  Jason Dorweiler has built an Autonomous Car that is based on a simply off the shelf $100 RC car. The car is loaded up with a bunch of sensors and visual technology. An Arduino is being used to tie everything together. The video below demonstrates a parking lot test that seems to have worked very well. Thanks for the email Paul. “For the localization of the car I’ll
Check out the Skot 9000 DigitGrid. It is a huge grid of 7 segment displays that can be used to display a picture or even a video in a crude way. The result is beautiful! Thanks for the tip Stan. “The DigitGrid is an array of seven-segment displays. There are 4096 LEDs, forming 512 7-segment digits (they are actually 8 leds each if you count the decimal point). Every
  When I think of a 7 Segment Display I think of a small display plugged into my breadboard with some wires plugged into it. This clock uses 7 segment displays that are nothing like that!. In fact these 7 segment displays are all mechanical and are actuated using tiny servo motors. Just think of the noise it would make if the time wasn’t set and it was flashing 12:00.
 If you want to be notified whenever the Space Station is flying overhead this Space Station Lamp project by Nathan from Mechanical Integrator is sure to help out. A number of LEDs edge light a piece of frosted plexiglass and a Teensy microcontroller does the work. Some Python code is used to check to see when the Space Station is over head. If you are interested in making
 Congrats to Jeremy Blum for graduating from Cornell University! He made a cool Remote Controlled Graduation Cap that he controls using a custom built wrist control box. The cap has an RGB LED in it and is capable of not only grabbing user submitted color suggestions but also a variety of pre-programmed ones. If you would like to see how it works Jeremy has made it open source
Thanks to Geva for sending in this great project. A brain monitor is connected to an Arduino so it can detect when the user is concentrating. When this happens a mild electric current is applied to the water in which there are hundreds of microbes swimming about. As soon as the current is applied they immediately start swimming towards the top of the screen where the negative pole is.
 Thanks to Vigo for sending in his latest project. It’s a Animatronic Singing Robot! The mechanism is quite simple but the results are fantastic. I can just imagine using this for a phone call that is video recorded at one end, you could have the puppet move it’s mouth to the speech of the other person and have a full conversation with the puppet. “What is Animatronic Beaker-bot? Well,
