Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to A touch sensor you can 3D print in any shape and size
We just released a touch sensor that you can make at home with just a 3D printer, some magnets and hall effect sensors! Would love to hear the community's questions, thoughts and comments.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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We just released a very excited touch sensor that finally simplifies touch sensing for robotics. Our most exciting result: Learned visuotactile policies for precise tasks like inserting USBs and credit card swiping, that work out-of-the-box when you replace skins! To the best of our knowledge, this has never been shown before with any existing tactile sensor. Why is this important? For the first time, you could now collect data and train models on one sensor and expect them to generalize to new copies of the sensor -- opening the door to the kind of large foundation models that have…
2024 · any-skin.github.io · its alternatives →
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Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year. I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years. When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one…
2024 · paulbupejr.com · its alternatives →
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MakePrintable▲108Automagically turn 3D models into printable objects
2017 · makeprintable.com · its alternatives →
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Print physical objects from anywhere
2017 · blog.astroprint.com · its alternatives →
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I bet you didn't knew you can use modelling clay (as opposed to 3d printing) to make nice devices by hand :)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create your own 3D printed jewelry & accessories online
2015 · loveandrobots.com · its alternatives →
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Makerarm▲126The first robotic arm that makes anything, anywhere
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Universal touchscreen and cloud platform for 3D printers
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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3D printed mouse replacement with Raspberry Pi Pico and PMW3360
2023 · xythobuz.de · its alternatives →
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Cost effective non-electric IOT switches and triggers.
2017 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your child's drawing into a 3D print
2015 · colorourtown.com · its alternatives →
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3D printing is such a fascinating field of technology, so a couple months ago, I decided to take a deep dive and learn how they actually work! This took me to one of my very first PCB projects, a small, cheap, 3D printer motherboard. While it's not the most cutting edge board, I learned a lot and I fully documented my process designing it (https://github.com/KaiPereira/Cheetah-MX4-Mini/blob/master/J...), so other people can learn from my mistakes! It runs off of an STM32H743 MCU, has 4 TMC stepsticks with UART/SPI configurations,…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Turn the things in your world into 3D models
2014 · store.ultimaker.com · its alternatives →
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On-device photogrammetry for AR & 3D printing
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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