A student built a real anti-gravity machine… using an Arduino. How to Make an Acoustic Levitator: Arduino Nano + motor driver + about 60 ultrasonic transducers. They all emit ~40 kHz sound. The sound waves meet and form fixed pockets in the air. Tiny bits of styrofoam get stuck in those pockets and just hang there. If you put your hand in, the pattern breaks and they fall. Same principle labs use to move droplets or samples without touching them. Credit: u/williamlk5341 on r/arduino Based on an “Acoustic Levitator” Instructable guide: ---- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Steal this idea. Allow people+agents to build custom hardware devices simply by prompting. Here's how you could make it happpen: - Index components available from partners (raspberry pi, Arduino, sensors, etc.) - Get a 3D printer or CNC machine - Expose catalogue + APIs for machines to agents, and let them use what's available to help make their human's request a reality. One prompt, order is assembled, human reviews + pays and the custom hardware comes assembled to your home in a day. It'd be so cool to have physical hardware made as easily as software, would open up so many possibilities!

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