Mixed-reality toy · Meta Quest 3 (and 2) · a few minutes, or as long as you like A planet the size of a grapefruit hangs over your desk, with clouds and little continents, slowly turning. Beside it sits a cradle holding a satellite. Pick the satellite up and a dotted line appears, showing exactly …
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Mixed-reality sandbox · Meta Quest 3 (Quest 2 in black and white) Goldberg puts a Rube Goldberg kit on your real desk. Ramps, dominoes, planks and balls sit on the actual furniture in your room, and you build with your hands: pinch a part to pick it up, set it down, tap Run, and watch …
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VR game · Meta Quest with controllers · also plays with a mouse You’re standing on a small deck inside a huge spinning cylinder. The floor curves up on both sides and meets overhead, a line of light runs down the middle, and through the window at the far end the stars slowly wheel past. …
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VR game · Meta Quest · about 10 minutes a range A bronze field gun stands on a hilltop beside a table of powder bags and cannonballs. Somewhere across the valley there’s a little wooden fort with a red flag. You load the gun by hand, crank the barrel up, swing it into the wind, …
Code CAD for laser cutting · runs in the browser · free and open source I make a lot of things on my laser cutter, and for years the workflow has been Inkscape plus a Python plugin to generate the finger joints. It works, but it’s fiddly. Every design is a pile of shapes I …
VR games in the browser · Meta Quest 2 and 3 · nothing to install Put on a Quest, open a web page, and you’re standing on a stone plaza at dusk with three swirling portals in front of you. Walk into one and you’re somewhere else: loading a cannon on a hillside, shooting inside …
Free browser tool · nothing to install Type a word, draw a shape, or drop in a photo, and Stereogram Studio turns it into a hidden-picture stereogram: the kind of noisy poster that suddenly pops into 3D when you relax your eyes. It can also make red/cyan 3D-glasses images that look like plain static without …
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Browser game · about 20 minutes The screen shows nothing but TV static. Put on red/cyan glasses, turn the dial, and a face rises out of the noise. She is trying to tell you something, but her voice comes through as whistles. Play Channel Thirteen GlassesRed/cyan or red/blue 3D glasses. Cheap paper ones are fine. …
Reverse-engineering a Hunter ceiling fan remote My ceiling fan came with a hand-held 433 MHz remote that — like most of them — was starting to die. Hunter sells replacements, but they won’t show up for a week, and the OEM remote isn’t smart-home friendly anyway. I wanted the fan in my LCARS smart-home dashboard, …
Recently the coding ability of free LLMs has increased a lot. I’ve been playing with generating javascript and came up with a simple game: https://www.bposhaughnessy.com/nestegg/.