Want to learn how a Xylophon is made from scratch? The guys from NerdKits go over the basics, when the Xylophon is built they automate it by making some coils and drive it using a NerdKit. This is a fun project that is sure to provide some holiday cheer. “Our homemade xylophone was a great way to put our milling machine to use cutting the bars for each note, and
Our friend Muris from Elektronika.ba has been busy. He has created one of the coolest Nixie Clocks that I have seen in a long time. His inspiration is the Ice Tube Clock from Adafruit which uses a single tube that glows blue. You can tell that the board was laid out with great care to get everything to fit in such a compact space. If you are interested in making
Stéphane Bersot has developed a Situated Virtual Reality for Telerobotic Control system which allows an operator to control a piece of machinery in a remote location by viewing a 3D representation of the remote scene. The cool thing about this is since you are looking at a representation of the remote location you are able to see everything at any angle you want including positions that the physical remote cameras
Tired of watching your flat panel LCD and miss the days when you were trouble shooting your circuits with a CRT scope? You can have the best of both worlds with this circuit. CameramanLink designed the circuit below to make it happen. If you have a few hours to kill have a look at the ton of projects that CameramanLink has done! “Homemade television video monitor built from scratch. It
If you are looking for a new cool project check out this Vision Tracking System Kit from Trossen Robotics. Put this on a robotic platform, stick a red dot on your cat and have it chase your cat around the house. 🙂 “The RoboTurret Vision Tracking Kit is an industry first! Never before has it been so easy and so inexpensive to jump into the world of machine vision! Trossen
The guys over at Utah Aerials are having some fun over the US Thanksgiving Holiday by making a Turkey Quadcopter that can drop Pies! These are the same guys that made the Flying Mr T that we saw a few months ago. “It is constructed of four long sheets of poster-board for the cylinder, and smaller pieces for the head, wings, and tail with some small parts that are folded
Joe Grand who you might remember from Prototype This has been working on a Laser Range Finder, he has been nice enough to share his build issues and successes over at the Parallax Forums. He demonstrates how a CMUcam can be used to look at the reflected laser dot to determine range based on triangulation. The Parallax CMUcam he is using looks like it is currently out of stock at
