 The Orvillecopter is a helicopter built from a dead cat. Bart Jansen created the copter after his cat was killed when it was struck by a car. Via: CBC “It’s a tribute to the cat Orville, that was named after the famous aviator Orville Wright. After the cat was killed by a car, and followed by a period of mourning, visual artist Bart Jansen transformed him into the
 If you are going to be building your own go kart, this DIY Electric Go-Kart Project Build is sure to give you lots of ideas. The design isn’t flashy but looks to be functional and lots of fun to drive. I wonder how many out takes there are where it smashes into some of he walls? Looking through some of the other videos on their Youtube channel shows what
Thanks to hairygael for sending in his latest project. “This hand was printed on a 3D Touch and designed in Blender, controled through Netfab and sliced with Kisslicer. This is a video showing the progress after installing and programming the servos and the Arduino board. Sketch for Arduino are available here: Right hand: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:17773 Left hand: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18939“
 Check out this Solar Stella project, it is a Solar powered Instrument Amplifier from Crazy but Able. This project is based around the $35 Stalla Amp but has been modified to operate using a solar panel. There are quite a few extra features built into the project that you would normally not see in DIY projects such as thermal battery monitoring for safety. Since the Stella works down to
 Easton LaChappelle (HalfFullEffects from Youtube) just took second place in the world in engineering at the Pittsburgh international science fair. I like the way he created his own servo motor, instead of just bolting a store bought servo into his project he used a DC motor which was connected to a potentiometer. The potentiometer was then used as feedback for determining the exact position of the motor. Watch the
Don’t we all want our personal green house with all of the automation that allows the plants to grow to their full potential. Tom from Invent Geek sent in their latest creation that Jared Bouck built, it can do help you automate your plant growing by using their Sprout Board which is Arduino powered. The structure is built from off the shelf parts and hand full of electronics bring
 Ian from Dangerous Prototypes went to the Bay Area Maker Faire 2012 and video documented a ton of it. He had a booth, went to a bunch of the events and didn’t seem to get burnt out! Watch the video below to see some of the great projects that were on display at the event.
