Author: Russell Campbell
Beatbot Aquatic Roboturtle Tortini: Turtle-Shaped Ocean Research Robot
Beatbot's Aquatic Roboturtle, nicknamed Tortini, lands immediately as a different kind of seabound idea. It is not a pool-cleaning gadget dressed up as a novelty. It is intentionally designed to look and move like a sea turtle so it will be less intrusive in natural habitats and more likely to be ac ...
Holoneo: Desktop Hologram And A New Glanceable Presence For Your Desk
Holoneo arrives with a simple promise: make a small object on your desk feel alive. It is not just a toy projection, it is an attempt to make a hologram an everyday information surface, one that can answer questions, show weather, play media, and even pull lyrics from your phone.
The real signifi ...
LEGO Navigation System: How A Toy Dock Became A Flawless Car Phone Mount
Cars age in two ways now: metal and mechanics, and then the invisible clockwork of software. When the in-car interface starts to lag and map updates cost a premium, the result is a user experience that feels both needlessly expensive and instantly outdated. That is the pressure that drove a maker to ...
Helix 02: Figure AI’s Humanoid Control Trick That Treats Walking And Dishwashing As One Skill
Helix 02 matters because it reframes a classical robotics dilemma into a single engineering decision: should walking and fine manipulation be separate modules or one continuous behavior? Figure AI is betting the answer is the latter. The company’s public demo that walks a robot across a kitchen, ope ...
USB Volume Control That Makes Desktop Audio Feel Physical
Changing the volume should be trivial, but too often it is not. For people who edit, switch apps, or juggle media, hunting for sliders or remembering shortcuts breaks flow. The maker behind this project solved that friction by building a tiny USB control panel, and the surprising lesson is not just ...
LEGO Typewriter: The Strange Tricks That Finally Let Bricks Write
When LEGO released its mechanical typewriter set in 2021, the model nailed the look and the motion but stopped short of a simple promise: it could not actually type a letter back onto the bricks. That gap is the exact place one builder decided to start a new project, not by copying how typewriters u ...
Quest 3 Secrets: Unreal Things You Can Do Beyond Gaming And Why Presence Matters
The Quest 3 arrived as a gaming-first device, but what becomes clear when you look closer is that it quietly maps real life into shared presence. Owners who treat it only as a library of action titles are missing entire categories of experience where presence, scale, and social connection matter mor ...
3D Holographic Display You Can Build With A Phone And The Sync Trick That Makes It Work
The future that used to live in science fiction - a floating, viewable object that looks right from any angle - turns out to be something a smartphone can fake with a little clever timing. The real significance here is not that a phone becomes a projector, but that true parallax is created when the ...
Flux Keyboard Reinvents Typing With A Built-In Display And Modular Controls
The Flux Keyboard announces itself as more than a peripheral. It blends a full HD display with transparent maglev key switches, modular keyframes, and accessory dials to turn a keyboard into a programmable, living interface. That combination is tempting because it reframes the keyboard from a fixed ...
Volonaut Airbike: The World’s First Real Star Wars Speeder Bike
The instant reaction to the Volonaut Airbike footage is visceral: this looks like a speeder bike that slipped out of a movie and landed in our skies. That reaction matters because it reveals the product's primary design goal. The real significance here is not the headline top speed, it is the obsess ...
Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck: The 3D Printable Dual Screen Build That Reveals The Real Constraints
Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck builds have become a shorthand for maker ambition: portable, futuristic, and deeply personal. This project pushes that shorthand into something practical, pairing dual screens, a mechanical keyboard, and a suite of sensors inside a fully 3D printable enclosure.
The real sig ...
DIY Smart Lab: Holographic AI Makerspace For Home Workshops
Most how-to videos start with tools. This one starts with a problem that every growing maker hits: the desk becomes the bottleneck. The consequence is not only cramped hardware, it is lost momentum. The decisive move in this setup was less about buying a particular gadget and more about reorganizing ...
Glow Desk: How Projecting Your Desktop Becomes Useful And Where It Stops
What if your desk was not just furniture but an active workspace? The Glow Desk idea is exactly that: use a top-down projector to make the desktop itself a display that blends with your keyboard and mouse.
The early reveal is surprising and important. The real significance here is not that it loo ...
Levitating Phone Stand: Why One Millimeter Was The Difference Between Magic And Disaster
Floating a phone looks like a party trick, but engineering a levitating phone stand that survives daily use is a different problem. This build focuses on the practical work behind the spectacle: using a commercial magnetic levitation module, careful counterweighting, and precise 3D printing to turn ...
Cat Town Subway: How A Miniature Metro Forced Rethinks On Doors, Escalators, And Cost
When Xing opened the gates of Cat Town Station, the project started as a cute bit of toy architecture and turned into a concentrated lesson in engineering tradeoffs. The build exposed how timing precision, mechanical reliability, and repeat maintenance scale differently when you compress a transit s ...