Tired of building projects that need a programmer for the microcontroller and data books for all the chips. Why not keep it simple? That is what Hubert did when he built these two robots. Solar Lawnmower: “Cutting the grass can be boring…. You can buy a commercial robot… But you must spend about 3000 $ and install special cables… This one works alone, your grass must be surrounded with a,
Here is another cool idea for your old hard drives. The device is called a Springverb, it’s a Hard Drive Spring Speaker. There are lots more of sound clips and videos on the site. Video after the jump. “Inspired by the wealth of hard-drive recycling ideas on hacked-gadgets and the >springverb research posted at Electronic Peasant. When looking at both these pages… this hack becomes pretty obvious. It helps that
After seeing the Rusty Nail LED Night Light I am thinking that Dick Cappels may be the off set name of MacGyver. 🙂 If you don’t have any CAT-5 wire handy why not use some of the wire out of an old transformer. “Those who are familiar with some aspects of coil core selection would quickly point out that the eddy currents would be huge since iron has a low
I don’t think you would catch me on this Pedal Powered Roller Coaster. Sounds like work if you have to pedal yourself to the top before the ride starts… “Here is the future of the green amusement park: The Skycycle at Washuzan Highland Park in Okayama, a pedal-powered roller coaster. They clearly have some dramatic topography to take advantage of here, and it looks truly frightening. Most North American amusement
Bob Schneeveis was featured on The Hippy Gourmet where he demonstrated his solar powered roller blading chariot. Video and more pictures after the jump. “In this segment from the Hippy Gourmet TV show, we visit with Bob Schneeveis, the inventor of the Solar Powered Walking Chariot! Bob is a brilliant and eccentric character who studies nature and then turns it into sustainable, solar-electric vehicles and gadgets… Bob also donates his
This DIY Audio Spectrum Monitor by a Japanese engineer looks and works great, there are full construction details and code available on his site. You have to watch the video, it’s very impressive. Video after the jump. “This is an experimental work to monitor a spectrum pattern in radio band, and is a continuous project from Audio Spectrum Monitor. To analyze the spectrum of an input signal, I chose an
Seems like a shame to chop up such a nice car… But I guess the rich and famous must have the best of the best, and how else would you and five of your friends get to ride in a Ferrari at the same time? Video after the jump. “To determine the optimum stretch length of the conversion, and to account for a further six passengers whilst retaining minimum deflection
