This Voice Controlled Robotic Helicopter is quite interesting. You can speak English commands and it follows your instructions. I need that system in my car, I could get so much work done if I didn’t have to do all the time consuming driving. Via: Hack a Day and Bot Junkie “We recently got the system working on a quadrotor helicopter. We extended the topological map to 3d, added some orientation
Our friend Daniel Eindhoven from Megavolts has been hard at work improving on the coil gun that we featured here before. The new circuit modifications allows the gun to fire every second now. The new halogen charge resistors look much cooler also. “At the moment the only limiting factor for fire rate is the charge time, this is the time the capacitor bank takes to get fully charged. This time
Jonathan from iTrends.dk gave us the heads up about a Denmark team who is building the Worlds most Powerful Private Rocket. Their goal is to send a person into space! Sounds like a blast, but I’m not sure I would want to be the first one to test it out. “This is a non-profit suborbital space endeavor, based entirely on sponsors and volunteers. Our mission is to launch a human
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We are following along with the build of the Electric Dune Buggy Conversion that Frank from TheWorkshop.ca has been working on. We featured the second part in the build back in January. This time around in Part 3 of the Dune Bug E – Dune Buggy Electric Conversion we see some of the frame take shape from bent and welded steel tubing and an innovative light roof made from thin
Our friend Daniel Eindhoven from the Netherlands has got his hands on an interesting piece of ancient medical equipment. He will be refurbishing this Voodoo Magic High Frequency Healing Device from the 1930s. I wonder if Dr. Eindhoven does house calls. 🙂 It is truly quite shocking what people used to do to cure you. I guess some of its applications are not far fetched even these days though. “This
This is an inspirational TEDx video of Dennis Hong of RoMeLa. If you think that you recognize his you are right, he was recently chosen as Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” for his robotics. “Dennis Hong is an expert in the area of novel robot locomotion mechanisms, design and analysis of mechanical systems, kinematics and robot mechanism design, humanoid robots, and autonomous systems. He is the inventor of the three-legged walking
