The Ben Heck Show has a cool DIY Animatronic Puppet Head project. This project listens for speech and moves the puppet mouth accordingly.  “In this episode Ben sets out to help Backflip films with their upcoming puppet movie The Princess Knight. The film requires its actors to memorize prerecorded dialogue in order to match it with the mouth of a puppet. In this episode Ben sets out to create an animatronic
 Antonin Martin-Schouler had created a nice POV Globe. IR is used for position detection, a slip ring gets power over to the globe, it is packing some serious processing power with the ARM processor running the show. “For building the device using this tutorial, you’ll need the following material: The Zybo board from Digilent The Neopixel LED strip from Adafruit A 12 wires slip ring like this one
If you have some RC gear and a few bits of GPS electronics this project that iforce2d built might be worth a look.  Have a look at it in action at 2:40.  The user has a GPS module and the car has a GPS module, the module with the person sends its position to the car and the car goes to that location, issue with GPS is that it isn’t very
 This GPS Guided RC Boat project is a great way to capture some interesting pre-determined navigation scenes. The boat does a great job of navigating until it hits something or gets swamped. Joseph Fortune has a page that provides build details and code so you can make your own.  “Here is a rough layout of the parts. The 9V battery hooked to the engine was actually one of those 7V rechargeable
Alex Glover created a locked box project, some project boxes need a secret knock code to unlock, GPS positions to unlock and dice roll combinations to unlock. I think this is the first time I have seen a box that is unlocked by a flame. Nice thing is that it is not obvious that the box is opened in this way. I think it would be nice to have
If you would like to keep better track of your energy usage this GSM Power Monitor and Control by Idris Zainal Abidin might be just what you need. There isn’t much details so you would not be able to build it from the article but it should be enough for some inspiration to build your own creation.  The modular build looks great even though it would not be best suited for a
 Check out the Cliff Test, it is a Constant Current Variable Load by TimNJ. It is based on the popular inexpensive load tester circuit that Dave Jones built a while ago. “Here’s some information about it: -External AC/DC power suppply -Fan cooled (no temperature control at the moment) -Load switch (with LED indicator) -10-turn pot -Internal trimmer to set max current (currently set at 1A, but can most likely
