Month: April 2021

Someone Made Part of Wario Land 4 With Unity and It’s Amazing

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It has been well over two decades since Wario Land 4 released for the Game Boy Advance, yet fans still rave about how good the game is and how great it would be to get another installment. People are so adamant that a modern title in the series gets made that they’ve actually taken it upon themselves to create the building blocks for it.

Indie game developer MikMik is one of those people, posting a quick video to his Twitter account that revealed the Wario Land 4 project he’s been workshopping, and boy does it look awesome.

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3D Printed Cycloidal Actuator

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I have designed yet another cycloidal drive! This one is different, though. Unlike most of my projects, it is strictly 3D printed. No CNC required. The cycloidal mechanism is also “inside-out”. The cycloidal discs do not rotate, they only wobble, transmitting rotation to the output. This was also designed to maybe be used in a modular robot arm. It’s also a 25:1 gear reduction.

DJ Harrigan Blends Reality with Fiction by Creating an Animatronic, Alexa-Powered GLaDOS

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Inspired by the antagonist from Valve’s Portal series, Harrigan has combined a custom-built animatronic and an Echo to create GLaDOS.

Maker DJ Harrigan has blended two worlds with the creation of a voice assistant which combines Amazon’s popular Alexa with Portal’s fictitious but reasonably murderous artificial intelligence GLaDOS.

For the past seven months, Harrigan has been working to bring GLaDOS, the iconic artificially-intelligent testing-hungry antagonist from Valve’s Portal franchise, out of the game world and into the real. Initially, the plan was relatively simple: “I’m building a scaled animatronic version of GLaDOS (as she looks in Portal 2),” Harrigan explained at the project’s launch.

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Serial Debugger With Display

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Sometimes you need to quickly check the state of the device and having to use a computer for that can be a bit bothersome. A pocket-sized debugger that can monitor and display the data stream is the perfect solution for that!

On the upper right corner, there’s a pin header (RX, TX, GND) meant to be connected to the device you want to receive data from. The current iteration is only 5V tolerant, in the future we plan to add a switch to shift between the 5V and 3.3V logic levels.

We’ve used an ILI93441 2.2″ TFT display and an ATmega328P microcontroller (the design is based on the Arduino Nano schematic) for reading and displaying the serial data. We’ve also added a rotary encoder with push button, which can be used to switch between different baud rates, scroll through the text or pause/resume autoscrolling.

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Fans Build 3D Sonic Game In Dreams, And It Looks Fantastic

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There are two tiers of Dreams experience. I know I’ve played it, and tried to build things, but then I see what other people can do with it and I wonder if we were even playing the same thing.

I mean…just look at this. Look at it! This is a fast, bright, colourful, very fast Sonic game, only it was made inside another game. I know this is nothing new, and that Dreams has been doing this for ages, but still, once in a while I see something like this and can barely process it.

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Mictic’s Wearable IMUs Turn Your Movements, Gestures Into Music via Smartphone App or MIDI

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Prototyped on mbientLab Bluetooth IMU technology, the Mictic wristbands look to turn making music into simply moving your arms.

Zurich-based Mictic is looking to change the way people create and interact with music, using a wearable wristband-like instrument dubbed the Mictic and designed to translate gestures and movements into sound in real-time.

“Mictic is the Swiss-made XR [cross reality] wearable that turns your movements into sound,” Mershad Javan says of his company’s product. “It doesn’t matter if you already have a Grammy or have never picked up a musical instrument, with Mictic you’ll be expressing yourself the minute you put the wristbands on and connect via Bluetooth.”

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