This is what I need, no need to look up drink recipes, simply select a drink from the touch screen. The pouring spout looks great with the LED lighting. “A Bar Monkey is a machine that automatically mixes and dispenses alcoholic drinks. The original Bar Monkey v1.0 was created by Steven Avery, Dustin Cooper, and Brad Greer. The total cost of this Bar Monkey was $235 and took 3 months
Why buy an off the shelf product if you can make it yourself. That is what some guys at Cornell University decided to do when they needed an RFID reader. RFID Books “For our final project, we designed and built (and exhaustively tested) an RFID-based proximity security system for use with Cornell Identification cards, which have been RFID-embedded since fall of 2003. The idea for this project was sort of
Here is a mobile neighborhood party maker. Comes complete with bar, barbeque, stereo, computer, Playstation, LED Music show… The list goes on and on, have a look at the gallery for pictures of the build. “Generally, we emphazise high tech these days and the wagon is full of electronic and software features, which no model of the local or national competition can match (the international competition may, perhaps, but we
Build a laser lap counter for your RC car. In part two of the build you can add a number of IRDA sensors to the project to make it even better! “The two channel system shown below includes two lasers, two photo transistors, one inch tubing, one inch round tubing (to mount the lasers) and a microcontroller system to tie it all together. The main control board for this system
This is an updated version of the Power Glove mouse we saw a few months ago. What is a Power Glove? Click here to find out. “I had the 4 wires coming from the glove bundled together, as the ones from the mouse. Then I skrewed the base of the mouse into the glove, and drilled another hole that the wires from the batteries come up from under the glove.
If you can’t afford to buy something, make it yourself. Full instructions and code are available to make your own computerized embroidery machine. “After seeing some computerized home embroidering/sewing machines in operation, we were intrigued. But they were priced in the range of a good multimedia PC system. We next happened upon a store where a large, costly embroidery system was in operation making large jacket designs. This was in
The Leaf is an interesting artificial intelligence and vision robotic system. It is open source, software and construction details are available on the Leaf Project Web site. There are three Leaf system developers: * Bruce Weimer who has made some other very interesting systems. * Robin Hewitt, she likes to see what makes robots tick. * Alex Brown who, no surprise, has also made some interesting robots. “From Left to
