***WARNING*** if you attempt any project that uses explosive materials please exercise extreme caution. These videos show you how to make a smoke grenade (second video) and how to make a pull ring that will allow it to be ignited just like a grenade.
These football playing robots look simple at first until you see how they operate. Robofoot is one of the competitors in the annual Robocup challenge. "Robofoot is a student initiative devoted to the development of autonomous and cooperative multi-robots systems. The main goal of the project is to be the first Canadian team to participate in the Robot World Cup Soccer Games, the RoboCup (www.robocup.org), in the Middle Size
Rick (mrfixitrick) was working on ramping up the speed of his new Tesla Turbine Blender a bit too quickly! It sure makes for some funny carnage though. 🙂 "I was using the water-pressure powered CD turbine as a powerful blender, by using a foot-pedal valve to introduce a blast of air pressure into the water stream. (air and water pressure at the same time…;) I stomped on the foot
I hope this article doesn’t creep out as many people as the Remote Controlled Pigeon article did. It looks like researchers have found a way to take some brain cells and repourposed them to operate a robot. Have a look at this New Scientist article for more information. "It’s these spontaneous electrical patterns that researchers at the University of Reading in the UK want to harness to control a
Happy Halloween from Hacked Gadgets! The video above is from our friend Rick Crammond, he is hacking up a pumpkin the way any true hacker would do it. 🙂 The second video by Macadin is a neat idea, a projector is used to project an image into a pumpkin. If done right this could be a spooky effect that would reduce your candy expenditure.
If skateboard speed matters then a board by Altered Electric Skateboards may be the board for you. All you need is the wireless speed controller in hand and a passion for the open road (or at least a big parking lot). How long will it be before we see a DIY model that is faster than this one? "How does it work? and how does it Start & Stop?
Microchip (the makers of the popular PIC Microcontroller) are in the middle of a great contest called the PIC32 Design Challenge. There are many phases to this contest, currently the hardware phase is being conducted. After this phase the current 128 participants will be down to only 32. This contest is bringing out some great projects from some creative minds! This Bathroom Utilities Management System by Brent Morse is
