Thanks to Mountain Dew for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a limited edition Game Fuel t-shirt and some Game Fuel soda to the winner. Mountain Dew has just introduce Game Fuel, there are two limited-time-only flavors inspired by the video game World of Warcraft. To kick of the release of the WOW Game Fuel they have setup a site that will be giving away a prize
Justin Cole, Kris Williams, Chad Dickman, and Todd Sanderson of West Virginia University Institute of Technology just completed their Suzuki GT 750 Electric Motorcycle Conversion. Looks like it turned out real good. Even though the power of the motor that was removed would have been much more powerful the new 8 HP electric motor does get this thing moving at a nice speed. "Motor Briggs and Stratton Etek-R Model
Voice control is great when it works. This Voice Controlled Helicopter looks like it functions well but I guess they could have taken 10 takes at making the video where every command was recognized the first time. I can see this being the next big interface for all of the hot new toys in the coming Christmas season. Not sure it would be more fun than a Helicopter with
I have seen some big RC model planes before but this one is huge! I can just imagine the time and money invested into this thing. I would hate to even attempt to take it up for its first flight since I would be terrified of crashing it into a million pieces. My hat goes off to the workmanship that went into this marvelous machine.
This DIY Electronic Meat Thermometer project will not only have you end up with a cooking thermometer in the end bit you will also learn some signal processing techniques. "To passionate chefs, cooking is an art. Knowing exactly when a cut of meat is cooked to perfection requires knowing your meat and your grill. But with a little bit of technology, we can build a digital meat thermometer, and
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
