Floppy disk drive converted into smart TV remote for kids — dev’s toddler inserts vividly labeled floppies to watch his favorite shows

Techy dad creates easy, tactile, Smart TV control system fed by colorfully labelled floppy disks.

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Laser cutting and engraving from a software perspective — master your hardware and optimize your creative output with some software know-how

We take a closer look at the software side of laser cutting and engraving.

Better safety features make laser engravers more popular than ever – a guide to the ins and outs of laser engraving and cutting

Upgraded safety systems make modern lasers easier to trust and easier to recommend.

Motorized aim assist system uses a moving mousepad for laser-accurate headshots — a cannibalized GRBL drawing system and computer vision software deliver perfect shots

Boost your targeting skills with a mechanized mousepad-driven aim assist system

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World’s smallest autonomous robots are ‘smaller than a grain of salt,’ cost one penny apiece — researchers expect new micron-scale fully-programmable robots to be used in medicine, microscale manufacturing, and other areas

Fully programmable, autonomous robots ‘smaller than a grain of salt’ have been developed by research teams from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan.
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Robots fashioned from dead lobster exoskeletons have awesome strength, light weight, and flexibility — necrobotics advance mixes sustainable food waste with synthetic components

Swiss scientists have demonstrated the use of dead lobster tails as robotic appendages.

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The Christmas Present Peeker Trap uses an ESP32 Cam board, photoresistor, buzzer, and connected app to catch even the sneakiest of gift glimpsers

Here’s a project for makers who suspect that they have a Christmas present peeker in their home.

Maker builds tiny $10 secondary 1.14-inch display using an ESP32 — you could play Crysis on it, if you squint

A 1.14 inch secondary display built around an ESP32, that receives video frames over Wi-Fi, and you could build your own for $10. Sounds like a fun weekend project
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