June 2, 2007

MURATA BOY - Self Balancing Bicycle Riding Robot
Complex Hacks

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MURATA BOY is a self balancing robot that is packed with electronics to allow it to have extraordinary balancing capabilities. The specs are impressive especially considering the small size of the unit however watch the videos, they are something else! Videos and more pictures after the jump. “The little guy does not fall down, even when he comes to a complete stop. And, it’s not training wheels keeping him up,

Name the Thing Contest - 6
Contests

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Congratulation to Peter D. who was the winner last week. The first prize this week is a 2.5″ PATA hard disk enclosure that allows you to take your data on the road. Just slide in a drive (not included) and plug into your USB port. I use thumb drives a lot but quite often I am left using FTP to transfer files, this would certainly solve that problem. A mini