Nintendo Switch Steering Wheel V2 – D4E1

We’re really digging this college student design project from Daan Van de Velde and team. Not only does it marry form and function well – it also has a 1970s retro arcade or vintage Fisher-Price look to it.

In this project we improved the Nintendo Switch steering wheel by GauravSaha to make it even more accessible for people with disabilities, while keeping it fun and engaging for everyone.

This project was developed as a college assignment (Howest, Industrial Product Design) in collaboration with the Dominiek Savio School, an institution dedicated to supporting people with disabilities (https://ift.tt/vPGX9FS).

See more details here on Instructables.

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This Jacket Pulls Drinking Water From Thin Air #Wearable

“The textile incorporated into the jacket collects moisture and funnels it to detachable harvesting units.” Image Via UT News

 

Stillsuit anyone? Not quite, but engineers at the University of Texas have developed a jacket that collects water from the air. The advance fabric technology can harvest 3x-10x more water than current materials. Via UT News:

“The important advance here is that the team did not simply make another material that absorbs water,” said Keith Johnston, co-author and chair professor of the Cockrell School of Engineering’s McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. “They designed a pathway for water to move quickly, from vapor in the air, to liquid on the fiber surface, and then into the textile. That transport design is what allows the material to work not just in a small lab test, but in a wearable system.”

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Adafruit CAN Bus BFF #AdafruitLearnSystem

Adafruit QT Py boards are a great way to make very small microcontroller projects that pack a ton of power – and now we have a way for you to turn many QT Py boards into powerful CAN bus devices that are super small!

Check out the full guide!

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Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio #HamSunday @IEEESpectrum

Once upon a time in Europe, television remote controls had a magic teletext button. Years before the internet stole into homes, pressing that button brought up teletext digital information services with hundreds of constantly updated pages. Stephen Cass writing for IEEE Spectrum writes about reviving teletext ssing a computer’s sound card.

I decided to send the teletext using the AX.25 protocol, which encodes ones and zeros as audible tones. For VHF and UHF transmissions at a rate of 1,200 baud, it would take 11 seconds to send one teletext screen. Over HF bands, AX.25 data is normally sent at 300 baud, which would result in a still-acceptable 44 seconds per screen.

When a teletext page is sent repeatedly, any missed or corrupted rows are filled in with new ones. So in a little over 2 minutes, I could send a screen three times over HF, and the receiver would automatically combine the data. I also wanted to build the system in Python for portability, with an editor for creating pages, an AX.25 encoder and decoder, and a monitor for displaying received images.

See how things were built and the results in the article here.

 

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Cosmodial Sky Atlas 🌌 #SpaceSaturday

 

Cosmodial is an open source star atlas that runs in your browser. Select your location and look up! I especially like the red filter mode to keep your night eyes sharp. via KilledByAPixel on GitHub:

 

Ever look up and wonder “wait, is that a planet or just a really bright star?”

Cosmodial knows. Tell it where you are and it paints the actual sky above your head, live! The Milky Way drifting overhead, the horizon glowing at dusk, planets show up exactly where they really are. Drag to look around, zoom from a wide view all the way down to a telescopic eyepiece view where Saturn’s rings resolve.

Learn more and check it out!

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Bluefruit LE Feather Robot Rover

Control this tiny 2-wheel drive robot with your phone! This little 3-wheeled robot can be put together in just an hour or two, and is a great place to start (or continue!) the adventure into robotics. You can control it with your iOS or Android phone over Bluetooth using Adafruit Bluefruit LE Connect!

Check out the full guide!

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