Check out the Kyub, it is a Three-Dimensional Feather Touch MIDI Keyboard. It is brought to us by the same inventor that made the servoelectric guitar that we featured in the past. “The Kyub is a maker friendly, open source MIDI keyboard that provides a new window to musical performance. Capacitive sensing gives the Kyub extremely sensitive action and an internal accelerometer allows the volume of each note to
 If you hate when you don’t have a partner to play ping pong with you why not build a robot. Ulf Hoffmann is an industrial mechanic and has some creative ideas. His Ping Pong Robot (translated) is quite amazing, you can see it in action above. The videos below demonstrate the building blocks to get to where the robot is today. Via: Laughing Squid
If you enjoy repairing electronic equipment have a look at bandersentv youtube channel. He finds all sorts of old tube TVs and radios, strips them down to nothing and upgrades them changing out old caps, resistors that have drifted in value and rebuilds tons of other components. This video is just a taste of his videos. If you think that some of the cheap Chinese electronics is scary when
This is an interesting phenomenon. Watch the video above to see the Spinning Tube Effect and see the reason it works below.
Dave from the EEVblog checks out the Sydney Mini Maker Faire which was held at the power house museum. Quite a few 3D printers and robots driving around. At 5:45 there is a guy who does a brain wave scan of people, combines it with weather data and 3D prints a design that combines the two. At 8:30 you can see some rockets on display outside and a demonstration
Martin Stromer made a great looking Hard Disk Clock that is actually very easy to read and looks like a great art piece at the same time. It is based around the ATMega16 Microcontroller. “The time is set by turning the disk and setting the read/write head to the desired time by hand. Then you push the reset button on the back (the upper one of the tree on
What do you guys think? Is this real or bogus. It would be very simple to fake since you could simply tie in a regular battery somewhere in circuit but with new capacitor technology I am thinking this could be real? The caps that are being used are 350F!! That is crazy but the total amount of energy available is not as much as a regular lead acid battery
