I don’t mind working with the voltages you find in a typical house but I always feel a bit less secure when working with higher voltages that have little current limiting. I think that it would take me a long time to feel comfortable to ride a helicopter over to a live transmission line, hop on and start working.
Our friend Muris from Elektronika.ba has been developing a Robot Navigation Platform. This system will include everything you could wish for on a single board for navigating your robot. Like all complex project there are bound to be some bumps in the road and this project is not immune to that fact. Read the build details to see what issues came up and how they are being resolved. "I
Jeff Keyzer from mightyOhm has completed his DIY WiFi Radio build. The finish is fantastic but look closer, the case was built from scratch. Best of all it is based on a hacked router. "I removed the USB and DC power jacks from the WL-520gU PCB. I’m planning to use the USB port solely to talk to my SYBA USB-Audio adapter, so I removed the USB connector from the
What do you get when you take a tank and stick a ton of sensors on it? You get a cool Georgia Tech Senior Design Project called AutoTank. Can’t wait to see what other projects Nate Klein, An Duong, Chris Gurley and Wink Barnes come up with. Via: Embedded Projects "Fully autonomous vehicles will soon be at the front lines, both on the battle field and search-and-rescue missions. These
This Mechanical Singing Bird Box is a work of art. The mechanism is very intricate and the bird motions are in perfect time with the song that it sings. Via: The Automata / Automaton Blog via 100-blogs-to-inspire-the-creative-genius-inside-you
If you’re into cool electronics and audio, have a look at Drawdio. It allows you to play music from anything and everything. Via: Make and Adafruit "Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaroni, trees, grandpa, even the kitchen sink…"
At first glance this giant crane looks like it has been constructed using LEGO blocks but a closer look at the specs indicates that each arm can lift 100kg! This is no toy. Someone needs to hook up a Wiimote to it though. 🙂 Via: The Raw Feed "Tadano says Robotops is the first four-legged, two-armed crane available. Information from Tadano says Robotops has 29 joints on the hands,
