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Ian Bos

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Sep 26, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Ian Bos

    Self-Repairing Conductive Material From Liquid Metal (opens the original)

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    PCB circuits are cool, but you know what is cooler? Terminator circuits that’s what! And what if the same material that makes Terminator circuits could also be used for smart heat sinks, flexible circuits, and self-healing material properties? Well, that is exactly what the lab at Virginia Tech’s VT MADE Lab has created, presented by Joel from [3DPrintingNerd]. So what does a Terminator circuit actually entail? Well, just like in Terminator 2, the circuits are made of liquid metal. Specifically,

  2. Article · Aug 8, 2026 · Ian Bos

    Junkbin, A Way To Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics (opens the original)

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    We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. We might rationalize that they’re worth keeping for the parts alone, but the reality is, unless you desolder and sort all the components ahead of time, most of us will never really use these spare parts to their full potential. Except it really doesn’t have to be that way. Junkbin.io is an attempt to improve on the state of that corner bin. Thou

  3. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Ian Bos

    Fibrous Muscles For Humanoid Robotics (opens the original)

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    At the current rate of robotics development, you might assume that we’re close to Skynet taking over. However, while we likely wouldn’t do well in a physical fight against a robot, we can at least keep the bragging rights of having the cooler actuators. Or at least, that was the case before a new actuator came into town — introducing “Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles”. Traditional robotic actuators use motors of some kind with a variety of gearboxes or linkages to turn rotational movement into usabl

  4. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Ian Bos

    CGI Motion Capture With Only A Camera (opens the original)

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    Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has largely replaced physical models in major film productions these days, but the transition didn’t exactly happen overnight. For a time there was an effort to blend the physical and digital, which allowed animators on productions such as Jurassic Park to work with newer technology in a way they were familiar with. [Corridor Crew] took this concept a step further by manipulating digital models with nothing but a webcam. Early in the production of CGI, animators

  5. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Ian Bos

    Is Now The Time For Volumetric 3D Printing? (opens the original)

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    Of all innovations adopted by the maker community within the past couple of decades, one stands among the rest on top for anything regarding manufacturing. It goes without saying here at Hackaday how many projects have been reliant on using the technology to turn their ideas into reality. 3D printing has been a maker community invention and, in return, has expanded this hacky community into something that anyone with an imagination can get into. It also goes without saying that the layer-based t

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