Check out the cool Solar Robotic Bug Hack that Oriental Robotics did. It converts a small cockroach like bug which is normally just battery powered into a bug that is only active in the light. When placed under a dark box they scatter as soon as the box is lifted. This is guaranteed to be a great way to scare the wife also if you put a few of these
Seekway makes some huge LED displays, this LED Display uses 76 thousand LEDs to generate 3D Images. Creating one of these would be a lot more than a weekend project and unless you have a big building entrance to put it in I doubt you would get much use out of it but it can sure lend some inspiration to some smaller builds. Via: Hack 24/7
This Arduino and Wii Motion Plus based QuadroCopter uses the Wii Motion Plus and an Arduino to allow for an inexpensive quadcopter to be developed. Via: Zedomax
Sparkfun has an interesting article on some considerations to keep in mind when working on an Extreme Low Power Microcontroller Design. When you have a design that will be running on battery power it is important to keep power consumption in mind so that the system will work for days and not hours on battery power. I was quite impressed to read that the cheap Sparkfun meter has a uA
 Thanks to Mark Frauenfelder (Boing Boing), Charlie Sorrel (Wired), Wesley Fenlon (Tested) and David Ponce (Oh Gizmo) for writing about the Remote Control IR Jammer! Mark calls it a TV-B-Gone-B-Gone, that’s a funny concept. Just think if the CES booths has some of these on hand in 2008, Gizmodo might not have had as much fun shutting down all the TV systems .
You might remember the first version of the Electric Mountainboard that Andres Guzman-Ballen had made. Well he just send in a tip about his second version which is very cool. Watch the video above and see some of the details below. Even though it is a single prototype Andres has gone to great lengths to make it very safe, there is a push button on the device that will kill
When most of us think of solar power we think of solar panels or the new round Solyndra solar tubes that we were starting to see, too bad it looks like Solyndra is gone for good though. Is the future going to be solar paint? That would sure allow for growing the possible surfaces to harvest solar energy from. I can just imagine a future where vehicles have a solar
