This Underwater ROV Project has lots of documentation of a cool work in progress. There are lots of challenges that were faced along the way that may save one of us some time on one of our future projects. Here are a few videos of the unit in action. "The ROV submerging technique was originally using part of a bicycle inner tube and a car windscreen washer pump. However
This technology looks like it works very well. I have seen lots of 2 LED motion sense units but the third LED seems to add lots to the capability. Now if only someone came up with an open source version of it since the prices seem a bit high. "As you move in your chair and rotate your head small amounts : your game-view will precisely correspond. You never
Re-purposing old computer parts is great since it prevents working equipment from finding their way into the landfill. This XY Plotter is a great example of re-use of old equipment. "This XY plotter was made by the group at Next Window and is the work of Paul Marson and Keith Colson, for the purposes of calibrating touch screens. It uses components that were salvaged from two old Kodak flatbed
The most impressive part of this Lego NXT Rubik Cube Solver is that the NXT module does the computing that solves the cube! I wouldn’t have thought that would have been possible without having a PC do the calculations. Video after the jump. "Tilted Twister solves Rubik’s cube fully automatically. Just place the scrambled cube on Tilted Twister’s turntable. An ultrasonic sensor detects its presence and starts to read
I haven’t seen the movie yet but I hear it is good. This Batcycle is a high tech model of the motorcycle from the movie. "To celebrate the release of Batman’s latest film, “The Dark Knight”, the NXT BatCycle was created! Armed and dangerous, the BatCycle can handle any opponents it may encounter with its’ hidden rocket launcher that expands from the body of the bike. With its’ large
RoboTurk is a great example of technology being used to help save lives. It uses Microsoft technology at the core to perform some very complex tasks. "RobotTurk is a prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) equipped with a camera that is capable of streaming live video of disaster struck areas to ground command stations. The helicopter carries onboard an eBox compute-unit that runs Microsoft Robotics Studio, allowing the robot to
Electric bikes are all the rage recently. But why would you simply buy one when you can make your own? That is what Stryker did when he wanted to get rid of some of hid fuel costs. Have a look at the fully documented process here. "I only work 3 miles from home but with gas prices getting out of control, I thought it would be great to have
