Maker Ancient built Vortex as a swept volumetric display that hangs a genuine three-dimensional image in midair. Two flat LED panels sit back to back inside a clear plastic globe roughly three hundred millimeters across. Both panels turn together around a vertical axis at high speed while a Raspberry Pi 4 rides along with them […]
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Quiet Nerd Builds an Eight Wheel Electric Tank Camper That Spins Within Its Own Footprint
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Building an electric 8×8 camper from scratch looks impossible until Quiet Nerd opens a workshop and starts cutting square punch tubing into a lightweight frame. Eight separate 48-volt, 1000-watt brushless differential motors soon sit under that frame, each one ready to push its own wheel. Differential gears generally allow wheels to move at different speeds, […]
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Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design built a small robot that leaves a drone, spins on the way down, and keeps moving once it meets the water. They named it ALBATROSS, short for Airborne Lander with Buoyant AuToROtating Sailing Sensor. Lead author Shane Kyi Hla Win, working with professor Foong Shaohui, describes […]
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Ancient’s Scanning Light Field Display Spins an 1884 Nipkow Drum Into Multi-Viewer 3D DOOM
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James Brown, the New Zealand maker better known as Ancient, has a habit of pulling forgotten display ideas out of history and making them do things their inventors never saw coming. His newest machine takes the Nipkow scanning drum that Paul Gottlieb Nipkow patented in 1884 for an “electric telescope” and turns it into a […]