Who says microcontrollers are only for sensors and IoT?... One developer used an ESP32-S3 to create an entire collection of interactive generative art, proving that embedded systems can be a creative medium too. The projects use Adafruit Qualia ESP32-S3 with a 2.1" round TFT display and an IMU for motion-based interaction, while the artwork is first prototyped in JavaScript and then ported to C++ and deployed with the Arduino IDE. Along the way, you will learn about computer graphics, embedded displays, animation, IMU sensors, generative art, optimization, and real-time rendering on resource-constrained hardware.show more

25 Grams of Hardware. 4 Motors. One Flying ESP32-S3.... ESP-FLY is a tiny DIY quadcopter built around the XIAO ESP32-S3. It uses an MPU6050 IMU for motion sensing, four coreless motors, and supports Wi-Fi and ESP-NOW for control. The interesting part is that the flight controller is programmable, so you can experiment with sensor fusion, attitude control, PWM motor control and wireless communication. About 25g with the battery, yet it can actually fly.show more

for everyone who still doesn’t believe you can run... local AI on an ESP32: here’s the same class of chip booting an entire operating system. Windows XP boot screen. welcome screen. the Bliss wallpaper. and, of course, an error dialog😁 we went from fitting a 28.9M-parameter language model into an ESP32-S3... to recreating the full Windows XP experience on a tiny 240×240 display. the era of "microcontrollers are only good for blinking LEDs" is overshow more

🌱 Smart Greenhouse Automation Using Arduino & ESP32! 🤖🌿... What if your greenhouse could monitor the soil and water your plants automatically — with no manual intervention? In this project, we’ve built a fully functional smart greenhouse using Arduino and ESP32, designed to automate plant irrigation based on real-time soil moisture levels. 🔧 Key Features: ✅ Automatic soil moisture monitoring ✅ Smart & intelligent irrigation control ✅ Arduino + ESP32 integration ✅ Fully functional DIY project ✅ Affordable and easy to scale 🚀 More Than Just a DIY Project This project demonstrates how IoT, embedded systems, and automation can transform traditional environments into intelligent systems. And the possibilities go far beyond a small greenhouse — the same concepts can be scaled for smart agriculture, precision farming, professional greenhouses, and industrial agricultural applications. 📚 Want to explore more ESP32 projects? 🔥 Check out these Top 6 ESP32 eBooks: 💬 Let’s hear from you! Have you worked on a Smart Home, IoT, or Smart Agriculture project before? Which development board or sensor do you enjoy working with the most — ESP32, Arduino, or something else? 👇 Share your experience and ideas in the comments! #Arduino #ESP32 #IoT #SmartHome #SmartAgriculture #SmartFarming #Greenhouse #DIY #EmbeddedSystems #Automation #PrecisionAgriculture #OpenSource #IoTProjectsshow more

ClickUp is working on agents that build custom user... interfaces on the fly. > Agents can build custom interactive blocks, with buttons, editable fields, and embedded charts. > Agents decide what the user needs to see and construct an interactive experience in real time. > Clicking or editing inside a generated block can fire an action directly. Agents will be able to create a working code block that responds to users' input, built in the moment for the task at hand.show more

GOOGLE 🔥: Interactive Reports are being prepared for the... upcoming release in Gemini Notebook. > New: You can now create interactive reports. > An interactive report with embedded Studio content. Users can customize these reports by providing a custom prompt and selecting a language. Based on the suggested prompt, this feature lets users generate interactive reports, user research reports, and complex visualizations. * Not available to the public yet.show more

If you’ve been wanting to experiment with #generativeAI, check... out PartyRock powered by Amazon Bedrock. With PartyRock, anyone can learn about prompt engineering/writing and build apps in just a few clicks. I built one to find the best bike trails in the Seattle area based on time of year, and best time to go to avoid crowds. You can build an app to create the perfect playlist based on your musical tastes, or one to recommend what to cook based on ingredients in your pantry. The list goes on. PartyRock is an easy and fun way to learn the fundamentals of foundation models and then collaborate with other developers. Anyone can access PartyRock through the website, and you don’t need an Amazon Web Services account. Share your PartyRock apps in the comments below!show more

Here are some really tactical ways to optimize the... First and last frame capability: — Make sure your prompt includes precise camera motion descriptions for smooth and creative transitions between the first and last frames. — Or, you can simply include the word “transform” in your prompt for a smooth transition — Starting with a closeup in your first frame and then zooming out to a wide-shot in the final frame is an effective way to create a dramatic reveal.show more

forget the $699 AI pins. this $8 chip just... shattered the barrier for local AI hardware. a developer just forced a 28.9 million-parameter LLM onto a standard ESP32-S3 microcontroller. it costs roughly 8 dollars, runs completely offline, and draws the power of a single LED. conventional wisdom said a model of this size simply would not fit. the chip only has 512 KB of fast SRAM and 16 MB of flash. the breakthrough is architectural. the developer moved the bulk of the embedding table into flash memory and memory-mapped it. the chip only needs to pull about 450 bytes per token, keeping the active working memory inside the fast SRAM. this means you can now embed a capable language model into a physical node for the price of two coffees. and we are already seeing the beginnings of this custom physical hardware. in the video, a creator built a minimalist voice-controlled universal remote using an ESP32. it captures voice and remotely controls the computer over bluetooth LE. he simply says "open chrome and open 20 new tabs", and the custom hardware executes it instantly. we have spent years watching model sizes explode upward. but the true frontier is the opposite direction. when an eight-dollar chip can power offline intelligence and custom physical interfaces, AI becomes local infrastructure rather than a cloud service.show more

Five Rivers Health Centers in Dayton, Ohio is calling... itself a “safety-net” clinic for low-income patients, while quietly building the largest FQHC facility in the entire state and curating a 125-piece art collection with more on the way. All of it funded by 340B, a federal program Congress designed so that poor and sick people could afford their medicine. The patients 340B was built for are an afterthought. The campus and their art collection are not.show more

3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering paper... page: Radiance Field methods have recently revolutionized novel-view synthesis of scenes captured with multiple photos or videos. However, achieving high visual quality still requires neural networks that are costly to train and render, while recent faster methods inevitably trade off speed for quality. For unbounded and complete scenes (rather than isolated objects) and 1080p resolution rendering, no current method can achieve real-time display rates. We introduce three key elements that allow us to achieve state-of-the-art visual quality while maintaining competitive training times and importantly allow high-quality real-time (>= 30 fps) novel-view synthesis at 1080p resolution. First, starting from sparse points produced during camera calibration, we represent the scene with 3D Gaussians that preserve desirable properties of continuous volumetric radiance fields for scene optimization while avoiding unnecessary computation in empty space; Second, we perform interleaved optimization/density control of the 3D Gaussians, notably optimizing anisotropic covariance to achieve an accurate representation of the scene; Third, we develop a fast visibility-aware rendering algorithm that supports anisotropic splatting and both accelerates training and allows realtime rendering. We demonstrate state-of-the-art visual quality and real-time rendering on several established datasets.show more

What if aircraft were built like open-source software? Project... Caribou is an ambitious open-source effort to build a 200 kg-class heavy-lift hexacopter that anyone can study, improve, and contribute to. The long-term goal is to accelerate the development of larger open-source aircraft and eVTOL platforms. The project targets a ~200 kg maximum takeoff weight with an ~100 kg payload, uses an 18S power architecture, and is built around an ArduPilot-based flight stack. The repository includes CAD models, PCB designs, documentation, and engineering workflows that are evolving in the open. If you are interested in drones, aerospace, robotics, or embedded systems, this is one of the most exciting open-source engineering projects to follow.show more

Tōkon Assemble lets you perform an invincible strike and... then a series of attacks with the entire team. This move is only available when losing the next round would result in a match loss, and it can only be used once per match. It will require all team members to be unlocked, 150 Skill Gauge, and all three bars of the Assemble Gauge.show more

IF YOU SEE THIS POST, IT MEANS I'M LOOKING... FOR A GAME PROJECT TO JOIN Hi, I'm Nera, an art director leading a small game art team. We've recently finished our latest game project, and we're now looking for a new game to work on. Our team can help with the full art production of your game from characters, environments, objects, and animations to UI. We can also help shape the visual direction of your game from the ground up. You don't need to be an experienced developer or have a large team to make a game. If you have an idea you're passionate about, we'd love to hear about it. If you're working on a game and looking for an art team, feel free to DM me. 🥰🩷show more

Triangle Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering Contributions: (i)... We propose Triangle Splatting, a novel approach that directly optimizes unstructured triangles, bridging traditional computer graphics and radiance fields. (ii) We introduce a differentiable window function for soft triangle boundaries, enabling effective gradient flow. (iii) We demonstrate qualitatively and quantitatively that Triangle Splatting outperforms concurrent methods in terms of visual quality and rendering speed, and achieves superior perceptual quality compared to the state-of-the-art Zip-NeRF on indoor scenes. (iv) The optimized triangles are directly compatible with standard mesh-based renderers, enabling seamless integration into traditional graphics pipelines.show more

INTRODUCING OCBTW: THE FIRST PANDA-BACKED ASSET A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND 2-WAY... NFT NFT SWAP We just deployed a smart contract on Bitcoin that allows you to mint "OCBTW", a limited edition generative art collection by tclow.sats, solely by swapping an Alkane Pandas ⬢ OCBTW has a supply of 200 unique pieces and is inspired by oylwallet's signature hexagon logo that defines all native Alkane assets (e.g., $DIESEL). It is 100% on-chain generative art using three.js code via HTML ⬢ OCBTW can only be minted by swapping a Panda using the 2:70104 smart contract. After 200 swaps have been completed, on a first-come-first-served basis, the mint will conclude. However, OCBTW can be swapped back to a Panda at any time, freeing up supply for another Panda holder to collect a OCBTW piece from the contract. ⬢ OCBTW is thus backed entirely by Pandas, meaning each piece will never be worth less than a Panda. This is the first time on Bitcoin that an NFT is minted with another NFT. This may be the first time this has ever been done on any chain. ⬢ OCBTW also effectively locks up up to 200 Pandas for perpetuity. Just like AP-69, this swap contract has no withdrawal function. The only way to get Pandas out of the contract is to swap your OCBTW back to a Panda. This operates on a last-in, first-out (LIFO) basis. ⬢ OCBTW can be minted by calling the 2:70104 contract using opcode 42 and including a Panda in the transaction, either by using or You can only mint 1 OCBTW per transaction. Rarity of Pandas has no effect on what OCBTW mint you will receive. ⬢ OCBTW can be viewed natively in browser on iDclub 💥 Building Alkanes at the following link: Please be patient after minting for their indexer to update after blocks clear. Please also note that the Ordiscan Alkanes indexer is currently down. ⬢ OCBTW is purely art. Art on Bitcoin. Forever.show more

Announcing Hashed, an Ordinals collection of 256 abstract mining... rigs, inspired by the old-school plugboards of cipher machines. The design evolves with Bitcoin, with connections re-arranging into a unique pattern for each new block. The collection also extensively utilizes recursive Ordinals endpoints to display real time block data (avg fee rate, time since last, etc..) in the frame, and the numbers scattered throughout the design are the current blockhash. The goal is to create a mini mempool-like experience, where the art grows and reflects the Bitcoin network it’s inscribed on More details will be coming shortly along with a proper write up and mint date Distribution Plan: The Blocks and Ars Machina Holders: GTD WL Select Ordinals Communities: FCFS WL If you’d like to request WL for your community, please reach out to me in X DMs Mint Date: TBD Bitcoin is artshow more

The LACMA has long been a great supporter of... initiatives in art and technology. From the original Art and Technology Lab, to more recent exhibitions like Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982, their sustained interest in the development of creative and artistic practices in relation to the rise of computer technology has helped sustain a once controversial yet undeniably fascinating genre of art before it came into public discourse. I am so pleased with the opportunity to highlight an important part of my practice, known as parameterization. By changing one variable in the program, in this case the percentage of pegs to be wrapped by a string, we are able to see how the original artwork, Ringers #962, evolves over the course of 9 frames arranged in a grid. This process is what I call a “parameter sweep” and it’s an honor to present the combined works as the LACMA Iterations. As the artist who coded the algorithm, I had no explicit control over how the artwork would develop, instead relying on randomization and a deep familiarity of the aesthetic form to help guide the output through code.show more

C = εr ε0 (A/d) This demo shows capacitive... coupling using water as a variable dielectric (εᵣ ≈ 80). The human body completes the circuit by touching the water, acting as the second conductor with its capacitance to ground. Hand/finger movement changes the effective area A and distance d, while ripples dynamically modulate C. This varying capacitance alters an oscillator’s frequency, which is converted into audio tones or MIDI in real time. Educational fluid-based sensors and interactive MIDI controllers for bio-signal acquisition and gesture-controlled music. Ideal for physics demos and human-interface experiments.show more

wowwow Holy Shit I let Opus 4.7 pick any... art on my computer they'd like to use as a starting frame for an animation, and then prompt gptimage2 for animation frames however they'd like to make a 100 frame animation here was the result note - gptimage2 only made 4 images, each one was a 5x5 grid of frames, so that totals to 100show more

I’m excited to introduce Artist Commons, a year-long, online... development program for early- and mid-career artists. Applications open next week, and the program starts in mid-January. ➤ Do you want to learn more about how to navigate the business of art? ➤ Do you want an artist community invested in your longterm growth? ➤ Do you want real feedback on your work instead of just some kind words from your friends? If you’ve been looking for a way to level up your art practice without spending an arm and a leg to get an MFA, Artist Commons is for you. Artists accepted into the program are paired with a mentor and a small cohort of peers at their level for weekly feedback sessions. Then tune in every month to lectures on the business of art, craft workshops from visiting artists, talks on various modern and contemporary art movements, and guest speakers working across the art world. You’ll build deep community with your fellow members through online meetups including regular reading groups, close looking exercises, and forum discussions, as well as quarterly IRL meetups in select cities. Developing this has been so inspiring and I’m so excited to build the community I wish I’d had when I was coming up. I can’t wait to tell you about all the amazing guests we have lined up. If you’d like to go into next year with a clear sense of purpose for your art practice, we’d love to have you. Below is the website where you can learn more about the program. Follow Artist Commons on socials. And sign up for the email list to be the first to know when applications open next week.show more