  Just imagine not having sight to see what is around you. This DIY Visual Impairment Aid project allows the user to use it to look around using the ultrasonic finder that detects how far things are in front of it and provides this information to the wearer by beeping at different intervals. I am wondering is some type of low speed vibration motor or pressure feedback would be
  An Arduino is being used here to power this Chess Playing Robot game that Max Justicz built. The assembly is built using drawer slides, some of these are very tight with some smooth ball bearing action. Nice thing about this platform is it could be used to play any board game that needs to have pieces moved around or as Max mentions, it could be made into a
Nice to see this Game Controller for the Physically Disabled. It is sure to help out many people. Caleb Kraft has made a new site for this project, check out The Controller Project. If you want to help out please get in tough with them! “Custom gaming controllers can mean a lot of things. They could be big easy buttons for someone with muscle control issues or they could be
 Ken Gracey, the President of Parallax is building a huge quadcopter. In the picture above it might not look that big but when you realize that the propellers are 14 inches that might put things into perspective! There are 2 X 4 amp hour 18 volt batteries feeding the 770 KV motors. You can see the first flight below, after getting some kinks worked out it seems to
Holly Mann shows us how to build a DIY HDTV Antenna. You probably have most of the things around the house already so it shouldn’t cost more than about $5. Holly designed a good looking antenna that actually works after purchasing a few off the shelf HDTV antennas that didn’t work. I might need to give this a try since just like Holly I am getting tired of my
Sean Michael Ragan shows us how he built the Bike Phone Charger project that Alastair Bland wrote for Make magazine. It uses an interesting component construction inside a plastic housing. I think a great addition to this project would be cram a small USB battery system in the housing so that the system charges a battery so that it could be used when the bike is stationary. “The charger circuit
Chris Rybitski just shared his latest project with us, it’s a Stage Platform Robot. It is a way to remotely move stage items around. He built a 9 inch tall robot that can drive around with 900 pounds on its back. He built the majority of the metal frame from square tubing that has been welded together. There is an Arduino controlling the robotics and a speed controller that
