Got a RC chopper, why not take a camera into the sky for some aerial pictures? “Here’s a 3.4 I picked today. I sliced off the battery compartment and installed a servo plug so the camera can be powered by my plane/helicopters receiver. Works great. The 3 wires you see are from a servo extender, I’m not using the yellow (signal) wire…just the black and orange power ones. While it’d
It would be fun to program this to fall over when it is time for a coffee break. “Availabot is a physical representation of presence in Instant Messenger applications. Availabot plugs into your computer by USB, stands to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when they go away. It’s a presence-aware, peripheral-vision USB toy… and because the puppets are made in small numbers on a rapid-prototyping
If you have a Roomba, why not buy a broom and put the Roomba to better use. “The other day I was marveling at the efficient operation of my roomba when it occurred to me that it would be really nice if roomba would get me a beer. While gestating the idea my first thought was to have roomba follow a line to the fridge and back. And a
