Spiralbrain is building a cool robot that can see what is around it by using IR. The robot base is a RP5 Tracked Chassis which looks to be quite a versatile robotic platform. Is it just me or does it sound like a small angry dog when it slowly growls and inches forward, then gets frightened and lurches back. 🙂 The PIC 18F4550 code is sure to be available when
Looks like the Martin Jetpack is getting closer to being available. With an anticipated price tag of $100,000 it won’t be in most people’s budget but for the work that has gone into development that price seems quite reasonable. To make final testing a bit safer they have converted it so it can be controlled remotely. “We have converted one of the Martin Jetpacks to remote control so that we
BlindType is the coolest typing aids I have ever seen, and we have seen our fair share of crazy typing systems. I don’t do much mobile typing, I have tried the T9 predictive text entry system and hated it. I use an iPod Touch to view emails when not in the home office and unless the reply can be very short I tend to wait until I am at a
Dig that GameBoy Advanced out of your closet for this GameBoy and PIC Microcontroller Hacked into an Analog Meter project. Ken Kaarvik used a PIC24HJ128GP502 to run the project, what is really cool is that the GBA doesn’t load the program from a cartridge but rather directly from the PIC microcontroller! This isn’t the first project that Ken has done with a Game Boy, have a look at lots more
We have seen KUKA Robot Arms turned into DJ music machines and ice cream machines but this F1 Ferrari Simulator is something else! Paolo Robuffo Giordano and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany are the ones behind this cool idea. Via: PopSci “The CyberMotion Simulator is basically a full motion simulator adapted to a racing car game. Players (or subjects, the researchers prefer to
We all know Airsoft to be a fun safe sport right? Airsoft guns shoot small round plastic pellets which can sting a bit but it’s all in good fun similar to a paintball. Kuba sent in a link to his Multi-Barrel Airsoft Machine Gun which is a bit more intimidating. There are going to be lots of tutorials on the site, a few are complete like this one. The huge
We have seen lots of creepy robots but I think the Telenoid might be at the top of the heap. Not sure about the abdomen though, I think if it had some legs and a pair of pants the creepy factor would be much lower. This is meant to be a new form of tele communication but I think when Apple gets the bugs worked out of FaceTime I would
