We have featured lots of Rubik’s Cube solving robots on Hacked Gadgets. Seems that there are many creative ways to come up with the same result. Since the solution to the actual problem has been well documented the solution turns into a detection of the existing cube orientation and then a method of moving the cube one move at a time in the correct order. Spinning the cube is
Have a look at this high tech approach to cutting your lawn. Sanjiv Singh from the Robotic Institute is using technology that we have seen used in many of the DARPA Grand Challenge to cut grass! "Approach The first approach to obstacle detection is color segmentation, which is the ability to distinguish obstacles based on color. We are developing a method that is robust to changes in color due
I have seen a few of these waterfall displays before. But this water display has some very impressive patterns. I think if the room lights were dimmer the effect would be enhanced. These systems use many solenoids which are computer controlled to drip at the right time. Via: HackNMod
The guys over at Hak5 have created a fun Graffiti Wall, this wall takes entries from the web and projects them on a huge display on their wall. The text display is just the beginning, games are planned in the future! Give the wall a try! Have a look at the code that makes it tick. "Hey guys, this is the code I whipped together to make the Hak5
I haven’t seen anything like this Mossalibra, Interactive Dance Game before. It is an interesting concept that could catch on if some venues think out of the box and try it out. "Mossalibra is an interactive game installation, operated solely by intuitive human gestures. While dancing to surrounding music, the user (represented in pixelated form as a pure gesture) can mimic a given set of gestures in order to
We have seen lots of Projector Screen hacks over the last few years, this one demos the power of the system quite well. It doesn’t take much hardware to provide some fantastic results! The video game gun use is a natural extension of the technology. "The basic idea is really simple: a program running on the PC will process the images viewed from the webcam, find the position of
This Underwater ROV Project has lots of documentation of a cool work in progress. There are lots of challenges that were faced along the way that may save one of us some time on one of our future projects. Here are a few videos of the unit in action. "The ROV submerging technique was originally using part of a bicycle inner tube and a car windscreen washer pump. However
