Johnny Lee from Procrastineering (who we interviewed about 3 years ago) made a great DIY Video Chat Robot project. He is using a Roomba as the movable robotic platform and a netbook as the video conferencing system. Skype is used to do the actual telepresence. We did an article about the Anybot Telepresence Robot recently which is the same idea in a more polished package but essentially provides the same
We recently featured the DIY Electronic Watering System which used technology take care of your plant for you but what if you still want to be involved but just need some reminders to keep your plants alive? Have a look at the Talking Plant Project that jeff-o made called The Plant Whisperer. We have all heard that talking to your plants is good for them but I wonder if having
LEGO NTX projects can be lots of fun but what if you need to have one part of your project talk to another and wires are not practical? There are lots of wireless technologies around but they would be hard to interface to your LEGO NXT system. That is until now, dexter industries has developed a NXTBee sensor which allows you to extend your LEGO projects from around the corner
Where is the best place to house a Datacenter? An old Soviet Nuclear Bunker is the obvious place for the Datacenter! Turns out that this is quite a common situation. Just a warning, the link shown at the edges of the picture takes you to a Russian site that seems to have more details of the data center but also contains some nudity. The bunkers were built to keep tremendous
When Johnathan Hottell from filear.com was developing some programming for his PLC testing how things work was often not very easy. The PLC IO Simulator allows Johnathan to simply adjust value on the simulator to see what happens on the PLC logic. Turning a potentiometer is a bit simpler than draining a 100 gallon tank to see what happens in the PLC. The wiring is actually quite nice based on
I love plants but they tend to die when in my care because I forget to water them. I know that the plant needs a shot of water every now and then but I still forget, there has been some helpful electronic plant monitoring systems made, even systems that let your plants tweet to you. But this DIY Electronic Watering System from Deddies Lab is more up my alley since
The prize this week is a loupe magnifier, this will let you get a close look at whatever you are working on. This contest will run for one week (February 5 – 11, 2011). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send
