Looking for a new hobby that you can work on in your garage and really make the neighbors mad? Why not start to work on a pulse jet go-cart! It will require lots of testing well into the night and when it is done you will need to perform numerous test runs back and forth on the front street… Sorry the owner has sold this one on Ebay already
Want your very own robot to learn to do your job? Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard from the Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have made great strides to make that dream happen. Additional information. Read a paper on their research. (PDF) “This video shows how a humanoid robot can learn incrementally new skills by interacting with a human instructor. By using active teaching methods that
Our friend Bill Beaty from amasci.com has come up with a way to Melt a Beer Bottle in a Microwave!
This is definitely not going be UL listed but if you need a welder on the cheap this is one way to go. The “Tiny Tim” Welder
Looks like the University of Alaska Fairbanks has grouped the engineering and culinary arts programs together. 🙂 “How does an electrical engineer cook a hot dog? 1.5 A for 60 seconds! Taken at the E-Week open house put on by the engineering departments at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.”
Any website that an RSACi rating of V4 for violent content and describes it’s contents as “fantastically dangerous” is worth my time to look at. William Beatty put together ” CAPACITOR-BANK DISCHARGE EXPERIMENTS” for those of us who think coins are just to big. There are a couple of busted links but plenty of potentially fatal fun. If you have never played with high voltage please be careful.
When it comes to USB devices I think missile launchers have to be one of the best additions to the group! Have a look at these great missile hacks. Did your favorite hack not make the list? Leave a comment to let us know. “The following video illustrates how a to translate values from your PC Joystick to control a USB Missile Launcher and fire at objects that you
