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DIY animatronic 3D printed mouth using Arduino and Python

Here's the assembly instructions for my 3D printed Arduino / Python controlled animatronic mouth! #animatronics #arduino #3dprinting #python #robotics #makerproject #diyrobot #mechanism #engineeringpr ...

This vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that's fun

It could always be worse.

I used Nano Banana 2 to make perfect sketchnotes: 5 lessons learned (and how I broke Gemini)

The results were fascinating, impressive, and sometimes surprisingly bad. Here are five tips that can help you get better results faster.

Simulation makes it possible to study movements of cell's largest protein complexes without supercomputers

Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...
Nature

AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life?

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years

No one has had a Synchron brain-computer interface longer than Rodney Gorham. He's still finding new ways to use it.
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VS Code: Python Environments Extension generally available

As Microsoft announced, the Python Environments Extension for Visual Studio Code is generally available after a one-year preview phase. It is intended to make the workflow for managing Python ...
GitHub

Native Python bindings for btrfs — create filesystems, manage subvolumes and snapshots, mount and unmount. No shell commands, no subprocess, no runtime dependencies beyond libc.

Why not the existing btrfs package? The btrfs package on PyPI requires libbtrfsutil installed as a system library. That means distro packages, broken virtualenvs, and ...