You can build some really cool stuff with LEGO. With enough gears and bendy bits you can make this Lego Paper Airplane Maker which can take some paper in one end and shoot our a paper airplane out of the other end. Arthur Sacek spent some quality time building this creation for Arrow. Via: Gizmodo
This project uses a vision system that looks for puck and determines the best location to move the mallet. The processor power is coming from a Intel MinnowBoard Max. Details and code can be found here if you would like to build your own. “The goal of the this project was to prove out the real time properties of the IoT Core OS. We chose the air hockey table
This Nixie Alarm Clock project gets the Time Updated via GPS. Not only is there GPS to get an accurate time, this clock also has an SD card that is used to play audio files. “The firmware for the clock is written in C using Eclipse C/C++ with the AVR Eclipse plugin with avr-gcc and avr-libc 1.8.1 Since the GPS module provides the time in UTC, I need to
CNLohr has been playing with the inexpensive IOT device for quite a while. Check out the ESP8266 Brodcasting Analog TV while running a Web Server. Hard to believe that this small chip is only a few dollars in small quantities. If this chip is in a IOT light bulb or doorbell this thing would be seriously be underused. That would be just like using your brand new android phone to
Proto G made a nice soldered together figurine out of electronic components. I thought the design ended there with an interesting piece of art, but there is more. You will notice that Anthony is wearing some rubber gloves at the start of the video. The gloves are not a fashion statement but rather a safety measure (although in the video comments indicate that the gloves are not for
Fluidik is a glass scale that shows a user’s weight using fluid flowing through a graduated tube. When weight is applied on the scale surface increased weight will squish the fluid further in the tube. Via: Laughing Squid “There is a compression port and bleed valve in the front edge of the scale for calibration. The user can adjust the scale by turning the silver dial located on
AMBRO Labs is playing with Screen Printing Electroluminescent Lights On Clothing. I think in the near future this will be common place to see clothing that adds a bit of light to the design. We have seen lots of sew on items from the maker side of things but if would be nice to see some things that has been silk screened directly onto the fabric. “We’ve screen
