January 2011

Windoro - Robotic Window Cleaning

Are you on the 50th floor and hate hanging out your window to clean the outside of your windows? Have a look at the Windoro from Ilshim Global. It comes in two halves, one goes on the outside and one on the inside. Pads on the robot spin to clean the glass. This works in a similar way to the Roomba to automatically clean the entire surface of the glass. 

Charge your Tesla or your Cereal Box with Fulton Innovations Wireless Power Technology called eCoupled

Do you have a Tesla and hate the hassle of plugging it in every day? Or do you have a product that could be shown off much better if you had an inexpensive way of delivering power to it while it is on the shelf in the grocery store? These are just a few scenarios where the eCoupled technology from Fulton Innovations could help. Just imagine driving your electric vehicle

DIY Wireless Power Transfer

Very often when you are building a project there are two discreet sections. How do we go about powering everything up? Just use some good old copper wires right? That’s a good solution when the sections are fixed together but what happens when one section is rotating, in this case we can use power slip ring connectors but that is not very elegant. Alan Yates had this issue when he

Dancing Robots at the Vstore booth at CES 2011

The Vstone/Kumotek booth at CES 2011 was lots of fun with their dancing robots entertaining the crowd. The dancing robots are being controlled using a video game like remote control. All of the actions are being manipulated using servo motors. They had a bunch of other cool things on display like the line following cars.

Print PCB Layouts using Wax

Jeffrey Gough from Warranty Void if Removed wanted to develop a method of printing circuit boards which was better than the current ways that a home hobbyist has available to them. He mentions the various current methods that are commonly used which are permanent marker, toner transfer, photolithography, isolation milling, UV photoplotting, laser engraving and inkjet. For his method he reverse engineered how an inkjet printer cartridge worked and made

AR Drone Technical Overview - CES 2011

We have seen the AR Drone here before. This is the quadcopter that can be flown around using the WiFi from your iPhone, iPad or an iPod Touch. The accelerometers in the Apple product are used to fly the device around, you simply tip it in the direction you would like the AR Drone to fly. The quadcopter has a sophisticated onboard processor which allows the AR Drone to maintain

3D Projection Cube - HoloAd

InnoVision Labs had their HoloAd unit on display at CES 2011. The 3D effect is very good and of course there are no funky glasses to wear to get the effect. The technology uses three video images projected from above. There appears to be three angled pieces of glass on the inside of the cube which is what the image gets reflected onto.