hacking/modding should be fun. ? Flat bed scanners were found as possibly good target. Compared to most of the…
If you’ve ever wanted to add glowing eyes to something, now is your chance. Not only is this perfect for spooky dress-up or cosplay (unfortunately Halloween has just passed), but it could also make cyclists or pedestrians more visible in low-light conditions, such as night. Inspired by the popular LED eyelashes project, the makers wanted to…
Thanks to the miniature dimensions, you can use the Raspberry Pi Zero to build a tiny camcorder. Devised by Wayne Keenan, the PiCorder uses a Pimoroni HyperPixel screen, Pi Zero camera module, and Zero LiPo plus LiPo battery pack. The PiCorder is probably the slimmest Pi-powered video-recording device ever seen. With a bit of soldering,…
If you need to monitor the fluid level in a large diameter well, a tank, or an open container, for only €70 you can build your own Ultrasonic fluid level monitoring system. One day, my brother and I talked about how our grandfather used to measure the water level manually in order to keep track…
Lime Microsystems has unveiled a size- and cost-reduced variant of the LimeSDR board that it launched last year. The LimeSDR Mini is a free and open source project that supports the company’s entirely open-source LimeSuite host-side software that supports a range of SDRs. At 69 x 31.4mm, the LimeSDR Mini is about one-third the size of the original model,…
“In this project I will show you how I combined a couple steel pieces with an Arduino, an APA102 LED Strip and a Hall effect sensor in order to create a POV (persistence of vision) RGB LED Globe. WIth it you can create all kinds of spherical pictures or even letters which is a definite…
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