PrusaSlicer 3.0 is out. No stone has been left unturned, and that’s a good thing.
People have been talking about the new version of the popular slicer PrusaSlicer for ages. Today the time has come—PrusaSlicer 3 is out. It’s still an early preview, so plenty of things still need fine-tuning, finishing, and fixing, but it’s already wow—especially the speed.
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This little duck has taken the world by storm. It wittily makes advanced technologies accessible to the public.
Pollen Robotics has unveiled Microduck, a 25 cm bipedal robot with a Rockchip RK3566, fifteen servos, and simulation-trained movements. What’s inside, what it can do, and why the 4–6 month…
Prusa patented a handheld multitool for 3D printing. It prints, melts, and smooths.
When a crack shows up on a print, a gap from poor layer adhesion, or an ugly support scar, you usually grab several different tools. Weld the crack with a…
Weather radar and aircraft radar on one round display
Big update to meteoPlaneRadar v0.6.0. Round 2.1″ display shows clock, planes from adsb.fi, precipitation radar from ČHMÚ or RainViewer, and weather forecast. All settings done in browser, firmware uploaded with…
Network of DIY weather stations measures smoke from Belgium’s largest fire in history
A fire in Belgium’s Hautes Fagnes reserve burned 1,600 hectares, the largest in the country’s history. Amateur sensors in the sensor.community network showed that smoke traveled over 150 km to…
University student builds 3D printer with DIY INDX. Instructions and files are open-source.
Tool changes in a second with practically no waste. That’s what YUDX promises—a toolchanger built by one student and released entirely for free on GitHub. Eight tool heads, a single…
Prusa has updated its entire printer lineup: XL+, CORE One L+, and CORE One+ (Gen 2).
Prusa announced on August 12 a refresh of its entire lineup. The XL becomes the XL+, the CORE One L becomes the CORE One L+, and the CORE One+ is…
Reviving Old Unsupported Devices with AI – AVerMedia Game Capture HD II
The old AVerMedia Game Capture HD II refused to do the one thing I asked – record 640×480 from the picogame engine. Inside it runs a small Linux, and the…
Don’t Throw Them Away! 7 Ideas for Giving Empty Prusament Spools a Second Life
Anyone who 3D prints knows the feeling: the filament runs out, leaving you with a sturdy plastic spool. What to do with it? The new generation of Prusament spools is…
Picogame: a game engine for CircuitPython
Picogame is a 2D game engine for CircuitPython by Vladimír Smitka. A native C core handles rendering, scenes and collisions, while the game logic stays in Python – no compiling,…
European Plane Radar – see what is flying above you
I wanted to know what was flying over my head. Not on a phone, not in a browser tab – on a small round thing sitting on a shelf that…