If you have a spare cell phone display and are handy with a microcontroller this cool Cell Phone Display Oscilloscope by Almost There could be your next project. "Check out these impressive specifications rivaling scopes costing twice the price (about $9 MSRP)… Vertical fixed at 5V full screen (or 0.5V per division, if it had divisions.) Horizontal Sweep fixed at (approximately) 43mS full screen when over-clocked at 8MHz (or
This Sticky Light demonstration looks like tons of fun! It was created by Alvaro Cassinelli, Kuribara Yusaku and Stephane Perrin of the Department of Information Physics and Computing at the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory of the university of Tokyo. Via: Waxy Links "As an art installation, the most interesting aspect of the work is that it promotes a reflection on the role of light as a passive substance used for
This is a cool Braitenberg Vehicle, they are so bug like that they are almost spooky, watch the video to see what I mean. Full build details are provided so that you can build your own. "This one is even smaller, than the previous one and comes on a custom PCB. It weighs 17 gramms, is driven by two pager motors, powered by a small lipo cell and controlled
Have a look at the video above for an amazing example of what a commercial delta robot can do. Asurofilmchen has decided to build a DIY version of one of these. Obviously it won’t have the same speed or dexterity but it is still a challenging undertaking! My favorite delta robot example is still the Croissant Picker Robot though. "A Delta robot is a type of parallel robot. It
This Brick Laying Robot looks like it could be a great addition to hand brick laying. Instead of using robots to simply lay bricks that anyone can do this automated process uses robots to make complex patterns which would be very hard to do by hand. As modular construction becomes more popular intricate brick panels could become very common. Just because this example system was done using a very
Looks like Gareth from Switzerland has completed his next metal finding robot. I am very impressed at the accuracy of the robots ability to find coins. Looks like this robot has a good shot of paying for its creation in no time. You may remember the last version that we featured. "TB-007 has been fitted with a Wireless Camera so i can sit in my deck chair and watch
Biomimicry is an interesting concept, we always think that our solutions to the problems that face us are solid and sound. Janine Benyus shows us that it’s a good idea to see if the world around us has already solved the problem. Looking to Nature for Inspiration could be something that we start to see more of in the future. We used to say why reinvent the wheel, I wonder
