Chris from Pyroelectro demonstrates some Animatronic Mouth concepts to bring your next robot to life. I would like to have this animatronic face tied to my computer and raise an eyebrow when I have an email and raise both when there are more than 10 unread emails. 🙂 ” In this tutorial I will show you two simple methods for building a believable robotic mouth. One articulated and moveable, the
We have seen Plasma Speakers here before. They won’t replace your everyday speakers but they are sure cool. What’s better than reading about an interesting project? Building it! Instead of scrounging all the parts for a project a kit makes things real easy to duplicate and that is exactly what this is about. Matthew Chapman and Marshall Meng of Student RND have put together a Plasma Speaker Kit Kickstarter which
Halloween is right around the corner. If you are looking for something that can be whipped together quickly and scare the pants off the kids that will be terrorizing the streets, look no further than these DIY Halloween LED Blinking Eyes by Pete Mills. The microcontroller code is available here. “I connected the LED pairs to an ATtiny2313 microcontroller via some comms wire and some 2n3904 transistors for each pair.
Instead of hiring a security guard why not make a Security Robot. There are tons of features in this Arduino based robot but the thing I find most interesting is that after it has driven around draining the battery it can charge by driving over the charging strips shown above. This solution seems much easier than the charging cradles that we have seen many other system doing. Via: Adafruit
This Double Sided Microcontroller Controlled PCB Exposure Box uses a PIC 16f268 to time the exposure LEDs on for the entered exposure duration. You can select if you are doing a single sided or double sided board, then you set the exposure time you need. After this you just sit back and relax while your board is getting perfectly exposed. We have seen some exposure boxes before including this UV
Kerry Wong shows us a project that allows for accurate Milliohm Measurement. For day to day applications your trusty hand held multimeter will probably do just fine, but when you need to make a very accurate low resistance reading this circuit is sure to help you out. “I used the reference design for the unity-gain difference amplifier AD8276 and a precision Op-Amp AD8603 from Analog Devices to form the precision
This project by Robotics / Electronics / Physical Computing is an Airsoft RC Tank that Tracks the Enemy and Fires at them. Using IR LEDs on a target and a LEGO NXT brain the robotic tank drives around looking for the target. The tank doesn’t hit anything because it has an ultrasonic sensor in the front to sense the distance from objects. A Wiimote camera is used to look for
