This contraption must have been lots of fun to create. The LEGO skill shines through on these modules! Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 “Idea: Develop a Mindstorms/Technic creation (not competition) in which people of all building levels can participate. Each person can build one (or more) module(s). All modules will be assembled to form a large “Rube Goldberg “-ish bucket-brigade type contraption. A Great Ball Contraption loop was
The perfect present for under the tree… These Genpets were designed to create a stir and it seems they did. Check out this site to see how they were advertised, and this site explains how they were really created and why. “This piece is a mix of design, industry, art and science. The sculpture consists of nineteen plastic packages hung from store hooks displaying streamlined, mass produced Bio-engineered life. The
Have a look at the projects over at Benthack, if you like circuit bending you will get a kick out of the projects. If you don’t know what circuit bending is you soon will. “A friend gave me an old master keyboard, the roland pc-200. i decided to transform it in a keytar, a strap-on keyboard. i’ve used two guitar/bass knobs for strap and two buttons (bending up and
This DIY orb by UK-Dave reminds me of the orb made by Ambient Devices. Dave has taken about $60.00 of electronics to create a device that can be remotely controlled from a computer. All the source code for the PIC based microcontroller is available on his site. “The Orb is my attempt at building an ambient interface. It consists of a number of high-brightness red, green and blue LEDs, a
The people over at MIT are at it again, check out this cool robot. “Domo is a new upper-torso humanoid robot at the MIT CSAIL Humanoid Robotics Lab. It is the doctoral work of Aaron Edsinger. The goal of Domo is to contribute a novel approach to robot manipulation in unstructured environments. The approach is centered on integrating compliant and force sensitive manipulators into a behavior based architecture that
You too can build a small very functional PIC scope! Steven from Semifluid.com has gone all out with this creation. Check out his site for the project source code. “Using the PIC18F2550 GLCD Text Test as a basis for further experimentation, I put together a simple and accurate graphical oscilloscope using a PIC18F2550 microcontroller and a AGM1264F graphical LCD. The oscilloscope measures the average voltage, the maximum voltage, the
Wiess from Denmark is a new Hacked Gadget Forum member who has a great web site with many interesting projects. Unfortunately the text is not in English and it doesn’t play nice with my translation programs. Wiess may be kind enough to offer a short English overview is there is enough interest. As far as I am concerned a picture is worth a thousand words!
