This Recycled Alien Bike is certainly one that you will not find in your local bike dealership. It was made entirely from scrap metal by Bangkok artist Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn. It reminds me of the crazy Skull Bike we saw back in 2006. Via: UniqueDaily “Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn, 54, created it out of spare parts in his workshop in Thailand. He has four shops across the country – named the Ko Art
The prize this week is a loupe magnifier, this will let you get a close look at whatever you are working on. This contest will run for one week (July 30 – August 5, 2011). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above. This time we will need the specific make of the device. Please do not give the answer in the comments.
This Talking Robot Mouth looks a bit creepy but works amazingly well. This robotic mouth is making sounds the same way we do. The mouth is made of various silicone materials blended together and the nose has the same function ours does when it comes to the creation of human vocals. The most impressive thing is that the robot learns as it talks, there is a microphone which allows the
RobotGrrl (Erin Kennedy) has been working on RoboBrrd for a long time, she has now made an iPad app which lets you feed the bird various fruits, the app communicates with the bird via a Redpark serial cable. The on-board Arduino deciphers the commands to perform the appropriate actions such as flapping its wings or chewing on the fruit. The Redpark cable comes with an iOS SDK which allows the
Metalfusion from Finland has developed an interesting method of creating CNC routed halftone images using a single v-bit router bit. Just like a news paper prints images using dots of ink this process produces dots of different sizes by plunging the v-bit to varying depths. He has developed the software which allows normal images to be converted into files that are ready to be cut on a CNC machine. It
3D printing no longer seems to have the wow factor that it did a few years ago, I remember how crazy it seemed a year and a half ago when when Bradley Rigdon demonstrated how to print a 3D bearing. Most of us have now seen something that has been printed in a 3D printer. This is thanks in large part to the MakerBot which has brought inexpensive 3D printing
Greg from Electronicsnerd will be building some RF projects over the next few days. Today he presents an AM Broadcast Band Rejection Filter for Shortwave Reception which is based on the work of Joseph J. Carr. You can find the circuit in this article (PDF). With only 7 components it’s a simple circuit that could be built in a short time. “With an eye toward proper RF construction techniques, I
