Check out this Robot that uses Kinect for Mapping that Sean Anderson, Kirk MacTavish, Daryl Tiong, Aditya Sharma from University of Waterloo built for their 4th year project. “Current accomplishments: – Optical Flow using Shi Tomasi Corners – Visual Odometry using Shi Tomasi and GPU SURF . . . . Features undergo RANSAC to find inliers (in green) . . . . Least Squares is used across all inliers
Dave Jones from the EEVBlog does a Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 Teardown. I remember playing with one of these things in the store when it came out. Can’t remember what they cost but it wasn’t cheap. It is funny to think that it stores pictures on a 3.5 inch floppy drive that only holds 1.44 MB! These days you would be hard pressed to store one or two pictures from
  This Printable Self Assembling Lamp is an interesting concept. It starts out as a flat sheet and folds up into a box with an overhead light. The light turns on using a touch sensitive area. This is what Ikea needs to implement. 🙂 “The thing that comes out of the printer (it’s a rather special sort of printer) is a flat multi-layer sandwich of shape-memory polymers (they take
Turnvater Janosch has created a fun looking Mechanical Ball Clock. No controller here, this thing is powered by a falling weight. Via: Laughing Squid “The clock runs for 12 hours, driven by a weight of 2.5 kg sinking approx. 1 meter during that time..Every minute a marble is lifted up and goes down a marble run with three flipping traps that count marbles for minutes, five-minute-steps and hours. The
This TRS Drawbot is a simple yet powerful drawing robot. The results look fantastic! “The servos in your R/C car, plane, boat, or ‘copter are controlled by a stream of electrical pulses sent from the onboard receiver. The length of these pulses tells the servo what angle to turn to. You can connect your R/C receiver to an audio input on your stereo or computer and listen to this
Julie Wang developed the Bruce in a Box Augmented Reality Project for her ECE 5760 final project. This looks like a fun project, to see where the name comes from watch the video at 3:00. “My system makes use of a variety of digital signal processing and computer vision techniques, resulting in a robust and reliable system. The hardware I utilized was the DE2-115 board by Altera, a Video
  The Sand Noise Device looks almost magical in operation when you first have a look at it running. The system interacts with users placing small cylinders of light in different places on the interactive sand filled box. A computer watches how the users are interacting and displays interesting effects based on what the users do. The most interesting portion is that it has depth awareness which means that
