4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (236+ words) Hackaday 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…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (541+ words) Usually in Tech In Plain Sight, we talk about technology you probably see every day, even if you don’t notice it. But we hope you don’t get to see one of the latest crop of medical robots, such as the…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (37+ words) You can 3D print all kinds of things, from Yoda heads to little models of Pikachu. Eventually, though, most of us get to a point where we want to print something a little more interesting. The lenticu......

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (32+ words) [lcamtuf] has an in-depth look at the concept of negative resistance that goes somewhat further than one might expect. Normally, as voltage across a resistance increases so too does the current. Negat......

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (37+ words) LLMs remain a divisive topic in these times. Perhaps we all know someone who's become over-infatuated with their new robotic friend, or who believes it has made them a genius. [Emily M. Bender] and [N......

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (32+ words) Resin 3D printing has opened up a whole new scale of resolution for hackers, but the technology can go still finer; commercial micro-SLA and two-photon polymerization printers can print items with s......

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1035+ words) Over the time Hackaday has been in existence, the art of 3D printing has evolved from a relatively crude hit-and-miss affair to something approaching what we all imagined back then. You can't yet walk......

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (322+ words) Hackaday A piano’s internal mechanism for translating a key press into sound is surprisingly complicated It has to do a lot of things simultaneously and quickly: provide precise control over velocity, ensure the hammer doesn’t press itself against…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (38+ words) Fluid simulations are one of the "killer apps" of high-performance computing, but if you can't afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long time to run. Depending on your use case, as lon......

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (237+ words) Hackaday Schematic diagram of the touch-sensitive skin (Credit: Haofeng Chen et al., ArXiv, 2026) Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us humans, primarily because it reminds us of just how…...