The Pnuematic Rocket Man built by Rodger Cleye used a fire extinguisher fill of air to launch the rocket man high in the air. A camera on the man captures the view! “The pressure is gated by a solenoid actuated sprinkler valve. The valve solenoid is switched through an N- FET that is given a 500mS pulse from the AVR microcontroller. The sprinkler valve output is adapted down to
Mike Senese from Make shows us how to make a License Plate Electric Guitar. Some basic tools are used to create a totally custom electric guitar, the video shows you how to wind the pickup coil using some screws, plywood and magnet wire. When this project is done you will have a guitar to jam on. In the example video a pre built guitar neck was used but depending
Check out the KMel Robotics Flying Robots that can Play Instruments. The control of the quadcopters is amazing to be able to play these notes with the accuracy and timing that they can! “Just a reminder about how this all works: each one of these robots has its position measured down to the millimeter (or better) at a very high frequency using an external localization system. The individual hexrotors
The $5 mouse that you just tossed in the garbage might have had some hackable life still in it. As Conor Peterson shows us most optical mice are actually quite simply in operation with most of the hard work being done by the low resolution camera sensor. With a bit of Arduino code he was able to read out the serial image data directly from the mouse and display
Check out the The Decoliner, (starts at 4:32) this vehicle can be driven from the Upper Bridge. It is designed to be the max height to still fit under the normal road obstructions. This amazing vehicle can be driven from the the regular lower driving position but to spice things up you simply take the steering wheel upstairs and continue cruising. I would love to see it pulled over
Arduino is 10 years old! In celebration we will feature a project today that uses an Arduino at the core. Solar panels are most efficient when they are pointed directly at the sun but since its position moves across the sky all day the only way to do this is with a solar tracking device. This Arduino Solar Tracker provides the tracking using LDR sensors to detect where the
Rodger Cleye is always making crazy things.Check out his latest Marty McFly Hoverboard! “This H-copter on steroids has an “all up” weight of 20lbs when you add the “Marty” mannequin and 13.4Ah 5S lipo battery. The chassis is made of 300PSI 1/2in PVC. Each motor can handle 1200W but only takes 640W to hover. The battery acts as a counter-balance below the prop line. Flying time is respectable at
