Monitoring power lines can be done by people but it is a time consuming and expensive. It’s a job that needs to be done because of inventions like the Bat Hook Power Tap. Hydro-Québec Research Institute and BC Transmission Corporation have developed a robot that is capable of inspecting these lines while they are still powered. That’s not a big deal right since the power lines is a perfect platform
Spiralbrain is building a cool robot that can see what is around it by using IR. The robot base is a RP5 Tracked Chassis which looks to be quite a versatile robotic platform. Is it just me or does it sound like a small angry dog when it slowly growls and inches forward, then gets frightened and lurches back. 🙂 The PIC 18F4550 code is sure to be available when
We featured a cool GPS Puzzle Box earlier this year that Markus built. It was based on a version that Mikal Hart created. Turns out there is quite a bit of interest in these GPS Puzzle Boxes, Mikal has since written a Make article which will be published in the Fall 2010 edition of the magazine. He has also been contacted by newspapers, movie directors and TV shows wanting to
Dig that GameBoy Advanced out of your closet for this GameBoy and PIC Microcontroller Hacked into an Analog Meter project. Ken Kaarvik used a PIC24HJ128GP502 to run the project, what is really cool is that the GBA doesn’t load the program from a cartridge but rather directly from the PIC microcontroller! This isn’t the first project that Ken has done with a Game Boy, have a look at lots more
We have seen KUKA Robot Arms turned into DJ music machines and ice cream machines but this F1 Ferrari Simulator is something else! Paolo Robuffo Giordano and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany are the ones behind this cool idea. Via: PopSci “The CyberMotion Simulator is basically a full motion simulator adapted to a racing car game. Players (or subjects, the researchers prefer to
Kenneth Finnegan just completed a Bi-Color LED Clock project that is based on the TI MSP 430 Microcontroller. Thanks to the cheap development environment I think we will soon see many more MSP430 projects in the near future. Kenneth used a plastic single gang junction box and a cover plate as the project box, coming in at around $1.00 it would be hard to find a cheaper box to house
Just stick the barrel of the gun in your ear and pull the trigger. That is how you answer this Bluetooth headset. Not sure you could use this in many places though. We recently had a law pass where I live that made talking on a cell phone and driving illegal. It is legal to use a bluetooth device to talk though. I am thinking that this device would still
