Automation is everywhere, have a look at this Robotic Restaurant for a cool example! Video after the jump. “You select your meal from touchscreens that are installed on every table, and it arrives via a spiral slide a few minutes later.” Via: TechEBlog and Gizmodo
Here are some cool ideas for old hardware, don’t toss it if you can make it into something nice…
Congratulation to winner of the last contest. The prize this week is a LAN and USB cable tester, no more wondering if the cable is the problem. Just plug it in and give it a test… This contest will run for the Canadian long weekend (September 1 – September 3, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an
Have a look at this cool video, call your robot using Skype and have it perform spoken commands while you remotely watch the results. I for one am very impressed! Link “Hot new video shows a Roboquad robot being controlled by voice, over the Internet with the help of Robodance and Skype’s video call service. The robot explores the house while beaming back audio and video to a laptop
Check out this Youscope Oscilloscope Graphics Demo More impressive when you learn that a 15 year old made the demo! “A demo using an oscilloscope to display something. It was third in assembly 2007 shortfilm compo, and won altparty’s most original entry prize. The oscilloscope is connected to PC soundcard and is in X/Y-mode, with right channel connected to X and left to Y input.” Via: Make
Funditor shows us how to make a DIY night vision system using a large flashlight, some colored plastic discs and an old digital camera. The result is an invisible spotlight that will allow you to see what the light is pointed at using the camera. High power IR LEDs could also be used but would cost a bit more.
If you like robotics and PIC microcontroller projects like I do this PIC Robot Centipede is sure to tickle your fancy. The project uses the cool Centipede Robot. Video after the jump. “I ordered a bunch of PIC programming materials at the start of summer break to learn more about embedded development and generally play around with them. For my first sizeable PIC project I decided to replace the brain
