You might remember the Rave Shades that were featured here last year, good news there is a new Kickstarter for a new and improved model, you only have 10 days to jump in though so act fast. For £100 you can get your very own in with blue or green LEDs. The new version is still PCB based but used bright SMD LEDs parts this time around. The display
If you are looking to do some VR on a budget the Google’s Cardboard VR Headset is sure to fit. Google gave them out to attendees of Google I/O. If you don’t have a ready to go cardboard kit from I/O you can make your own from the plans that Google has posted here. This free app allows you to experience the activities listed below. “• Earth: Fly where
Looks like Makible (creator of the MakiBox 3D printer) is going through some hard times. About 6 months ago we saw that they were ramping up production capacity due to the high demand for their $200 3D printer. It is hard to see a company that had such good intentions go through this struggle but people, materials and office space all add up and if there isn’t enough profit
Pyroelectro has just started a course to teach you how to use FPGA and CPLD devices. If you are currently using microcontrollers this course will give you the skills to move to the next level. There are 10 lessons in the course which will start you at hello world and quickly progress into some very usable topics. The video above is from the first of 10 course videos, the
Sparkfun organized a day of Autonomous Vehicle fun at their Annual Autonomous Vehicle Competition. Via: Hackaday “Ground Vehicle Classes Each entrant will be classified by the judges as one of the following robot classes for their ground vehicle: Micro/PBR – Less than $350 total spent, or small enough to fit into box that’s 10″x6″x4″ Doping Class – Bring the biggest, baddest and most expensive vehicle you can make ($1k+
This is a work in progress by Ye Guan, his Bipedal Walking Sentinel Project is a work in progress but the goal is challenging and Ye is making good strides towards a functional walking robot so far. What he is going for is a robot that looks something like the sentinel walker from Warhammer 40k and the two legged walker from Star Wars. “Â The robot will have a complete
Google SketchUp is a free 3D modeling software. Using the steps outlined by Eric William you will easily be able to convert your SketchUp design to something that can be 3D printed. Eric used a Solidoodle printer but this will work on any 3D printer. First step is to export from SketchUp in an STL file format. The STL file is imported into NetFabb where it is repaired if
