 Make has a look at the DJI Inspire One Transforming Drone. Looks like a crazy machine. “The drone is quite a step up from the ubiquitous DJI Phantom — most notably in its physical design, with an ominous white fuselage and glowing red lights mounted to an articulating carbon fiber frame. The booms are angled down as landing gear during takeoff and landing, but pull upwards into a V-shape
Martin built this Sunshine Alarm Clock in short time out of need. It is for his child but I think a brighter version of this slowly waking me up in the morning would be a nice change to the loud buzz from the alarm clock. All of the code and build details are here so you can make one for yourself. “After I left our childs alarm clock at
Check out this Color Tracking Hexapod by davidhend in the Robot Shop Forum. The thing is a bit creepy! Not sure if there is a difference in programming but to me the first video looks like something trying to corner some prey and the second is more like a dog excited and ready to go running for a thrown ball. Nice job David. “I am using the Pixy Cam
 The prize this week is a Mifare RC522 RFID Card Reader. This contest will run for one week (Nov 23 – Nov 28, 2014). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please note the image above is a side view of the thing. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an
The MagneBike is an interesting magnetic robot that is surprisingly flexible and can maneuver some crazy metal geometries. “Locomotion Concept and Robot Design Two wheels in a motorbike arrangement: better adaptation to the surface (flat or curved). Magnetic wheel unit including lateral lifter/stabilizer arms. The lifter functionality helps to pass over step obstacles. The stabilizer functionality allows to drive sideway. Five active DoF: front/rear wheel, front/rear lifter, steering unit.”
What to do after you get your hands on a discarded scanning electron microscope. Ben Krasnow from Applied Science took the signal directly out of the device and fed it into a DSO. He was then able to capture it at a much higher resolution than is displayed on the original CRT that came with the unit. The results are incredible.
If you love building things you know that great tools allow you to make really cool things. Check out the setup over at Autodesk’s Innovation Workshop! You can see some of the projects that have come out of there here. Via: Adafruit “Our artists in residence share their creative projects with the Pier 9 community, where they get the opportunity to share their work with hundreds of millions of
