Rustic Engineering has some good posts about the GUI Bot build, it’s a robot that is based on the PIC18F452 microcontroller. The robot looks great with two large drive wheels and one coaster wheel under the front. You can also find a large writeup of the project over at Lets Make Robots. “Feature List Move, turn and gyro with speed and agility; Speed up and Stop when you need; Generates
Keith Baxter from the The Milwaukee Servoelectric Guitar Project sent in the cool progress he is making on the Single String Servo Guitar project. You probably remember Keith from the original Servo Guitar that we featured last year. There is something haunting and pleasant sounding with this new single string guitar, I wonder if Keith could rig something up so that it could pick the string and control the servo
Check out this sweet motorcycle GPS and temperature display that came out of HeatSync Labs (cool name by the way). Nice thing about the system is that it could be modified to monitor all sorts of motorcycle sensors. Via: Adafruit “The components used include these: Arduino Duemilanove Adafruit GPS logger shield kit USGlobalSat GPS Module Standard LCD 20×4 Breadboard Power Supply Polycarbonate Electronics Enclosure“
So you need to hear the secrets that are being spilled in the building across the street? If the conversation is happening over the phone you could build a DIY Telephone Listening Bug and tune into the conversation on a radio but what if the conversation is happening between two people in the room? The answer is a Laser Listening Device, we have featured one of these DIY Laser Listening
Sacha De’Angeli from ChemHacker has released the schematics and source code of the Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope. The STM is Arduino based and has been a build in progress for quite a long time now. Looks like it is at a great state now! See the Wikipedia page for more generic information about Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscopes. “The STM is based on the concept of quantum tunneling. When a conducting
Instructables member drj113 has put together a powerful Networked DIY Watering Controller. It has a AtMega168 at its heart and uses a RTC to keep accurate track of time. Where I live there is no restrictions on lawn watering but this is a good flexible system that can save you costly fines if your area imposes lawn watering restrictions. “The sprinkler controller is built on the base of my Adruino
Jouni Vasama and a friend put together this little Plush Ghettoblaster that they call the Domoblaster. What fun it must be to be able to whip this out and crank out the tunes. Forget about the big plastic boxes that we are haul around to get our fix of tunes, this thing will give you just an equal amount of visual enjoyment as it does sound pleasure! A nice feature
