In the day where every store bought Halloween prop and most DIY props have some type of controller making things happen in the background it is neat to see a design like this. Youtube user badephemeris has built this Drum controlled Animatronic Halloween Head. Like a player piano or some of the old music boxes it uses a reads information from a rolling drum to make things happen. In this
Xellers shows us how to build a DIY Spark Gap Tesla Coil in this Instructable. When you are done looking at the Tesla Coil have a look at the DIY CRT he built! “Shoot foot-long bolts of lighting through the air, light fluorescent tubes without wires, and power your other high voltage experiments with the aid of this tabletop-sized Tesla coil! The key to this coil’s performance on such a
The picture above looks like a Samsung USB Hard Drive case right? Looks can be deceiving, the case actually contains come large nuts to make it feel like there is actually something inside and a USB thumb drive to provide some convincing operation. The USB drive has been made to simulate the large hard drive by showing up with a 500GB capacity even though the capacity of the drive is
If you love all animals please skip this article. Snypercat has been working on a way to hunt farm rats at night. There is no place for rats on a farm, they spread disease eat the food for your animals and will get you shut down if you plan on selling what you grow or raise. Snypercat knows that the best time to hunt rats is when they are most
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
Christian Reed made this Instructable that shows us how to build a Grappling Hook Launch Cannon. Where was this Instructable when I couldn’t find my ladder last week. 🙂 “The final version begins with the CO2 coming from a paintball cylinder. Â It enters the gun through a check valve (to ensure it does not come out once it enters the tank) and then a Quick Exhaust Valve (QEV). Â The tank
A walking robot like MABEL might not look that interesting to many people since humans do it all the time with no effort but when you think of the complexity behind what is being done in the video above you have to admire the machine! Thanks for the tip Fahd Via: Engadget “MABEL runs free for over 110 steps! In our opinion, this is the most realistic, human-like running achieved
