oilpiggy is heating his 1200 square foot house with his home made friction heater. The heater is simply located in a central area at this time and it naturally radiates heat to the house. He has it plugged into a smart thermostat that controls the run time and temperature of the heater based on time of day. Currently he is heating his house to 75 degrees (with an outside
Check out this great WiFi Robot project that used an app called Wifi Bot Control. “Features Uses WiFi only to control the robot and view the IP Camera stream Configurable camera URLs (up to 3) 3 Joystick Modes: Default, Simple Mode and Orientation Sensor Supports up to 8 additional commands via Command Buttons. Configurable WiFi packet interval. Supports a number of micro controllers – requires WiFi module/capabilities. Sample Arduino
 I ordered a cheap solder pot from Ebay a few months ago. I didn’t want to spend a fortune since I will only need it 5 or 10 times a year, just to take care of the jobs where using a soldering iron to tin a bunch of wires would be a pain. I had used it 4 or 5 times prior to this review and was very
Not sure why so many cultures have funny characters with big penises but it looks like Chile also follows this tradition. Nathan Pahucki and Pablo Castro made a neat looking drink bot that has a Indio PÃcaro doll that will pee out your drink order. If a doll penis offends you please skip the video below… Via: Make “The user chooses their drink from a tablet which is connected to a
 The prize this week is an Arduino Pro Mini. This contest will run for one week (November 23 – 29, 2013). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please note the image above is a side view of the thing. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest
Have a look at the picture above and see if you can see that camera trick that is involved here. To see what is not quite right in the picture and to see some other examples click the link below!
Brian Dorey is working on a DIY Pick and Place Machine that look like it is coming along very well. You can see the full build log of the machine on his site here. You can see some information here about the vision system that will be used. “The component selector is controlled via an Arduino Mini and this interfaces to a Smooth Stepper Ethernet board which is controlled
