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10 Most Brilliant Inventions of 2007 - R&D Magazine - Integrated Primary Flight Display
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R&D Magazine has put together a list of the 10 most brilliant inventions of 2007, the one that stood out for me was the Honeywell Integrated Primary Flight Display Read about the other inventions here. Video after the jump. “Integrated Primary Flight Display (IPFD) is Honeywell’s Synthetic Vision System (SVS) ― a new product that will be offered on multiple platforms for business jets. IPFD uses cues that pilots already

Unibot - 3D Stabilization
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Jascha van Pommeren created the Unibot, a robot that pivots on a single wheel. Video after the jump. “The Unibot is a self balancing unicycle robot. This robot combines the principles of the famous wheeled inverted pendulum and inertia wheel pendulum. A well known application of the wheeled inverted pendulum is the Segway. Take one wheel off the Segway and add an other one perpendicular to and above the remaining

Amazing AIR-Guitar Demonstration by Carlos Vamos
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  Amazing AIR-Guitar Demonstration by Carlos Vamos. He is a guitar playing master, the second video is non-technical but demonstrates how good he is! “Carlos Vamos demonstrates his Prototype hand made custom AIRguitar. The guitar neck is from Ibanez, the guitar body was build with the Kind help and cooperation of Marcus Van Engelen. The final guitar asembly and wiring was done by Carlos Vamos.” Via: Make

iRobot ConnectR - Family Robot
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The latest iRobot is the ConnectR, looks like this could be a great hackable robotic platform. It will be available soon for the mass market but unfortunately it is currently only being made available for a select few to test it. Video after the jump. “Don’t miss out on special moments at home even when you are away. The iRobot ConnectR is a fun new way to see, talk to

Wiimote Lego Tank Surveillance Robot
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  I can just imagine how much fun Andrew Hundt, Boris Lipchin and Ned Fox from Carnegie Mellon University had creating this Wiimote Lego Tank Surveillance Robot. “This robot is composed of Legos and uses a handyboard as the control hardware. It has 4 wheel drive each controlled by a lego motor, and a pan tilt mount for directing light and the video camera. The Wii Remote talks to a

Robot Arm Clocks
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  These are probably some of the most expensive clocks around. 🙂 I would love to have a Robot Arm Clock in my living room though. “The robot arm is probably the most mathematically complex robot you could ever build. As such, this tutorial cant tell you everything you need to know. Instead, I will take shortcuts and just talk about the bear minimum you need to know to build

Stereoscopic 3D on PIC Micro
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  Pyrofer has made a new PIC project, this time a bit of extra processing power was needed so the PIC chip was overclocked. The resulting Stereoscopic 3D is fascinating. “I needed a viewer that would present each image to each eye independently while maintaining focus and positioning. For this I took my previously dismantled 3D tomytronic game. Each LCD (128×160×8) as sat in the viewfinder aligned so each eye