This DIY flatbed printer uses the new Parallax Propeller chip as the brains, this new microcontroller is very powerful and has many uses. “First step towards a homemade 3D printer. This is the insides of an HP1360, the paper feed encoder is being used to drive a stepper motor to move the gantry. The encoder is decoded and divided by a parallax propeller microcontroller that also detects the paper
A cheap camera and a plastic bag of die is all that is needed to make this DIY Multi-touch display. “Erling Ellingsen made his own homebrew multi-touch interface from a plastic bag, blue dye, and an iSight camera. It’s called the dyeSight.” Via: Boing Boing
Have a look at this Autonomous Sentry Gun that was built for the Defconbots competition. The site has lots of good documentation of the build. (Article mirror) More videos after the jump. “The electronics for this project are going to be relatively simple as well. To control the three servos (pan + tilt + firing), we are going to use the Pololu 8-channel servo controller. Normally we might use
Here are some cool ideas for old hardware, don’t toss it if you can make it into something nice…
Have a look at this cool video, call your robot using Skype and have it perform spoken commands while you remotely watch the results. I for one am very impressed! Link “Hot new video shows a Roboquad robot being controlled by voice, over the Internet with the help of Robodance and Skype’s video call service. The robot explores the house while beaming back audio and video to a laptop
Check out this Youscope Oscilloscope Graphics Demo More impressive when you learn that a 15 year old made the demo! “A demo using an oscilloscope to display something. It was third in assembly 2007 shortfilm compo, and won altparty’s most original entry prize. The oscilloscope is connected to PC soundcard and is in X/Y-mode, with right channel connected to X and left to Y input.” Via: Make
Doktor Andy has developed a method of using a cheap print server as a network controlled switch. Video after the jump. “One day it hit me. I wanted to connect my coffee-machine to the internet. and my television…and my desk light… There are different approaches. One of the most stupid ones was to stuff a relais-board into my pc and….greeaaat idea..absolutely….”sorry, I cannot cook coffee because I first have to
