If you have ever thought about taking some arial photographs this site describes two versions that is sure to give you some ideas for your own. "The outputs from Air Pressure, Temperature, Wind Speed, and Battery Voltage Sensors are feed in to the inputs of a PicAxe 18X. It Processes the raw sensor inputs, and then triggers the Camera (using a Servo) and Transmits the Raw Data. A Receiver
I haven’t seen anything like this Mossalibra, Interactive Dance Game before. It is an interesting concept that could catch on if some venues think out of the box and try it out. "Mossalibra is an interactive game installation, operated solely by intuitive human gestures. While dancing to surrounding music, the user (represented in pixelated form as a pure gesture) can mimic a given set of gestures in order to
Baccus61 has documented some of his cool DIY Laser Etching Projects. He makes etching an image on a round bottle simple! After the jump are a few of my favorite videos he has created. "My new rotary attachment is finally ready after a couple of weeks in the making (I didn’t spend too much time building it though) It’s a Vexta 5 phase stepper motor coupled to a 50:1
The most impressive part of this Lego NXT Rubik Cube Solver is that the NXT module does the computing that solves the cube! I wouldn’t have thought that would have been possible without having a PC do the calculations. Video after the jump. "Tilted Twister solves Rubik’s cube fully automatically. Just place the scrambled cube on Tilted Twister’s turntable. An ultrasonic sensor detects its presence and starts to read
RoboTurk is a great example of technology being used to help save lives. It uses Microsoft technology at the core to perform some very complex tasks. "RobotTurk is a prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) equipped with a camera that is capable of streaming live video of disaster struck areas to ground command stations. The helicopter carries onboard an eBox compute-unit that runs Microsoft Robotics Studio, allowing the robot to
Electric bikes are all the rage recently. But why would you simply buy one when you can make your own? That is what Stryker did when he wanted to get rid of some of hid fuel costs. Have a look at the fully documented process here. "I only work 3 miles from home but with gas prices getting out of control, I thought it would be great to have
For light use the Eee PC by Asus looks like a nice small low power computer but it is lacking some of the built in items that you may want. Have no fear this Asus Eee PC Hack shows you that it is totally upgradeable with a little skill and time. "There are several points on the motherboard where power can be draw, for devices requiring 3.3v or 5v.
