Shanshan Zhou, Adam Ben-Dror, Joss Doggett from Victoria University used Processing, Open CV, a web cam, an Arduino and a bunch of servo motors to make a Face Tracking Lamp! It is quite freaky how well it seems to work. I can see this being quite a cool thing to put in a store front display to attract a crowd of curious people. Via: Make and Embedds.com  “Pinokio comes in the
If you have a spare Altoids tin this Handheld POV project might be a great way to fill it. You can make your own custom message with this page. “There are 32 message slots — 16 are straight hard coded bitmaps, 16 are text strings of any length. The text strings are mapped to ASCII character bitmaps with one extra trick — the engine will look for a break
Have a look at this fun project called the Shy Light. The light doesn’t like to be seen in public and uses a basket to hide in. X10 and two microcontrollers are being used to get the job done. “Why TWO Microcontrollers? The Dual-Microcontroller Circuit: Master (right) Slave (left) The Master Control microcontroller handles the foot-switch input, orchestrates the timing of the opening/closing of the basket (using commands to
 If you are a bike rider you might want to pimp your ride with some custom features. Have a look at what Jenna has done for some inspiration. She has provided all of the code so you can also duplicate her work.
  This RC truck build is very detailed. Most of the mechanical parts such as windows and steering are fully functional. There are many pictures that are hard to tell that the vehicle is not full scale. There is even a fully functioning winch on the front of the truck, I guess this will help you out when you crash it into a large stock of celery. Via: Hack
Sean wrote: Hi all, I went to Maker Faire in NYC last month and put together a video of the people I met (including Kelvin Doe, who is at the end of the video). There’s some pretty amazing stuff, though it is mostly overview and not so much a step-by-step guide on how to create specific devices. Anyway, I hope you check it out, and I hope you like
If you have ever worked with SMD parts using tweezers gets old fast. Even the small vacuum pencils are not great. Vassilis Papanikolaou sent in the details of his solution. It uses a base that is similar to a CNC machine without the electronics. With this setup it is much easier to precisely align the parts, I am thinking that a version 2 could include mounting some motors to
