This Fiery Half Body Robot Pushes Shopping Cart is just what I need to push my groceries home from the store. I would love to film this thing walking into a Walmart past the greeter. 🙂 "An electric motor was used to drive the rear axle of the shopping cart. The same motor turned a bicycle camshaft which pulled slowly, then released quickly 2 cables. The radio control consisted of
The Missouri S&T AESS UAV Team is working hard designing their autonomous RC Plane and by the looks of the latest test flight things are progressing nicely! "Using HIL simulation allowed us to all to get a better of idea of what we had to do once we got out to the airfield. In the end performing the HIL simulation in the lab saved us a lot of time and
This PennyCam is a great idea for catching crooks in the act. I guess the camera could be mounted in anything such as the corner of the cash register however mounting it in plain view disguised as something you expect to see. It is a bit expensive but one foiled robbery is all you need to make it worth while… "I just completed my new hidden camera project called
This Beamz Laser Music Performance System looks very interesting. I am not exactly sure how the beams are playing the notes in the video since all the beam should be able to detect is when it’s broken. It seems that more information than just a broken beam is needed could play those tunes. Based on what I see (if it is just broken beams) 6 buttons could reproduce the
David Bue Pedersen from Volunteer Lab Rat has come up with a great way to see at a glance who is online. No need to walk up to your computer and turn off the screen saver anymore! His Online Notification Picture Frame will light up an LED behind the person who is online. The model he built has 5 pictures in it but it can handle up to 22
This Greenflight Electric Vehicle Project takes you through the construction of a few electric vehicles that were constructed by a clever 17 year old. He is trying to put together his vehicles on a small budget which makes it interesting. One of his posts indicates that Discovery Channel was coming down to do an interview with him!
We have featured the Rubens Tube here before, it looks like building them and having fun has caught on. Have a look at this cool collection of Rubens Tube projects, the Wiimote controlled Rubens Tube is one of my favorites.
