If you have a project that needs to talk have a look at the Network Speech Server by Viktor Criterion from Super Fun Adventure Quest Time. This design uses a Wifi module that listens for messages on a port. When a message comes in it is passed to the text to speech module so it can be spoken. This would make a great addition to an online business
 Max Thrun shared his latest project with us called the BeagleBone GamingCape. Wow, what an undertaking. The video below takes you through a time lapse view of the design of the custom PCB and the custom enclosure. The enclosure was tested by doing a print on a 3D printer before it was cut on a laser machine. The case design is an interesting layered design that is constructed
  Check out this cool Hard Disk Drive Midi Scratch Table. It uses the sensor from an optical mouse to look at the movement of a hard drive platter. There are a number of buttons that can change the midi output of the device to allow it to adapt to your DJ needs. The optical sensor is used to read a pattern on the underside of the platter to
 The Sugar Lab 3D sugar printer started as a cool project and has now exploded into a finely tuned sugar printer. “The Sugar Lab is a micro-design firm for custom 3D printed sugar. With our background in architecture and our penchant for complex geometry, we’re bringing 3D printing technology to the genre of mega-cool cakes. 3D printing represents a paradigm shift for confections, transforming sugar into a dimensional, structural
Check out the cool WaterColorBot. It was dreamed up by Super Awesome Sylvia and helped to be created by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. I can see this be a great project for older school kids to put together and have the younger school kids use it. The Kickstarter has been funded so this is something that we will be seeing around. The robot is built from CNC router cut
Chris Rybitski just shared his latest project with us, it’s a Stage Platform Robot. It is a way to remotely move stage items around. He built a 9 inch tall robot that can drive around with 900 pounds on its back. He built the majority of the metal frame from square tubing that has been welded together. There is an Arduino controlling the robotics and a speed controller that
This Arduino Quadcopter by Kyle Fieldus has iPhone Control, similar to the AR Drone you can tilt the phone to control the quadcopter. Touch OSC is being used to design the phone interface, there is also an Android version available. The system chain is a bit complex since the phone is sending the input data to the computer, the computer determines what should be done on the quadcopter and
