March 2009

Hacked Camera Robot

  This interesting Hacked Camera Robot that OddBot made is great since it uses a camera that most people would have no use for anymore. He has mounted it onto a mount that the robot can control and when ready the robot can take the picture. Best of all the system is autonomous. "I’ve hacked a cheap camera and mounted on a pan / tilt neck assembly. Pictomatix MkII only

Walking Helicopter Robot

  KeithRobot has made a crazy looking walking robot. It looks like the helicopter needs to be a bit more powerful to make it more useful but it is a great proof of concept. I can just imagine this thing being automated, it could fly close to the destination and walk the rest of the way.

ARToolKit Augmented Reality Application

  The ARToolKit is a very cool technology. How long will it be before the Wii or Playstation 3 has a game that takes advantage of this? The demonstrations are simply fantastic. "ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to the right a three-dimensional virtual character appears