Ladyada writes about her Pac-Man wheels – “The technology here is “persistence of vision”…when LEDs move fast enough they can “draw” an image when the wheel spins. That’s the basis behind both the MiniPOV and SpokePOV toys that I designed last year. I rode this design around last burningman, obviously ive adjusted the image so […]
Jeff Han gave an amazing talk and demo at Etech – pictured here, LCARS multi-tounch interface! While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch systems enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, allowing for the use of both hands along with chording gestures. […]
PC Magazine has some details on a new product I plan to take apart – “WowWee’s next major robot innovation doesn’t walk, roll, make disgusting noises or dance, but SCOTY (for Smart Companion Operating Technology) will greet you, read your e-mail aloud, watch your home, and even play your music. All while moving little more […]
The University of Warwick is working on a lot of cool bots to help farmers – A robotic mushroom picker, inflatable conveyor belt & a mega-robot grass cutter, my favorite is the mushroom picker with robo suction cup – [via] Link. Videos of the robots will be available here – Link.
PeterTheUnGreat has a pretty interesting Instructable – “[This] allows Synchro record from a set-top box (mine is the Sony terrestrial digital reciever) to a DVD player which dosn’t have syncro record. You can then record programmes automatically by selecting them for record on the set top box with no need to programme the DVD recorder. […]
At Etech I’m going to have a couple Roombas, one will run programs and zip around on its own, the other will be controlled by a PC via Bluetooth. Here’s a video of a quick test before I packed one of them away – Link (MP4). Right after Etech – the bots and their meat […]
Henry has a cool little robot you can make, schematics and source included – “Cricket is an autonomous robot that walks around by moving all six legs using three motors. He avoids objects when touched by the feelers, chirps randomly, and blinks his lights. After touching an obstacle he makes various sounds depending on which […]
