Seems that reverse engineering remote control toys is becoming quite popular. Last week we saw an RC toy car get hacked so it could be controlled by an Arduino. Kerry Wong recently completed a project where he reverse engineered a toy helicopter. Many inexpensive remote control toys use IR light to transmit commands instead or conventional RF signals which is what Kerry is dealing with in this project.
Jon Bennett from JBProjects.net has just completed his latest creation. He purchased a cheap $9 remote control car, added a bit of electronics and now has a car that allows complete control using an Arduino. He has PWM control over the motors to give the car some refined control. All of the code has been made available so you could make your own.
You probably remember those fun Light Bright boxes that were so much fun to play with. This one looks a lot different than the plain white wedge that I had when I was young, but the concept is the same. Over at Mean PC you can see how a simple Lite Brite was turned into a Lite Brite LED Clock. You can see the numerous build videos that take
Hallstudio has been flying RC planes since 1989, lots of things have changed since then. Check out this great Cheap Tricopter Build that he put together. It comprises of a bunch of inexpensive parts that total around $100 but give you the a great tricopter base that you can fly and modify. There are lots of interesting tricks that he demonstrates in the video such as the use of
If you have a spare SCARA Arm kicking around and need a new project this 3D Printer built using a SCARA Arm might spark some inspiration. Via: Make “This project documents the re-purposing of a ‘rescued’ 1980’s IBM 7575 SCARA Robot Arm, into a functional 3D ABS printer. The project features some motor upgrades,  documentation of encoder positioned motor control feedback theory, the interminglings of EMC2, heated workspace construction and
Got an Arduino and looking for a cool project? Have a look at this RGB Arduino LED Clock over at ElectronicProjects.blogspot.ie. It has some cool specs and looks great! “180 RGB LEDs driven by TLC5925 constant current LED drivers each LED addressed separately (12x TLC5925 with 16 outputs each). each colour adressed individually 4x 7 segment LED display Atmega328P as MCU DS1307 real time clock Photoresistor (for adjusting brightness)
The Neurophone was invented by Patrick Flanagan and used radio transmitter that injected sound into the human nervous system. Antennas coupled a one-watt 40kHz transmitter to the body to inject the signals. Seems that Patrick was quite the brain since he developed and sold a guided missile detector to the U.S. military when he was 11 years old. Andreas Hahn has make a modern version of the Neurophone using
