If you are into robots you need to have a look at Ron’s TheOldRobots.org site. This Tomy Omnibot 2000 robot that Tomy made cost $600 back in 1984. In modern dollars that would work out to be around $1250.I remember seeing the ads and wanting one but at that price I can see why I never did get one. If you have one and want to make the second arm
Just stick the barrel of the gun in your ear and pull the trigger. That is how you answer this Bluetooth headset. Not sure you could use this in many places though. We recently had a law pass where I live that made talking on a cell phone and driving illegal. It is legal to use a bluetooth device to talk though. I am thinking that this device would still
Remember the Tool Carying Robot that we featured here many months ago? Well there is now a new remote controller for that robot, the controller is universal so it can be adapted to control other robots as well. The design is based on a Parallax microcontroller and Xbee chips for communication. Thanks for the tip John
Here is a cool battle between a Paintball toting Tank and the Paintball Sentry. Looks like the tank needs a bit more speed and punch to be able to be a contender. Thanks for the email Jeff. “I mounted a turret kit from our website to a Traxxas slash and pit it up against the paintball sentry”
UPDATE: The project is complete have a look at everything here. Nerf Gun Hack part 1, part 2, part 3 This is the final part of the Nerf Gun Hack. Check out part 1 which goes over the how the chosen gun works and part 2 which goes over the electronics used in the project. This time a completed perfboard version of the project is built and the system is
Adam Greig from Negative Acknowledge has developed a nice Nerf Sentry Gun, he used the NERF Vulcan which was the same gun I was thinking of using for my Nerf Gun project which is currently being finished but it was quite a bit more than the knock off that I ended up using. Via: Hack a Day “The gun itself is now running off a 3-cell lipo pack, which about
This robot by Oddbot is a great example of what can be done with IR light. `The eye consist of 4 IR LEDs and 4 pairs of photo transistors. The phototransistor pairs are connected in parallel to increase their sensitivity. The phototransistor pairs are then connected to your analog inputs the same way you would connect an LDR. This circuit is really 4 FritsLDRs but using phototransistors instead of LDRs.
