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 ...
Virtual Stream Deck: How A $30 Touchscreen Turns Any PC Into A Macro Powerhouse
Elgato quietly shifted one of the constraints around macro hardware when it shipped Virtual Stream Deck. The software promises to move the Stream Deck experience off proprietary buttons and onto any display that can host a virtual panel. That is interesting because it reframes what actually costs mo ...
Function Calling Gives AI Hands And Changes Everything: How LLMs Turn Language Into Action
What happens when a chatbot stops being only a voice and becomes a body? That is the question Travis, the maker behind GPTARS, is asking out loud. He built a tiny TARS replica that listens to normal speech, parses intent, and then hands off specific commands to motors and services. The result reads ...
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 ...
DDPAI Z90 Master Turns Dash Cams Into Content Studios, But Storage And Privacy Matter
CES 2026 rarely delivers subtle product pivots, but DDPAI managed one anyway. The Z90 Master reframes what a dash cam can do by fusing high fidelity capture with editing workflows and interior imaging that reads like a studio trick. That repositioning is the meaningful shift, because it changes what ...
Humanoid Robot Running: Figure AI’s Humanlike Gait And Deployment Potential
Seen in motion, the robot no longer looks like a prop. It reads like a person moving through space: feet lift, arms counterbalance, and tiny corrections appear in the joints without a visible command sequence. That shift matters because locomotion determines the environments where a robot can actual ...
Flying Umbrella Finally Follows You, After A Year Of Hidden Failures
Imagine an umbrella that hovers beside you and follows your steps across a field. After a year of hidden failures and repeated rebuilds, that concept moved from novelty to a functioning autonomous demonstrator. The project exposed the real constraints that determine whether a playful idea can become ...
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 ...
Offline Voice Assistant On Raspberry Pi 5 That Actually Feels Alive And Still Hits Hard Limits
Building a compact, self-contained voice assistant on Raspberry Pi 5 is achievable and useful, but it exposes the real engineering tradeoffs in privacy, responsiveness, and hardware design. This article follows a practical tutorial that ties Whisper, a local language host option (for example Ollama) ...
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 ...
Xeneon Edge: Ultrawide Touchscreen Control Center For Streaming, Sim Racing, And Productivity
The Xeneon Edge reframes what a small secondary display can do. Instead of acting as a tiny mirror of your desktop, it serves as a persistent control surface for live widgets, chat, and system controls. That shift matters more than raw pixel count or bezel size.
In practice, this means reclaiming ...
Bioluminescent Piano: Magic Piano Brought To Life With Living Light
What the project ultimately reveals is not a gadget trick but a design lesson: when a physical effect resists invention, nature can sometimes supply the missing mechanism. Most people assume glowing piano visuals must come from screens or CGI. The part that changes how this should be understood is t ...
AheadForm Origin M1: Lifelike Robot Face, Tradeoffs And Risks
The viral clip of the AheadForm Origin M1 does one thing very efficiently: it convinces you that a machine is looking back. Within seconds the robot blinks, shifts gaze, and makes tiny facial adjustments the human visual system reads as intention. That immediate psychological presence is the design ...
Xpeng Iron Humanoid: What It Means For Robots, Chips, And Developers
When Xpeng rolled Iron onto a stage, the spectacle was obvious: a human-like form walking with natural fluidity, a curved 3D head display, and hands with extensive articulation. That visual matters, but it masks a strategic choice that shifts how robots collect the kind of data needed to work around ...
Divoom Times Frame Review: How This Smart Frame Reshapes Desktop Workflows
Most people assume digital photo frames are glorified slideshows that end up in a drawer of forgotten gadgets. The Divoom Times Frame takes a different route by treating a small display as a living surface, mixing community-driven pixel art, live widgets and ambient lighting to become an expressive ...