Olivier van Herpt invented a machine called the Time Writer. It allows any graffiti artist in training to get their message out to the masses with the push of a button.
Published: March 22nd, 2013
Our friend Dave from Plastibots has just completed this great looking Bluetooth Robot that has an IP Camera on board. Dave wrote an Android application called BT Bot Control to allow you to drive your robot around using commands over Bluetooth using your Android phone.
Published: March 22nd, 2013
NAND Gates are very versatile. You might remember back in the TTL days when you were out of a specific chip you could always grab a NAND chip out of the bin and re-purpose it to work.
Published: March 22nd, 2013
Here is an example of Screen Printing PCB Manufacturing. It is very time consuming but your PCB factory could make screen printed t-shirts on the weekends.
Published: March 22nd, 2013
Thanks to Jerod Michel for sending in the details of this Armed Mobile Response RC Car that he and his students have built. It can be driven around remotely, it has an audio and video range of 100 meters.
Published: March 22nd, 2013
Tobias Schmidt built a robot mechanism to time his tea brewing. It uses a Atmel ATmega8 microcontroller to run the show, a 2 line LCD display shows you how much time is left for the brew to complete.
Published: March 22nd, 2013
Open electronics has put an interesting post, where they compare popular development boards found on hobby market. In comparison list you can find Arduino Uno and Due, MBED, STM32 Discovery, Raspberry Pi and Mini PC running Android.
Published: March 18th, 2013
Motion tracking is used in many areas. Cars, robots practically everything that moves and needs control has some kind of tracking. There are many ways of doing this, but Paul suggests pretty original solution.
Published: March 18th, 2013
First of all I think it is stupid to compare two microcontroller types in general. In any field you may find something that fits your particular needs.
Published: March 18th, 2013
LED matrix is a great way to display things. Normally single matrix bloc is quite small. In order to get bigger picture you need to combine multiple modules.
Published: March 18th, 2013