If you’re into cool electronics and audio, have a look at Drawdio. It allows you to play music from anything and everything. Via: Make and Adafruit "Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaroni, trees, grandpa, even the kitchen sink…"
At first glance this giant crane looks like it has been constructed using LEGO blocks but a closer look at the specs indicates that each arm can lift 100kg! This is no toy. Someone needs to hook up a Wiimote to it though. 🙂 Via: The Raw Feed "Tadano says Robotops is the first four-legged, two-armed crane available. Information from Tadano says Robotops has 29 joints on the hands,
The prizes this week is for all of the weekend network warriors who want to be able to troubleshoot cable issues in their sleep. This contest will run for one week (May 30 – June 4, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer
If you like the idea of cruising around but find Segways to be a bit big and the Wheelman to be a bit loud have a look at these iShoes. As long as there are no exploding battery recalls I think they would be tons of fun. Via: Zedomax (http://zedomax.com/blog/2009/05/21/shoes-that-do-the-walking-for-you/) and Gizmodiva “How do the iShoes work? You simply strap them onto your shoes, and with the handheld control
There are lots of train groups around. Many of the setups are very realistic including automated crossing gates etc. R2S2 has spend some time developing some smarts that allow an Arduino to control trains so that they can pass each other and not collide. "This shows an automatic control of two trains on a single track. The fright engine switches in each stop to the other side of the
David Jones from the EEV Blog has some good advice on selecting meters, or at least what to avoid. All the bells and whistles for the lowest price possible is not the way to go when looking for a meter. Inexpensive meters are fine for crude measurements if you are on a budget but if you need it to last and care about measurement accuracy you should stick to
If you like Guitar Hero you would love this project. Joel Ong, Frank Chen and Justin Leow from Cornell University built this Programmable Synthesized Guitar for their ECE 4760 Final Project. "Our basic idea is to model an acoustic guitar as closely as possible and then implement additional functions not available to the conventional guitar. This includes allowing the play of the guitar with sound being output to earphones,
