We have seen quite a few Nintendo Nunchuck hacks. The Nunchuck is a great piece of hardware for hackers since it packs lots of great sensors and switches in a nice looking, functional package and best of all they are cheap! The LVL1 Hackerspace decided to use a Nunchuck in a Fire Breathing Pony project that they brought to Maker Faire Detroit. There isn’t much details on the build yet
This DIY Animatronic Eye tutorial by PyroElectro might be just the thing your next Halloween project needs! “This tutorial will present a single method for controlling 2-axis of robotic eye movement using an improvised gimbal system. This will give us control for the animatronic eye to move up and down as well as left and right, just like a human’s eye. Four micro Servo Motors will be used to acuate
The famous Calgary Stampede is over for this year but if this Rodeo Riding Robot does some practicing I wonder if we could see a new robot rodeo emerge? I think our friend Carlos is having a bit too much fun with his Nao Robot. 🙂
I saw a cool bike on Zedomax today. It’s a Beer Bike by City Cycle that lets you have a few drinks while touting around the city, cool idea until someone gets real drunk and falls into the path of a oncoming truck. I think a larger version about the size of a real tour bus would be a great business in tourist locations. I was wondering how many other
Most of us work with connectors quite often. Slap a junction box on the wall, run some wires into it and make some wire nut connections. What if you need it to be water resistant? No problem, put it in a plastic box and use water tight connectors right? Well that might work just fine if this electrical connection is to be mounted to the back of your house but
When you are going for world domination you need a convenient way to monitor your progress. This LED World Control Panel will probably help you out with that issue. “The panel boasts the following features: Main power switch Home base indicator World Cities indicator (blue) Cluster1 (red) Cluster2 (orange) Global Red Alert Situation (backlit 555 flasher circuit) Message record and playback ($10 Radio Shack digital recording module) Larson Scanner ($13
There are some builds that just look like they are too fun. This Fan Scooter is definitely one of those. A ducted fan is bolted to two razor scooters some battery packs provides the jam to get the fan spinning and producing some serious power. Via: Adafruit “Assembled in just under 5 hours, Fanscooter is an attempt to put the latest iteration of the HFF onto something more interesting than
