Jesse Sullivan lost both of his arms in a work related accident. He is now the worlds first real bionic man. How does it work? “NECAL uses nerve-muscle grafts in amputees to gain added control signals for an artificial arm. Doctors take nerves that used to go to the arm and move those nerves onto chest muscles. The nerves grow into the chest muscles, so when the patient thinks “close
Big Clive has taken a dollar store fiber optic display and converted it to run off of LEDs. He has built an interesting circuit that allows the low voltage LEDs to operate from 220VAC (yes Clive is not from North America). He demonstrates his circuit board fabrication process and provides a schematic drawing so you can build your own.
RoboNova-1 could be the next big hackable toy. It comes with 16 Hitec servos, the structural portions are made of steel and the exoskeleton is made of durable plastic. The robot also comes with a simple programming language. “Beginners to robot programming technology will be pleased to use the supplied RoboScript programming software. Without knowing any programming language at all users can create operational subroutines with the click of a
