MyMiniFactory has Acquired Thingiverse Bringing Anti-AI Focus

One of the best parts of 3D printing is that you can freely download the plans for countless model from sites like Thingiverse, Printables, and others. Yet with the veritable flood of models on these sites you also want to have some level of quality. Here recent news pertaining to Thingiverse is probably rather joyful, as with the acquisition of Thingiverse by MyMiniFactory, it should remain one of the most friendly sites for sharing 3D printing models.

Although Thingiverse as a concept probably doesn’t need much introduction, it’s important here to acknowledge the tumultuous times that it has gone through since...

The Engineering of the Falkirk Wheel

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=qHO9gARac-w

We live in an age where engineering marvels are commonplace: airplanes crisscross the sky, skyscrapers grow like weeds, and spacecraft reach for the stars. But every so often, we see something unusual that makes us take a second look. The Falkirk Wheel is a great example, and, even better, it is functional art, as well.

The Wheel links two canals in Scotland. Before you click away, here’s the kicker: One canal is 35 meters higher than the other. Before 1933, the canals were connected with 11 locks. It took nearly a day to operate the locks to get a boat from...

Testing Reachy Mini - Hugging Face's Pi powered robot

When I saw Jensen Huang introduce the Reachy Mini at CES, I thought it was a gimmick. His keynote showed this little robot responding to human input, turning its head to look at a TODO list on the wall, sending emails, and turning drawings into architectural renderings with motion.

HuggingFace and Pollen robotics sent me a Reachy Mini to test, and, well, at least if you're looking to replicate that setup in the keynote, it's not, as Jensen put it, "utterly trivial now."

3D Printing Pneumatic Channels With Dual Materials for Soft Robots

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=BK9K_mJjlxE

Pneumatics are a common way to add some motion to soft robotic actuators, but adding it to a robot can be somewhat of a chore. A method demonstrated by [Jackson K. Wilt] et al. (press release, preprint) involves using a 3D printing to extrude two materials: one elastomeric material and a fugitive ink that is used to create pneumatic channels which are dissolved after printing, leaving the empty channels to be filled with air.

By printing these materials with a rational, multi-material (RM-3DP) custom nozzle it’s possible to create various channel patterns, controlling the effect of compressed air on the elastomeric...

SMT components are getting smaller — but your precision doesn’t have to

We now offer a professional range of magnifying tools designed specifically for PCB inspection and electronics work MAG-GLASSES magnifying Glasses – High magnification. Hands-free operation. Perfect for precise PCB assembly and repair. MAG-GLASS-10, MAG-GLASS-20, MAG-GLASS-30 Mini Magnifiers (×10 / ×20 / ×30). Compact, powerful, and ideal for spotting even the smallest solder joints and micro […]

STMicroelectronics Stellar P3E quad-core Arm Cortex-R52+ automotive MCU features Neural-ART AI accelerator

STMicroelectronics has introduced the Stellar P3E, the first automotive MCU with an embedded Neural-ART AI accelerator, designed to simplify X-in-1 Electronic Control Units (ECUs) by consolidating powertrain functions like the inverter, on-board charger (OBC), and DC-DC converter into a single module. The MCU enables smart sensing, predictive maintenance, and virtual sensor applications without the cost and complexity of a separate SoC. The microcontroller features four 500 MHz Arm Cortex-R52+ cores with 19.5 MB of xMemory, which is based on phase-change memory (PCM), offering roughly twice the density of embedded flash. The chip integrates multiple ADC channels for precise sensing, high-resolution...

Домашняя лаборатория-мастерская. Реорганизация стеклодувного рабочего места

Теория говорит, а практика подтверждает: разогреть некрупные стеклянные заготовки для формовки и соединения, можно целым рядом способов, однако, стоит стремиться к варианту огневого оснащения классическому — сетевой метан или баллонный пропан + воздушное дутьё с добавкой кислорода из баллона, или, современный «дамский» вариант — медицинского кислородного концентратора. Такая конфигурация позволяет регулировать факел в широких пределах и перекрывает все основные задачи: коптящее мягкое пламя для отжига, широкое горячее, жёсткий узкий факел, паяльная игла. Факел при этом может быть окислительным (работа со свинцовыми стёклами) или восстановительным (металлические впаи). При культурном выполнении газовых трактов и уважительном обращении с баллонами, такая система и наименее...

Restoration of Antique Clock With Unique Oscillator

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=_6IgX2WxFDI

The classic design of a mechanical clock generally consists of a display, a way to store energy, a way to release that energy at regular intervals, and a mechanism to transmit it where it needs to go. Most of us might be imagining a pendulum or a balance wheel, but there have been many other ways to maintain a reliable time standard with a physical object beyond these two common methods. This clock, for example, uses a rolling ball bearing as its time standard and [Tommy Jobson] discusses its operation in depth during a restoration.

The restoration of this clock, which...

Знакомство с ретро-ПК. Оживляем раритетный Pentium-200

Приветствую всех!

Бывало ли у вас такое, что какой-то артефакт долгое время лежал у вас в надежде, что когда-нибудь пригодится, и наконец-таки получал своё применение? Именно такой и оказалась судьба данного компьютера.

Когда-то давно именно с этого ПК у меня и началось знакомство со старым компьютерным железом. И вот сейчас мне наконец захотелось показать этот девайс и то, на что он вообще способен.

Avalue EMX-PTLP – A thin mini-ITX motherboard powered by up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 358H Panther Lake-H SoC

Avalue’s EMX-PTLP is an industrial, thin mini-ITX motherboard powered by Intel Panther Lake-H Core Ultra (Series 3) family, up to the 12-core Intel Core Ultra 7 358H SoC delivering up to 180 TOPS for AI and industrial automation deployments. The board supports up to 64GB of DDR5 SoDIMM/CSoDIMM memory, features M.2 PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 4.0 sockets for storage and expansion, M.2 E-Key and B-Key sockets for wireless and cellular connectivity, a PCIe x8 slot, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C, and LVDS/eDP display interfaces, GbE and 2.5GbE networking interfaces, a range of USB4, USB 3.2, and USB 2.0 interfaces, and more. Avalue...