December 21, 2006

Mondo Spider Bot

  The Mondo Spider Robot is one hell of a robot. You don’t see projects that you can ride very often! “With terrifying speed and precision, the first completed leg moves under the power of the hydraulic drive system. The beast will not be walking this quickly but it is clear that there will be no shortage of power. This leg was capable of lifting the machine from its stand

Completed 6 Axis PC Controller

  You might remember the article of the in progress 6 Axis PC Controller, well it is now complete. This thing is very impressive, doesn’t look like the standard weekend DIY because of the complexity. “My microcontroller doesn’t have built-in I2C or SPI, so I needed to implement one of my own. I also didn’t have interrupt pins available, meaning my solution needed to be based on polling. When all

XBox meets Waterjet

Ok, now I know the first think I will buy after winning the lottery. I need one of these waterjet machines. I have seen them in operation from time to time on American Chopper but I didn’t realize that the machine is so versatile. I am thinking that one could easily make a very profitable business making things out of old circuit boards that would be destined for the landfill