This is a fantastic application of the Nintendo Wiimote. Timo Fleisch of Germany has created a system that uses some Wii remotes which can be purchased at any local department store and some IR LEDs which are also readily available to create a very usable virtual environment. You hold an item infront of a monitor which will be displaying the virtual item, above this screen there is a Wiimote
It is nice to see something other than a basic machining project for a final university course. This team spent 5 weeks putting together a cool final project that would create and serve an ice cream to some hungry onlookers! "The Department of Technological Studies at Ohio Northern University developed these ice cream serving robots as part of an extracurricular activity for ONU’s homecoming festivities. The project took 5
This interesting Hacked Camera Robot that OddBot made is great since it uses a camera that most people would have no use for anymore. He has mounted it onto a mount that the robot can control and when ready the robot can take the picture. Best of all the system is autonomous. "I’ve hacked a cheap camera and mounted on a pan / tilt neck assembly. Pictomatix MkII only
KeithRobot has made a crazy looking walking robot. It looks like the helicopter needs to be a bit more powerful to make it more useful but it is a great proof of concept. I can just imagine this thing being automated, it could fly close to the destination and walk the rest of the way.
CMCKAYVSTMCKAY purchased some super bright white LEDs from us and created one cool RC truck mod. He drilled out holes in the light bar to accept the 5mm White LEDs and also added some in the front of the truck. Have a look at the videos, they show the process that was used to install the LEDs and show how bright they are in the white snow! Nice job!
Using a DVD player screen, a rewired toy keyboard and toy laptop looks like it made a great start to this DIY Parallax Propeller Laptop.This project demonstrates the power of the Propeller microcontroller. Full documentation is available so that you could make your own. "This is a Propeller laptop – with a 6502 co-processor and 64K of static RAM! The Propeller handles all I/O for the 6502 and runs
This is a very impressive hack. It uses the cool Peggy that is made by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. It was originally created by Jay from Planet Clegg, best of all full instructions are provided so that you can make your own. "While that’s pretty impressive, it’s also a bit invasive, since it requires rewiring the Peggy board. The new version of the project streams data to the Peggy
