I had a great time meeting the team responsible for creating the Anybot Telepresence Robot. The founder of Anybots is Trevor Blackwell who was featured on Hacked Gadgets about 5 years ago for his cool electric unicycle. There was an Anybot mingling with the people in the Las Vegas Anybots suite, it was being controlled by Ian Danforth who was back at the Anybots head office in Mountain View California.
Make is going to have a live show twice a month (every second Wednesday). In episode 1 they are talking all about the Arduino microcontroller. In this episode they interview Steve Hoefer who made the Arduino gum ball machine that dispenses a gum ball when the secret knock is given. In the second video which I am guessing was just the second part of the live show Collin Cunningham shows
Mike Szczys from Hack a Day built a Ping Pong LED Clock, Mike did some nice woodworking on the box to give the clock parts a nice case to shine from. A AVR microcontroller the heart of the clock and a Maxim DS3232 and a coin cell are used to keep track of time. LEDs are inserted through a peg board and ping pong balls with holes cut in the
In the latest Electronic Design magazine there is a great article about the latest small projector chips from Syndiant. If you are interested in how the technology works Syndiant has a write up about that here. Subscribing to the Electronic Design magazine is free as long as you are in USA, Canada or Mexico. If you are in Europe, there is a special European version or Electronic Design. Hacked Gadgets
Dave from the EEVblog has a great video about measuring battery capacity. Most of us will create a product or project one day that will run from batteries and this video will help you determine a good battery match. Check out the cool Gossen Metrawatt Metrahit Energy multimeter that Dave uses to get the battery readings! I don’t feel sorry for Dave sweating in the Australian heat since I froze
Martin Hubacek took a TI Stellaris EVALBOT and interfaced it to a Nintendo Nunchuck. This lets the robot drive around using the accelerometer or the joystick. If you’re interested in interfacing a Nunchuck to your TI EVALBOT have a look at the code and details that Martin has provided.
I remember spending way too much time doodling on my Etch a Sketch when I was younger. Martin Raynsford from NortHACKton wanted to bring something cool to Maker Faire UK next month and came up with this Etch a Sketch Computer, we have seen similar creations before but this one gets props for how simple it has been hacked together. “Two water bottle caps act as the knobs for the
