April 14, 2013

Twitter Robot Hand
Complex Hacks

1

  Want to annoy IronJungle? Tweet a bunch of commands to his Twitter Robot Hand! His hand is monitoring the Twitter stream using a Raspberry PI and will act on your commands (seen below).  “A Raspberry PI monitors the tweets to @OurCatDoor.  The PI’s GPIO acts as inputs to a PICAXE 18M2 which controls five servos on a robot hand. You can control the “The Hand of PI” by sending

Smack Attack: Steering Wheel Drum Kit
Cool Gadgets

1

     Gregor “G-Man” Hanuschak sent in a tip about a fun looking project called the Smack Attack, which is a Steering Wheel Drum Kit (might be a product soon). You can now play along with the tunes in your car! The Kickstarter will go live very soon and has a goal of $200,000. With a product price of $150 and a early bird Kickstarter price of $99 I am