Milan Gajic has made a cool Web controlled floppy drive powered pan cam. Some simple right and left commands on this page allow anyone on the net to have the floppy drive move the camera around to get look out of Milan’s window. Note: It seems that the cam only works with Internet Explorer at this time. “The goal of the game was to make a webcam panning unit
Smell-O-Vision has been talked about for years. It looks like it may become available to the masses soon. I can think of some shows that would be great with it on and some that would not! “According to the BBC article, Professor Nakamoto’s team synchronized a scene from the animated film “Spirited Away” with scents from the Odor Recorder. Initial studies show audience members recalled the accented scene more vividly
Blake sent in some pictures of a cool robot that was built using an old CD-ROM drive. I will have to take a look in the storage room, I may have some old 2X drives still kicking around… “I contructed a simple robot about a year ago. It’s chasis is made from an old SCSI CD-ROM drive. It uses the mechanics of the drive to pull itself along a
Pete Redmond from Mechatrons has created a robot that can solve the Rubik’s Cube. Many robots have done this in the past but this robot does it in a human fashion! “This is the new version of RuBot by Pete Redmond from Dublin, Ireland. It’s very different to the prototype but it has to be the coolest looking robot solver ever. There are cameras in the eyes of the
Volunteer Lab Rat has an interesting project allowing you to build a 3D Scanner out of some common parts. “The following blueprint shows an exploded view of the vital components of the rotating table. I use an R/C servo to rotate the table. It would be easier to construct a table using a steppermotor, but I had an R/C servo on the shelf. The servo cannot rotate a full 360
You may remember this tiny Web server. Well I guess small Web servers are the in thing right now . Is that a Web server in your pocket… (well you know the rest). Have a look at this Newton Web Server, not very powerful but it is amazing that it even works! If you are lucky you will even see a page served up by the tiny server by clicking
The Soap mouse looks very interesting. I wonder how long before it is a commercial product? “Soap is a pointing device based on hardware found in a mouse, yet works in mid-air. Soap consists of an optical sensor device moving freely inside a hull made of fabric. As the user applies pressure from the outside, the optical sensor moves independent from the hull. The optical sensor perceives this relative
