2014

Inside the Commodore PET

  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,

MIT Cheetah Robot

  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,

RC Plane delivers Quadcopter Drone which delivers Quadcopter Drone which delivers Quadcopter Drone which delivers a stick of gum!

    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

DIY Bluetooth Door Lock

  Want to make your own Bluetooth Door Lock? Just yank out the stock electronics and toss in some custom electronics along with some code (that you can modify) and you are off to the races.  “To open the lock, we will use the app LightBlue. It has a section called the Sandbox, that lets you control the LightBlue Bean without having to program your own iOS app. When the LightBlue

Thermostat Remote Temperature Sensor Hack

    We all have thermostats in our houses but how often are they in a horrible place? You often want to place the temperature sensor in a different location than the control and display unit. There are lots of models that have remote sensor capability but they come with a high price. If you already have a thermostat and just need the temperature sensing to be disconnected from the

Cassette Tape with Hidden MP3 Player

    Remember cassette tapes? These were small devices that held a spool of plastic covered in rust and allowed us to record audio onto,  if you were brave you would even store your Commodore 64 programs onto them. This Cassette Tape with Hidden MP3 Player project looks just like a Cassette Tape but has a Hidden MP3 Player inside to allow you to hold a full case full of

Spooky Automatic Halloween Door Knocker

  There aren’t much details on this Spooky Automatic Halloween Door Knocker project by WAGfilms. But just by looking and his brief description we can get enough info to build our own. I think this is a great project idea that can be used for more than just a cool Halloween prank.  He is using an Arduino Pro Mini as the brain of the system and it runs off some