Camera-Free Object Discovery and Interaction with GazeTags
Future Interfaces Group
GazeTags skip cameras: stick a year-long battery tag on anything you care about, and a head-worn IR beam wakes only what you're looking at. Future Interfaces Group gets object-level gaze sensing — plus non-visual state like kettle temp — for a few hundred bucks across a whole home.
Speech Recognition Without the Internet Now Fits on a $10 Chip (Whistle)
Better Stack
Better Stack fits Whistle, a 16.9 MB speech-to-text model, onto a $10 ESP32-S3, where it runs with no Wi-Fi and no cloud. They walk through what they cut to make it fit and how they brought processing time from 24 seconds to about 10, so it's not instant. The full project is on GitHub if you want to build one.
Q8botOne -A Serious Quadruped That Fits in Your Hand
Crowd Supply
A palm-sized robot dog that can run, jump and carry twice its own weight, and you can program its gaits yourself. It's small enough to play with on your desk and open enough to take apart and learn from.
A modern motherboard for iPods
certain things
Sprout is a new motherboard that drops into a classic iPod and keeps the original screen and click wheel, adding Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and streaming. No soldering, and you can undo it, which is exactly how retro upgrades should work.
The Making of the Dune Pinball Machine!
Tested Team
Tested goes inside Barrels of Fun to see how a modern pinball machine gets designed and built, from the Labyrinth table to the new Dune machine. If you like seeing how physical products actually get made, this one's a treat.
I Built a Transparent Screen Into My PC Case
Chris Builds
Forty seconds, one idea: build a see-through screen into a PC case. It's a quick, fun look at what happens when you treat hardware like something you get to play with.
Adam Savage Stunned by 3D Printed Rubber!
Adam Savage’s Tested
Adam and Norm put Formlabs' Flexible 80A resin through a drop test, a wall-thickness test and a Gothic cathedral print, then visit the materials lab where it was developed. The chemistry segment and the post-processing tips make it worth watching start to finish.
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