SwarmTouch: Handheld Interaction with Multiple Drones at Once

One drone is easy enough to control, with hours of practice of course, but operating two or more simultaneously is — if not impossible — extremely difficult. As reported here, a team of researchers at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, or Skoltech, in Russia have developed a swarm control system that interfaces with one’s hand and fingertips.

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AMD adds the Ryzen 9 3900 and Ryzen 5 3500X to its growing Zen 2 garden

As expected, AMD followed up the recent launch of its Ryzen 9 Pro 3900 CPU for businesses with a non-Pro variant for consumers, the Ryzen 9 3900. It also further fleshed out its latest generation of Zen processors with new Ryzen 5 3500X processor.

We have been anticipating the 3900 part since Biostar tipped its pending launch on its CPU support list a couple of weeks ago. It’s essentially a lower power version of the 3900X, one of the best CPUs for gaming, with slower clocks. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, a 3.1GHz base clock and 4.3GHz boost clock, and 64MB of L3 cache. It also has a 65W TDP.

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Raspberry Pi 4 PSP Test Looking Good!! 10 Games Tested LAKKA

All games are at the native PSP resolution of 480 x 272 any higher and everything lags. Lakka is officially stable for the Raspberry Pi 4 and PSP Emulation using PPSSPP is looking Really Good so far! In this video, I test out 10 PSP games Like God of chains Olympus, Kingdom hearts, Ratchet and clank, Tekken and Monster Hunter on the Pi 4 using Lakka and the PPSSPP Core.

Get Lakka Here: https://www.lakka.tv/

65-Inch Flatscreen Modded To Look Like A Giant Nintendo Switch

This is the 65-inch flatscreen television that hardcore Nintendo fan Suprman9 modded with a custom wooden frame to look like a giant Nintendo Switch for his basement rumpus room. Man, I wish I had a rumpus room. Unfortunately my apartment is really just one small room, a smaller bedroom, and a bathroom not even big enough to swing a gerbil in, so there is no room for rumpus. Which is heartbreaking really, especially considering this *lifts shirt to reveal ‘BORN TO RUMP’ tattoo* “Oh wow.” My future looked so much brighter at 18, you know?

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Using WebUSB with Arduino and TinyUSB

Adafruit recently uploaded a hand guide on how to use Google’s WebUSB API with the TinyUSB stack and Arduino-based projects and how to interact with them in Chrome. Googles WebUSB platform is a JavaScript programming interface that allows users to interact with USB devices via web pages. The TinyUSB library enables Arduino-based development boards to appear as USB devices, making it easy to connect them to the WebUSB standard.

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3D Printing – The Perfect First Layer

The most import thing for a great print is a great first layer. When I read forums I see many posts about different issues that people are having with their prints. I would bet 90% of those issues could be traced back to an incorrect first layer. For 3D printing it is vital that your first layer is perfect…or close to it. If you don’t get that part right, you print is destined for failure.

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The Pixblasters Video LED Controller

There are a few tools that pretty much every maker has in their tool box. We all have an Arduino or two on the shelf waiting for the next project. It’s also pretty likely that we might have a roll of NeoPixels or two stashed away for emergencies.

The WS212B-based LED strips have become an almost ubiquitous solution when flashing coloured lights are needed. Despite this, it can be hard to connect large numbers of them together into a single display, which is where the Pixblasters MS1 video controller board might come in handy.

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