The new ferris wheel on LA's Santa Monica Pier is powered by solar panels and includes 160,000 LEDs on its surface that illuminate at night when the wheel is in action.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.03 at 07:16
There's been a lot written about how humans anthropomorphize Pleo - but even dolphins are fascinated! This is an amazing video. Sirensgrotto says that Pleo reacts positively to the dolphins, too.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.02 at 09:58
It's caturday, so let's post some freaking cats. With a little research we found commercial, hobbyist, research, and cyborg cats. First up is NeCoRo.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.05.31 at 18:35
Alexader Gurko's "Begging Bot" plays music just by synching up the sounds a floppy and hard drive makes when spinning their motors. After the song is done, the CD drives opens up and the bot asks for donations from the public.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.05.31 at 17:37
Sparky the art-robot responds to air quality, movement, and touch by collapsing his body in relative amounts - indicating quality of environment. Sparking responds negatively to: carbon monoxide, cigarette smoke, alcohol, too much dark lighting, hitting and yelling.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.05.30 at 07:04
Robert Oschler, of RobotsRule, has posted a hands-on video review of the forthcoming WowWee robot, the Robosapien Tri-Bot. The bot sports some cool new features such as omni-wheels and tilt-motion control via its remote.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.05.29 at 16:55
Surprisingly charming, balletic, super-slow-mo video of bots bashing the dickens out of each other (and various other objects). Filmed at Carolina Combat 2008 with a Casio Exilim EX-F1 camera.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.05.28 at 15:42
Two Industrial Electrical Technician students built this automated muffin-making machine. The video captions are in French and there are no details about the construction, but it's still kind of cool to watch.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.05.28 at 13:15
Just a reminder that tonight is the May Dorkbot DC meeting and it will be at the new HacDC location (1525 Newton St NW -- near 16th and Newton NW). I hope to see you there.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.05.27 at 15:43
5volt made a sweet little radio-controlled tank using an ATtiny24 - This is the model R/C tank I am designing on a gearbox + Tracks & wheels from Tamiya.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.05.27 at 08:19