Surveyor Corporation is working on some cool tech. They are building some of the most advanced robots available in a tiny package. Unlike most other companies they have a build journal that is open to the public that lets us follow the progress of the project. Of course this journal also documents the issues and stumbling blocks that they have has along the way. It looks like this little robot
Cynergy Labs is working on some cool technology! Using the concepts that Johnny Chung Lee introduced as a building block. This system uses the Wiimote as a camera looking at the users fingers to determine what the user wants to do. I can see this technology being built into laptops and other computer system in the near future to be used at an additional input device. “Maestro brings together Microsoft
Happy New Year! Some people celebrate with fire works, here at Hacked Gadgets I think a cool Oscilloscope Audio Show would be more appropriate. 🙂 Albert from DIMA Audio Visual sure knows how to put on a show. Unfortunately for me he’s in Spain. Albert is a DJ who enhances his shows by capturing the image from an oscilloscope using a camcorder, he then projects the image on screens for
Our friend Bill Beaty from amasci.com has come up with a way to Melt a Beer Bottle in a Microwave!
This is definitely not going be UL listed but if you need a welder on the cheap this is one way to go. The “Tiny Tim” Welder
Any website that an RSACi rating of V4 for violent content and describes it’s contents as “fantastically dangerous” is worth my time to look at. William Beatty put together ” CAPACITOR-BANK DISCHARGE EXPERIMENTS” for those of us who think coins are just to big. There are a couple of busted links but plenty of potentially fatal fun. If you have never played with high voltage please be careful.
Most people would just buy a regular coffee machine when they need one. But that’s just way too easy for this German tinkerer. He completely built his own coffee machine from scratch: Although the website is in German, there is a very impressing video and many pictures documenting the whole construction phase. Be sure to also check out his other projects!
