Koen sent in this great looking Robot Arm that he put together in one day. It looks and works great for something that was put together so quickly. Koen is still working on acquiring some tools help him with his robot building but until then all of his projects including this one is hand built. “It’s really really simple i build this using two servo’s and two strips of aluminium.
Dave from Plastibots had some fun with the brake lights of his Nissan Juke. He added some red LED lighting strips to the car and made a custom circuit to drive them. He is getting power from the parking lights and taking in a signal from the brake lights. When only the parking lights are on the lighting strip is PWM controlled to a level of 75%, when the brake
The Open 7400 Competition is over and the winner is…. Capacitive Sensing, the Hard Way! This is a project that is somewhat simple when done with a microcontroller but takes quite a bit of effort to pull off with 7400 chips. I think the winners are still trying to determine who wants what since I haven’t heard who is going to be awarded the three IR Jammer kits yet. “The
This thing looks like a ton of fun to fly. I am not sure if a simple helmet would be sufficient for me to take the e-volo for a spin though. It’s one thing to fly a small toy multicopter around using a remote but when it comes to strapping yourself into the center of one that weights in at 90 kg! I hope that the e-volo is what it
Eli Hughes developed this Active Pickguard project for a Freescale Kinetis contest. He unfortunately didn’t win the contest but that doesn’t change the fact that the project is totally cool. The contest had a ton of entries and with a quick look at the prizes you will see why, a first place prize of $10,000 isn’t too shabby! I love the cat6 cable that is used to plug it in.
Thanks to skater_j10 for sending in this RC Tankbot project. It was created for Solarbotics but he added some additional details about the system on the project page. This tank looks like a great build platform for mobile projects. “In terms of cost, this RF network system seems to compete with even the most low end RC transmission systems. And even though you don’t really get a physical controller with
If you have see the DIY Pulse Laser Gun or the Iron Man Repulsor Light Laser Glove Project then with one look at this Laser Targeting Wrist Mounted Crossbow you would know that Patrick Priebe was the mad man behind it. Watch the video below to see it shooting balloons, cans and light bulbs. I would think that a micro video camera mounted on the glove would make for some
