What can you do with LEGO, Lasers and Rubber Bands? Well glad you asked. This Remote Controlled Lego Turret could be constructed to guard any teenagers room, heck I could use it to keep people out of my office. 🙂 "Specifications: Fully remote controlled It uses only one engine Ammo: The regular rubber band 30 rubber bands Engine: 8287 Lego Motor"
This Maya Robot is the beginning of a cool robot. Maya is a 3D modeling program that allows you to build virtual models and then manipulate them. This robot allow the virtual world to move into the real world.
This is a great camera tripod idea. I don’t think I would buy one for $11 but for about $0.50 I could get a nut and bolt from Home Depot and screw it into an old screw cap and throw that into my camera bag. It wouldn’t have the nice swivel capability but a few napkins under the pop bottle could get the elevation that you are looking for.
The world is a big place and we often see similar projects come up. This RFID Cat Tracking Project called CATaLOG (get it 🙂 ) is very similar to the RFID cat tracking project that we saw recently. You can now track real time activities of two households of cats on the internet using Twitter! To see the Twitter results for Bobbin and Tuffin go here, for the simply
Lots of us in the tech industry are working towards crazy deadlines which means working long hours and working while you eat. Only problem is that lots of the quick food is very messy. How often have you had to step away from a keyboard because your lunch was supper messy? What about the time you were enjoying some wings only to miss a cell phone call because your
Alessandro from 5Volt.eu has made this real simple and cool clock . The Laser Sundial Clock Project uses a Atmel microcontroller to move a servo with a line laser connected to it. The result is a single line that can simply represent the time on the wall. "This is a simple project of a sundial wherein the pinion is replaced by a line LASER I took from a LASER
There are many ways to go about automating your home. One of the easiest methods is to use X10 technology which uses the existing AC house wiring for communication. This is nice because you can control lights and appliances without running any wires in your walls. Xtenscape which was developed by Scott Hather allows you to take control of this X10 technology using the free custom built app. There
