Check out this LEGO CNC Machine which is built around a LEGO Mindstorms NXT system. The creator is 16 year old Youtube user Kabeltomten, all I can say is way to go and I can’t wait to see what this guy is building 10 years from now. The Z axis has some great height, looks to be something like 10 inches, the X, Y table can move around with some
An elevator is something that many people rely on to get around. What happens when a out of the box thinker is stuck on the 5th floor of a building and in need of an elevator to get in and out of his suite? Step 1 is to ask for an elevator to be installed, step 2 is to take it into your own hands and make your own elevator!
If you are also sad at the death of the Google Power Meter have a look at this Pic Power Meter project over at Pyrofer’s Projects. “The Pic board counts rotations of the disc in 1 minute increments. Every ten minutes it connects to the server over serial (to ethernet UDP) and uploads all ten readings The server saves these into a mysql database. I wrote some PHP code to
I enjoy chicken meat but it is sad to see this type of machine which just treats the animal like an object. It might as well be making car tires. It is a marvelous feat of engineering any way you look at it though. Via: TechEBlog “The fastest human butchers can fully debone about 150 chickens per hour. That’s a lot of chickens! But the new Mayekawa Automatic Chicken Deboner
Our friend Ian Lesnet from Dangerous Prototypes is sure Rockin the Open Source Hardware Project Space. As many of you know he is attempting to build a new open source project every month (well at least every month on average). Most of you probably didn’t know that Ian and I worked over at the AOL property DIY Life for a short time (Ian longer than me). Hot Hardware did a
Last week we showed you a Bluetooth Cell Phone Garage Door Opener. This Smartphone WiFi Garage Door Opener by Tuxgraphics accomplishes the same thing but does it in a totally different way. This project uses a smart phone to interact to an ethernet board which is running a web server, using the soft buttons from the page displayed you are then able to control outputs on the board. When
If you like Twitter you need to have a look at this permanent Twitter Feed machine which allows your Tweet to go direct to a Thermal Printer. “Thermal Tweeter is hacked together from a SparkFun thermal printer and the web platform internet development board. No computers are used to query twitter or run the printer, this is a 100% stand-alone Twitter appliance.”
