Fellow Canadian Brad has been making a video log of the building of his Hexapod. You can see all the videos of the build here on his Youtube channel. “Handmade hexapod running my own handwritten c++ code. Servo’s are a bit squishy due to being underpowered for the time being. Wiring will be cleaned up and main processor mounted within the next few weeks.”
The prize this week is a solar flashlight, if you want to use this as a flashlight you better charge it during the day and not keep it hidden in a drawer. 🙂 I am thinking that the housing could make for a very small surface mount project. Not sure if the solar cell would have enough power to energize a very low current circuit but I would think it
This LC Meter was built using a Microchip PIC 16F628A. It would make life a bit easier when attempting to identify a few of those components that are always left over on the desk after building a project. Mine are often dumped into a miscellaneous box with other various components which makes it even more difficult to identify later… I think this meter would make a great addition to my
My daughter Alexis and I worked on this Karate Chop project as an entry into the Avnet Dog Days Summer Contest. She had the idea to make a game to enter in the entertainment section of the contest. The game she came up with was a reaction game where you have to quickly move to the correct indicated position. Four infrared detection circuits was the resulting method used to detect
It seems that you can build anything with LEGO, this LEGO Pan Tilt System built by James Catan sure demonstrates that. Sure this could have been built from metal brackets held together with nuts and bolts but it would take 10 times as long and be just as functional. I am now wondering if I need to add a box of LEGO to my workshop? Watch the first video to
If you like to get woken up with a bang this Bomb Clock is for you! Watch the video below to see what happens when you don’t defuse it correctly. This will be available as a kit soon, I can just imagine the hack to come which includes a small fire cracker to signal a failure to defuse the clock. Via: Electronics Lab “The Defusable Clock is a fully-functional alarm
Will this new IBM/3M super adhesive revolutionize the computer CPU as we know it? We have been hearing that the silicon technology in our modern day processors is nearing the edge of size reduction. Just like growing the chip die to add additional CPUs this new idea allows the addition of processors but without the increase of the die footprint by stacking them! One can only imagine how the connections
