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

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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Controlling Traffic Lights with Micro Speech

A TensorFlow Lite Micro Speech model that detects wake words and turns on a different coloured LED light to emulate traffic lights.

Machine learning typically involves lots of computing power, and these are usually in the form of a large data center with GPUs and the costs of training a deep neural network can be astronomical. The emergence of tiny neural networks, which are as small as 14 KB, opens a plethora of doors to new applications that can analyze data right on the microprocessor itself and derive actionable insights (Warden and Situnayake, 2019). This saves time and prevents latency because we do not have to transmit data to a cloud data center for it to be processed and wait for it to come back (Warden and Situnayake, 2019). Such a phenomenon is called Edge Computing and allows for data to be processed and computed on the device that it is stored (Lea, 2020).

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Coil Winding Machine Makes it Easy

[Mr Innovative] needed to wind some coils, and decided to make a machine to do the work. Making such machines has become a lot easier over the years. There was a time when we might probably have had to hack an old printer or scanner to get linear rods and stepper motors. Now, thanks to widespread 3D printing, we can order parts like that from lots of places. The 3D printing helps, too, to fabricate all the little custom widgets you need to put something like that together.

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Automatic Cereal Dispenser With Facial Recognition

A device that automatically dispenses cereal when a face is recognized on a Raspberry Pi camera running OpenCV.

Breakfast is arguably the most important meal of the day. Nearly a quarter of individuals in the U.S do not eat breakfast and this mainly due to not having enough time in the mornings. I believe that time is not the issue robbing us of our sweet sustenance and is a simple fact that cereal boxes are too heavy. I wanted to create a machine that would use Artificial Intelligence to detect specific people and pour the cereal they like for them to conserve the critical energy that is needed to tackle the day. Picking up a cereal box has gotten more and more difficult throughout the years with the increase in cereal box size. To combat the strain to muscles that daily cereal box pouring can cause, my device makes it easy to keep your weak muscles safe and nourished.

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LucidVR Budget Haptic Glove

A functional glove that lets you use (and eventually feel) your hands in VR.

This is a project to try to make VR Haptic Glove technology more available for the public. Currently, most VR Haptic Glove products out there are extremely expensive and are targeted for commercial use. In starting this project, I wanted to create a budget, but still well-functioning VR Haptic Glove that’s cheap and easy for people to get their hands on (or in, lol).

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This Tiny 3D-Printed Dump Truck Is Remotely Controlled with an Arduino

Most of us have some experience with RC vehicles — at least the cheap toy variety. But those are just the start of what is available and the RC hobby is full of really impressive vehicles that put those toys to shame. Some are meant for speed and can outrun your Honda Civic. But others are designed to replicate their full-size counterparts as faithfully as possible. For example, it isn’t uncommon to see RC airplanes with accurate interiors. Redditor EnosCamare wanted to try their hand at a replica and built this adorable 3D-printed dump truck that is remotely controlled with an Arduino.

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RaspberryPi Assisted ‘Anti-Mosquito Laser Turret’ Has Been Developed

Russian computer scientist named Ildar Rakhmatulin produced a mosquito laser using Raspberry Pi and laser. An expert working on brain-computer interfaces at Russia’s South Ural State University claims that with his invention, he neutralized two mosquitoes per second.

” Raspberry Pi to kill mosquitoes laser ” online as a non-peer reviewed preprint in January. In it, he lays out a plan to snipe mosquitoes out of the air using a Raspberry Pi equipped with a Pi camera, a galvanometer that detects electrical currents, and a commercially-available laser pointer that’s 450 nanometers and one wavelength—powerful enough to kill a mosquito and blind someone looking directly at it, but not enough to burn skin.

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This Metal-Munching Robot Can Navigate Autonomously Without a Brain

Researchers from University of Pennsylvania have developed a robot that feeds on metal and can navigate autonomously without a brain.

The single most important resource in the future will, without a doubt, be energy. Humanity’s energy needs have increased dramatically over the past couple of centuries and that trend will absolutely continue. We’re already experiencing an energy supply problem, as evidenced by our continuing reliance on nonrenewable fossil fuels. Energy storage is also becoming more of an issue as we attempt to move away from those fossil fuels. An electric car, for example, needs a heavy battery. More storage capacity equals more weight, which requires more energy to move — a catch-22. That problem extends to robots, which is why a team of researchers have developed a robot that feeds on metal and can navigate autonomously without a brain.

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