Hackaday (unofficial) October 9, 2023 6:00am Pushing the Boundaries of Tiny Mechanical Devices With Compliant Mechanisms #science #toyhacks #compliantmechanism #nerfblaster #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Pushing The Boundaries Of Tiny Mechanical Devices With Compliant Mechanisms Mechanical actions underlie much of what makes modern day society function, whether it’s electric motors, combustion engines, switches, levers, or the springs inside a toy blaster gun that pr…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 21, 2023 12:00am Physical Neural Network Can Be Trained Like a Digital One #science #compliantmechanism #flexure #lattice #mechanical #neuralnetwork #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Physical Neural Network Can Be Trained Like A Digital One Here’s an unusual concept: a computer-guided mechanical neural network (video, embedded below.) Why would one want a mechanical neural network? It’s essentially a tool to explore what i…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 22, 2023 10:00am Electromagnetic Mechanism Makes Reconfigurable Antenna #radiohacks #wirelesshacks #antenna #compliantmechanism #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Electromagnetic Mechanism Makes Reconfigurable Antenna Antennas are a key component to any RF gadget. But antennas often only perform well over a narrow band of frequencies. For some applications, this is acceptable, but often you would like to reconfi…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 7, 2022 6:00am Flexures Make This Six-DOF Positioner Accurate to the Micron Level #mischacks #compliantmechanism #flexure #positioner #stewartplatform #voicecoil #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Flexures Make This Six-DOF Positioner Accurate To The Micron Level It’s no secret that we think flexures are pretty cool, and we’ve featured a number of projects that leverage these compliant mechanisms to great effect. But when we saw flexures used in…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 18, 2021 3:00am 3D-Printing Complex Sensors and Controls with Metamaterials #science #capacitive #compliantmechanism #composite #deformation #hmi #metamaterial #sensor #shearcell #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D-Printing Complex Sensors And Controls With Metamaterials If you’ve got a mechatronic project in mind, a 3D printer can be a big help. Gears, levers, adapters, enclosures — if you can dream it up, a 3D printer can probably churn out a useful p…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 11, 2021 4:00pm Xbox Flexure Joystick Puts You In the Pilot’s Seat #peripheralshacks #xboxhacks #compliantmechanism #flexture #flightstick #joystick #microsoftflightsimulator #xboxone #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Xbox Flexure Joystick Puts You In The Pilot’s Seat With the recent release of Microsoft Flight Simulator on the Xbox Series X|S there’s never been a better time to get a flight stick for the console, and as you might imagine, there are a numb…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 25, 2021 9:00pm 3D Printed Joystick Using Spherical Flexure Joint #peripheralshacks #techhacks #3dprintable #compliantmechanism #joystick #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D Printed Joystick Using Spherical Flexure Joint One of the many advancements brought about by 3D printing is the rapid development of compliant mechanisms and flexure joints. One such example is [jicerr]’s joystick, which uses a pair of sp…