Caleb Kraft interviewed Sam Ortega from NASA, Sam explains how the prize competitions at NASA work. Anyone can submit designs for their competitions but only US citizens can win the prize money. “NASA Centennial Challenges were initiated in 2005 to directly engage the public in the process of advanced technology development. The program offers incentive prizes to generate revolutionary solutions to problems of interest to NASA and the nation.
 This week we are doing another fun guess what this isn’t contest, we are up to 258 of the name the thing contests and it’s time to switch things up a bit. to The prize for the lucky winner is a is a cool RFID RC522 Reader with an SPI interface to easily add to your next project,a skeleton watch, an Iain Sinclair credit card knife, an SD
If you have ever been the victim of a break in you know the sick feeling that someone was going through your belongings and helping themselves to what appealed to them. If you want to ensure that your computer isn’t something that is part of the burglars loot bag have a look at the custom computer case that ultimoistante built, he gutted an old VCR and crammed in a
Shawn McCombs built a DIY RFID Card Lock System for his office. The wiring is a bit quick and dirty but sometimes you just need to get things done. It is based around an ATMega 328 microcontroller and is coded using an Arduino sketch but the controller id hand wired on a breadboard to allow for some customization. Shawn is using the Parallax RFID controller that was designed by
David Watts got his hands on a Commodore Pet computer. I have never seen under the hood before, and it is quite funny that the case actually opens like a hood on a car including the prop stick to keep it open. David will be attempting to restore the PET so that it works properly again, it looks like the keyboard didn’t stand the test of time very well,
The MIT Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory has been working hard on the MIT Cheetah Robot. Deborah Ajilo, Negin Abdolrahim Poorheravi,John Patrick Mayo,Justin Cheung, Sangbae Kim, Shinsuk Park, Kathryn L. Evans, Matt Angle, Will Bosworth, Joao Luiz Almeida Souza Ramos, Sehyuk Yim, Albert Wang, Meng Yee Chuah, and Hae Won Park are members of the huge development team. Why so many team members? This is not a simply problem to tackle,
 The guys over at Flight Test were thinking about the drone delivery systems that we might see in the near future. They wanted to see how far they could push it. They strapped the stack of quad copters onto their Kraken plane, which had an Electrohub quad on it, which had a QAV250 Lumenier on it, which had a Proto X on it which was set to deliver
