Race motorcycles are fast, mean machines. One way to make them faster is to use technology to help the bike shift and control a NOS system! That is what Chris P. of the Parallax forum did to his Kawasaki ZX10. Chris has published his code on the forum also so that you can see how he did it and build your own if you dare. “During the early spring of
PvP_LostKnight from Acid Mods has managed to fit a 30GB hard drive into a Play Station Portable. Once the USB cables has been moved to the inside this mod will be perfect. Apparently there is no limit so a 200GB drive could be next! Thanks Robin.
Cynergy Labs is working on some cool technology! Using the concepts that Johnny Chung Lee introduced as a building block. This system uses the Wiimote as a camera looking at the users fingers to determine what the user wants to do. I can see this technology being built into laptops and other computer system in the near future to be used at an additional input device. “Maestro brings together Microsoft
Matthieu Aubry, Julien Rouvière and Xavier Maurice have developed a drum system that uses two cameras to track drum sticks in real-time. This allows the player to drum away on virtual drums, the computer analyzes what the player is hitting in the virtual world and plays the corresponding sounds. Video after the jump. “Video acquisition of the 2 cameras simultaneously, at a frequency of 30Hz. At this step, image data
Here is a collection of Musical Tesla Coils! We have featured lots of cool Tesla Coils here before, and a few musical ones but there seems to be a new trend to play music with the spark output. The first video is by the guys at The Geek Group, they go over the basics of how it works, there are lots of cool examples of the circuit at work
Want your very own robot to learn to do your job? Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard from the Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have made great strides to make that dream happen. Additional information. Read a paper on their research. (PDF) “This video shows how a humanoid robot can learn incrementally new skills by interacting with a human instructor. By using active teaching methods that
Looking for a laser project that is a bit on the complex side, have a look at this Laser Image Projector. “This is basic instructions on how to build a portable image projector that uses a green laser instead of normal light. The laser permits images to be cast great distances, and doesn’t require focusing – it’s always in focus. Materials Required: * Green laser module 10mW+ * 1 solid
