If you need to explore a tight space or pull something from one point to another this Squeeze Exploratory Robot looks like it would be up to the task. The older Holio Robot was taller and had wheels instead of treads. Via: HG Comments ” He crawls around between rafters and floor boards. His main role is to pull network cables and alarm across roof spaces too small for people.Â
Take one Apple iPad processor, some gentle abrasive action and look what you can see. The folks over at iFixit partnered with Chipworks to get a closer look inside the iPad to see what makes it tick. Turns out the iPad is basically a huge version of the iPhone 2G. The Apple A4 processor is in a POP package, this stands for package-on-package. The first package is for the microprocessor and
If you need to monitor a fan on a piece of equipment this PC Fan Failure Alarm from PCB Heaven should fit the bill. The RPM monitor line is used to determine what the RPM of the fan is and if it falls below an adjustable threshold the alarm is tripped. Heat buildup due to a faulty fan can do some serious damage in a short time, this simple circuit
Luis sent in this neat game that he built using an ATmega 328 microcontroller. He is from Honduran and this system was featured as the first video game system made in Honduras on several local newspapers and some local TV programs. “This is a monochrome game with monaural sound I created using an atmega328. The circuit has 3 MCUs (One for composite video, the IR receiver de-codifier, and the last
Our friend Edo who brought us the cool 64 RGB LED Table has just installed some stair lights into his stairwell. Edo has started a new Youtube account which will contain all of his interactive furniture creations. I spoke to Edo about his creation and he didn’t know about the stair lighting controller that we sell, all I can think is that creative minds think alike. 🙂 Our original prototype
Owen sent in his cool Touch Screen Hack for his TI 84 Plus Calculator. He is using an Arduino to read in the data from a Nintendo touch screen, the touch data is then sent to the calculator’s serial port so that it can then graph images based on where the screen is being touched. Did I mention that Owen is 16! I am trying to think what I was
Thanks to Senario (the makers of Zibits) for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing 4 lucky contest winner a Zibits robot. Have a look at the video below, the robots are IR controlled and I thing with a bit of hacking they could be sent random forward and turn commands which would make your cat or dog go crazy. “Product Details Mini Collectable Zibits come to life
