  Ugifer send this box of electronics 124,000 feet in the air. The view sure looks great from that height! To track the balloon he used the Space Near Us tracking system, a custom PCB was created to keep the circuit as robust and compact as possible. “Radio – in the UK there are only a few narrow frequencies you can use from the air and even then you
 Check out this Northrop Grumman X-47B RC Plane Build by Eric Maglio. “The internal structural parts were cut by laser from some 1/8″ plywood. They were assembled first, then glued inside the skins during the joining process. Much clamping ensured a tight fit. It was easiest to install the landing gear and doors next, while the model could still be rested inside the molds. All of the hinges
Check out this Robot that uses Kinect for Mapping that Sean Anderson, Kirk MacTavish, Daryl Tiong, Aditya Sharma from University of Waterloo built for their 4th year project. “Current accomplishments: – Optical Flow using Shi Tomasi Corners – Visual Odometry using Shi Tomasi and GPU SURF . . . . Features undergo RANSAC to find inliers (in green) . . . . Least Squares is used across all inliers
 Looks like this out of the box HD Vision Quadcopter could make you a photography genius in no time. Why rent a helicopter or a boom when you can get these amazing shots with one of these Phantom 2 Vision Quadcopters. You might not be able to hunt with them or fly them in all areas though. Update: JJ mentioned some other fantastic video creators using these quadcopters.
The Phenox is an intelligent quadcopter that was designed by Ryo Konomura and Kensho Miyoshi from Japan. The power and flexibility of the platform looks very impressive. They have a kickstarter that has just been started also. Thanks for the tip Jason. Â “What is Phenox? Phenox is a palm-sized on-board processing programmable quad-copter robot based on linux operating system. Phenox implements Zynq (XC7Z010) 256MB DDR3. bluetooth device sensors. Their
This Termite-Inspired robotic system is quite interesting. Just like tossing a bunch of construction people onto a job if one of them calls in sick the job will still progress that day. But in a typical robotic assembly line if the robot that does a particular step breaks down the entire line is down until that robot is repaired. Just imagine tossing a bunch of generic robots into an
Mike Senese from Make shows us how to make a License Plate Electric Guitar. Some basic tools are used to create a totally custom electric guitar, the video shows you how to wind the pickup coil using some screws, plywood and magnet wire. When this project is done you will have a guitar to jam on. In the example video a pre built guitar neck was used but depending
