Here is a cool battle between a Paintball toting Tank and the Paintball Sentry. Looks like the tank needs a bit more speed and punch to be able to be a contender. Thanks for the email Jeff. “I mounted a turret kit from our website to a Traxxas slash and pit it up against the paintball sentry”
The prize this week is a multi tool that is sure to help you MacGyver your way out of trouble. This contest will run for one week (July 3 – July 9, 2010) . 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 in the comments. Send
Matt Meerian of Home Brew Electronics sent in this Electronic Bird Catcher project that he completed a few weeks ago. It is a device that was hacked together to catch a robin that was causing mischief around his new house. He tried a few simple methods of getting rid of the bird but they weren’t very effective. He decided to let some technology help him out, he designed a quick
Dave Coates from the Air Force Research Lab in Dayton Ohio designed this Remote Auxiliary Power System. I don’t know where to begin with this device! I think this device is flawed in so many ways, I hate to think of how much money was pumped into getting this device to this stage… The cable that is being shown in the demonstration is one that would deliver power to a
Kenneth Finnegan is working on a project to allow his microcontroller projects talk to the magical world of Ethernet. Without special systems like an ioBridge module a typical project would only dream of speaking to other systems unless a computer was introduced in the mix. Kenneth is using the Microchip ENC28J60 to do the heavy lifting in this case and by using a proto board from ElectroBoards the final result
Skechers Shape Up Shoes sent in a cool Geek Inspired Flip Flops list they made. I think the metal detector flip flops are my favorite. I am hoping that the picture below is just a prank picture! These guys have an electric grill in the middle of a small pool and there is a pairs of flip flops holding the power bar just barely out of the water. Maybe they
If I learnt about Lenz’s Law in high school I must have forgot about it. Watch the cool demonstration above where a stack of neodymium ring magnets are dropped into a copper pipe. Of course copper is a non magnetic metal so the magnets will not stick to it. You would probably guess that the magnets would simply fall at the same rate as if they were just dropped. Well
