Blender (free) is pretty daunting to someone who’s never used 3D modeling or animation software. For me, using Blender 2.60a was somewhat like having to know exactly how my car works before I ...

So [meisterodin1981] decided to build a do-it-yourself version for use with Blender. You can check it out in the video below. The device uses an MPU6050 accelerometer and a spring.

[Carson Katri] has a fantastic solution to easily add textures to 3D scenes in Blender: have an image-generating AI create the texture on demand, and do it for you. It’s not perfect — the odd ...