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The Hexanaut: Building The World’s Largest Rideable Hexapod Robot

The Hexanaut: Building The World’s Largest Rideable Hexapod Robot

Whether they realize it or not, fans of Star Wars, Harry Potter, and the Disney+ series Andor may already be familiar with UK creator Matt Dentonโ€™s movie magic. But in 2012, Dentonโ€™s futuristic fabrications transcended the silver screen and landed in the real world with the debut of Mantis โ€” a six-legged, two-ton, human-piloted, steel behemoth.  Originally commissioned for commercial use, a […]

Plane Spotting (And More!): Put your spare gear to use as a feeder forย community-based data exchanges

Plane Spotting (And More!): Put your spare gear to use as a feeder forย community-based data exchanges

If youโ€™ve ever used a flight-tracking app or looked up local weather on Weather Underground, youโ€™ve likely accessed data supplied, in part, by volunteer contributors. Crowd-sourced data exchanges collect this information and share the pooled results online via interactive maps. The data ranges from radio-signal telemetry for airplanes, ships, weather balloons, or satellites, to seismic measurements, to air […]

Model Mainframe

Model Mainframe

With how important desktop and laptop computers are to the world today, itโ€™s hard to imagine that, not too long ago, they used to be the size of refrigerators and entire rooms. However, Nicolas Temese has found a way to keep the memory of these gigantic machines alive โ€” by shrinking them down to a fraction of […]