RoboTed – The Robosapien Teddy Bear Mod
Nocturnal from the Evosapien team has made a Robosapien Teddy Bear disguise.
Funny Hacks
PIC Controlled Mouse Trap
How do you make a better mouse trap? Easy add some electronics to it and shake well… Check out the results. “A bait will be placed inside the trap with a hair trigger originally designed for Humpa the Robot (a story for another day), connected to the inputs of a PIC microcontroller board, which is in turn connected to a stepper motor controller. Both the pic board and motor controller
Tickle Me Elmo on Fire, Stop Drop and Roll
Okay kids, look away. Elmo is taught the importance of stop drop and roll. I am actually surprised how long it lasts.
Dual Screen Cell Phone
Dual monitors on a computer is great, I am not sure how beneficial they are on a cell phone though…
Speaker Milkshake Machine
Who says speakers are for music? A speaker is a multi-purpose device as shown here. “The engineers way to shake a milkshake. Take a powerful DC amplifier, connect it to a large woofer, feed the system with a signal generator, and at the end, just add milkshake. Of course it is also possible to measure the g-force of the shaking 😉 ” Thanks Steinar
Crazy Coffee Roasters
This crazy computer controlled coffee roaster by Matthew Williams is just one of many stunningly elaborate machines displayed on Sweet Marias. “Here’s my homemade PID’d West Bend Poppery I setup. The PID is a Fuji PXR4 that can be used standalone or interfaced with my laptop via a USB cable. It’s pretty much self-contained except for the external variac that I use to control the fan as the roast progresses.
Computer Aquariums
Here is a cool collection of computer aquariums, most of them are what is known as a Macquarium (made from a Macintosh). Links 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,9 ,10, 11 “A Macquarium is an aquarium made from the shell of an Apple Macintosh computer. The term was coined by computer writer Andy Ihnatko as a joke (a jibe at the outdatedness of the Macintosh 512K) but Macquaria