This interesting mirror by Daniel Rozin is quite neat. It would be fun to build one of these on a smaller scale using some cheap servos. I can’t imagine the cost of this large unit with over 700 motors! “Rozin’s Weave Mirror assembles 768 motorized and laminated C-shaped prints along the surface of a picture plane that texturally mimics a homespun basket. A seemingly organic smoky portrait comes in
Chris Anderson was lucky enough to visit the Google campus and took some arial pictures with a digital camera mounted to an RC plane. To enhance the picture taking capability of the rig he decided to make a gyro stabilized system to mount the camera onto. Video after the jump. “The secret ingredient is an off-the-shelf “heading hold” gyro made for a R/C helicopter. These can be found for as
Our friend David from Volunteer Lab Rat has built a tesla coil from a 15,000 Volt neon transformer. Make sure you check out his videos on the project page. “An AC power supply, here a neon sign transformer creates 15kV. The transformer will charge the capacitors. As they charge up, the voltage across the spark gap will rise. Eventually the potential across the spark gap will be large enough so
With the gas prices of today I think these types of vehicles are very practice. It gives you the speed and handling of a sports car with the fuel economy of a motorcycle. “We’re seeing more and more vehicles coming to market that are completely impractical and purely for fun purposes and three-wheeler trikes fit squarely into this category. Enter the X2 Arrow, currently being shown in Frankfurt, a uniquely
Ever wonder how much force is coming out the end of a fire hose? Well watch this video to answer that question. Looks like 8 fire hose water jets can lift an entire car!
Congratulation to the last winner. The prize this week is a 2.5″ PATA hard disk enclosure that allows you to take your data on the road. Just slide in a drive (not included) and plug into your USB port. This contest will run for this weekend only (September 15 – 16, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give
This Waseda-Docomo Face Robot is made by Takanishi who will be featured at Wired Nextfest for this Biped Robot. Video after the jump. “During human communication, a human distinguishes the partnerÂfs individuals by the facial features such as the silhouette, the position and shape of each part, and gauges the mental state based on the facial expressions. Many researchers have developed the robots that can express their emotions using the
