Hackaday (unofficial) August 25, 2023 12:00am Squid-Con Brings Joy To All #games #handheldshacks #accessibility #flexure #flexures #joycon #joycons #nintendoswitch #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Squid-Con Brings Joy To All While we’re always happy to see accessibility aids come into fruition, most of them focus on daily tasks, not that there’s anything wrong with that. But what about having some fun? That…
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) July 7, 2023 5:00am This Block of Rubber Can Count To Ten #science #counter #flexure #mechanical #metamaterial #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 This Block Of Rubber Can Count To Ten Complex behaviors can arise from simple mechanics, and that’s demonstrated by a block of rubber that acts as a counter. The block contains beams, and by controlling how the block is compresse…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 1, 2023 7:00am A More Expressive Synth via Flexure #microcontrollers #musicalhacks #breadboard #daisyseed #expressivesynth #expressivesynthesizer #flexure #halleffectsensor #synth #synthesizer #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A More Expressive Synth Via Flexure Synthesizers can make some great music, but sometimes they feel a bit robotic in comparison to their analog counterparts. [Chris Guichet] built a “minimum viable” expressive synth to ov…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 22, 2022 5:00pm An Open Source Modular Flexure Construction Set #parts #3dprinting #flexure #grabcad #mechanism #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 An Open Source Modular Flexure Construction Set Flexures are one of those innocent-looking mechanisms that one finds inside practically any kind of consumer device. Providing constrained movements with small displacements, complete with controll…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 23, 2022 9:00pm Filament Cutter Uses Unusual (But Effective) 3D-Printed Spring Design #3dprinterhacks #3dprinted #filamentcutter #flexure #printedspring #springdesign #springs #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Filament Cutter Uses Unusual (But Effective) 3D-Printed Spring Design When one needs a spring, a 3D-printed version is maybe not one’s first choice. It might even be fair to say that printed springs are something one ends up making, rather than something one se…
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) February 9, 2022 7:00am Working Model Reveals Amazing Engineering of Webb’s Mirror Actuators #space #actuator #flexure #hexapod #jameswebbspacetelescope #jwst #mirror #stepper #stewart #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Working Model Reveals Amazing Engineering Of Webb’s Mirror Actuators We end up covering a lot of space topics here on Hackaday, not because we’re huge space nerds — spoiler alert: we are — but because when you’ve got an effectively unlimited …
Hackaday (unofficial) January 24, 2022 6:00pm Compliant Mechanisms Hack Chat #hackadaycolumns #compliantmechanisms #constraint #elastic #flexible #flexure #hackchat #modulus #monolithic #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Compliant Mechanisms Hack Chat Join us on Wednesday, January 26 at noon Pacific for the Compliant Mechanisms Hack Chat with Amy Qian! When it comes to putting together complex mechanisms, we tend to think in a traditional design…