 This Remote Control PVC Pipe is one of the strangest remote control projects I have ever seen. This RC vehicle is using drill motors to provide the get us an go. We have seen drill motors used in an RC project before but it was more of a motor replacement situation. “Smooth start required something to push the speed control of the drills. I used one of the
The guys over at the Harford Hackerspace made this great Telepresence Zen Garden using a Bullduino. The machine is very creative but the video of the project is equally as creative! The project was made with the help of laser cut parts, 3D printed parts and a bunch of common off the shelf parts. This is a great example of a build that would have been very difficult to
If your first remote control car was like mine it has a single button on it. The car would drive straight forward and reverse and turn when the button was pressed. It was a simple and effective design. This Dynamo Robot uses a similar method of steering. Best of all no batteries are needed! The power to drive the toy forward and in reverse comes from a hacked servo
Happy Canada Day! Here is a cool LED Fireworks project by Instructables user vahid_you2004. The circuit is sort of like a bunch of LED Throwies except the LEDs are being powered from capacitors instead of coin cell batteries. “I decided to simulate fireworks with LEDs and made a machine that makes LED fireworks. It works simple, there are a lot of LEDs that everyone is connected to a capacitor with a resistor,
Thanks to Bill Alessi for sending in the details of the NeuroDreamer Sleep Mask that he and Mitch Altman are working on. It is an open hardware project that currently has almost $15K of the $66K of funding needed. The mask has RGB LEDs inside that are controlled by a microcontroller to give you a pleasant sleep experience. If you are wanting to make your own or a variation
If you have ever wanted to try out a breathalyzer without being pulled over by the cops the Droidalyzer is the device for you. It connects to your Android phone using bluetooth and gives you an idea if you should be taking a cab even if you feel fine to drive. It also gives you some quick launch buttons based on the results such as call a cab or call
 Using a Parallax Propeller Jason Dorie built this Quadrotor. Watch the video below to see it in action. It looks to be very stable and with the Propeller processor on board there is sure to be no lack of processing power to keep things nice and stable. “The control board is a Parallax Propeller protoboard (a quick prototyping board you can buy for about $20). The only sensor currently
