Limitless Boredom has designed his own version of the Keepon Robot. There have been other Keepon clones out there but I must say that this one made with helicopter RC parts works quite good.
Published: November 7th, 2009
The R1 Radio reminds me of a roller ball mouse without the roller ball. When you move it up and down you control the volume, right and left adjusts the tuning.
Published: November 7th, 2009
Starting a new robotics project and want to find the perfect servo for the job? It can be a real pain in butt sometimes. This is where ServoDatabase.
Published: November 7th, 2009
This 5kV Induction Gun can shoot aluminum rings with some intense force. I have seen flying ring toys before which fly nice and straight. I wonder if the ring design is better than the typical bullet shaped projectiles we see on most of these guns.
Published: November 7th, 2009
One way to learn lots about a protocol is by implementing a bit banged version. Openschemes shares with us his experimentation with the Arduino and the FT232 chip.
Published: November 6th, 2009
Ever annoyed by those pesky stickers on your fruit? They never seem to pull off in one piece and they always leave a little glue behind. Well, the industry might be moving away from them in favor of laser etching each piece of fruit.
Published: November 6th, 2009
Weve featured several different ways to roast coffee beans over the years. This is the next logical step. [Nightlife31] shows us how to use an Arduino and a popcorn popper to create a fully automated coffee bean roaster.
Published: November 6th, 2009
[Andrew] built a light box for an exhibition last year that displayed different colors statically. After showing it off, it went unchanged but future improvements remained in the back of his mind.
Published: November 6th, 2009
Based on the idea from http://www. josepino. com/pic_projects/?timebase I have created a 1Hz Clock Generator. I use PIC12F675 as its available locally.
Published: November 6th, 2009
Pinguino is an Arduino-like board based on a PIC Microcontroller. The goal of this project is to build an integrated IDE easy to use on LINUX, WINDOWS and MAC OS X.
Published: November 6th, 2009