Robots are supposed to make our lives easier right? Well this Tool Carrying Robot is sure to lighten your load. I remember the days of doing service work, I would have a huge case full of hand tools in one hand, a laptop slung over the other shoulder and some type of paperwork in my one free hand. Lugging this gear through large industrial buildings becomes a pain real quick…Â
Robots may take over the world some day but before they do they better learn to hang on when performing on the Horizontal bar. 🙂 Make sure you watch the 3rd video, it demonstrates the creature that is developing the technology (or it could be just a shy geek). Via: Adafruit Blog
Gadget Gangster has been cranking out the new products. Here is a 3 axis accelerometer board with Gyro capability that looks like lots of fun. “The Acc_Gyro Board represents a 5DOF Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), capable of measuring acceleration on all 3-axis as well as measuring rotation rate around the X and Y axis. Combining values from both accelerometer and gyroscope will allow you to obtain accurate values of inclination
Robby Connor, Richard Evan Cross and Zach Rasmor made a cool Automatic Wireless Drink Mixer for their University of Washington Electrical Engineering embedded systems ee478 class. Do you recognize that display they are using? Yes it is made by 4dsystems who sponsored one of our recent contests! Via: TechEBlog “Automatic drink mixer features: -Remote touch screen allowing users to pick from preset drinks or customize their own. Touch screen donated
Dave Fletcher from Fletchtronics.net will be building 10 Bumble-Bs per day over the next 10 days. He will be sharing video of the entire process, talking about how his company was created, going over some surface mount soldering pointers, providing some discounts on product and giving away some prizes. Sounds like lots of fun so why not check it out. You may remember the Bumble-B from this project that we
Have a happy tech Christmas! Of course it wouldn’t be complete without a tech tree. Our friend Ian from Dangerous Prototypes has made one cool tree. You send the tree instructions using Twitter and it will light up accordingly. Ian is using his $35 Web Platform kit and a Macetech ShiftBright module to do the dirty work. You can see the live U-Stream video of the tree here. When you
The SBU (Self Balancing Unicycle) which we have featured in the past is now in the hands of Adam Savage from Mythbusters. This thing looks like tons of fun to ride! I would think the learning curve would be much less than on a traditional unicycle? “SPECIFICATIONS: • Speed 10 MPH • Range: 10 miles • Weight: 24 lbs • Folded size: 13â€x20â€x35†• Drive: Electric motor • Speed control:
