 Thanks to Dieter Sturm for sending in his latest jet powered creation. He is putting the final touches on this Tiny Jet Powered Monster Truck. They are looking for sponsors, so if you are looking to have your name on the side of something cool I suggest you give Dieter a call right away! For his next build I vote to see a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 stuffed onto the back
  If you like music and microcontroller check out this Arduino controlled DrummerBot that Steffest built. It uses an Arduino to control a bunch of bits and pieces of spare parts.  “The Arduino receives the string, unpacks it back to a pattern and simple loops over the steps controlling each servo. I’m specifically fond of the “Horns” They are 2 little fans with a servo pushing a piece of plastic
 Check out this cool Self-Balancing Robot Build that Kerry Wong shared with us. He has used some very inexpensive parts to get this thing built. To read through the build process have a look at part 1, part 2 and part 3 of the build. “I used a LPY450AL for the gyroscope and anMMA8453Q for the accelerometer. These two devices are rather inexpensive and the IMU can be
 If you are looking for a cool project have a look at this Open Source Hardware Sentry Gun Controller. The board you see above is a new version that has mainly surface mount parts to make the board much smaller than the older version which used lots of through hole components. The board has lots of I/O pins for added functionality. You can see a few of the main
 Check out this Spooky Animatronic Hand Carved Wooden Head that rosemarybeetle made. I am not sure I could have this on my side table because I would always be staring at the spooky face. The face carving is very well done, it looks like it should be a museum piece! “I did not work up detailed design drawings, having decided to let the final look of the head
The prize this week is a non contact AC test pen. This pen can be used to test if AC voltage is present in a wire without needing to touch the bare conductor. This contest will run for one week (March 24 – 30, 2012). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please do not
Voltage measurement is something that is very handy. There will come a time when you need more than one meter to monitor the project that you are putting together. This DIY Digital Volt Meter Project will let you build your second Digital Volt Meter so you can monitor a voltage source while your hand held DMM is in use monitoring a different part of your circuit.
