This Rubber Band Chaingun is one mean machine. It seems to work very well. “The motor driven barrels start winding up to speed at the flick of a switch on the handle. Pulling the trigger unleashes a stream of rubber bands, deluging the target. The fire rate is high enough that at least half a dozen bands are in the air at any one time – the gun appears
Tristan has taken some EBay capacitors and some charging components to build a cool Disc Launcher. His home made coil self destructed on the last launch but it worked very well till that point. “This project was started in Spring of 2006. I had taken a several year break from working on any HV / EMP project. In that time I was changing jobs, getting married, and buying a
Here is a better look at the cool LED fabric that was shown last week. “This video shows the full extent of how far the technology has gone, with different colors, how the fabric reacts to touch (which is surprisingly like a normal fabric) and how LumaLive can be made useful on other things like sofas or in other places around the house. For example, a Lumalive clock on
This robot reminds me of the car eating robots that were shown at the intermission of car races. “Initially our mechs will be used for entertainment purposes and will eventually be fitted to fight in a large arena designed to accommodate these great machines. The pilot control is a special system called mech interface manual integration control (mimic) system, designed specifically to allow the mech to emulate any movement
Natural Interaction has made some very cool inventions. This has to be one of the best! “In the studio of the italian designer Achille Castiglioni, visitors may peek inside some of his projects just by trying to open the boxes containing the materials: the action is completed virtually, while different voices explain what you see on the table. Collaboration with Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. ” Via: TechEBlog
This is an interesting LEGO robot. Is there anything the NXT LEGO system can’t do? Have a look at some more LEGO creations at the creator’s site, www.plastibots.com. "For those who do not know about the Lego Mindstorms Developer Program (MDP), back in January of 2006 Lego was seeking assistance from the Lego community on their next generation Mindstorms product (NXT). Approx 9600 people applied to become one of
This contraption must have been lots of fun to create. The LEGO skill shines through on these modules! Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 “Idea: Develop a Mindstorms/Technic creation (not competition) in which people of all building levels can participate. Each person can build one (or more) module(s). All modules will be assembled to form a large “Rube Goldberg “-ish bucket-brigade type contraption. A Great Ball Contraption loop was
