 This Robot Bug is very elegant. It has an Arduino for a brain and PING sensors for the eyes. “Software is quite straight forward, a giant state machine, that takes input from the sensor, every now and then. halfbug has 5 different movements, one regular forward movement, one turn (left and right) and one turn hard (left and right). In addition to that halfbug has a head movement
 Steve from Rimstar.org has build an illumination system for his bike. Most of us would use a battery and a light right? Well Steve is using the bike power to generate thousands of volts and spark gap to warn people that a bike is coming. It has the added benefit of keeping people from wandering too close to the front of the bike! “Want to make your bike
This Capacitive Touch LED Table by laura.wagoner.9 uses an arduino to drive a neo pixel strip and uses the capacitive touch library to allow the aluminum trim to become a mode switch. The code is available to you can build your own if you like. She cut a hole in the top of an old table and mounted the electronics under glass. Looks great and the effects are nice.
This Robots Pulls up to 2,000 Times Its Weight! It is tiny like an insect and like many insects they can control massive amounts of weight in comparison to their weight. We need to see this technology applied to dragsters, say goodbye to wheel slip. Via: TheVerge  “The super-strong bots – built by mechanical engineers at Stanford University in California – will be presented next month at the International Conference
Fuel injectors are in all modern vehicles but you have probably not played with one since it is not a common replacement item. Jeremy Lang demonstrates his Fuel Injector Test system and shows off how an injector works. If you are interested in building your own Jeremy has made the build details available here (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lw8dl8vt7igtgxh/AADgvF_Ska-24dXnZktGyuZPa?dl=0).
 Antonin Martin-Schouler had created a nice POV Globe. IR is used for position detection, a slip ring gets power over to the globe, it is packing some serious processing power with the ARM processor running the show. “For building the device using this tutorial, you’ll need the following material: The Zybo board from Digilent The Neopixel LED strip from Adafruit A 12 wires slip ring like this one
Language Warning on this video by AvE. If some swear words turn you off this video isn’t for you. This is the type of project that could come in handy when you find yourself stuck in the bush with no stores in site. We are shown how to use the resistive properties of the pencil lead to act as a voltage divider and drop the voltage to a save level for
