We featured the RGB LED Vehicle Turn Signals that StarfireMX developed for his Ford Mustang. StarfireMX has now completed the Custom RGB LED Turn Signals and they look fantastic. Most of the features can’t be used on the road but this is a show car to it does have a chance to shine and show off the bling. The system used a number of Arduino based controllers and XBee wireless
If you like to get woken up with a bang this Bomb Clock is for you! Watch the video below to see what happens when you don’t defuse it correctly. This will be available as a kit soon, I can just imagine the hack to come which includes a small fire cracker to signal a failure to defuse the clock. Via: Electronics Lab “The Defusable Clock is a fully-functional alarm
Malte Ahlers from Germany sent in this great Microsoft Kinect controlled Delta Robot (translated to English). We have seen quite a few Kinect hacks recently but this one represents something that interfaces very well with an external device like we have seen in the past with quite a few Wiimote Hacks. “I built a delta robot and tried to control it with the Microsoft Kinect sensor. My aim was to
We featured an interesting CNC Halftone Picture technique that was done by Metalfusion. I have seen lots of people making halftone images using Photoshop since it has this capability built right in. If you don’t have Photoshop Metafusion has made a program which lets you import a picture and export a halftone DXF file. I wanted to give it a try but instead of using the CNC machine I wanted
A walking robot like MABEL might not look that interesting to many people since humans do it all the time with no effort but when you think of the complexity behind what is being done in the video above you have to admire the machine! Thanks for the tip Fahd Via: Engadget “MABEL runs free for over 110 steps! In our opinion, this is the most realistic, human-like running achieved
Marklar who is a senior member over at the Arduino forums converted a junked radio into a fantastic RGB LED controller. When he looked inside an old radio to salvage some IR parts he spied a Rotary Encoder, these are a bit tricky to setup for the first time but they are great when you are done. For those who aren’t sure what a rotary encoder is, be sure to
Midwest Engineering in Pewaukee Milwaukee has put together a great video showing the robotic technology they implemented for this Robotic Bottling Automation Line to allow it to go from bins of raw goods to a finished product. I am curious how many man hours are needed to keep this machine humming away. I think I would enjoy programming this type of equipment until a customer needed an Automatic Chicken Breast
