Thanks for a fantastic year! The start of a new one is just around the bend. Since everyone will be watching the clock in the next few hours, here are some clocks that are probably more interesting that the ones you will be watching tonight. 🙂
Robots may take over the world some day but before they do they better learn to hang on when performing on the Horizontal bar. 🙂 Make sure you watch the 3rd video, it demonstrates the creature that is developing the technology (or it could be just a shy geek). Via: Adafruit Blog
If a small pipe CNC machine can be made why not scale it up and make a huge one. I have never seen a large CNC machine made with this configuration. I am real curious to see what it is like when bluefacedthief completes it.
Gadget Gangster has been cranking out the new products. Here is a 3 axis accelerometer board with Gyro capability that looks like lots of fun. “The Acc_Gyro Board represents a 5DOF Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), capable of measuring acceleration on all 3-axis as well as measuring rotation rate around the X and Y axis. Combining values from both accelerometer and gyroscope will allow you to obtain accurate values of inclination
Going solar doesn’t mean shelling out thousands of dollars, this DIY Solar Install is an example where Dave from Plastibots spent a little more than $200 to get a start in solar power. Lots of people think that to get into the game you need to go all out, here is an example where you can test the water on the cheap. I have been thinking of doing something similar
Robby Connor, Richard Evan Cross and Zach Rasmor made a cool Automatic Wireless Drink Mixer for their University of Washington Electrical Engineering embedded systems ee478 class. Do you recognize that display they are using? Yes it is made by 4dsystems who sponsored one of our recent contests! Via: TechEBlog “Automatic drink mixer features: -Remote touch screen allowing users to pick from preset drinks or customize their own. Touch screen donated
Dave Fletcher from Fletchtronics.net will be building 10 Bumble-Bs per day over the next 10 days. He will be sharing video of the entire process, talking about how his company was created, going over some surface mount soldering pointers, providing some discounts on product and giving away some prizes. Sounds like lots of fun so why not check it out. You may remember the Bumble-B from this project that we
