Insane Equipment

Dune Bug E - Dune Buggy Electric Conversion Part 5
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Have a look at the Dune Bug E project. Looks like the warm weather kicked the build into high gear! You know you are dealing with some serious power when you need to cut your cables with bolt cutters and solder on lugs with a blow torch. 🙂 “At this point the Dune Bug-E is up & running, and has had 8 or 9 test drivers without any issues ie;

Rotating LED Globe
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Our friend Csaba Bleuer sent in this crazy project he completed. It is a Rotating LED Globe which is being driven by a ATMega Microcontroller. The globe image was created using a program called BmpToAscii, with this program an image can be converted into Ascii. In this case the Ascii is used to display the globe! We have seen some other spinning LED globes in the past but this one

DIY Pulse Oximeter
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DIY medical equipment is not a big hobby area but this DIY Pulse Oximeter is one cool device. I have no idea what a commercial Pulse Oximeter but like anything medical the real stuff that is used in hospitals usually costs big bucks. In this case your finger is slipped between two pieces of medical grade oak to take the reading.  The project is based around the powerful 68HC908AB32 microcontroller.

Ball Balancing Robot
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We have seen a Ball Balancing Robot before but this one takes the cake! It was developed by Masaaki Kumagai and Takaya Ochiai from the Robot Development Engineering Laboratory and Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems at the Tohoku Gakuin University in Japan. Via: Make and IEEE “The robot they built rides on a rubber-coated bowling ball, which is driven by three omnidirectional wheels. The robot can not only

Mind Controlled Rovio Robot
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Robert Oschler sent in this cool video which allows you to control a Rovio Robot using Mind Control. It uses the Emotiv system to allow the monitoring of your mind and other facial gestures. It isn’t a cheap technology yet but I think as this type of application catches on the pricing will fall. “The Emotiv SDK is a full-featured, professionally executed toolkit for quickly integrating the EPOC headset’s rich

DIY Geiger Counter Project - Based on the Arduino Microcontroller
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Over at the Arduino X10 Collection site there is a two part series in the making of a DIY Geiger Counter Project which is built with an Arduino Microcontroller. Part 2 can be found here. I can’t think of a time I was looking for a geiger counter but you never know. The project is built around a Russian Military SBM-20 Hard Beta and Gamma GM Detector. If you are