Homemade Robo-One
Ignacio writes – “After drawling over those japanese robo-one bipeds I decided to make my own. Tried to use cheap and easy to find materails. Certainly more fun than buying a ready made kit.” – Link.
Technology
Seeing eye mouse
Don writes – “If I had to put it succinctly, I would describe it like this: The Seeing-Eye-Mouse is “glue” – it gives you a simple to use interface to a computer mouse’s operation to make it easy to use the mouse in various ways for various purposes. The simplest method of operation lights 4 […]
HOW TO – Make a secondary coil for a Tesla coil
Nak writes – “How to get a nice/free winding station set up for a medium to large sized secondary coil.” – Link. Related: How to make Tesla coils and more – Link.
HOW TO – Build a plexiglass PC case
Bball writes – “Lots of folks lately are interested in PC case mods with plexiglass windows, fancy 5″ bay gear, interior LED lighting, and custom fan grills. I think it’s great – anything to get away from the blah-PC. I have a number of computers in the house (too many, actually), but I recently spent […]
Robots take the field in name of science
Boston Globe has photos and a write up from the FIRST Robotics Competition – “Forty-four high school teams, outfitted in safety goggles and brightly colored T-shirts, were huddled in ”pits,” drilling holes, tightening bolts, and putting the finishing touches on the 5-foot-high robots they’d designed and built. Some looked like shopping carts with circuit boards, […]
Cody’s Robot optical motion sensor
Mac Cody writes – “Since the time that my BTC Mouse Hack was posted on the Make Blog, I’ve developed a printed circuit board using an ADNS-2610 Optical Mouse sensor and hacked an optical enclosure to hold it. The results, while not yet perfect, are very encouraging. The new sensor can be used to measure […]
NOVA’s DARPA robot race documentary
CNET has a clip from upcoming NOVA DARPA robot race documentary – “In October 2005, Stanford University’s entry won the DARPA race for robot vehicles, which stretched across 130 miles of rugged Nevada terrain. This TV documentary, scheduled to premiere March 28 on PBS, features exclusive aerial video and profiles of the winner and losers. […]
