Our friend Muris from Elektronika.ba has been developing a Robot Navigation Platform. This system will include everything you could wish for on a single board for navigating your robot. Like all complex project there are bound to be some bumps in the road and this project is not immune to that fact. Read the build details to see what issues came up and how they are being resolved. "I
Jeff Keyzer from mightyOhm has completed his DIY WiFi Radio build. The finish is fantastic but look closer, the case was built from scratch. Best of all it is based on a hacked router. "I removed the USB and DC power jacks from the WL-520gU PCB. I’m planning to use the USB port solely to talk to my SYBA USB-Audio adapter, so I removed the USB connector from the
What do you get when you take a tank and stick a ton of sensors on it? You get a cool Georgia Tech Senior Design Project called AutoTank. Can’t wait to see what other projects Nate Klein, An Duong, Chris Gurley and Wink Barnes come up with. Via: Embedded Projects "Fully autonomous vehicles will soon be at the front lines, both on the battle field and search-and-rescue missions. These
This Mechanical Singing Bird Box is a work of art. The mechanism is very intricate and the bird motions are in perfect time with the song that it sings. Via: The Automata / Automaton Blog via 100-blogs-to-inspire-the-creative-genius-inside-you
At first glance this giant crane looks like it has been constructed using LEGO blocks but a closer look at the specs indicates that each arm can lift 100kg! This is no toy. Someone needs to hook up a Wiimote to it though. 🙂 Via: The Raw Feed "Tadano says Robotops is the first four-legged, two-armed crane available. Information from Tadano says Robotops has 29 joints on the hands,
If you like Guitar Hero you would love this project. Joel Ong, Frank Chen and Justin Leow from Cornell University built this Programmable Synthesized Guitar for their ECE 4760 Final Project. "Our basic idea is to model an acoustic guitar as closely as possible and then implement additional functions not available to the conventional guitar. This includes allowing the play of the guitar with sound being output to earphones,
Controlling your Gadgets by Sensing Electrical Signals from Eye Movements may seem like a concept that is only possible in your dreams but some researchers have made it a reality. Via: Inventor Spot "The researcher, staring at a large screen, rolls his eyes clockwise and a digital music player on the screen responds by increasing the volume of the music track being played. Then a kind of visual ping
