You may remember the Hexapod Robot that Matt Denton built. I think this new Chiara Robot could give Matt a run for his money as far as features and power. Chiara was developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tekkotsu lab, best of all it will be manufactured and sold by RoPro Design, Inc. David Touretzky, Gaku Sato, Ethan Tira-Thompson, and David Rice have done a great job on this system.
The guys over at Geeky Gadgets made a cool looking Apple iPhone Dock from some Old CDs, you might remember the pencil stand that they made before. This is a great project since you probably have all of the materials at hand and you don’t need much in the way of tools. What would make it cooler is if the top CD had an apple logo burnt on it
This Arduino Oscilloscope project is a great idea. For people that are getting into electronics having a meter is good but having a scope is great. With this project you can take your $30 Arduino board and turn it into a oscilloscope, it won’t show you great detail or very fast circuits but often times that is not needed. "This software allows you to get a visual representation of
From what I hear the Toyota Prius is a fantastic hybrid car however the car does not come with a plug to charge it from an electrical outlet. Nikki has changed that by installing some extra batteries and a charging system so that she can plug the car in at night and top up the batteries. Via: Make "Batteries: 28, 7.20 Volt, Nickel-Metal Hydride. Three OEM Panasonic Prius (2004-2009)
The prize this week will provide you lots of rubber band fun. It is a mini version of some of the cool rubber band guns we have seen here in the past. I am interested to see how many people guess the item this week, I think it’s a bit more obscure than usual. This contest will run for one week (June 13 – 18, 2009) . Ending time is
There is something about a tube amp that is very cool. Even though you can buy a small transistor based amplifier on a chip for a few dollars the old tube method of creating sound has some magical draw. I don’t own a tube amp but this Stereo Tube Amp Project is now available as a kit so I guess now there is no excuse. 🙂 “Ever wanted to build
It is nice to see all of the ways we can reduce our energy consumption. For example the hacked Kill a Watt (now called the Tweet-a-Watt) can help you monitor your power consumption. Intel is making processors that are will use less energy by changing the way some fundamental things are done, this equates to a $2 billion dollar saving in energy fees. Google been growing at an amazing
