ABB has recorded some new behind the scenes video of their robots. You probably remember the ABB robots that we featured before. Have a look at these cake decorating and pancake picking ones. It almost seems that the pancake robot is doing the impossible! "ABB Robots installed by RG Luma are helping specialist food company Honeytop to speed up its pancake production and improve health, safety & hygiene. "
Have a look at this complex GPS guided ATV project. I can just imagine a group of these things in an amusement park allowing automated carts to provide an automatic tour. More details can be found here. Thanks Amnon "This is a kids ATV modified to be controlled from a innovation first controller (Servo stirring and Victor 884 motor controller). The controller is connected to a laptop that in
Photo frames are coming down in price as each week goes by. But what fun is it to go to the department store and pick one up. Have a look at this page for some info on a DIY AVR Photo Frame build. "Objective DIY photo frame Using AVR microcontroller. Display on QVGA TFT 3.2” 240×320 pixel 16 bit color Using BMP file format with out convert. File store
Megavolts.nl built a speed meter that can monitor the speed of his coil gun bullets. The bullet trips an entry beam and an exit beam which are at a known distance apart, this allows the speed of the bullet to be calculated and displayed. The build is detailed and includes code and schematics. Here is a Google English translation. Big thanks to the creator for translating the project to English!
Have a look at the TinyProjector Lab Notebook project for some cool laser projection prototyping. See two of the ten prototypes below. Via: Elektronika "The biggest challenge for designers of mobile communication devices is presenting large amounts of information on very small displays. As the form factor of these devices continues to get smaller and our demand for mobile information continues to grow, the task only gets more difficult.
If you get a bit queasy when seeing someone swat a fly please skip to the next article. This microcontroller that has been mounted to the back of this beetle has the ability to drive him as he flies. I can just imagine the possibilities that will soon be reality. Take a few hundred of these with cameras on them, have some real time computers control them to snap
Watch the video above to get an appreciation of what the double pendulum is capable of when it is free wheeling. Have a look at the furuta pendulum project that Oyvindbjo made at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I have added some of the calculations from Wikipedia for some amusement (I have no idea how to decipher it). "For swing-up it uses feedback linearization and a controller that
