—Language Warning— You might remember the past Flameosapien article. Well Markus has completed the details for the cool mod. If you plan to use his plans to mod your own try not to burn down your house. 🙂 Can’t wait to see what it up next for Markus, whatever it is it is sure to please. “The main part of the circuit is the gas control gear. I looked
Ok so you thought that power tool races was the only fun you could have with power tools. Check out what I Make Projects did with some electronics and two cordless screwdrivers. “This is a radio-controlled vehicle made from two cheap, cordless power tools with wheels attached. The electrical control part consists only of an old R/C controller, two servos, and 4 microswitches. Since I had most parts already
Looks like something that could traumatize kids for life… “The Muu Socia 3.0 robot, created by ATR and Systec Akazawa, is being shown at the International Modern Hospital Show 2006 in Tokyo this week. The CYBER CYCLOPS is designed, ugly enough, to serve as an ice-breaker between doctors and patients (in other words, they created it “because they could” and came up with an application later…). The robot interacts
Here is a cool rubber band gun from Japan. The text was translated (most of it makes sense). Original non translated link. “It is electromotive machine gun 2nd feature P211 tandem barrel II. As for the 1st feature P203 tandem barrel receiving the change of design big it does again to load the gear box onto the midship production midway, it was the model which you complete. (At the
If the Robosapien wasn’t cool enough stock, you can kick it up a notch by performing this music mod by Marcus. “In an attempt to get my V2 to open up a can of whoop ass on V2 Media, I decided to start with an important aspect, Music. Adding the ability to play music and sound through V2 allows you to plug in an Mp3 player, Ipod, Pocket Pc or
Is there anything that can’t be made out of LEGO? After seeing this I am thinking the answer is NO. “One day I was making a simple little elastic gun to shoot Lego blocks and I thought to myself, ‘it would be cooler if it had some kind of trigger.’ The next thing I knew, I was involved in a competition with my own self” Via: TechEBlog
It would be fun to program this to fall over when it is time for a coffee break. “Availabot is a physical representation of presence in Instant Messenger applications. Availabot plugs into your computer by USB, stands to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when they go away. It’s a presence-aware, peripheral-vision USB toy… and because the puppets are made in small numbers on a rapid-prototyping
