I’m not much of a gamer but I think this Racing Simulator by Motion Sim could cure me! Have a look at the first video below to get an idea of what this system can do. The company that makes it is actually in the industrial automation business so they clearly have a good handle on what is needed to fling around the 300KG that the system is rated to
The guys over at Nerd Kits have made a cool Human Theremin project that uses Infrared Light. IR light from an infrared LED is bounced off someones hand and some of the light is reflected back onto an infrared transistor. The closer the hands are the more IR light is reflected back onto the IR transistor. The output of the IR circuit is fed into a Nerd Kit microcontroller and
Have a look at this crazy University of Pennsylvania Quadrotor, just think about the issues getting stable flight not to mention the flight recovery this Quadrotor is capable of. Via: Make and Engadget
Jason sent in his latest creation, it’s a 1.25kJ Coilgun. Check out the cool video of it below, you will get a good overview of how it works and see it in action. I like the fact that he is re-using some parts in the build like the cell phone charger for some of the low voltage circuit needs. By the looks of the damage caused by the gun I
Ben Heckendorn is known for his crazy hacks like the XBox 360 Laptop. He is hosting a web show on Revision 3 called The Ben Heck Show. The show will be broken up into 2 types of builds, he will be taking suggestions from the audience and he will also be covering a large build that will be covered over many episodes. I wonder how he got the suggestions for
If you have a CNC machine you can easily convert it into a high resolution scanner. All you need is a $20 web cam and a bit of software. In the video above Andy Grevstad from Tormach demonstrates how easy it is to slap a part onto the CNC bed and have the entire part scanned so that the part can be copied. Click on some of the images below
Robert Oschler sent in this interesting project which allows Recording Emotions with the Emotiv EEG Headset to sense your mood. Just like the read receipt tells you if and when your email was read this would let you know what type of emotion it conjured. “EmoRate is an application that demonstrates the power of Affective Computing, a technology that allows computers to detect and react to human emotions and will
