Driving your Roomba around using your phone is so last month… Today the cool way to do it is by tilting your Apple MacBook. I wonder what Todd will come up with next? “This project shows you how to use the built-in tilt sensors of the MacBook to control a Roomba. Since Perl hasn’t been used to program a Roomba yet, it seemed like a fun task to show
Everything is better with a touch screen. A video camera displaying the vending process happening inside is just cool. “Till now the machines that I thought could come with a touch screen was just an ATM. But this one from Japan is a high-tech drink vending machine that has a touch screen for you to choose between a variety of drinks available and also a camera that shows the
PC Pit Stop has made a standard laptop battery catch on fire. The fire is quite a bit larger than I would have expected. “We intentionally created conditions in which the Li-ON battery pack would explode inside a generic portable. The results are dramatic. There are numerous conditions where these fires can occur in real life. Faulty battery packs (driving the recalls), faulty protection circuits inside the PC, exposure
I would never consider purchasing a rental car once it is retired. The guys at Sloppy Mechanics have solidified my thinking. “Well we picked up the rental and quickly got to work installing the nitrous line and solenoid Easily found a grommet in the firewall pulled it out and ram the stainless line right out of the cab, Next we ran the line to the air box with ease,
By now I am sure all of you have heard about Blu Ray players. The heart of this innovative device is a special high power laser. Wicked Lasers is striving to bring cutting edge products to their customers. Steve over at Wicked Lasers was kind enough to show us how their new Sonar laser is developed. The crazy thing is that these lasers are so rare they must be harvested
This 65 HP Ultralight Helicopter demonstrates that personal helicopters in the back yard parked beside the family car may not be a far fetched concept. If you can’t wait to get your hands on the real one, you can always buy the model version for now. “Going back to the future of rotor craft design is the basic concept of the AirScooter VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) vehicle
I wonder if this Jet Turbine Fire Extinguisher idea could be used to put out house fires? Break out some windows in the front and back of the house and fire up the jet turbine! The volume of water dumped would probably be less also. “Hungarian engineers build my idea of a water injected jet turbine for fire suppression and proved its potential distinguishing difficult oil-fires after the gulf
