Electronic Hacks

Robotic Music - The Human Element Album Released

   Patrick Flanagan who we saw a few years ago has just released an album, you can get The Human Element by Zazari for free here. To see what other cool things Patrick is doing be sure to check out his blog. “I’ve just released my first EP, The Human Element, which is available for free download at Bandcamp (jazari.bandcamp.com) and SoundCloud. All of the percussion instruments on the album

Mantis Hexapod Walking Machine by Matt Denton

  We have featured Matt Denton’s hexapod designs in the past. He has been spending some time working on a project that is a bit bigger than the previous ones! His new design which has been 4 years in the making called Mantis is a Hexapod Walking Machine. He has taken lots of pictures in the Facebook page (a few can be seen below). This video done by Daily Planet

DIY Ethernet Temperature and Humidity Logger

  Kerry Wong just finished his latest project, it is an Ethernet Temperature and Humidity Logger. “I used an ENC28J60 Ethernet module along with an ATmega328p microcontroller to log the temperature and humidity readings and then process the data on my web server for display. To plot the data points, I used Google Annotated Timeline so that you can easily zoom into the desired date/time range. “  

Cheap High Speed Automatic Pick and Place Machine Overview

  Remember the cheap automatic pick and place machine we told you about in December of last year? Ian from Dangerous Prototypes has purchased one and has been doing some testing on it. Looks like is a great little machine. For the low price it doesn’t come with a vision system, is a bit noisy, has limited reel locations and has what looks to be a hard to use interface

DeltaMaker - A Delta Robot 3D Printer

    If you are looking to get into 3D printing have a look at this DeltaMaker – A Delta Robot 3D Printer. Their Kickstarter was successful so it will just be a matter of time until these units are rolling off the production floor! Via: Make  “Product Hightlights: Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) using 1.75 mm filament – PLA and ABS 100 micron layer resolution capability  10″ diameter x 11″

PCB Milled Board

  Check out this milled PCB that Per from  Zapro.dk Blog has made. If you think those are small traces and fine work for a milled PCB you are right. Not to mention the vias are plated through. This board is for a 5X5X5 LED cube that you can see in action here. This was done using a Protomat and a Minicontac II. You can see a Protomat in action here.

IP Camera Bluetooth Robot

    Our friend Dave from Plastibots has just completed this great looking Bluetooth Robot that has an IP Camera on board. Dave wrote an Android application called BT Bot Control to allow you to drive your robot around using commands over Bluetooth using your Android phone. The video from the camera is sent back using Wifi. I can just imagine how much fun this would be with a squirt