This Pool Playing Robot is one heck of a project! Not quite a robot that you could walk into a random pool hall with since the cameras are mounted above the pool table but I still think you would be able to win a few wagers with it. “Thomas Nierhoff, a masters student at Technische Universität München (TUM), used a human-sized mobile robot with dual 7-DOF arms that’s able to
Jeremy Mayer built this crazy Head out of Typewriter Parts. What a great use of old parts that would normally be tossed in the trash. Jeremy sure has a good eye for what would look great as different body parts. Make sure you have a look at the large group of pictures of the machine. Via: Laughing Squid Progress on Bust V from Jeremy Mayer on Vimeo.
There are some projects that just take your breath away, this 555 Decimal Adding Machine by Alan Yates is definitely one of those. Via: EMSL “The quiescent device pulls 450 mA from its 9 volt supply. Yep, 4 watts! You can feel the warmth coming from the back of it. I could not find ICM7555s in quantity, so was forced to use LM555CNs, making it a rather power hungry device.
Have a look at the Gunchuck, it comprises of a Nunchuck, an Arduino and a BB-Gun. This would be lots of fun if the gun was changed out with a super soaker and mounted on the peak of your roof. You could use a Web cam to watch the dot at night and terrorize the kids that might be out past their bedtime. I think Quicksilverhacks should use his voice
Wow camera technology is getting small! When attaching the wires to the camera is one of the main challenges you know you are dealing with something that is very small. These cameras are build using VSLI production just like chips are made. Awaiba has been working on perfecting this camera for a long time, it is best suited for the medical field but I can think of lots of other
This 3d iPad Demo is future of portable media! Laurence Nigay, a professor from France was inspired by the 3D work done by Johnny Lee who we interviewed a few years ago (blogs here and now works for the Google). “We track the head of the user with the front facing camera in order to create a glasses-free monocular 3D display. Such spatially-aware mobile display enables to improve the possibilities
The guys from Sparkfun went on their second trip to China. They checked out some of their suppliers and lots of the markets. Via: Dangerous Prototypes “While there were shops and floors for all sorts of electronic goods, Bunnie had heard of a special market that dealt exclusively with bulk cell phones. That’s right, you could buy a pile of cell phones. Heck yes we needed to see this! This
